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face of the elder sister.
"Oh, no, there is no one in the
world like May" said Carrie, one day
to Mr.. Gordan. OF course you don't
know her as well as l do. and you
think that she is rather quiet ami re-
served: but. ah!" and she draws
breath OF vast significance; If you
saw her as l do sometimes you would
say that she is the cleverest, bright
est, most beautiful creature in exist
ence."
Il daresay should, Miss Carrie,
he had answered, looking down the
valley on this spring evening--the
voices of the children on the green
mingling with the lowing OF the cows;
ana a quiet, dreamy feeling of peace
seems TO fall upon her,
The world is so far away beyond
those hills, the past has giided from
her so noiselessly that on such even
ings as this she can almost pefsua lie
erself that there are no such places
as Tletchford Void and Gresham House
and that Sir Heron Letchford is the
phantom of dream. Suddenly from
below rises the clear treble of Car
rie's voice:
"A damsel from lner window looked
down
Looked down,
Upon her lov-yer below"
she sings, with her sleek yellow head
stuck on one side, and her eyes cast
up sentimentally.
May laughs, and pulling bunch of
wistaria, throws it at her.
That's not the way to give your
lover flower. miss" eXclaims Car
RE; you should lean down Ind drop
it with smile. May, that nearly hit
me ON the nose!"
May laughs
Come up" she says.
Come down" retorts Carrie. "Step
down, sweet picture. from thy frame!
Come down, May want to ask you
something"
ASK away" said May leaning out.
'I'm in the mood tog rant requests; a
child could play with me tonight"
Il should be sorry Tor the poor,
coniiding infant" ret0rts Carrie.
"Well, look here, May, Mrs Baldwin
wants me to 90 down and try over the
new songs they have sent down. Shall
| go?'
Shall you go!" says May, with a
smile. "Of course you can go-you
know that"
But l don't like leaving YOU" says
Carrie, reluctantly,
Nonsense! You will not be gone
long. suppose? And if you promise
to be a good girl l will coz across
the fields and meet you
Really? Very well, then. Ill stop
an hour, or longer. Goodbye
stop" said May as she disap-
pears. Take this shawl W tn you,
and she throws her own cape down;
and mind you put it on; dont carry
it on your arm, as you did the other
night"
Very we'll, grandmother" comes up
the light voice. "In an hour then.
Don't eat all the chocolate while I'm
gone. Oh, by the way, Mrs. Blldwin
asked me to ask you if you would
come also"
May shakes her head.
No. Thank her for me. Run along,
or the time will be up
Carrie goes off, and stiffness reigns
again.
May stays until the last COW has
disappeared into the farmyard; then
she goes downstaiI into the little sit
ting-room ana roams to and fro, col
lecting the books, pieces of fancy
work, drawing materials, and other
items with which Carrie has managed
TO litter the room during the day
Then she puts on her hat and Jacket,
and gees slowly out
There remains still a good half of
the stipulated hour. ana she turns
aside from the Manor Field ard strolls
into one Of the lanes, which Carrie
calls the Maiden's Walk. from the fact
that May is given to wandering in it.
Halfway up his line there is a
gate opening into field, anJ reveal
ms view of the distant hills.
Upon this gate May has got into a
habit OF leaning. not to see the view"
as Carrie declares, but to enjoy a
good moon. "
1t Is just the evening for incoming, /"
and May stops as usual and leans with
folded hands and rapt eyes, gazing
dreamilv at the hills, already gather,
ing their faint, misty robes of night
around their shoulders.
Poughmen, trudglng homeward.
gaze aside and give her respectful
goodnight; the shepherds Dog turns
aside and pulls up TO wdg his tail
ana rub his nose against her hand; not
a passer-by but novs and respects her.
and gives her a good even
But tonight the salutations come
with faint dreaminess upon May. for
there ring in her ears the words of a
paragraph which she happened to read
in te county paper announcing the
coming marriage of Sir Heron Letch-
ford and Miss Vavasour
so soon-so soon" she 1nurmurs.
She had not long 10 wait" and ner
lips CULVER slightly with the effort at
a smile. Yes. she has won, after all.
and I have lost. The gods bless men
with short memories" and, as the
vision Of the handsome face as i look
O. degn at hers that moohllt night
with suck passionate admiration rises
AMI blots out the hills. q SIGH es-
capaz the half-parted lips