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demanded it with violence, and failing

| to receive II, DurSC 1QlO VOlley VI fe
proacheS and appeals to heaven and
her dead father to save her from her
monster of q relative. 1 never before
heard anything like that tempest OF
words and cries.
| Tavernier replied mockingly, or with
shrill curses on her obstinacy, that
made the scene so distressing and lud'
icrous to my Northern sensibilities and
sense of propriety that panic seized
me, and swinging open the long French
window. I leaped a distance of seven
or eight feet to the ground and ran
through the garden to my companions
What is that noise?" was Stan
hopes first salutation.
They are having a dreadful quar-.
rei," I replied, painting. Il never be-
fore heard people swear in French and
Italian"
Carrie uttered an exclamation Of hor
ror, but Stanhope did not seem sur
pl1sed.
"Tavernier shall not bully the girl"
he muttered.
On reaching our door he left US, hur-
riedly, and went back to Riverside that
night.
He was much at the villa after that.
I began to fear that Carrie had lost
him. And yet when I saw that beaut-
full foreign girls weary face, I was
very sorry for her.
L
to her. He was that to every one in
trouble. l learn 4, also, that Tavern
ier wished him to marry his niece. l
could not predict what the end would
be. They rode and drove much togeth.
er, and it seemed, sometimes, that mat
ters must end as Tavernier wished.
But for the end that came I was to-
tally unprepared.
Cataline had grown absolutely Ill,
aad Colonel Stanhope begged her one
evening to let him take her out into
the air. She consented, and he brought
around his carriage.
She wished to go to the bridge, she
said. 1t was September weather, and
the woodbine clinging to the old piers
was red as blood. The blue sky was
full of amber light. and there was q
young moon above them.
Stanhope tried very hard to cheer his
companion. He directed her attention
to the beauties of the scene, but the
only words she spoke were: do you
hear the river?"
The spirited horses were trotting
rapidly over the resounding floor OF
the bridge, when Cataline suddenly
laid her hand on his arm.
You have been very good to me-.
Farewell!' she said, and sprang from
the carriage. over the railing into the
river. Her dying Shrek frightened the
horses. They ran away. Before STAN
hope could gain control of them and
bring them back to the spot, all trace
of the miserable girl was gone. The
water was calm and few red leaves
of the woodbine floated down its cur.
rent. Her body never was found. 1t
probably went down to the ocean.
And now Stanhope with the traces
&C this melancholy event upon him,
came back to US. He seemed puzzled
by Carries reserve.
What have I done to offend her?"
he asked me.
You had best ask her." said.
He went to her as she stood in the
little flower room among her plants,
and at the first word of love and long.
ing the dear girl melted. Then it came
out that she had believed that he loved
Cataline Ricci.
Love her-that stormy, half-crazeG,
foreign girl! never dreamed of mar
rying her, or she of marrying me. Her
uncle prosecuted her on my account:
I could not help being kind to her. l
was very sorry for her and she knew
it; but, Carrie, my little, soft-haired,
brown-eyed pet, was never so wild as
to think Of making her my wife. And
now will you forgive me that I have
seemed to forget you?"
Her white arms crept up to his neck.
This much I saw and heard through
the open door, and then very pru-
IDENTIFY retired from sight. But Carrie
and Stanhope are married now.-New
York Weekly.