Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-10

ial and una fTectod kindness of tbe Red. fela family most delightful, and he lost MO opportunity to leap over the fence and dawdle far hours in the tennis court or on the lawn with Dudley and Eliza. beth indeed, as time passed he began to find the society of Dudley something of superhnity. He was more than satisfied to play Othel}o and relate il. wauderings and adventures to Elizabeth, he ha7 travc'ed much, and sorreho" ths presence of silent Elizabeth was a never endiug delight to him.
 Que day he came across the grass si- lcntly; under tie dense shade of the dropping, swaying branches of the elm tree, Elizabeth lounged on the broad bench, trying to endure the heat of the late July afternoon.
 He caught sight. as he approached, of ! ah Illustrated book. Hearing him, she sprang up and whipped the book under q big blue denim cushion embroidered with white f1eur de It's, and sat upon it, tb ward him.
 "What is she reading, that she h{cs it so9' he reflected his heart full ot pain ti.at his lovely, young, and wholly innocent Elizabeth should he reading 9 book she must hide from him.
 Ten years of drifting about thc Norlt rich young man had shown h::n nluch Niekednoss, aud the pure wholesomeneSs without ignorance of these young people had heen such as is rarely met, and he loved Elizabeth with all the strength and fervor of vigorous, cultivated, and faS tdious young manhood he had been al ways sought after, and many young No- men of all degrees of social prestige would have been willing to have hocoma his wife, Perhaps the fact that Mrs. Redtield did not regard his attentions u, her youngest daughter with unmixed tav' or had some effect, for it certainly was new to him to have mother carefully guard a girl from him.
 l He could not discover the faintest iu- dication that she cared for him; evel Dudley, who read her like an open book, could not discover the love that may have been in this shy, proud maiden 5 heart.
 "Going to play tennis this hot days' was her original remark, as she noted tho sad, reproaehful gaze and moved uneasily upon the book, which made disagreeabla hump under the fleur dc Us.
 "No; I put these clothes on because they are a thought cooler than some oth- CTS How is Lady Clare getting ona"
 "Dudlcy and arc doing it so well that if we rehcarse any more l shall ruin it. The costumes came yesterday; they are perfectly beautiful; my 'russct gown is the most artistic and becoming, thing l ever had on, and Mrs. Soule has had her diamonds set in a necklace for me to wear; it is the most splendid thin. I ever saw, aud to think of me wearins, seven thousand dollars around my neck is sitting in the lap of luxury indeed, '' She shifted the book little to one side. He sat down beside her on the bench
 "Do you care so much for diamondss looking at her in a way that caused he' to be conscious of a strange uneasiness "for m raise Mrs. Souless diamonds
 and go her ten thousand better, h' thought, as he pictured diadem in th' pale fluff of Elizabeth's bonny hair am . \ necklace around the sweet, white throat ooh, I wish Dudley would come wit 5 that lemonade! he went after it ages age 3 Oh yes, like diamonds because they ar so beautiful, but if I had the money the D represent, I'd have such library, an q instruments and lahoratory-oh, If l only could have laboratory!' v f Dudley came singing across the law ! with a pitcher and glasses and there VIC