New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-15

BY n ST. JoKN ADCoCK.

havlng had the whole dap m which TO reject
s 80 prepare herself Miss Quincy had got her feel
Us SO Wen under control that she was able to
hand the photograph 10 Hester across the tea table
ana say without trenor in her voice II pickes
TINS up on the floor. Hester after YOU were gone
this morning" s0s
me SRI took 1t from her eagerly; she had been
N trouble about 1t all day. wondering where she
haa lost 1t. and. in nutter OF relief and euhar-
rassnlent. slipped 1t into her pocket now vvitbou,
word; but Miss Quincy noticed that her cheeks
pushed. and then a roster red sursed hack and
overlooked them.
The silence between then, hacar,a too ..,,
not to be broken.
You did not tell me- Hester. that YOU know
MISS Giurney hesitated us he-a friend OF yours
Yes aunt"
.Eo{ lens long have you known him?"
p, ms explained to Miss Quincy the change il had
sUbned H HI, 70 observe IN Hester lately her placid
trrb SSu haSll OF mind had seemed altogether dis
1-Iceu SO that sometimes she sang for very happi-
sometimes she was saddened and preoccupied with
Il hone. Hester Miss Quincy forced herself to
SaS IA net Prlm decisive fashion. there has been
n msr talk OF love betwixt and this gentle
lodk seF o 2sRsf 5tb an answs5lng gla9se
aStToi 20 MISS Quincy as II il had been put into
My dear, she went on. striving against her in
il Ead he's sSl@tion, II am very very sorry wish
do G nut aunt Hester Interrupted. astonished you
I know Miss Quincy faIteree-''I knew man
50 IKE nm exactly like him that the moment
l. saw his Photograph I was afraid for you dear
- IS impossible for that 70 bring YOU anything
oh but aunt cri td I Tists and cF cI,, ,,
re- Is nqI! II you knew him You could never say
...IBqt why have you never told me about him?"
IL nave been wanting 10. " Hester flushed again
an the tenderness section o; the gentle little
not quite know how 10 meant TO- aunt b but iod 9id
n"ltfI, he only gave it me yesterday-and tell
And Of course'-M!ss Ciurnsv assumed n severity
tells T vo she found 1t dhGut 10 maintan-'he
ed has 2su af fSev me Sa to marry him cunt
with This question and her earnest, passionate
| rePy. Hester broke down utterly. She flung her
hands laid It Miss Gurneys lap and sobb 55 all all
when It had been ae is r5 3aG Go3s {eST9 ago
| Miss Gurney herself was scarcely less agtated.
mean to be unind be said ' her So ewes G 91 mo'
| ana her thin hands shaking as she passed them
seen more OF the world than YOU have
man man "h Iav-l7 have never told you yet-the
| The poor broken-s spirited creature / am; and
exactly ike that EVER s %@@' 9 aS R'fd have
Peem ,G qT t don't know what believe
| you h3lf the suffering have endured through his
thing now. II YOU love him. know whatever /
/ can say would make no difference" She added
presently in the calm even tones that were habitu-
al to her: You have not told me his name. He's
She had 10 wait and ask a second time before
Hester had regained sufficient compOsure TO reply
/
Chemically nodding thoughtrully. as If she had only
| been confirmed In what she knew already. And
! Hester mentioned an address at KensingtOn.
| ney.
Yes: his father ia rich"
| And does he know how poor Rre?''
| 9, oh. yes. aunt: he knows / am working for my
| How was IT you first happened TO meet hm?''
| He IS distantly related To Madame Faber. "
whose large establishment in oxford Street Hester
| had been engaged these last twelve months or
from his sister. l think and he has called once or
| home. and walked with me- and'-
| And he has happened to meet you more than
once?" Miss Quincy smiled, but became serious
AGAIN; You should have told me, dear. and have
,T NJ, ni ~ see f me M WY Gln You sou
| OF home lived imp
have come-I would have brought him. but wanted
| 10 tel you about him first"
| only that she loved him and she loved him more
than all the world and she had promised to be his
There hound to be but; it what
| Miss Quincy had been listening for.
| But II will not be for a long while. because he
Going away, chndl Why? Where tor
has sR9 9 to his father IA about 2g 70 said
me. and threatens to turn Richard into the street
| If he will not give mo up"
Quincy, bitterly. and we are poor, Probably his
'she has been dead several years"
Then IL IS his father He probably intends his
''Rut Richard won't He saws he win never marry
any one but me. If l VIII wait for him.
why IS he going away.
His father Is sending him 10 marriage a large
branch Of his business In CeylOn. He Is TO be- out
there three years-perhaps longer His father is
only sending him. he says. to separate him
me. and he can't refuse to without running
| his prospects and for my sake he does not want
to do that don't whether he ~ rich or
poor. but Richard says 10 his father turns him
ndrft he would have nOthlng-and so IL is best to
wait. because he Will never change. and shall
never change. And he Is going away the end
OF this week. I can't hear him 70 I might
him again but II he lives, he will come
She said II half dcdartly. half despairingIy and
laid her head on Miss Gurney's lap again 20 hide
her
For fully ten minutes neither OF them spoke
then rousIng herself with a heavy sigh Miss
Quincy said. hesitatngly:
81 might do something. I don't know what
can debut bring him home with tomorrow
evening and let him. dear II he is all you
think he is-but let see him for myself. Bring
him with You tomorrow evening
And the following evening. when Richard Har-
wood came. Miss Quincy easily converted TO
Hester's opinion OF him. His frank. honest eyes
his unaffected simplicity Of speech and manner. his
dihidence his shy alteration of Hester. hts
cealabIe love Of her-au Couspired to win Miss
Gurncy's confidence and approval, and won them
in spite OF herself.
Again and again. while he was there. and after
he was gone. she owned. grudgtngly at first but
with a growing satisfaction. that he realized her
ton or any other for remaining out of the Filis