Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1905-02-27

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I'm a pigs valise," laughed Stone
"r an intimate with the cashier of a
certain bank in this town and | had
II straight that Telfare's got up the last
hit Of collateral he can raise for money
no can't repay. Why, he had to beg
the bank for a little raise to give this
racention. DO you know, l suspected
he was trying to marry for money.
Nav I ask if this Miss Cranston is an
heiress?"
"She's an only child" said Buckley, |
reluctant to continue the conversation |
further. land her father is fairly well
off"
Perhaps" said Stone, "he's really |
daft about her"
"That must be IT," George replied,
end he closed the conversation by GO ;
ing to work.
BY nightfall his task was finished.
and he could have caught a train for
barley. but he felt a strange. half
morbid dissemination to leave. He re-
haired to his hotel. changed his cloth
ing and went down to the crowded
dining room. but the very gayety on
every hand irritated him. He had no
annette for what was before him. AL
around him, at private tables, were gay
parties of young people in evening
dress. The music of fine orchestra
came in from the rotunda. The air was
allied with the perfume of flowers.
Never had the burden of his birth felt
so heavy, never had he so keenly long
ed for the unattainable. He was in
the lowest dregs of despair; he had be-
gun TO pity himself. Everybody else
was having ~ holiday; no holiday
| could come to him while his own ia
| Their was bearing the scOurge of the
| Iaw. while the only things he craved
were eluding his grasp.
4 little warmth came to his cold
heart over the thought that Lydia
! Cranston cared for him, but it was
swept away by the icy fear that, de-
mite her regard for him. she was even
then striving philOsophically to put him
cut of her life. That striving had be-
gun with the acceptance of the recep-
ton in her honor. The next step would
be the formal announcement of her en-
gagement to the governor, and then
she would begin to look upon Telfare
as her future husband. George stifed
q grOan and rose and left the room.
The thought was like the pangS of
death. He went out into the streets
and walked on and on, going he cared
not whittier. trying to kill the despair
within him. Dark thoughts pursued
him, bUt he threw them aside. He was
soldier fighting black adversely, and
he would fight-fight to the end. He
had been walking half an hour when
he came to the spacious grounds OF the
Dunleigh home. A carriage stood at
the door 1t was waiting for her-her!
In a short while she would emerge
dressed for the reception. Could he
not wait there on the street and see
her? No, for it was closed carriage,
and she would be shut off from his
view. But could he not, without be-
ing seen, get nearer the door through
which she would have to pass? The
grounds were unlighted, and there
|
. shrubbery. The gate of the drive was
4 open. He stole in and found rustic
, seat behind a hedge of rosebushes
I where he could remain unseen. ii
a had not long to wait. Mrs. Dunlelgl
v and Mrs. Cranston came out and the
a Miss Cosby and Lydia. The two girl
& paused for moment under the grea
swinging lamp that hung from tn
Is ceiling of the veranda. Buckley hel
IS his breath as he looked upon her. ID
Of had never seen her in complete ever
$. ing dress before, and her rare beaut
V was a revelation to him. She SCENE
&c to be ut once the girl he knew an
ndored and yet another who was Qui
n a stranger to him.
The cOachman was holding the ca
r. riage door open for her, and she swel
ny down the steps and the door close
ly upon her. The hOOfs of the mettl
IN some horses ground into the pebble
lie drive as they whirled her away. GOl
Z" from his sight into that of his despist
lid rival. Buckley sank back on to Il
bench and clasped his cold hands. I
he remained there an hour and then slo7
re. ly retraced his steps down the beau
er, full street. Soon the Illumination
res the executive mansion rose before hi
The hum of many voices fell on
in ear. blended with martial music. L
trees on the lawn were hung with q
ers / neSe lanterns; from a balcony overhe
the attendants were setting off costly II
her works on the very sky Telfare see
hit ed to be recording his triumph over
go conquered foe. George walked on pa
on. the mansion into the reveling mass
of humanity that swarmed about the pr
low cipal hotels.
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