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VOL II.
A COQUETTE.
ITow Ruby Howard Was Taught a
Severe But Valuable^ Lesson.
'‘How absurdly disagreeable you
can make your: elf, Jack. But there
—I’m not going to quarrel with you.
How much longet aie you going to
keep me up to abuse me?” and Ruby
laughed aloud in her usual saucy,
tantalizing manner, Jack looked at
her, bis lace as black as a thunder
cloud, on which was written a stern
determination; but she was in no
way appalled by it. On the contra
ry, she looked at him gayly and
carelessly, as if she were perfectly
indifferent to him or his moods,
“Miss Howard,” he began.
■“Miss Howard,” she mimicked,
mockingly; “since when, pray?
How ceremoniously we grow, to Le
euro.”
He resumed, as if she had not in
terrupted him: “I will not detain
you but a moment longer. V> bile I
am convinced that at the present
time you are perfectly heartless
owing more to the unhappy way of
your bringsug up and to the influ
ences and fashion of society than to
natural hardness of heart”—
•sOh! thanks, thanks awfully, you
am too good,” she broke in again,
laughingly. Ii was all as good as a
burlesque to her. accustomed as she
was to lovers’ ran tings.
“I am as firmly convinced,” he
went oil in so calm a tone that it
should have warned her that this
meant more than an ordinary tiff,
“that you love me, but, with your
natural perverseness, will neither
acknowledge it to yourself nor mo.”
As he said ibis—with an air of a
judge pronouncing sentence on some
unhappy prisoner—with his gray
eyes fixed on her face with the
sternest gaze they were capable cf—
in spite of herself the bloom on her
soft, ' round cheek deepened to a
a
bright red and for an instant her
saucy, mocking eves fell before ,his.
A transient smile passed over his
gloomy face at this evidence of his
power, and left it even gloomier than
before.
As ho rog vded the lovely, half
shy tree before him ho commenced
again bitterly: “And why will
you not yield to that love and make
us both happy? I will tell you.
You do not wish to bo tied to one;
to receive the love and homage of i
one is not to your taste. Oh, no. not
for years to come. If I would wait
patiently and in the meantime be |
always ready to dance attcndanco
on all your whims, t or noticing any
one else, and always keeping in the
background when a dcstruble flu
tatiou came up, then, perhaps,
you didn’t meet some one you pro
ferred to me, after keeping me in
fiuspenso ail that tune, you might
graciously condescend to marry mo.
But I decline to become the slave
of auy woman ; and, as much as I
love you, I am going to leave you
forever,”
“Ha, ha!” and her sweet, low
laugh iang out like a chime of sil
very bells. “The plot thickens.
Please go on; it is as lovely as a
play.”
“I know and foe!,” said Jack,
earnestly, “that wo are especially
suited to each other, and I believe
that in time you will realize
truth of what I say and regret no,
even as I regret y-.-u now—but
more. I’ve air ady fi d too nmol
—m-.-retlmn I intended ; good-bye, r
and with a- deep b iw he turned and
left.
•
“Well, of all things!” she tnur
mured ‘Foreve. ! Fudge!
him bi-morr v o- th ■ pi -
the same as u;. ..ai. lie ia delicious,
i
“OUR AMBITION IS TO MAKE A VERACIOUS WORK, RELIABLE IN H’S STATEMENTS, CANDID IN ITS CONCLUSIONS, JUST
AND IN ITS VIEWS.”
I do like him the best, when ho
sorts himself, lie is grand when
be gets enraged, lie looks so stern
he unapproadi- ,
* that 1 “ hao8t atraicl 01
him—the darling. If 1 don’t look
out he will end in making mo mar
ly him before the season is over.
Ofoourec j shan > t marry any one
kat fm not going to burry mv
self. There is piers ty of time,”
After which sage conclusion she
went up to her room in nay spirits,
t.unking . of the good time . eho
woold have io making; up with -hick
as she had done a number of times
before
The next day Miss Ruby failed to
meet J ack as usual. In fact a week
passed and in all that time he had not
called. She had missed his presence
from bail and opera, and every place
that she had graced with her bright
presence. At last, making a few in
qtiiries, she {bund that Jack was out |
somewhere on the broad ocean on i
his way to China to join Jus brother,
a tea merchant, ami was likely to
be abs ent si term ot years.
Although outwardly Ruby mana
ged to conceal the shock she had
received, she could not conceal
from her own heart that something
had gone from her that she missed
and longed ibr with an indescriba
ble longing and a wild regret. It
was all the move maddening that no
one was to blame for her sorrow but
herself. The old places hul lost
their charm. Every thing and ev*
evybu&y was insipid, flat and mon
otonous. Adi ! if he would only re
turn, how gladly would she ac
knowledge her love, and liow gladly
would she marry him at the earliest
date be might mention. Had she
known his address at that time she
would have written to toll him of
her love and paaitenoe.
Four years after Jack had gone
Ruby was at a fashionable watering
place. She was still the belle of
every assemblage, ller indifference
and utter carelessness, combined
with her rare beauty, brought her
scores of admirers, whom she drove
almost mad with he coldness. She
was still as lovely as ever, but in
her big, brown eyes there was a
shade of sadness, and a slightly ab
sent look which gave a touch of soul
to a face that had heretofore spark
led with wit, and glowed with gay
ety and high spirits, hat had lack
ed feeling, Now it v,-;-.y perfect. If
Jack could only see her now.
One day she was taking her morn
. tfoI l;nJ ieeIillf , aa linaC ooun
{ ^ |e at . prc£ , ion C T spilils . I£er
t wera rearing their most
ubecIlt iook . aild a3 they wandered
over the crowd, that was ever com
. audgoin?) / Bbe started violently,
auu he ,. d h , ;l . e> hi , ih _ brtd f uce
tl , rnCf] as wbite a3 the filmy lace at
hef throat tihe fix . d an absorbed
gaze on a vehicle that was slowly
passing. Inc occupants were abroad , .
shouldered, grand looking man
dressed in gray, His shapely ncuu
was crowned with a white straw hut,
a pair of large, disSgiirinff spectacles
of colored glass completely hid. his
eyes: his firm mouth was
shaded with along brown mustache,
aod between his lips was the inevi
table cigar. No whiskers hid his
firm chin and line rounded throat
A f Hitman at hi-; side was driving
a span of spirited blacks. Inanin
stant the equipage was hidden by
the crowd, but Ruby’s eyes would
>'v that face, that form, if
it had been a far more fleeting’
glb .p-e. She dr.-tv a long breath,
and by the time she reached nor bo
rud looked at .herself m h r
room, she waa startled a tim joyous
brig mess that sparkled in her eyes
and b ame l from eery feature,
Aii ir : t.’J ‘ ‘ x
;r '• o-v
svuieii.ng xor something. At t .e
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1889.
hop ibn : night it was still the s mo
Sue withdrew early and sought ter
i iVW, ’V T f, ea r . v au ' 1 beartsivb.
| “On,’suesaid , aloud, in a tronlled
voic he k}1 , nr j am
and still remain aloof!”
bhe sat there alone, white and s id:
her lace wet, whli tears! her he in j
torn with conflict-ion emotions, mi
a terrible fear that ho had forgot :eu
her. The next morning, ai'tei a
sleepless night, she started out alime
her cheeks pale, her spirits drew P*
ing. She sintped her course for a
hidden retreat behind the rot,
where she had often dreamed nelr- a' ay
hours uninterrupted. As she
cd the place she saw that lierfavoi te
rocky intruder, seat was already occupied despot >y
an fie satin a :H
ing his attitude, hand with his head direc'-cdf.to resting
on and his gaze
ward the sea. Occupied with iter fa
thoughts, without Ruby was about noticeM to ti*u
him, away changed taking unv ids positive
wiiea he
removed a cigar from bis month,
blew forth a cloud of smoke, imd
Ruby saw who it was.
Her footsteps had given no sound
0!1 the soft sand. He bad not heftrd
her. She stood perfectly still,
trembling riaud. Here so that the eho could for searqjjr winge
was man
prosetico she had longed for Ml j
those sad years, and now she daMl; !
not speak 1 to him. Ho might receive
her penitence with scorn, and he j
thought! might he married! While this Tend hie, pasnip crjpfl !
was
through her mind, she was start®!
by hearing some one coming tS4t
way whistling. Hot wishing to%
seen, she sprang behind a convenient
bowlder, just iu time to escape the
eyes of the new-comer, who was tlb
same tnau she had .seen with Jack
the day before.
The man came up and stopped
beside Jack, who said, impatiently :
“Why did you come for mo so soo w
“Why, an’you said‘come in m
hour,’ and it is up sure.” Id
“I don’t believe it’s up,” JacQ, no*
filed, violently, “butWecou^o i
a poor, blind stick you think yov
can fool me. But you can’t. Go
away and lot me bo in peace if you
can, and don’t dare to come near me
again under ail hour from now. Dp
you understand? An hour from
now, a whole limit*.
“Yen, sir, I understand,” replied
poor Peter, deprecaungly, preparing
to move off, after casting a glance
at the watch he wore to make sure
of the time.
“Stay,” cal' d Jack irritably.
•‘First tell me if any one is any
where in sight. I don’t want to sit
here as a show lor any ono if I can
help it.”
“Not a soul, sir, to he seen,” re
sponded Peter, cheerily.
“Then clear out,” was the gontlo
reply.
After Rotor’s retreating form was
lost to view Ruby stole forth pale
and trembling—her cheeks moist
with tears of pity. How wretched
ho looked—how sad—how she
pitied him. She fo-got everything
except her love for him and wished
f(> oomfort hjm> 0n tho itnini j ge of
U(0 momont sll3 WCIlt to y !n and
put both soft, round arms around
his neck and laid her cheek against
liis> H er Bad dcn embrace aroused
him effectually from the gloomy
thoughts he was indulging ic, and
g ave blm a little shock. But as
soon as he could could, collect Ins
scattered senses he became aware
tha«. it was a woman ! Y’es, a wo
man! A mad woman, uo doubt!
Did she intend to strangle him, or
what? The novelty of it pleased
him. He remained perfectly still
and awaited developments like a
philosplicr.
“Jack—Jack Hunter, don’t- you
kuo .v me?” rai l a tearful voice in
his ear.
“Heavens! That voice! Ruby!”
he rich'loubiingl,', but nevertho*
i h»,-g and t d.- trowing \y th aims about while her
■ • in - her t * him he
raim-d kr-sc-s on her face. At hast
, he drew her gently dowu ou
rock beside him and said: “My
darling, words are not needed to toll
me it is Ruby, or that you love me.
dm tell me-—you are still free as 1
and”
He did not ask how, or why she
happens d to be there, tie did not
care. That she was there, was the
one supreme thought of that happy
moment.
“lain still Ruby Howard,” eho
murmured in reply.
“1 hank God!’ he said, reverently
“and tor this hour. And now, will
you, can you—heart of my heart,
marry me, sis 1 am—-a blind man?”
“Yes, Jack, gladly, if you will
have me. I have longed >V for you
ever since you left me,” she whis
pered.
“My treasure!” lie cried, “It was
cruel of me. Wo will never part
again; we will get married at once—
within the week,” lie went on. in the
eager, overmastering way that slfe
well remembered. “Your people
will not object, I fondly imagine, for
.1 am rich, you know; and all that,
besides I am only blind for a season.
accident, My blindness happy is the result of an
accident—that
brought me homo to consult a spec
ialist. He toils ms if I bo patient
ltm * 'j |- J careful 1 will see in six
\ s ’*'!. d ‘ 80 ;;' 1, -‘ r : </}'>
l count but only see now! hut 1
cau wait and 1 would m t exchange
places with any one on earth.—‘•Oil
ver Jit,’ in Albany Journal,
LEGAL AD VEUTISE HE N Tit
— -v —
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co., Ga.
January 29th 1889.
Whereas, W, P. Glover the admin
istrator on Estate of John J. Glover
deco’d. applies to me for Dismission
from said administration. Tne,scare
therefore to cite and admonish all
persons concerned to show cause at
this office if any they have to the con
trary on or by the first Monday in
iftjL May next. Witness my hand offici
. u X JWV..
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co., Ga.
January 29th 1889.
Whereas, W. P, Glover applies <o
me for administration with the will
.annexed ou Estate of Nathaniel S.
•Glover dee’J. of said county. These
are to cite and adrnonh h til! persons
concerned to show cause at this of
fice if any they have to the contrary
on or by the first Monday in March
next. YVitnc-s my hand officially.
It. T. ROSS, Ordinary.'
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co., Ga.
January 29th 1889.
Whereas, John l'\ Anderson Adm’r
on Estate of Martin R. Malone dee’d,
applies to me for Dismission from
said Estate. These are togeite and
admonish all persons concerned to
show cause tit this office if any they
have to the contrary on or by the
first Monday in May next.
Witness my hand officially,
JR. T. ROS. I, Ordinary.
■ viu-ir«!Wt»* .-iwofiwu-ww*:
Ordinary’s Office, Jones (Jo., Ga.
January 29th 1889.
Whereas,G; W, F. McKay ap
plies to me fin* administration on
Estate of Hugh I). McKay, Jr. do
ceased late of Jones county. These
are to cite and admonish all persona
concerned to show cause at this of
fiee if any they have to the contrary
Oil or by the first Monday in March
next. Witness my hand officially.
It. T. ROSS, Ordinary.
Ordinary’s Office, Jones Co , Ga.
Nov. 17th 1888.
Whereas, Pleasant R. Bird, Exe
cutor of Estate John W. Bird de
ceased, applies to me for Disnfis
. B iou. There are to cite all persons
concerned to show cause if any
1 they have to the contrary at this
1 office on or by tho first Monday
hi .March next.
Witness uiy hand officially.
It. T. ROSS, Ordinary,
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