News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1908-03-11
girl friends all decided that Kinross
had eltainly proposed on sight.
CHAPTER XXYI.
yROM the senior Miss Wolcott to
Dr. Peter Kinross:
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Newport. Sept. -
A "She has been with me here
Mt Newport for nearly three weeks,
| and this is my first opportunity, Peter,
for writing to you. You must, of
| course be curious to hear how things
| have gone with each of us since the
| girl came to me.
| "Of course after your noncommittal
account OF her. was prepared for the
| worst and had braced myself to meet
| the shock which my own niece's man
ners and appearance must give me-
The bracing served me in good stead
when she arrived. for the shock was
even greater than | had counted on;
| though as it came from an unexpected
direction. my being prepared to meet
| II did not count for so much as it
would otherwise have done. OF course
! | knew M:y. Kenyon would do all she
rou!l to soften the Blow by fixing her
Up rs to clothes. but from what YOU
had told me Of my niece's life, | could
not reasonably have cypnvted 70 see
the graceful. exquisite loOi:iag girl who
walled into ny drawing room last
Friday nigh: You know it is the ex-
preston of d face and not merely per-
fectisn of cnloring and feature which
saves Il from being common.
IL thought she would look vacant
and awkward or else yuigarly loHl aud
self as;,ertile. was not prepared to
zee a face of extraordinary refinement
and intelligence and to meet man
ner Of dignity ana genteneSs. DO you
acknowledge now that blood will tell!
At first l was inclined to be angry
with you for not having spared HE
the suffering | endured in anticipating
her coming. | thought you might have
told me what she was like. how she
had educated herself. and so forth
But ON second thoughts | knew YOU
had done wisely in leaving me to find
it out for myself
"The child is touchinGly grateful to
me for the motherly care-so new to
her-which | confess delight in Law
ishing upon her, and I need not tell
you that two lonely, love hungry
hearts have found comfort in this |
newly discovered tie of blood
when we came to talk of finances |
l was surprised at her quickneSs to |
understand business problems which |
were so entirely new to her. a trained |
even when the training |
has been as one sided as hers has been, |
helps so much in every direction |
A Against my protest she has insisted |
upon an equal division between us Of |
her fathers wealth. have absolutely |
refused to accept this until she has had |
at least one years experience of life
In the world. when she will understand |
of the value of money.
Even if wished to don't think
could ever make wOrldlinG of her
Each day she is With me am inn
pressed afresh with the purity and
Of her mind.
st is keener pleasure than | have
known in many long year to watch
her Impressions of things rs take
her about with mP-she is SO filed
With wonder ut c~crvthing. She is like
4 small boy ut his first circus, Fer
are often so funny and yet
80 unexpectedly wise. It will be de
ightful to fake her to Europe.
ut isn't always easy to understand
Ter. AT times she seems absent and
lreamy in a way that is quite unac-
to me. There is n mean
holy about her which she seems I'M
bile to shake off and which puzzles
nd troubles me, for surely she has
to be happy for. Is it, per
aps. the somberness of her past still
lnging to her? Or can it be possible
hat she is brooding over some country
over she left out there? If that were
he case, you. Peter, having been by
err all summer. would know l wish
on would tell me. Wouldn't 1t be
ragic If that were the caseT'
Miss Wolcott concluded with warm
xpression of obligation to DR.. Kinross
Or his disinterested kindness.
1t was this letter which had brought
'r. Kinross after a bitter struggle
18th himself to the place where he
yas on this afternoon late in the
lonth of October-at Eunice's side,
,alking with her in Central park.
1t was bracing autumn day, but
re fresh air was not alone responsible
,r the brilliant color in Eunice's face
nd the light in her eyes. But the
DIOR and the light suggested excite
lent rather than JOY. There was
ladow of melancholy back of them.
In Kinross' face, too, the signs Of
Is battle with himself We're deeply
arked.
They walked slowly in secluded
ath The change he had felt in Eu- :
ice from the hour of their meeting
lat morning had given him a sense !,
loss, as though the unsophisticated
lid who had trusted and liked him
Id slipped from him, for there was a
gritty in her manner with him that
most made him think she had al
ady grown conventional. And as for J =
lie deep feeling for him which in their
st talk together at the farm she had
naively revealed-he shrugged his
loulders at the fickleness of the sex,
IT not a sign of it could he read in
~ po,x- ,,,onnar Of /