Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-03

morose and peevish, but he was never positively unkind. For two years the sisters seemed happy enough, when, suddenly and somewhat peremptorily, they were separated, Veronica being sent to a western school, where she remained, seemingly without single visit east, till she was seventeen.
 During this long absence Miss Tut tie resided in Washington, developing under masters into an accomplished woman. Veronica's guardian, severe in his treatment of the youthful owner of the large fortune of which he had been made sole executor, was unex- pectedly generous to the penniless sis ter, hoping perhaps in his close, pee wish old heart that the charms and ac- quired graces of this lovely woman would soon win for her a husband in the brilliant set in which she naturally found herself. But Cora Futile was not easy to please, and the first men of Washington came and went before her eyes without awakening in her any special interest till she met Fran cis Jeffrey, who stole her heart with look.
 Those who remember her that win ter say that under his influence she developed from a handsome woman into lovely one Yet no engagement was announced, and society was won- dering what held Francis Jeffrey back from so great a prize, when Veronica Moore came home, and the question was forever answered.
 Veronica was now nearly eighteen into womanhood She was not as beautiful as her sister, but she had a bright and pleasing expression, with enough spice in her temperament to rob her girlish features of insipidiIy and make her conversation witty, if not brilliant Yet when Francis Jef- frey turned his attentions from Miss Futile and fixed them without reserve or seeming shame upon this pretty but terfiy, but one term could be found to characterize the proceeding, and that was fortune hunting. Of small but settled income, he had hitherto shown a certain contentment with his condi- ton calculated to inspire respect and make his attentions to Miss Futile seem both consistent and appropriate. But no sooner did Veronica's bright aeyes appear than he fell at the young heiress' feet and pressed his suit SC close and fast that in two months they were engaged and at the end of the half year married ed-with the disastrous consequences just made known.
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 A certain gentleman, whom it is un- necessary to name, had been present at one critical instant in the lives of these three persons. He was not q scandal monger, and if everything had gone on happily-if Veronica had lived and Cora settled down into matrimony he would never have mentioned what he heard and saw one night in the great drawing room of a hotel in At lantic City.
 It was at the time when the engage ment was first announced between Jeffrey ard the young heiress. This and his previous attentions to Cora had made much talk, both in Wash fngton and elsewhere, and there were not lacking those who had openly twitted him for his seeming incon- stancy. This had been over the cups of course, and Jeffrey had borne it well enough from his so called friends and intimates. But when, on certain evening in the parlor of one of the large hotels in Atlantic City, a fellow whom nobody knew and nobody liked accused him of knowing on which side his bread was buttered, and that cer- tainly it was not on the side of beauty and superior attainments, Jeffrey got angry. Heedless of who might be within hearing he spoke up very plain ly in these words: You are all of kind-rank money worshipers and self seekers-or or you would not be so ready to see greed in my admiration for Miss Moore. Disagreeable as I find it to air my sentiments in this public man ner, yet since you provoke me to it will say once and for all that I am deeply in love with Miss Moore and that 1t is for this reason only am go- ing to marry her. Were she the pen niIess girl her sister is, and Miss Futile the proud possessor of the wealth which, in your eyes, confers such dis tinction upon Miss Moore, you would still see me at the latter's feet, and at hers only Miss Tuttle's charms are not potent enough to hold the heart which has once. been fixed by her sisters smile"
 This was pointed enough, certainly, but when at the conclusion of his words a tall figure rose from a near corner and Cora Futile passed the amazed group with bow dare war rant that not one of the men compos- ing it but wished himself hundred miles away.
 With this incident filling my mind, returned to Washington. I had ac- quainted myself with the open facts of this family's history. But what of it's inner life? Who knew it? Did any one?
 (To be Continued)
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