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TOfi FLOATING l.ttYK-bBTTER:'
Tftey bad been boarding togctlcrMt tme
farm, Jane Ileth and Annie Concern ; itnd
all that autumn Mr. Craig had been fishing
and shooting in the vicinity, and making
the /arm, which was rcuuamd for iWigovd
|\Jtay l\jp headquarters. Aad Mr. Cnflg
was a handsome ami dashing young wid
ower. ami Jane lfeth hid mude up her
mind that to be Mrs. Craig was her des
tiny.
Indeed it might have been, for perse
verance can accomplish wonders, had not
Annie Conyers brought her trunks, her
crotcheting. her sketch-book ami her blue
parasol to the farm for the summer.
Annie was not prettier, nor younger, nor
better dressed, nor more accomplished
than Jane; but a man loves one woman
and does not love another, and who can
explain why?
Amongst those hills and on that lake
the Colonel gave his heart to little Annie
and she gave hers to him.
Hut on the day that called him home,
nothing had been said that could have been
construed into an engagement; but he had
asked her if he might write to her, and she
bed said “ Yes," and Jane had heard the
request and permission.
Jane did not love Mr. Craig, but her
vanity was piqued, and she had greatly de
sired the position which she would have
held as mistress of his handsome house.
Her ficart was very bitter as she turned
away, for he had not asked her to write to
him; and, if their acquaintance dropped,
as it seemed about to do, her hopes of
ctenching the nail when they again met in
the city the coming winter, as they would
be likely to do, would be quite futile. As
she stood watching the stage drive away,
she felt that summer had been wasted, and
that there was nothing left to do but to
pqck up and return to the city at the end
of the week.
Meanwhile Annie had run away to her
own. room. She fancied she knew what
would be in the letter which he would
send her, and she felt what her answer
would he. She wanted to be alone and
think it over; and until teatiine she hid
herself from Jane, and from hospitable
Mrs. Wilton herself. U lam, however,
she came down to tea, she looked so bright
and happy, that Jane felt like wreaking
vengeance upon her.
Three days had passed since the Colo
nel's departure, and one evening Jane stood
loaning over the gate, when a wagon drove
up the road and stopped beside it a mo
ment. From beneath its covers peeped
the white head of an old fanner.
“Good even’, miss,” said ho, ” I’ve
been to the post-office. and they said there
was letters for Wilton’s folks, and 1 fetch
ed em over. A’hit got my glasses with
me. so I don’t know who they are writ to;
but you can see. AH wells' That’s right.
Good even’.”
away he drove, leaving Jane with
two letters in hand, one for herself and one
for Annie Conyers.
Her own was from her mother. She
knew the writing; the other—well she
knew the hand that directed that, also.
It was from Mr. Craitr.
“ And am 1 to give it to her?” muttered
Jane, between her teeth—“ I !”
And then, with an impulse which seemed
to her unconquerable, she hurried away
towards a wood, hiding both letters in her
pocket.
At least she would delay her rival’s hap
piness ; she would not carry it to her at
once.
Then alone in the green shadow she took
the letter from her pocket and looked long
and curiously at the superscription.
Yes, it was from Craig, and what had he
said? Perhaps, after all, he was not in
earnest. Could she but read what ho had
written, she would know.
She took a pin from her dross, and drew
it along the edge of the envelope. It
opened a littlo space, btit the rest clung as
closely as before* Impatient at this, she
forgot all prudence, and drew the pin
across the paper with a sudden push. It
cut its way through, and the mischief was
done. Jane's heart beat hard and fast
with terror, but she had gone too far to
stop.
1 shall know the truth.” she said;
“ and letters are always being lost in these
country post-offices; i'll read it, since I've
torn it.’’ Then she pulled awav the en
velope, spread the sheet of paper on her
knee, and read the following words :
“Dear Miss Conyers: It seems odd
tlni£ a man of thirty should be afraid to
stand face to face with a girl of twenty,
and tell her that he loved her; but T could
not summon courage to do so, nor to ask
the question that follows such a confession.
So, far from you. I commit my hopes to
this„paper, and having in plain words said
I loYo you, ask you in plainer words still
do you love me enough to be my wife ? If
you do, write to me at once, I pray, and
•make me the lirtppiotft man 01T eartTi l>y
telling me so. If yoflf do not, then pain
neither of us by a refusal; simply leave
my letter unanswered. I can hear it bet
ter so. But 1 shall pray for the letter, for
I love you better than my life.
Harry Craig.”
Jane drew a deep breath. “So it lias
gone as far as this,'’ sije said. “ What
fools men are ! She will be glad enough to
say * yes,’ but if 1 should destroy this bit
of paper, he would never know it; and
then—well, then lie would do his best to
(111 her place. Men's hearts never break,
and there is no one whom I know suits me
better. That ohl’inan who gave the let
ters never read the address. There can be
no inquiries made. It would be safe to de
stroy it, dangerous not to do so now, even
if I bad not read it.”
Then Jane tore the letter in two, thrust
it into its envelope, and looked about her.
It would be dangerous to tear it to bits in
the wood. Its white fragments might at
tract some eye among the greenness of the
grass. But hard by a pretty stream bab
bled away over stones ami pebbles. Once
thrown’into the water, that was the end of
it.
Jane hurried to the water-side, and
looking over her shoulder, as one might
who expected to see a ghost, tossed the
little package in. It fell with the closed
side downward, and distended by the torn
note, which was roughly thrust into it.
The surface was hard and highly finished,
and shaped so as to resist the water. A
little breeze that had just sprung up fa-
vored it, and away it ttoated like a little
boat, deftly clearing the shore and tacking
and turning as it passed the dark, half
hidden breasts of the little rocks over
which the water played.
“ Good-bye,” said Jane, laughing, as
she watched it. ‘‘l have set a vessel,
freighted with the hopes of Harry Craig,
afloat in fine style. 1 am afraid it will
make shipwreck, hut all the better for
someone else. It’s an ill wind that blows
nobody any good.” And, turning, she
tripped toward the house.
At this moment, farther along this same
stream where, m a little cove, lay hidden a
great tangle of water-lilies, Annie Conyers
sat in a rough little boat, rowed by Mrs.
Wilton's son Peter, a shock-headed boy of
twelve. Little Fannie Wilton sat beside
her, and the two girls drew up the dank,
dark green stems of the great, beautiful
white flowers. .
” If any one could only carry them to
the city,” said Annie ; “but they always
die. How greedy 1 am, I can never get
enough. Hut we'll leave the buds until
they open—and there comes one down the
stream to us. Let us try to catch it.
Peter.”
Peter, in obedience to the mandate,
rowed his boat into deeper water, and An
nie leaned over the side with her hand out
stretched to catch what she fancied was a
lloating lily.
” Pshaw !“ she cried, with a laugh, as it
came nearer, “ it’s nothing but paper ! Hut
it seems to be dodging me ! I'll catch it,
whatever it is 1”
And with these words her white fingers
closed on an envelope, not yet soaked
through, and within which lay, torn and
crushed, paper still dr)'.
“Why, it has my name on the back!”
cried Annie. “ 1 never destroy a letter
when I am away from home.”
Then her face changed, and the children
saw her pale and Hush as she pieced the
torn letter together and read it through.
“Is anything the matter, Miss Annie?”
asked Fanny.
“ What should be?”said Peter. What
a little goose you are. Fan.”
“ Nothing is the matter, children,” said
Annie; “only as the adage says, ‘Truth
is stranger than fiction !' ”
“ Eh 1” cried Peter.
“ So odd for a letter of mine to float to
me on the river." said Aunie.
” 11a, ha. ha ! Aint it?" roared Peter.
And it was stranger than Peter knew,
for it was Craig’s love-letter that Annie
had just read.
She was a wise little woman, and kept
the matter to herself, hut Fannie did not.
“Wasn't it funny, ina?” she cried.
“Miss Annie found one of her letters float
ing down the stream, just like a boat, when
we were getting water-lilies.”
“0 1” cried Mrs. Wilton, for at this mo
ment the teacup Jane had lifted to her lips
dropped from her hand and dashed to
pieces on the Hoor.
“ How careless of me?” cried Jane.
“ Hope you haven’t spoilt your dress?”
said Mrs. Wilton ; hut as Jane lifted her
crimson face from the fragments of the
broken cup, she met Annie Conyer's eyes.
Women sometimes talk to each other
with their eyes; two did then.
But Annie was generous in her triumph.
She never told Craig, and she sent Miss
Heth an invitation to her wedding, which, !
Miss Ileth, with many regrets, declined. I
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