The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-04-08
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IISETTE'S MISTAKE.
5rl1S131S1i1S141 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Bp HELEN FORREST GRAVES.

Will you accept a secondhand lover?
Lisette has rejected me-will you do
the same?"
But, Harry" began Ernestine, pale
and breathless, do you really love
me?"
81 was fascinated with Lisette Nor
man, but l love you, Ernestine. Can
you return the feeling even in the
slightest degree?"
And then Ernestine Grey burst into
tears, and confessed to Harry March
how long and how entirely her heart
had been his own.
So they were married very quietly,
and the cozy little cottage which Harry
himself had built, received for its mis-
tress blue-eyed girl, shrinking and
shy as Lisette was self-confdent and
naughty.
Miss Norman arched her pretty eye
broks when she heard of this marri-
age between her former lover and her
friend.
Il dare say they'll be happy, how
ever" she said, "Ernestine Grey hasn't
a particle of ambition about her, but
should not think even she would have
stopped to marry a common carpen-
ter"
"Must be deuced low!" said Mr.. st.
Armand, who was smoking a cigarette,
with his heels on Lisette's work table.
ut won't do for us to visit 'em, when
we're married, Lisette."
"Oh, no, of course not!" said Lisette
poutingly. But now, Herbert, tell
me more about Armand Chase, and
its delicious old towers and splendid
turrets, and the lonely ghost in the
unused wing of the house. It's exact
ly like story"
well may it be-" inwardly reflected
Mr.. Herbert st. Elmo st. Armand,
considering how much of the element
of fiction it contains"
But he was particularly careful to
keep this sentiment to himself, and
went on with a flowery description of
some old chateau he had read of in
some novel, greatly to Lisette's de-
fight.
The courtship progressed most fav-
orably, and one day, about three
months subsequently Mr.. St. Armand
came in, looking flushed and excited.
News, Lisette!' he cried, great
news!"
"What?"
'My brother Leon has kicked the
buck-I mean, he has departed this
life, and I must start for England at
once.
"At once!"
Eyes; but don't look SO grieved, my
pet! We must be married Immediately,
or the gov-1 would say, Sir Grey-will
be sure to have some high-fying match
or other picked out for me on the other
side of the Atlantic"
Lisette's face frightened. Here were
disinterested love and devoted affec-
ton
And can l go with you?"
"0f course-thats the main idea! Do
you suppose I would go back to the
ancestral halls of the st. Armands
without my wife?"
Dearest Herbert! might have
known the generous impulses of your
heart!" cried Lisette, smiling and
blushing, as she thought how soon she
should probably become Lady st. Ar
mand What would Ernestine Marsh,
the carpenters wife say! What would
be the curious verdict of all her little
world! And Lisette's heart leaped tri-
umphantly within her at the mere
idea.
"Yes," said Mr.. ST. Armand, 'but the
fact is-you see, Lisette, I've had no
remittances of late, and in his dis
tress and confusion at Icons death, Sir
Grey has forgotten to send me his u.s.
ual drafts on the banker. It's very en-
barrassing, but"
"Oh, HUBERT" cried Lisette, generous
by nature, like all women, don't let
that annoy you for a single moment
have money Of my own that Aunt Pa
tience lent me--a thousand dollars. 1t
is all at your disposal. You can easily
pay it at any time after we are mar
ried"
So Mr.. st. Almond pocketed Lisette
Norman's thousand dollars, and bril-
liant wedding followed, to which, by
special favor, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
March were honored with cards.
The st. Almonds took passage for
Europe in the next steamer and Ernes-
tine said softly to her husband:
well, suppose we shall never see
Lisette again. But, Harry, it may all
be an unfounded prejudice, but would
rather have seen Lisette dead than
known she was married to that man."
"You see, my love-" said Mr.. March,
you are not ambitious"
Mrs. March was mistaken however,
in her supposition that she had seen
tie last of the future Lady st. Ar
mand.
1t was dull, rainy night in early
April, some two years subsequent to
these events, when low knock came
to the door, Ernestine, who was sit
ting beside the cradle of her sleeping
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