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FALSE PRETENCES.
“Am I to {jo to London this sum
mer?” asked Erma Weston other
indignant father after the winter
was passed.
“No, you are not,” said papa Wes
ton, trying to speak very positively.
“You are going to ‘mammy’ it she
will consent to receive you, and i
want you to come back with round
er, redder cheeks.” (Here the
cheeks had to be pinched.) “And
mind, there must be less of this fol
ly about going out when next win
ter comes.”
“Then, if our home is to be covert
ed into a hermitage,” laughed Er
ma, “I mean to prepare for it by
learning to cook, so I may cheer
my solitude by clear soups and per
fect puddings.”
“I only wish you were in earnest,”
replied her father.
A few weeks later Erma was in
stalled in the home of her old nurse,
Mrs. Webb,“mammy,” Erma had al
ways called her.
The next morning after her arri
val, she astonished Mrs. Webb by
entering the kitchen at 0 o’clock,
arrayed in a cotton dress and apron.
She laughed merrily at the look
of wonder on the good woman’s
face, and won her respect for ever
by declaring, “I intend to pretend I
am your daughter while I am here,
and learn to bake bread and wash
clothes.”
“You may not get ’em so nice the
first time, but it will be wonderful
pleasant to have you around the
work witli me.”
“And remember, you are not to
address me as Miss Erma, but only
‘Erma;’and I want to begin now,”
she said with a glance, about the
room in quest of employment.
“It seems like a pity to spi’l them
pretty hands. I remember how I
used to love the touch of ’em when
you was a baby, and your poor, poor
mother a lyin’ in her grave.”
“Never mind my hands. I fancy
yours might have been beautiful
had they not been so useful.”
“Then you might peel these taters
an’ cut ’em up, while I go out an’
milk.”
When Mrs. Webb returned with
her pail of foaming milk, she re
marked, “There’s a youngish-look
ing feller coinin’ this way, with a
valise.in his hand. I wonder, now,
if it ain’t the new schoolmaster?
Ye see, the scarlet fever broke out
in our district last April, an’ broke
up the school. The school-missus
she got married, an’ we had to git a
new teacher.”
The “young-lookin’ feller” soon
made his appearance at the kitchen
door.
“My name is Harris,” said the
young man. “I have engaged to
teach your school, and would like
to board here. I trust you will be
able to accommodate me.”
“Come in an’ take a chair. You
can stay, though the last teacher
did make a lot o’ work, what with
pickin’ up things she’d leave about,
an’ carryin’ water up the steps to
her room. This is my daughter
Erma, Mr. Harris.”
And Mrs. Webb gave Erma a
warning glance as she thus intro
duced her.
“You have a very handsome
daughter, Mrs. Webb. Will she be
one of my pupils ?”
“You would not dare thus insult
me if ” began Erma, with a flash
in her brown eyes.
“Erma!” interrupted Mrs. Webb.
And the girl smiled -quietly, and
was silent.
If the fly on the window had sud
denly buzzed about his face, and
shown a capacity for stinging, Mr.
Harris would not have been more
astonished.
“I thought people of this class
liked plain speech,” was his mental
comment, as he gazed on Erma’s
flushed cheeks and flashing eyes.
“Forgive me, Miss Erma: I had
been too frank, I fear,” said he,
with gravo sincerity, out with a
suspicion of unconscious condescen
sion that was a new experience to
our high-bred heroine, who was ac
customed to receive homage always
and everywhere.
“Yes,” she replied, “I will forgive
you if you will try to remember
that the humblest roof sometimes
shelters a lady.”
Her tones were so haughty that
he was startled into taking another
look at her face—lie had been gaz
ing past her, out of the window;
and he answered kindly, with a
half-formed smile hovering around
his lips, “I have been very remiss
not to have thought of that before.
I hope you will not take revenge on
me by salting my cofl'ee, and serv
ing up pebbles with my vegetables.”
“No; I could not be content with
so slight a vengenuce.”
And Erma swept from the room.
As Mr. Harris watched her reced
ing form, he only wondered wheth
er her beautiful eyes might not
prove more torture to one’s peace
of mind than salt and pebbles to tho
stomach.
“Why did you introduce me as
your daughter ?” demanded Erma,
when si le found herself alone with
Mrs. Webb.
“1 thought girls were fond of such
sport,” replied the good old lady,
evasively.
“Well, perhaps I shall enjoy a
masquerade; but it is surprising
that yoit thought of it. I shall soon
be found out, at any rate. Mr. Webb
will be sure to say something.”
“Perhaps not. Mr. Webb is near
ly deaf, you know, an’ so taken up
with his sullen spells that he don’t
take no notice of anything goin’ on
around ’iin.”
Mrs. Webb did not think it politic
to tell Erma, that having failed to
secure a prize in the matrimonial
market herself, she dreaded a simi
lar fate for her favorite, and doubt
ed not that Mr. Harris would be
after her father’s money should he
become acquainted with her posi
tion in life. So she planned in her
own way to save her darling from a
possible calamity. Indeed, Mrs.
Webb regarded marriage as a
calamity under any circumstances.
Day followed day, week followed
week, and yet Mr. Harris failed to
make Erma his friend. He tried
repeatedly to engage her in con
versation; but she as often discov
ered thatrher floors were unswept,
or contrived some other trivial ex
cuse for leaving him.
One morning Mr. Harris did not
appear at the breakfast-table, and
Mrs. Webb said that he would not
be able to teach that day, as he had
been seized with a violent ague
chill.
“I’ve a notion to substitute myself
for him. I wonder if it wouldn’t be
fun to teach school just for one day,”
said Erma.
“I wish you would. The poor
man can’t afford to lose his situa
tion. He needs the money, I be
lieve.”
“It isn’t because I am very’ chari
table, or in the least solicitous about
pleasing him, that 1 propose going.
My motive is entirely selfish. It is
the novelty of being a country school
mistress that presents an irresist-
able charm to my r mind.”
Arrayed in a pretty walking cos
tume, Erma knocked at the door of
Mr. Harris’ room to ask for the key
to the school room.
lie surveyed her for a moment in
mute admiration—the only kind he
dared offer.
“How tasteful she is in her dress,”
he thought.
“You are very kind to take my
place,” he said at last, “and I am
deeply’ grateful. I shall not require
your aid long, if there is virtue in
quinine. You will find the key on
the table there, under my hat. I
hope my pupils will not giye you
any trouble.”
“Dive yourself no uneasiness on
my r account. I might carry a bun
dle of rods with me, if you think it
probable that I shall need to defend
myself,” said she with an annihi
lating glance as she hurried away.
“I fervently hope I shall hear or
see something to-day that will make
me hate that man,” remarked Er
ma as she moved leisurely along the
road. “The idea of allowing myself
to fall in love with a poor teacher!
It makes me angrier with myself
than I am always pretending to be
with poor Mr. Harris. There!” she
exclaimed as she neared the school
grounds; “I see something al
ready! There’s a pond of stagnant
water behind the house. He ought
to have the ague. And has no more
sense than to t be dosing himself with
quinine. But, after all, it’s his bus
iness to teach, not to drain marshes.
I’ll make him some hop tea to-night
—noli won’t.
How anxious and tender the chil
dren seemed when they learned
that their teacher was sick, and
how they all seemed to love himl—
Erma thought she should feel al
gidity most if she could not love
him too.
His solicitude for the welfare of
his school led Mr. llarfis to rise in
the afternoon, when the fever had
left him, and walk with slow, pain
ful steps towards the scene of
Erma’s temporary sovereignty.—
lie reached his destination in a
state of great weariness, and sat to
rest awhile beforo going into the
school-room.
A recitation was in progress, and
he had not listened long to the
sounds that were borne through the
open doorway before ho discovered
that his pupils were being guided
by masters hand. To say that he
was surprised would give but a
tame idea of his emotions. Absorb
ed and delighted, forgetful of
himself, he remained a listener
until lie was startled by hearing
preparations for dismission. He
entered just as the pupils were pass
ing out. They gathered about him,
eager to hear him say ho was bet
ter, and as the last left him, Erma
was about to go, too, with only a
word or two about tho key.
“Wait a moment, can you not?
I would like to consult you about
tlu> record,” said he.
When they were alone he said to
her: “You have taught before?”
“Never 1”
“Then you are a genius. But if
you are, you did not receive your
education in a country school, did
you ?”
No reply. Erma turned with
nervous haste to tho register, and
commenced talking about the day’s
attendance and punctuality.
As they turned tho loaves togeth
er they came upon the photograph
of a sweet faced woman, and a loose
sheet of paper upon which was
written a poem with tho title star
ing out in bold loiters. “To my
Love.” Mr. Harris murmured
something about liis carelessness
in leaving such things in such a
place, and proceeded to place them
in the coat-pocket; but Erma held
out her hand.
“May I see the portrait?” she
asked, in a very faint voice.
“Certainly,” ho replied, handing
it to her.
lie noticed that her fingers shook
as they closed over it, and time her
iace was a trifle pale.
“That’s is my sister’s picture,”
said the schoolmaster, after she
had examined it carefully, watch
ing her face intently as he spoke.
Ho saw a gleam of light leap into
her eyes, and an expression of re
lief soften all the lines about her
mouth. Then he took the hand
that was still trembling in his own,
and looked into her eyes.
“Tell me,” he said, “if it had been
a sweetheart instead of a sister,
should you have cared?”
“No. What are sweethearts to
me?” she , said, withdrawing her
hand, and making a desperate
effort to look out of the window
but somehow his gaze compelled
her own, and she found herself lift
ing her eyes to his face, and drop
ping them in bewildered confusion
before the light that met them.
“Erma,” he said, “I feel that I
must tell you what is in my heart.
Nay, my darling, you shall listen,”
—seizing her hands, for she was
rising and turning from him. “I
am too poor to marry, but poverty
has not prevented me from loving,
ay, worshipping you. Tell me,
Erma, is there any hope for me?
Can you ever learn to love me?”
“No,” she replied, a quiver of
happy excitement in her voice;
“I shall never learn to love you,
for I love you already.”
His arms were about her in an
instant.
“Bless you, my love, my love!—
Do you think we could live on a
very small salary. But no; I was
wrong to ask it. I must wait for
you until I obtain a better position.”
“I am sure we could live on a
small salary. Let us try it. If it
becomes necessary I might teach,
too,” she added, mischieviously.
When they reached home, Mr.
Harris said “Mrs. W^bb, Erma and
I are betrothed. Will you accord
your consent and blessing?”
“Blessing? No! Erma Weston,
what’ll yer father say? To think of
my poor motherless Erma marryin’
a man ”
“Motherless?” interrupted the
astonished Mr. Harris.
“Yes,” said Erma. “Mrs. Webb
was my nurse, not my mother. We
have deceived you, but you will for
give us,” with a confident smile. “I
am sure my father will consent to
the marriage when he knows you. ’
He did consent, and even seemed
pleased with Mr. Harris for having
wooed Erma without knowing she
would come into possession of a
fortune on her twenty-first birth
day. Mr. Harris would not marry
until lie had a better position; but
Mr. Weston’s influence helped him
to obtain one, and his own industry
enabled him to keep it.
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I Insert with more than ordinary pleasure this advertisement us I wish to make known
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REMOVAL NOTICE.
THE
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OF
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
We take pleasure in announcing that wo have moved our elegant
stock of Furniture to
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Old stand of Myers and Marcus. Wo have this large store filled to
overflowing with
The Most Elegant and Best Assorted Stocks
Ever offered. We compete with any market or any dealer in
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Write for Catalogue or call and see us.
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aa hshb ■■■
Jla. JL l-i J.
Loud and Long, with thundering echoes, we sound the name, and
our opening “ad” presents for a rallying cry
WAY FOR THE CARPET KING.
BAILIE’S!!
We sound the soft vowels of tlie well-known name and uneo: si lously we lose ourselves
In luxurious dream of oriental mugnllleeuee. The minds eye revelslu liriglit vlslus of .U-
inlnlsler uml Kidtlernilnlsler, of Erotly Brussels. Turkish uml Velvet Pile. To-mur. o\i «"
promise ourselves a tour through the fairy laud of bailie's Emporium, to view with wukluit
eyes Ills vast array of
CARPETS! CARPETS!
B A I L I E ’ S.
MAKE NO MISTAKE.
In these Nineteenth Century days of udvaneed ideas stolen reputations, are not rare, and
a great inline often rests In unworthy hands.
brief eonsldorallon points unerringly to the soiiree of our startling unnouneemeiits, and
to make uNMuruuee doubly sure we print tho sign is larger type:
71:1 BROAD HTREET.
We print the name still larger:
J AS. G. BAILIE & SONS
E. F. Lawson,
Alto r n e // - at - L a w,
WAVNEHbOUG. GA.
Will promptly allend to all business I ul rust -
T. D. 0 11 v e r,
A 11 or n e y - at - L a tv >
WAV N EHIIDRI I, GA.
.. m m umpi i.v Hi leuu u> uu uusiuess l III nisi - .. ,
ed to his cure, and give speelal alleiitlou to Will i.molten in (lie Augusta, Eastern »"
till) prnotloo In the Cuurt of ordinary. Ollleo ‘ Middle Clreiills, Kiierlul attention Kjv , ‘[i 11
next door to Arlington Hotel. uuvIO'iQby Jusllee Court praelteo inya8-a)