The Jennings daily record., 1902-07-15
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S'"- The velg .ssaaerXe OF Carrie, piGued
him ipto hoNesnesraNnd her, while the
soft, tender light in jeans hr9Yn eyes
lured him again to her side.
Z. The last day Of her visit came as.last
days will. The two girls were in CaF6f
lines room when Anthony's. sleigh
bells We're heard jihgiihg upx to the
door, Said Jean, spes1ping out:
"I'n just. fasten my waist with your
pin, sweetheart. and run down; you
can follow when you're ready"
my pin?" said Carrie, inTpretended
anxiety. Don't You know there's a
fatality about pins as, well as knives
They prick and let out love, it they
don't cut it. Besides 9hosc cid High.
land Scotch dirks have soHsething u9,
,canny about them" a..
"Oh,'' laughed Jean, you're talking
just to keep me. 1 know your tricks. -
But wait minute, do, for decency's
sake! One side of your hair is down
let me tuck it up. What girl you are,
never to look in the glassv'
But Jean was off, carelessly fasten-
ing the uncanny old Scotch pil CT
brooch.
Presently Carrie quietly descended.
Clever as she was, she was fairly
puzzled at the position Of the enemy"
as she could not help considering her
declared lover. For Anthony had with
in the week followed his ears and come
to an understanding with Carrie, VOW
ing her to secrecy. She had an un-
comfortable suspicion that Jean, too,
was bound to secrecy, and that An
thony was equally in love with both.
(. AS she entered the drawing room,
ready for the sleigh drive. Jean ran
for her hat and Jacket. No sooner
was she safely out of the room than
Anthony clasped his darling Carrie"
to his heart.
Ten minutes later Jean found them
looking over n new song. She gazed
surprisedly at the front of Carries
rough, woolly jacket.
What new idea of decoration is
thiS?" she asked.
There hung Caroline's queer Scotch
pin. upside down, by one of its jew
eled knobs! Instantly it flashed on
Jeans mind that half an hour before
she had worn that pin, when Anthony
had clasped her in his arms, murmur-
ing, Precious JEAN Every vestige
of color left her face. 1t had not
needed the glance from Caroline's
scornful eyes to Anthony's face, fierce
ly crimson, TO confirm her horrible fear.
Jean would have fallen. so sick at
heart was she, had not Caroline's arm
encircled her, while she said in tones
that. as Anthony himself afterward eX-
pressed it. burned holes in him:
1.-Two fools we have been, indeed.
But thanks to this blessed little pin"
kissing it-'a greater fool, because
knave as well, stands revealed. Cour-
age, Jean she whispered to her fall
ing friend. I'VE wish you pleasant
sleigh drive, sir"
Our crestfallen general retreated
without a word. SO covered with con-
fusion and dismay was he. that he left
his sleigh at the door and walked miles
under the fierce battery of a sudden
snow storm, so self disgusted that he
actually wished the sleety snow flakes
We're bullets that could penetrate and
end his misery.
1t was bitter lesson to the incon-
stant lover. but as far as Caroline and.
Jean Were concerned it came 100 late.
They treated him so coldly that he
soon left his uncle's house for more
congenial quarters. and amid new sur
roundings began new and better ca
reer.
Caroline and Jean survived the loss
Carrie was persuaded to accompany
Jean, early in the spring. on her Euro
pean tour. Let us read over Uncle
Andrews shoulder Il sentence out of
her last bright letter from Rome:
Jean is all but engaged to young
Count Cancini heir to an illustrious
Roman house. '-Wayerley Magazine