The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-01-16

to tell her truly II II were not George wns
had paid her bills at Mount Holyoke.
What silly girl" said Ida> HE was
perfectly able and more than willing, 30
why do you carer"
IL do not like being so much indebted
to anyone" was Mary's reply, and yet
In her secret heart there was strange
feeling of pleasure In the idea that
George had thus cared for her, for would
he have done so if She dared not fin
ish that question even to herself--dared
not ask IL she hoped that George More
land loved her one-half as well as she
began to think she had always loved him.
Why should he. with his handsome per-
son and princely fortune, love one so UNI
worthy, and so much beneath himf And
then, for the first time. she thought Of
her changed position since last they met.
Then she was a poor, obscure school mls-
tress-now battered, caressed and an
heiress. Years before, when little pau.
that George should know how destitute
she was, and now In the time Of hef
prosperity she was equally DESTROYS that
he should, for a time at least, remain 10.
norant OF her present condition.
Ida" said she, lifting her head from
the table, docs George know that l am
Mrs. Campbell's nieceW
NO." answered Ida. Il wanted to tell
him. but Aunt Martha said I'd better
not"
Don't, them" returned Mary, and re-
suming her former position she fell into
a deep reverie, from which she was at
last aroused by Jenny's asking 'if she
intended to sit up all nlght?"
The news that George Moreland had
returned and bought Rose Lincoln's piano
besides several other articles. spread
rapidly, and the day following his ar
rival Mary and Ida were stopped in the
street by group of their companions.
who were eager to know how George
bore the news that his betrothed was SO
i'll, and IL 1t was not that which brought
him home so soon: and then the CONVEX
sation turned upon Miss Herndon. the
New Orleans lady who had that morning
appeared In the street; "And don't you
think" said one OF the girls. that Henry
Lincoln was dancing attendance upon
her? II were you." turning to Mary.
I'D caution my sister to be little wary
of him. But let me see. their marriage
Is to take place soonT"
Mary replied that the marriage was
postponed indefinitely. whereupon the
girls exchanged meaning glances aud
passed on. In less than twenty-four
hours half Of Elias acquaintance were
talking OF her discarding Henry on ac-
count OF his fathers failure. and saying
"that they expected 1t. twas like her."
Ere long the report, in the shape OF a
coincidence, reached Henry. who, caring
but little what reason was assigned for
the broken engagement. so that he got
well out of 1t, assumed a much-injured
air, but said "he reckoned he should man
age to survive" then. pulling his sharp
pointed collar up another story, and
brushing his pet mustache. wherein lay
most OF his mind. he walked up street,
aud, ringing ut Mrs. Russelfs door, ask
ed for Miss Herndon. who, vain as beau
tiful, suffered his attentions. not because
she liked him In the least, but becauos
she was fond of fiattery, and there was
something exceedingly gratifying In the
fact that at the North, where she faneIed
the gentlemen to be icieles, she had so
soon made n conquest. 1t mattered not
that Mrs. Russell told her his VOWS were
plighted to another. She cared nothing
for that. Her life had been one long
series of conquests until now, at %, there
was not in the whole world a more fin
ished or heartless eoquette than Evron
Herndon. Go be continued)