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MACON, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1890.
THE DEATH OF SUMMER.
m (is (lentleomn’i H««ulne.
•itmioer scorning tiutt tbe WInter ta*e
“"okf! Mil mock l-.tr unau OD frosted
flsnie tinted from tbo wood and
J for death; no maiden* twain
jjiuXil robin chanUber requiem.
I tt»nanM« wuere » «•»"Py, c * .
I uiely bt by myriao dragoii-fllM.
I Tteilor liut’rloc Tie*. Uu h*pr.j (lid.
I * ^“wm^telli to «*»1 Wcomlort yet
Ip.., lt! eereemberlag bit jlorlotu prine.
t of the purple night.
The dial
Vocal with song f;>
. ground.
The tunie rirh son-
beam,
A si£r£_
Felt joys unknown within her bosom stirred.
fhill she. now warned by blast of autumn'a
breath;
Xntilli*? C.e yield *n harlerfo**
wood and orchard
ich song oar mother Ero first
nsrroMng at the matchless aound,
a any throat of warbling bird,
Bring berries,’bring bright’leavos; the goes to
death
Robed as a princes*, as a qneen should go.
Drop, gentlest dews, and in an aaorn tor.
Jet nimble aqnIrrelt bear them to her bier;
Strew tine leaves round her, eglantine train u„
To wrjp her ibrond, that nothing come more
Than those iweet buds which most she loted
THREE OFFERS.
"Miii. p*p» w,nt> y ( » 1 ' “ e !llu, U
Itir.* Jo»niayni»llet on tbo .mouth
-w.-ihoM wore the day* of croquet.
I _tA Kuoi, wa* on unknown game— ami
I 'ocked questioning!*, with on anxious
I flsLte a» Tom, my brother, who brought
I tiii, unexpected o'-d un»el«me .untmurj.
I "rtbit is the matter, Toxn. ( 1 arktd.
I ‘Did be taj why be * acted ttte
I "0 > lecture of some eoxt, I «op|w«!
I returned Tom with impatient uugiut.
l«Yra rtood on one leg m church list
factors in producing a womanly char*
acter—such a character ns—as, for in
stance, our Cousin Mabel's strong yet
submissive, self-reliant yet dependent,
dignified yet meek."
My htepfatbtr’s glance wandered away
from me; he smiled benignly, reflecting
virtues which I find not.
“If I had had tbo supervision of your
very early education,” ho signed after a
minute, “you and yourtblera, Mabel,
.al.i have learnt in the nursery, in
„Ht, or tamed in your tern. you one <«h) . r", L ti.o-c I.oms which you
I 'tobreakfasti now find it well-nigh impossible to learn.
1 "r°rn WO, unirmpothetic; he tbrmt hi.. | Vo ,r mind i*fu.nl/ .tain*. toydoar-ex.
li-dsdcp into'hUpocket.ond .auntered cua, t‘.e oxpreteion. Vou hove no mec
But the giristheir faces iitil of , toltrallqu.hr Eton atthio moment
Mi-iinatioo, came from etcry corner of, you are -'.\eitod and imptUant. I hare.
’ toword me. Their poiteotcui »• I say, two import.m piece*of now.
te.ocd forteutou. tone* were c;mfor- to brook to you; Lut I will wait for sve
I itf, hut not uupiriiiny.
»1Ijs papa f.ent for you, Mab?
“tVliy does he want you?”
• You broke a pat in the conservatory,
I JIa'», perhaps il’s that”
I ‘ poor Mab! I saw him looking at you
Is* breakfast this morning in a peculiar
Iny. Ami your collar waa frightfully
IUICW.” M . , . , , ,
I “Is it Straight now?” I isVtd. looking
I imioufly from one to another of the aym-
I fl “Yf l | C ;futjonrdrers is torn. Here’s a
I pin; pin it up broeath the sash. Oh, and
I wha* a green stain there is on your
I fcurctf!’*
r hot
id ii
ould ;
Bu
e! And when get used and 1;
U-ned to the fe» ling of , dress pi»j
MPMafaune seemed t<> burn | Eton coil
11 other feeling*. I forget my love: , long in
urned for a bit j
the tyrants. 1 should like to humiliating tiia
i ill a school-boy jacket and on Inert. He loved me, in
•r. awl make him wear hi* hair oi defilxTatoan.xiou-i
iglets.” I “1 do believe," I rai
We I niched, Alice linked her hand* lovo me—hut 1 thin':,
around my arm. md we stroll *.l s'owly try, you will forget me.
en paths beta
overr tree. Ned loved
had 1 not loved Ned?
“Dtd ho rtnllv say that?—really?—
you’re not imagining itf” I questioned, l only realized my humiliation,
awe of my stepfather entirely lost ia a Two or three scalding tears ftll through ,
stronger feeling. " rny Angers: then tho tour** dried uj. My t together drwn ;>j**
’ “You arc exciting your»elf, MabeL It fccsd thro:.bed and burnt; my hot hand, the trim bed* wi
is much t.» he r«gretted ih.at \ our j our ; pi -s 1 »„-.•* ir.^t tny I. row, •: i j no: cool it. ertipjed 1 ox-Ujfiirs. I longed
dear mother's fussy oi»posiiion has teen Ttierew s a sound of advancing t>teps, question; a sunj.hj ipu-s'ion enough, but
inherited by so many cf her children. ! and I rose hurriedly to flee. At the same itwaeonly with an • 11 ort, after
You in parti'-ular, Mabel, havo a ten- moment Ned catne in s. ght round the deliberation, that I -hk»*d it.
doacy on the slightest i rovo.aticn to Lo- ; curve of tho high-pelted lane. I guff^c-1 1 “Alice, who told you tin
come iiysierica'. , ratlitr Ihun saw that it war he; I walktd awavf
“I don’t think so, papa.” Jonawiftly, away from him, down thoi “Ttwj wvre talking of it at the Cedars
T|re coDtrr.dictiou waa unlooked for; J grass-grown path. I ^ e r.V rt .‘ aj '’"
mysteiviaihcra brown eyes grew rounder ' WotiM l.e i» kin.3 ami 1ft mo go;| “Ah' its true then!”
and l iggor, their glaaco of mi.d surpiise Would he i retend cot to seo that I waa . “Some sci-ntifijoxjiodition wants hi
end displeasure should havo crushed mo Lcfcre 1 im an I was piot«nding m t to | to come with them, i didn’t listen very
completely—but I met the glance and know that bo wa^ benind me.’ Would j attentiveh— Lut the'ro going to explore
smiled hack contentedly anal ashed. he spare me t 1 e humiliation of standing ' Mrnn plru^e. Alricn. or Austialia, or somo
my dear, that Mr. Bar- j face to fa:o with Mm again? Tho que»•
huniiliating--morc
, indiffrr.Mi.o ha.l
mevitat Iy, but '
“Ma
happy returns of tk<
••Mab.;
quiet t
He
ho ex cl limed,
ichfaJJy.
further protest.
req
I start and turn my hen !. Ilmmd tho
lath behind tho summer home, Ned had
:omt‘ suddenly upon me; ho stands close
miles m calm In<rnil\ uuembarra -cd
told you that Ned
. hot I Che
veolf thr.t
stronger den
in Ned’s w a
until. In
chose *o tel
would, if h
is based on gratitude
tude and pity is withdrawn.
“You mar think mo lick:-,
haps I lies- rro your judgm
proved lick'o unco. 1 shall
’1 will confess, my dear, that Mr. Bir- face t<» face with Mm again? Tho quo**- plac •.
net’s choice lias astooisht d me. Wo will tions whirled through my brain, whilst i She s proud of hid
not ditouas his taste. You ore young and i listened with strained attention to tlie
poaiibly w ill improve. The dMciplise of lirm quick stops that followed,
married life will ro doubt cure many of ; The iteja hastened; he meant to ov» r-
thc&o JauJis wJiicii I deplore in you. As fake me. 1Y1 m I realized Ida intention
Mr. Barnet is twenty jito years o; agp. I sUodsthl. A green gate opened from
old enou.'h toguide his own actions. 1 | tho lauu into a meadow; 1 su od sti l l>o-
did not let 1 i: to be niy duty to save him ! sido the gate and waite-1 for him. half-
front what, if 1 regard tho matter im par-; facing him sa bo advanced, my cheeks
t ally. 1 regret to t.,iy that I consider a in a eccrlet flame, my ejes deflect, dar-
mbtake. He will doubtless repent of 1 icg hiai to pity me.
marriage—but that is hi* own affair. II If he thowed that he waa sorry for cie,
gratitude by giving my I would never forgivs him! It bovni
cordial con.'ent to his addr< * ng you. i»embarrass d and
' askc
lie
hone:
chatte 1 on
to refuse. She
hea
orgetstbe honor
;>ly. After a minute Alice eves in s; it*, ct m\
ia 1 for on’long hi, .ul lut
ay for a year or two if ho of liapi-in .'s^. My hi
icooth it?” I I —
“Yocr tath hrs corns untied.”
*M»b, your hands are grubby. Rs-
Bfcalor lo keep your hands behind you.”
I f.n’ercd the bouse and went through
tho hall toward the “sfudy,” the pleasant,
tansy back room where my stepfather
•tadied the innumerable faults of hu s*.q>-
iituly.and the bc*t methods c! correctu u
and prevention. I was jo«t 17, nnd, in
yzxr^ .:r ay ?*• ir “* ,r y
heart was leitine ytiy fnt f» 1 pained
iberuJy door.
sKbidbac
minntps cr eo, until you have composed
yourself a little and coase to fidget in that
nervous manner.”
Perhaps tho minutes that passed be
fore my stepfather again addressed me
were in actual number only live; I know
that they seemed like thirty.
“You are 17, Mabel, if I remember cor
rectly,” he said at last, breaking tho ai-
lenco; “17, 2 months and 5 days. Cor
rect me if I am not exact.”
"Yes, peps, I was 17 on the 1st of
May.”
“Young!—young,” be mused, regard
ing me with gcntlo disfavor. “But
your mother waa younger when sue
B: “ rw * ,. *u_ married first Mabel, my lovo, have
I SWSSSflf*? u •r w - th S»«51i“uch uponthorobjfot
| lions.
•‘.sir’s uctid", MsK Can’t you
tii.cn prmt g<
I . f o*l,
l •’G.m# hi.” sn*>«rcr«d roy
Inacoth, nuliow voice; ami I
lured.
of—of—well, 1 may say of marriage,
Mabel?”
Tliw qaattoa was confusing. “I—I
don’t know, paps,” I stammered.
“Y’ou don’t know?” he repeated, toler
antly, with faint, very faint amusement.
“1 list is a very youthful answer. You
ore old enough, ut all ovents, to have
realized that :t would ho desirable that
Lon.o of you ahculd marry. Your poor
dear mother brought me a largo and ex*
P«n*i-c family; and, although I have
striven to stand ia tho place ofafstbei
that my devotion and patience have been
paternal, yet—yet iny purse
*n. The
i.eeklv ct
.it: lcn.
Mabel, an l
. lil.it bOlIM
guelr,
*.*' I a
vill c
) of you,
swered, doubtfully ai
“i .-I: i.’I lc if yon will toll me, my
i . ■ 1 :i . * ;r • ■ r. .i \i> i l. i\i- .uu n -
pi'n*, our diitant cousin, roy faihex’s ward, j*ev t. esteem—for any pei4jn in particu-
•»t ia a low chair near him. B&e a as a ; lar?”
till, graceful, very gentle girl of 20; her j 1 gasped. I did not laugn, though rny
elb.w retting on her knee, her chin upon the lights flashed forward to lb-merry
ber h*nd, she sat looking up at her euar- time 1 should presently enjoy when iho
dian with a reverential glance. As I en- stu .ydoor should havo closed behind
tend she blnihed, looked doubtfully at me, and, out of tny stepfather's earabot,
i*. ihen doubtfully but very meekly at t..» girl* grouped in easy but inelegant
J»y stepfather, as though awaiting bis 1 attitude* mound me, I should reteat this
commends. j speech dramatically to an appiociativa,
“Yes; I will ask you to leave us,” he ; m.rthful audience. By and-by my bril-
uid, nailing at her-amilirg io a well-1 hatcy would bo apidaudeJ. For the
pleased way, as he never smiled at ui. ! p.ostnt. I waa dump, and my dum: n- u,
She .railed, too-a faint, weak, shy lit-! uo doubt. Mined fcoliah to my step-
tie smi'e. She rose from her chair and parent, whom worda never failed,
movetlvery quietly sway, softly closing "I believo I caked you a question,
the dcor lehiod her. I nnd my stepfather Mabel, l o observed, with an uir of al-
were kit alone. I most pious patioopa.
The benign smile with which he had ! “J— yes, papa,
followed Mabel lingered f r a minute nt “ 'vailing, my dear, for your
shout hia smooth, clean-sbaven lips, an 1 answer.
during that minute be ignored my pm- He might wait forover. I wns meek
erce. Then, in a slow wav, be attend hia Jn my arepfathers presence; I anawared
attitude, put hu elbowe, clad io spo 1 *e him in a •mull voice; I never dared to
hr1(loth,on the anna of hi* study chair. c ® 0 f?“ cl 1 i > . l 1 m T bttl J° * b,Ient J
Wt hi, finger-tip. mert. and let his bnrwn , bo oUtmate. Did he expect mo to
Vn rest critically on me. l ’ 11 him gj ” crct . " hich 52
Nodott 11 oontrMted unfavorably with own> unshmod, which even tho girls did
MibeL My pink pi I..; dm* was too short “ ot K U0M f n A ne T er -“W
here and therein polde., the \ * 9 *} CBt * ^*.7 4 t*. tbo °^ U , lnttI !
forme; h.re ani ihrre, in patches, the j “Jr 1 ?*# thought mad. m;
link had faded into wblu; an un.lghtly ! a . and 1 Jf* 01 ”}? fear of b '°
frees «Ufo dirti/ured the ihcnre in Iroel nnd K^nced aharpiy and suspicious.;
“Our young no gl.tor at tho Codara
nas been often hereof late."
“You mean Ned?" I interrogated in a
careless tone, 1 had thought 1 po*>*wa«d
1 borne dramatic talent, but that c irrle.s
tone coot mo a gigantic effort, and, after
, all the effort was duccrmble. I know I
Mushed. 1 grow hot, ti.en cold.
•I modn Edward Barnet—yea. A« 1
observed, ho has been often hereof late."
‘'-“W- i.rA'?"I>T w - I; ji!-
i Z.°- f jyy? ae * > , ,. Ho cciiiee Lecauto ho has nothing cliO to
■ .h fcaad • " lt . 18 a dlfteat peri dj H^-b. lib, u conu.*
'■* 'h. rcooi* b.himi il . ltnM.hol* wtit uir I ;iai n ]j. 11 io vo no wi.htodi.puto
that ttulenicnt. My dear Mat«1. you ar.
t-tlt ha1 warned me, •‘grubhy." Mv fa
f'tcklfd, my hair diiordered. I \
«tolyr«n?cifiua of itfrcts; nnd
&} humility f steed in the iiup.it of
fi'udtk, spoligising for my exia'.ecce by
extremity of erabirri^rnent.
I'Perhaps you cidM a rent, Mabel,'’.
«;d my stepfather in hi, mild, level tore.
No one but he ever rahed me “Mabello
the reit cf the world I was “Mab.
havo promuhed to sanction the engage-
’or cnco tho smooth, monotonous
voice was like sweet music In my ears.
and listened, smiling softly—cot a
undo of amusement. Lul of happiness.
! rumeml. r tho- > 11:l minuter m:i‘,
I remember them oa clearly as though
they pjssuu Luu yusterday; they belong
to the past of twenty years ago. How
biuo tho sky was.’—great wiure clouds
(lowly crossed it, traveling from the
west; thire was a quiet aort of murmur
of rustliag leaves; among tho tali white
iiliea tho bees were busy; the last of the
hay was being carried iu tho meadows
beyond our garden; all tho air was sweet
with perfume.
The monotonous voice droned on.
“I told Mr. Barnet' that I would first
address you on the eubjeot. IIo made
some objection to my doing so, but I
overruled it. I believe ho said that lie
should come.tbia morning for hia answer;
I am not sure, but I think he mentioned
that he would wish tb call on you this
morning. My interriow with him was
somewhat abruptly terminated, a visitor
was unfortunately announced when 1
liad had but a few minutes' conversation
with him. Howover, I think I under
stood that he meant to call this morning.
Knowing your Jtapulairo disposition,
Mabel, 1 thought it beat to prepare you.
1 wished you to be perfectly clear about
my feelings on tbe subject; you have
my Dermission to accept nim; you liavo
my full approval.”
“Thank you. papa.” Ho seemed to ex
pect mv thanks; I rendered them me-
cbaaical v.
“3Ir. Barnet, if not a very wealthy !
roan, isa- t a very poor cue. It ii os j
i;ooJ a Marrir., o a-, you can expect to j
smiled at ono another.
“Walk home a:rcss tho meadow with
me, Mab,” said he,
lie upea ml the gate afiil IVO KU*«u
through together. Then bo suddenly
stood still.
“No, no." he cxclaic cd, “you’ve no
hat, and the sun is hot.”
**f don’t mind it.”
“Don’t you'. I mind it for you.”
Twenty-five has lordlv ai.'s; but seven
teen luvt i its ncrocs to be masterful. Ned
turned hack with uic through the sha.iy
jane; we were 6ilent almost nil the way,
sudden 1“ * * 9
■■■PHi I tpoko
i. ’ l am nut sure what urn exact j " l aros » sorry," l nai l, “about Mabel."
:;unt o; h:.< income js, but— ”* 1 “Yr <, * he replied, briefly. T)>ep again
if Ned had tifty pounds u vear, if he I he v a:; silent, llo walked with ino am
•o a . i.-' b :>iit!» or a c irjH nGT, or-or far s« tho gsrdsn gate, and ihoro we
»at
•*r. your MaffHsb. if graphic. If
scarcely claM>cal.”
“But I don't want to know what Ned'
inc uno is. i don't care n bit!”
My i• • 1 •at:.. i- ,13y .-Juilud, thou
silently bighod.
"I may tell Mr. Iiarnot, tnon, that you
cnlerta.n hi, | rupuesl."
“Yes. I lovo him,” I said simply.
£oiuo one rapped at tho door; the door
upel; U.
announced tire white-
oicod parlormaid; and
3D. Barnet,
aproned, soJt-'
Nod camo in.
Hia mQ-i i jnned face iia*] a ruddier
tinge than usual, ho was evidently
. arras e , but ovea in hia eiobftrribsment
• nl-i ■ v\at, .4 bull "i uo\; ’i lr.H.i ... r*. i. .
UiKtiity; ho w*iib humorously coosctoas of
being ill nt ease, and he humorously nj>
pienUted the ojJ experience. He noddrd
and smiled at mu as hu shook hands;
then he turned with un cacir, searching
glance toward my stepfather.
I have Lent having a mtious little
; witii Ms! el,” my stepfaihur said, iu
now, mild tone. Nothing ••ut i: .• .*•
him hasten in iiis speech. “A very seri
ous i.ttls talk.”
N\-d looked tovard me. I cc^ild not
undcritar.d tho glance; ho looked as
heugh l.e wished that I would gc.
“1 havo laid your proi*o»al before
her.”
■•he room, behind the knee-hole writing
Uj ly. But my stepfather indicated
which stood just op- blnsMag—a graceful h,bit for some com
f ^ °wn, and I re'.urccd rsloctanuy j.j ox i oni; your blushes, mv dear, remind
tut tnttitf. mnA utm ' ‘lotoo much of the peony. May
t meekly and sst facing him.
‘I^Uh to speak to yen, Mabel.”
“Y**, pips.”
“You are breathless, my dear. 1 am in
jc ifr ^ wait for you to compose
I colored guiltily. My Leart was tlut-
«ring. in a vary brrsihlrfs wsv indeed.
Jostrire tocojip^>»* nustlf, wbiltt my
^pfaiher eat watchi ii.' tll* ♦*.!- .1 i."i «•! ••*•
*‘»u; I knew it wsi hop?l - *; every f ffott vet vv»
os ly deferred the desired (fit ct. I cro*»ctl ia; or:
Tri 7 het, then hastily uncrossed tk— - , „
pa*hed back my hair, thrn folded roy ; j,
caodssnd tried to look unconrciooB that
I conclude, my love, that lb
attachment, some pat t.a.ity, on your siie
for Mr. Barnet?’
“Wo ail ,iao him,” I replied, doggedly,
unph.itKi.liV. uiili.^ rt "i *ag*u .r.
lercuce. “Of cour-o we like him—we
are neighbor*—and—end we hare a’-
ways known each other,”
p is the very best basis for a
feeling,” replied my step-
satisfied tone. “Mabel, Mr.
net called o.i me Iasi night to allow
i to spoilt to you concerning—con
;.ing tin# subject—”
•uvj«vi. M I r«p««Uw, is s be
. “ «r svepianifr an tt:c ur^c car mo- | ^
'WDhis, Now and then, at intervals, ids i
ingcr-Upi tapped one another softly; but h,. „iu* ,vu w »
l^at «u the only a.gn of impatierr.»tnat j 1 think I had forgotten that I was shy
fta raid*.' His Brown eye* regarded me I and frighitned; l had risen from my
id 1 __
tells me he U in love with you.
ishes to ask you to bo bis wife.”
. — — eyes
*nh s critical but forbearing glance; bU
‘•4 Isr^c, pale, clean-thaven lace wore an
**P/mion of conscivue crotiecese and
P thence.
I have two very important pieces of
®*wi to break to you. my dear. Bat I
I BO with to (UU> yoa. nu-wnu
'fwelfli one of those elementary vir.t
yithout which no character worthy of
l *em can be built Your poor, di
^amma—I do not wish to Ir ma be.*’
| tr, T»tepf*tberbrokeo?J and sighed ind
i pently—•*! «io not wish to Mame her I
J°ar hringing-up; the wisest of us ton
• ; tu«s err, nnd her error-* must be n
4*M(1 however mu<-u we : . . -t reg
tftem. For your .:ko I nr t
^oaebahtta of udr-comrcJ nli. h.
bleated eariy, tr the moit help:
hair and gone to tho window, escaping
from that caun, mild, bt.a.y
glance, that con tern plated ray ro»y
cheeks and amhing lips, ar.d the happy
li,;Ut that I knew was shining in my
^••To «ek me?* I repeated, ‘‘Me?—roe?
Me—to be ins wife!”
“Matel, if you will be good enough to
return to your seat, wo can perhaps dls-
cunv this question quietly.”
not true! There is some
n Ned glanced quickly in my di-
rocti n: ho was silent; my stepfather
lowly continued:
“And sho is inclined to entertain
it—”
“hhe acco; Is roe! ’
“Mst a luma thxt sho is very much in
love with you. ’
I did not st# Nod’s face, my ryes were
fixed upon thu brown rooi* on tho car-
I • -.; I ut I li-.ii I ti.e joyous lutlc x. h.m-
ation with whlchlbe news was receivod.
“Where Isabel asked Ned, after a
m-inent s ; au e.
“Mabel, my love, come hcre t ”aaid my
stepfath r n his Linoothcvt tore. Ho
too* m> hai. l Ittvvteii hi# own an 1 h-.i
me tow ar i Nc.i. w n-> t ;..o 11 -*rI«■ l\ ~tm
and i.m.|e no movement to meet me; ho
lock Nod’s hand, too; he put cur hands
together. I looked up—i locked into
Ned's ©yes, and ho locked hatk into
mine; with a lutlo cry 1 «.n.w my han l
away and he qaietly relraseu it. Ire-
mem! er still the kind regretful look he
“Sir. Dale,” ho said, ia his frank, clear
vole-*, “we have m.ido a mistake. Per
1 • I •> ;!•>'• ult ’• a■ )•,: •• -i. • M.u.'-. it
I was yours. I Lv 0 MabeL. Mab ami l
(arothcUst and firmest of friends, nut
my lovo is Mabei's— I thought you under
6tO<jd.”
“You aresreakiug of MaLelCampion?”
“Yes. She ii }< or ward. I tn ..ut it
right to toil ycu, !.or guardian, that 1
hoped to try to win her. ’
“V'ou s. aid have ma io your meaning
dear, sir."
“I thou : '..t I had doi.o
"l’apj
n, MabeL
saying.”
r me to
h our years bal passed.
A very m nnt family sat at the break
fast tabic this August morninp: tho head
of the fan: l7 had desteoded in ;in ir
ritable mood; and his women folk, o!i*
erring tho tuckers on his brow, were
nervously anxious to avoid tailing bis ut-
tenttou to themselves.
“The colTeo is cold, Mabel. It’s strange
that we never havo a decent cup of cof
fee in this home’.'’
For nearly four year* our cousin Mabel
h:m fiir #t« pfath-i’s w j(.-. I e ha<l
long ago ceased to bini o at her bc-oig»]y,
and ceased to extol her virtues.
“Tho toast is tough,” ho grumbled.
“My dear, will you bo tool enou/h to
give a little thought to these d rmestic
duties? There is ono of your children
crying—is that Sydney aga'in-"
“1 think so, dear," was the gentle,
nervous reply.
“I thought I forbade him to cry.”
“\es, but—but, you forget, Adrian.
He’s such a baby—too young to unde r-
atand.’’
“Not too voung to be ruincu by in
dulgence. A Ur breakfast you ran go to
the nuraerv and scad Sydney into tho
study to me.”
“Adrian, you are so severe with him."
*‘Oa the contrary, Mabel, 1 am n:o*t
gentle. But one cannot too early teach
one'a children to understand the inevi'ablr
rensequtnees of their uwn action*. Whir.
Sydney disturbs our comfort by crying iu
a fooluhand peevish manner, we disturb
his idea of comfort by Btatinghim without
his toys for two or three hours, with hi*
face toward the wall in the corner of mv
study.”
“Bat ”
“Enough on the subject, Mabel, pray
do not become argumentative, my dear. ’
A piinlul silence eusued—a bileiud so
heavy and painful that Alice, roy young
est enter, boldly broke it.
“Mab, do you know that Ned Bir net’s
ilng abroad? He is. I hoard it.'
Alice suffered forhei bohlneaa; our step*
father lo >ked slowly in her direction.
\\ ii* n was that frock of vours clean,
Alice r
.t.rJ.y, pj|ix"
I imagined, roy dear,” was the roil !-
renlv. “No wonder the hills froi..
jndr»-s are extortionate. You will
wear no more washing-frccka this*uror.tr.
bnakfastyou can take cf] that ahzij
ure»» and put on the black strge you wtrt
-taring in the winter. You will near
>lbingelse until I give you perun-Mon
“Papa, there’s the CarnaU’gardea-par.y
to-day,"
- | “Yen can wear your black serge—or rc-
I turn
fl.cd. •,
l*arraa#uiont, I should hate him always! t-mcnt.i >
—always! , he 1 1
lie emue to tho gato and stood still j year. ’
before me. j “But 1
“Mab,' hu said. j marry:
Ula tono was a little graver than usosl, j ’
but frank anil simple and direct, frome-j ‘‘I V |
1! org i • •• • iit* 1 bpoketi hut mio • Mab. I
word, tho titter edge of my humiliation fkecic
vanishca- my wyes looked across at him j "Nn.
with a less defiant glance. \ * They
“Mab, ycu'ro not going to let this spoil
our friendship: '
“N—no," sai-1 I doubtfully. “It
needn’t—unices-
“d’hote is no ‘un’esa,’ ” replied Ned, m
bis old masterful tonu that set me at ease
at once. “A silly girl, with no »ru s o
and pluck, would think it neccs-ary,
perhaps, to bo dignified and distant ana
avoid me. But you're not that kind of
girl at nil! Mab, l shall he awfully* dis
appointed iu you if you lei, \ his make any
dinerer.ee to us.”
It was a familiar voice of authority
which, ever since I was a toddling baby
and Ned a knickerbocker hero of .u'v
dreams, I had always been accustomed
to obey. Now my* eyes met bis; wo
ork i
have
* o ld of him to the
; con.
lc natural,” I re- | •*;
.-.orbing to him; “As many qti" lions .
<>.-• i in i: ovei’y fully, you n.. y bo .uic
• * I >id you lo' o in,- m
* file down nnd thought that I lovedyc
old. * j “A f . first, periiapb .-c
Hi- in tho doorway facing r.", Nini vean
have aged him. He is nearly IU; In,
'or- thick hair ia turning a littlo gray, his
avc short bushy beat d is sprinkled with gray
nge threads h ro :inj there, his frank ova ;
seem to havo irci-dod furl flrboneatb tho
,-.ro nfwavs turn- grown in ore square, more i.l: the truth
littlo doU' t «*\- must he told, he looks middle-aged!
;,nl glaiu- . H • Hs looks gravely and quiotly at me.
ro* and t*-ok ni\ His manner thii morning is very dlf-
.1 do Ml. into mi /erent/rom hi »m.ii;npr OH t *.af far-away
elf 1 let iu> soul morning of nine years agu Now tbero
iient drink »ti nil ■'• 10 suggestion of 1 -making. i:s
art dan-.. d. iny voi. - .: lakes no tender mo*iillations, lim
intoxicating joy. ! gUnco does not linger long with soft
I . tri'ui iu. ailing on my fa. •*. I mi :<» ho i-. ai»-
d me; a,’ain 1 | preaching fiJ—woaregx vvnprotan !
ii’i-wer is a emiloand a question,
it prosaic t., you. ’ 1 usk. “Oh,
why havo wo thrown away «o
years cf happiness - .-”
I’erhap-j the^ disciple hat been goo«l
thing happens for the best to those who
>1 < i •■• take tin.r fives into their own
ban fi. \n«l you, Mab, are dearer,
gently lays my head ujion his
hotib
id folds m6 in his ar
j» qt nt )f trnuhl wail su.
thirtei n years for this hsppinoat*
- Wi: IIAU ITIOHM .% POINT,
Ther
vho >
1 ivir” in our city a gentle-.
• friend and companion of
memory is replete with
.•thing. Will you an
ms ..s yuul.Le—truth-
first Lc
mty-n
Tho Legii
of i
Hawthorne,
i rosan : —nro we: l cannot hii*uik •• • incidents of the tiroes when S’athaniel
him. bu*. I c in sp- ik f-'i iuy»..di, Nino j Hawthorne was a searcher for original
• ars ago my heart i.ever ached • > badly, f.u*s upon which to base his writings.
cA i r beat so quickly, cs it attics and The House of Seven (tables (bo called),
cals to day, t land .a a quint pose. 1 which now stands on Turner street, was
iiv .i.md.s h/.-.'ly . I.t - j *• i 1 • foro me. and • probably built in li.i'c', as on the beams
•]» 1 lt»>k a, c.iim as Ik; t-;.t tho J there were di-cavered at one time when
nUune-ii in -urfdco tlc> <» -no mote. | repairs were Ireiug made these tig’ire* in
doesn’t marry, j wn
v. what the . have { 1 drew my hands
them tighllv logetin
{ “Ned—lately- " '
r.>; '.J iatdy that he you thi/UgL:?
IVe
tl i
id chat«
iho las
ctly a be
iml put I < <-n from lu
:d bo
•k hit
black, and when
h«* lin’s ntroyed a jiortion of the huildiog this
beam was burned partly off, but leaving
the figures 1 ,; .
■.out tho Tne ho
i sharply away, I ending over Hu h
ho glU'ct pen . I X M k‘* 1 .1 h'.viot- ••Nc-. -
icon e.. inauy-coinrert handful ! thought
“13ut He cau't marry you if ho insists ' to me, a
getting eaten i ; makes aud croco- * I bcliov^
Ji’.cs in ( enLral Africa." I have i
“Hom’I. Ahcc! I Imr-hly.
Sno t!-rew lur nr:n in an ii.ipebive, * : Yo*i
:arcle#5 wav aruim.l my (boulder. : harshly,
“i’oorold Mab! you're not ora.-*?/she exist,'*
luestioned. Ho v
“N •. But don’t talk liko that—I den’t sp:u
iko it, A lici.
A b’i regarded mo in silenco for a i
j get hs
attoring'
WouIJn’t you 1
r’’ said »ho in a thoughtful toue.
Na"
cicd that yot
The girls' •
You do not lovo me. Mnb:" ho n-koJ,
i grieved tono through which a thread
of Mirpri.-o ran. That note of surprise
".rry him if ho askoJ braced tr.y pride, w Inch his sorrow would
Otherwise havo solioued. "You used to
love me I'
| “Why should I be more constant you?
Vreyeu surprised:" I was a child uo moro than a child. ^
would.” ! childish folly agaiost mo? Ono outgrow
oic -> reached us fr^in the one’e childisn loves and hate*,”
1 after a few* im ulus .Mice de- "Is that my answer, Mab'."
sorted mo nnd ran acro-s the gra*f. an ! J es.’
presently her voice reached me with the I I turned away from the door of th
ictt. summer house: I went slowly a little wa,
I stro led on, away from the sound of ! along the garden path, ilo follow’d,
the marry chatter and laughter. My “You "ill very quietly forget me
heart was heavy, rny steps seemed Ned. J said; and .1 stopped hastily, i
weighted with lead: I had suddenly j time^to clu
me.*-home stool bovioe tho pathway; 1 j he replied.
entered and sat dow n on tho rustic seat, I “in a year or two you will rather
and id J my arm on tho rustic table. glad that I refuted >on. ”
1 ^-uked nut * ’lit fixed unseeing eyes I llo half smiled. "'You had one view
ihtorvgh tb 5 open don way. Two ci throe j of toy cbarac'sr. ?tab, aud f another ” ho
minutiana-'ied. then between tli<* door-1 responded (inietly^
\ try sioniy
Ik use. When
owned by diflerent fami-
i fanr : cd 1 si II vm:'lio Ji.is paid. lies, sml each .successor fo the ownership
gratified his freaks in tlie way of addition*
and removals, until il hix-arue a very queer
••ort of a (triicturp. This honse in llaw-
thornc’d time wax owned by Mis** Ingernoll,
i cousin uf Hawthorne, and he was a fre-
• .iirnt visitor there, f-orne time in the
forties there waa a very severe lir.e storm
in the r tily part of the year which dis
turbed the |>eople living in the neighbor-
h ’od of the water front and did some dam-
!:ig*. It w.ib alter thi* storm that Haw-
10 _ Hi > tnorne and Roberts were sitting in the
down into a otay-at-home country | ollice of Roberta, who remarked: “I am
ir<\ ' I answer, i going down on Turner street t<> see w r hat
f or awhile. ’ damage h. i been done,” and they bode
\ on do not expect the jog-trot life to ; started. The tide that < a ' '
itated for
fcilcnt for a few luoiuenls’
a t tour whn
tonal interpre
S ou are tired s; last • f traveling:
Not of traveling—but of country
so \ Uits,” ho rcpi »,with n grave yet
toroiiH smile. “Yes, I behove you
right." lie i Mint , ,i iu 'inunt
ling quickly but gravely again, “I am
I ul wandering.
The (African explorer is aettlin
Not for long
nearly to the front gate of the Ingersofl
id i he
1 he a
Whilst th
cr bo content!
ryea rest on me. nicy do
j not exactly smile; it would be difficult to
I i.rreetly (1-s ri jo the o\prc»ti >u m llieir
; denths. Tlieyrt->t on me with a long
look; th* a In- glan. t. slowly away at tho
j slender t ain-laden branches of the labur-
, mini, w bi'di sway lightly in tho breeze
' nnd shako down ((bowers of rain-drops
j which sjiarklein tlicHUiilight as they fall
| •■Whilst life last-*. Mol)
they saluted J^usan In-
nqitirr as to h»r fears of
m tho j l"pon going i
gcrsoll with Die ,
\plore such a terrible otorm, of which
< laii ied any. In the course of the visit
Hawthorne remarked: :: inis is » queer
house ; I would like to go over it.’’ And
Miss Ingcn-oll replied: “You can go any
time—go now if you like,” mid haode<f
him the k<y. Hawthorne started alone,
and, with the freedom allowed, opened
every door and examined every croox and
turn of the old house except one room,
which he could not open, and returned.
I pon Iteirg told that he would find the
key of that room on the raftar ovar the
j door he revisited the attic and made a
way and the sat
“M i v ! <• mu
par minion forg
whilo ho spoke,
and my h
cd Barnet *
*»;" lie as Led, taking (bo
at tcJ, and cuter lug cwti
IIo hold out his nand,
i his when hi
efied
I hhail i
1 e content,” !•* all ho i»iyo: but l:ia touc 1
lias a lit le thrill or docp meaning, suii yMW „.- w ^
for a tuotueni my heart stand--* siill, then thorough examination of this room. After
Louu-is forwnt'l sir . piiniotintn si„.a . returnlI , g , Mi,, lager noil «,k«I him wh r
tliat ke.rsmo nili tnwliollier I will sir no. k> aisl not write iomrtliinir, uxl h« n-
For nin. long y.ai. th. rt-onl of n.ir liwl . ,.| h ,„ nothinw to write iiboai."
talk wall one another h.. been n record shi „ plW . .. Ix)ok „ Q, at oM aTC.»
! ifa a&ife eaSBaSH. 1 ' 1 " nniwMjia!. on- l . r;.:-,;-.|.„r(t.w
ipoke | oniotionnl Daly at ruro intervals 1 • •
,, . v 'hall}
go a
lla
i tone, t luu Ik
tbo lo\f I
for I
alone.”
' ho replied.
the seat 1
“J ho|>ed I should find \
said. | hi.
I smiled in acquiescence: his tone had ! May-day—a breezy, pleasant
u gcntlu meaning a , of late, it had often altemato showers
had; hut I would not uuderatand it.
“I i aroo to epcak to you, Mab.’’
Ilia gray eyes looko-i drwn into mine
with a direct, frank glance. He still re
tained iny hand and I let it re t there,
too proua to draw ft away.
“Mab, do you know wrhat I want to
Alice
I laugh.
117 pr-
“Yea. You ar© golog away,
ha* iiut beer; telling me,
I looked at him quietly, straight into
hi* eye*. If four yoan had taught roe
nothuig else, it I tad taught me tomo
amount of self-(ontr< 1; I could .|w.k m
steady tosae, glance at film v. in cala,
uofaltering glaoccs, thou.’h roy heart
wa* sick an 1 *ure and aching.
“I am sorry you are gcr.jj,’* I raid,
steadily, in ti.e regretful tone in whi h a
friend may apeak; “sorry for our sakeic
But for vour <uko I nin glad. It will be
such a splendid opportunity.”
Hu did not answer roe. He rate from ] papa,
hissoat nn 1 walked to tbe door. After ' , - s
a minu e I rose, uo. Handing in the
doorway, leant g against the creerer-
( <*v»r**il ffat-.ew we i;u . |evhoth<T. kuu
“That was not'.wiiat I canto to aay,’' he *-* I
ob i rved at last.*
“You’re not going!” , f**l;
“W/.ethtrl go or star. Slab, depends * •
on you," bo teplicd slowly, locking u* wn ' ^ne
at inc. • a
My vaunted •elf-^ors'aiion deserted me . ket
:•■ 1 tt Io t h» n; I w.u . u*.-»c.( u . fiat, a v .t - ..- • ’
of color swept into *:.> f:.. «•; r.t\ g. rv.c
fell. 1 waa angry with myieif for the
blu h; with an eifurt 1 raised mr eye*
and |r oked at hiui again.
ntvice. You must tell ‘‘-Uo j*i
[.ro; o-ed expedition P*P*r •*' a
dersLind well o.ougb , oi e.
I Ho prof.
iu to advise roe,” \ o» 1 can #»•
ut ma • cadily. ieavo you
u what I w.-nt—you I have c
ia 1 have tried aga.it ing ton i
to you—yo i kr: iv lo : o dent
garden the laburnum treoit , to..< *-d
willt yellow; tie 111...; mi M.ng la-
trim beds ure gcUon still with tho l.iitof
ttic daifodils.
As my alopfather had ju*t reminded,
this i' roy tiiiri.etu hirtfufav. M.i! < t has
kin#od mo in litr gentle I'ashum an 1
wfihed ro© many Impnr rotuinsof tin-
day; roy stepfather has timled, and
sighed, and slightly shrugged hia should- !
bo still
not stand L
ceremonies, nuOQQv
Uvea.
••Why are you i
lie turns hi* tei
ul cln
id hia*
And thee
“Ned, wi
I pi
“At the ago of thirty, roy dear, nn un
married woman [refers her Lirlbuay lo
bo forgotten,” lie remarks.
“I prefer it to fie remombered. ’ 1 reply I
I)r!»kly. “Tl ank you for your g*»o l I years,
widica. MaleL" * , frankly, t»t
•• 1 huty! ’ Bays my stej father, n a j "frien is
m -iiug tent. * ! Imt\!" I,** rcj- ui-
aigh*. “Tnirtyl—Well, I suppose a
* * ~ a faintly,**
it not an old maid
all ab<
IIo lo
ctory. It i« not
y still fevls hen
* the tnatr.moM.i
tully; but my a
An ornauiont—but relegated ti
t! elf." continues my step uther,
m-..ng tone, with acot.iuin; iative
M.I eveuis, its advan
.a at thirty fail to
, | .u it nnd write about Situ, then tin me-
(•"gilt a j .U.UI iham in the old chair, and VOU
vvunuir j |ave ji ntory."
!o." i reine d to .ik" n . pj<Hjcrt and Hawthorne then left the
• .ro ago l pi. i ippme 14 ■ liouse, and on hi* way un Turner street
»e proud y, iiiijh' .iMhfi Hawtliorne took from bin vest pocket hi*
x * . . * i j diary, which conaistvd of scraps of paper,
< i i ear -a« ■>.. >* •*. i wrote down, “Seven (iabUs and Grand-
i , C " *, /i ltt ‘ VV 1 fttlier'H ('hair,' 1 and remarked to Koherts.
, . , , h,. ni i Ice) tin-re brain- than any of tham.”
I forme, l.w alien, ^should , J |ie h , (lty of th-“|| OU so of Seven liablea’
wan written after custom bouse office
bourn, in the afternoon nnd evening*. In
... .| the story the only relation which theTnr-
•ontent J nexeiJ. , |1Pr ,, tr( ,pt house liesrs to it i* in the name.
• The hack yard, porch and elm tree are the
' only Mtf-neH in tho ntory which relate to
j thi - liou-e, except it In> The death m ene of
t Judge 1‘ynchon, and tiii* suggested to
li im an fie approached the hoii*>e one day,
and, looking in the low window on the
nin * t, lie saw his friend pitting in a npooo
chair, bin head bunging to one side, the
p. t'uJinr .shade of light giving his face the
uplearanre of death, and rushing in he
grit-pod him by the arm, which awoke hi*
friend, who exclaimed “What i* ihe
matter." Hawthorne replied; “1 thought
you were dead. '
lu nil probability an imagination capa
ble of describing an insect and prt-
acrihieg for its destruction wm« not con-
tiui<1 to the limits of Turner street in
picturing the Hou o of Seven (rabies, in a
city wiih-o many old ho’'.»es and so many
peculiar char&i ter-, to furnish the material
; for au observer like Hawthorne, after he
ome became satfi'ied with the name about
whit h to build hi* plot.
ill both bo i
Mid let i
lalilics t-poil oi
nnd half smiles at
red iny question
, “tlo laUBTBQm
i bloom."
w*o aro both right,
have been frt ;n 1* .-> many
:id, trying to apeak easily,
iaar.liy, in frienuly fashion;
ire uselasd if they* cannut
Lis to onu another! Twentv years
ago iiin, n >eaM .. g u <• t'j->ur
out to one another all ovr causes of dia-
-.ii. ut
i before
»be axis
nearly a nnn-
i e, and pauses.
en Iclh
),: of o
ting—of
’trouble
hands tretnbk
1 clasp
bold that,
• id a Haw Heir oil.
sapprehc
ere the last w« r 3
i. I a to!
certainly *-.oi
sent to your .i
«l whom ycu
iuK promise*
These
Etc .0 1 r .v. t
shuttiogtlu
Then 1 tied ! .1 Lfir.diy,’ t
pasea;, , t!i:oug!» the . rc-
o.ut inio the country lane«
houie or garden the g.rls \% >,
Tiny were dear girl#: Lut th<
curious ar.d question m\
on. I
1 :•’. fi<
He rose «s he speke, carefully bruthlog
a fpsek of dust from hi- sleeve. Hv had j
sucectifttlly depressed ttie spirits of as a!
and. his own temper had grown almoM
plscal; the cre«‘<-s in his brow had
-I.-- - lied themselves out, and he weut
i lowly and contentedly away to administer
icproof to his vyear-.dd (on io the study
i went out of doors into tr*garden: and
Ye
r /inu#
reiano hops for
oteof deep i
“L«tr
1 ha
rokan. It is l who have torn dow
hartiar! And yet I hat#
• >vi. 1 >: . • ' u t • ' • i istd ! ‘
joy; ha face betrays t
i he speaks fix* not ;
. I kn
t lug
nent
roadlv, ' have
1 «■ ’
h.ppi
l l.tr .'••••, the i'au.oiij facti» »an and
rale cuuimand«*r, was a strict
lanai:. One day, while c>m-
»in tho Southwest, lie r<*<le out
u< j.ft line, and much to his sur-
:i rail (< tiro muucliiug a piei a of
The gediT.il an; care 1 not to -c«
il be got al i< a t uf hiui, and
w 1.li«*r»o up •:\[h." ting to find
ry at apr« viit. lie wu* nothing
m J, l ut a.it mum hiug away as
rnedl) s> tlu.iii,;fi he was iu hu
i.iuii'jiun "Jl vou know who
Hardee in hi* sc*
r. I low I don’t.”
id Without
tho remainder of hu
v r. iTint hlowly climbed
fence, and shambling
tended L.s hand a* he
«r, giceral: I'm mighty
rode 1 (
IDrdc
next
| torn
rlv amdrocat it.
do no: b.l.cse in my love, he sprat;
•1, in hbqui t, steady trnet “1 j I ta
li n nr .ncredufity. But ycu gar do
i fmljthltoit at 1
' ti c
■c, half an hour later, Alice i
was a pretty, graceful gi/1 of 1 ,:
e walking lowly toward nu 1
id me.
She
ith a
i badfv
J vciy wot hegnnt counter a nee. T ha .erg-
aide and too smaii for
w.i» coarse and thick it
* fr.ick ar.d 1 n»t win! t
her ukirtFi sh Tt, and
lately she had tasted the dignity of skirt*
nklct
!.•• cried the tei.'i
, ndi jnat.t, yet pit- hi# heat
• truthful!*, do 1 loo# made i
I ath which r ir
i VIU . an ! I
ii, at the little
i tbe that morning.
: I scarcely knew what I do, b:
that I put out my hand and lay it on his j nto
arm. (said;
“Don’t get over it, Ned,” I say in the glad
lowest of tone*; and then, having been
tho boldest cf women, I auddeniy become | ** __ ....
, tbo sBltaet, and burst into a flood of hya- l're«therWMa^aia narthin.* > m. •>' *•
• •ii al. fuwUb tears. I Principal Hall, of the fjihc<d of l*r»«-
'iid i.*n mi nut. abater Ned and I are tic. at Seventeenth ami Spring (>arden
».m to/cih r on the rustic beat; hia | streethas just attrsu ted some attention
.n • i i- noun l nu* and Li- -e ug cl» p . by i-sning an order against the wearing
h*.l -u eh »e toI.m ■ I bracelet- by the girls, most of whom nr*
• \i u lov«d n u nine years ago when [small, who attend that school. Th is order
V<1 | , i no •» .. ir«.it lu!» udy, i ha- aroused some opiKtsiti.ro from incon-
i ■• it,. _• a ‘aten ! i • .v. ,^»t,‘twin •.j«!«'ra •• parent-, and it might not he
ia-i.htu .»• f j«»nd practicable to enforce it if lh«
i«a, Lut l I ,Lm u loved me out ver*’ iqiurely raised; but in -pint it is
I 0 f pity. In ighl you would easily for-j dKtiiiclly rigid. School ii no pl»ce f->r
I Mery. It *lialra<: the utentu*n of the
■ And l tin light my od- ■” ha 1 l-uit -nul | girls, cause# had feeling in the »haj>e of
ht your girlish | vanii
resolved not to
you.
•IVaroM Mab! Ob,
1 “AU the-o years—yes. And
on have been hu; p> together! ’
.1 “Aud now 1 ant so olJ. Ned!
•uiJ! 'ul so very ul 1. Mai
in- wero yuungor you wculd •'vru j
ro-1 haired lover,
le an envv ou the
cx> ..aendable pur-
,1 in'.illigent parent*
Hall and (ires their
hihlren with that bno uing simplicity,
bich is alvj the best of ta-te.
\ anity un the one
other, and rervcis
jkj-c. Thu-ightfiil
w ill agree w ith M