The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-08-30
Years and wears and wears ago, II

seems to me-" Miriam spoke in a
low voice. IT was very young then
and very credulous and very unwise.
The year mother took you to Europe,
when was junior at college, I was
left, you remember, at Uncle Sper-
rvs. At a picnic one day 1 met a
young man from Boston. He was
handsome and fascinating and-dif-
ferent from anyone I had ever known.
I thought it was romantic to have a
secret. We got engaged. I had
only seen him twice since that time
when 1 have been at Uncle Sper-
rvs. We have corresponded regular.
ly. I had letter from him two
days ago. He said he was coming to
see my mother next week. I was so
happy. Then-yesterday mother die
tated letter to me-for him. At
first I thought it was her droll way
of doing things, giving us lovely
surprises as she sometimes does.
Their
Elizabeth had risen to her feet
again. She was looking down with
frightened wide-open eyes at her
niece.
'Who was her" she asked in
whisper.
Miriam put her hand to her throat.
She drew out a slender chain and
slipped from it a gold locket. She
opened it and handed it to Elizabeth.
robin !" cried the girl in chok-
ing voice. Then she sank back in
the chair and covered her face with
her hands. The locket tinkled to
the floor. Miriam stopped and pick
ed it up, then she tossed it into lit
tie cave of red embers. Around it
the blue and green flames of the drift
wood leaped gleefully.
X X
Last June l was a guest at beau
tiful church wedding. 1 arrived ear
ly. There was a long wait in the
hower-adorned church. 1 could not
help hearing conversation close to
my ear.
Miriam ought to be one of the most
beautiful brides who ever entered this
church," said one woman.
And one of the happiest. Still,
1 never fancied she would marry
Arthur Rutledge. He simply waited
devotedly, determined she would
marry him."
"She loves him today, believe, as
he does her. She will make re-
markably good wife, her mother has
given her such splendid training.
She ought to be power socially in
Albany, where Arthur goes to the
Senate this fall. There is nothing in
the way of home affairs that Miriam
is not thoroughly familiar with. She
has way with servants that makes
them adore her. I once had girl
from the Old6eld house who quoted
Miss Miriam to me constantly She
hao all sorts of traits that make SER
wants love her. She is considerate of
their comfort, and always looking out
to give them bit of pleasure or an
outing when she can, yet I think
from something this Ellen Of mine
once said, half their respect and ado
ration of Miriam is because she knows
as well or better than even her SER
wants do how every kind of work
should be done; that, I suppose,
came from the training she took in
domestic science.
Eyes, and partly from her mothers
fine common-sense upbringing."
"That's true. What a different
future Miriam has from her pretty
little aunt, Mrs. Hawley. You never
knew her, did you?"
mo"
"She was little beauty, and had
a magnificent voice which she had
cultivated in Paris, and her grand
mother left her a fortune. Mr.. Haw-
ley-the New York man she married
spent her fortune and then treated
her badly. She left him and went
on the concert stage. Last winter
her singing made sensation in the
West. She is"
"Sh-h-h-h the bridal party is COM
ming !"-Good Housekeebimg.
TERRIFIC SPEED