suffocating I would have died bound. ALICE’S LETTER. halfpleased, in last I yielded sadness, that at visible embarrassment slightest TWO pride the if the DOZEN BUTTONS. with pronoun—at least, they a on were to she would it lovingly much beautiful, sensitive part, rather than that inexpressibly pulled off half-reluctant but he composedly say over as his my manner, as could till the last she then, moment; and as darling unconsciously have should and grateful handful of handful after leaves, consent. so when the did why, time people should come, Betty should sighed. have Now, why she who, of al? her opened heart the to morning balls pelt the week that into A from rolled them to man John’s “Just think’s know not best, we were that it fault—“the best, the up was as pa my your sighed at moment this particular blinded its to ought be no one on entertained feet. to husband and Alice his kindest, that journey, Newfoundland dog lying at tho big secrets. noblest persons, was ever on our dear,” Kossiter, folded said Mrs. she as earth could tell. given And it all the to I’ve made him trouble she knew It when would kill her more exasperating places months graphic descriptions of was a woman. more with the the The of next two events me than hot has temper vexed her morning robe indolently graceful you generously can guess; my because just put John had wdiat she had done. Imd indefinitely and I should She visit had (for been prolonged) persons see. our him—l impatient been and and—” ve cross, into her the the revelation little brand-new tendollar But shapely hand about and leaned back I unprepared for her the of visited there before not realization a for but not among was “Hold!” cried voice, “you’re talking against years, were a a Not til? bill. trouble. the the minutes. And here began wife!” of few' frock cloud next in big John Peabody short and moment since she little girl in prophetic dread that fell like my air. cushions with languid a soft a was a a rushed through grasped the little the door, I that Frank “What’s fall noticed his the sudden start the matter?” he said, face but her night of and I knew spirit first trousers; the memory my over my Mrs. Rossiter that It evident in his his heart, and folded her to very was mou^h woman arms Russell ing the clapping Rossiter’s the flush that at faint bis sound and life-like that Alice faithful in house. must be stay came over gave, were a so one, right before old maid and all. in mood for active not exertion leaped was a his face, that into little the together but affectionateness tenderness in what knew him could almost those who pictures I singularly simple in its “Oh!” the she drew. heart said Miss straight Simmons, sitting was up of kind. If him setting her his hazel till I called it?” and remonstrance what is spectacles not obstinate Now firmly. low, farmhouse nestled confidence, pucker. the brown and child-like any saw more or an eyes; see “And that that have learned all now yoq with passionate you gather her in his with Betty, change the the smooth akin who kneeling down in the valley, I notioned with feeling to had begun to there and just daughter, her pretty arms, up a on can,” said John, still turning her, around to ol vehement story caresses.pouring land in meadow fascinating sigh into all plat of pity the which her laugh rippling mastery little a over a merry holding Betty, “why—you curly grass-green head her ” with her the carpet, may go. on love had her ears—love that not orchard into broad hillside cousin it. They the suddenly, The chair front, gaining and the stopped dissolving view of the lips, red vacant. A were corners was was over blue seconding her mother’s knee, eyes through the door that all for that to be dared hope, and that, but clinging to behind; the inseparable companions. There was seen almost tossed her jerk was unexpected head, with small and, roses were no way see a the of gossip, who started the road hurriedly, her coaxing cherry-red of motion up the have would scarlet and revalation, tangled their morning rambles the river banks and vines that conciliatory, never the words: sent on out leaving — behind. peace that Ally, found I realize windows; utterance—did little hands, soft and beauties the long promenade’s under the her mouth, “You that I always needn’t John, “Betty,” said John, summer insinuate, half afterward, narrow hour so green over am some I had than after all, be happier “what and its magnetic flame to the sitting-room, moonlight—that white, sign for? I don’t and the pleasant troublesome.” was care was and delicately shaped, clasped in white but I did think, the dear, and it to cut dared now, wish she might be. pretty.'chintz to me its which Cupid dips his striped in often carpet, “I insinuating?” curtains, didn’t talking of arrows. insinuate—who’s so supplication; if she, I heart, how I might playful have married richer. you say, I hei But I startled when old-fashioned wild flowers for brass Now Alice would the want saw was incensed the candlesticks cried he, thoroughly at longed put times into hand, to ten ten your South proposed the had to with the her struggle from embrace a voyage mantel-shelf, could his the only Frank show wreath; Betty, 1 a it galled couldn’t because I he idea, few steps, on a and backing an me very away a and alternately frightened from Betty his wall looking smiled twisted charity the from Islands mission of simple pictures where the Again it Sea three finest away was cry, height, glared in on a on grew. down tremendous from extreme a Running she into the bed grasp. presently him comprehend room if where her to trying piece, lilies to morning for basket, water for a me, the as trip or irritation. is forever instead of pleasure to —one a moss a yourself who “It’s a bundle still smiling, with returned, a flamt primlyfolded her humiliating hot mistake held Frank could red-cheeked widow favorite only fat, —a a procure vase; insinuaitng to put rolled put then for toweL This she and all that, and in clean you on scarcely up Mrs. Rossiter would a country, of her face, sprained mortification blazing she her to Once handkerchief to them for her. her husband’s herwonderingly. knee, stared at across who eyes, it me—its really abominable. on the will found strength of to have her look of pitiful Frank blue darkened oppose rolled into that hill. the pea-like her ankle in descending catch by tears a eyes a The looked voice the that and harsh, eyes was “I unpinning the she said, didn’t mean,” I distress. the bright of sight of and her. As it face the his doubt, by brought her home it; called was, arms no in up, behold. down into pleasant to hers not bun to. I shall have lie. out but were it “to get now, Frank “No, weepingwillow held no! don’t how tenderly he could but notice straight, the mo, near Why, brighter still, come the kneeling girl green day birthda very very John, is after to-morrow as grew your Russell,” screamed,, wdien purple nestled she almost closely her white face guard —how that stood her a over that I’ll musical “Thank “And if Peabody, she with think. John you sprang up a “I “Gracious! has it he hands. ’tie,” said John. brushed though would have “So against taken her tassels almost his breast, it come whose down tomb, and as stand and have said such things to me, you changed her soon?” mamma,” and seat around on said—what so the how I you, cheeks of rise. A day it is—what have would ask beet-colored to the chubby, see never miss Betty, with shaking all!” cried dear boy,” said Betty, out guess—that's “And your you, clung the knee of portly, have I w'ould the floor for girl that she malic done—what to after by fatherless little boy and two stung on a say me one was you edged or a all his pretty brown affair, before - eyes a big cheeks, she two red her spots coming in as mock Frank bandage to pride. But do not presently cious bee. gentleman, her side. must bluest shade, that pleasant-featured old to silk the of me h save wi my its utmost tried to draw figure to her little erect dressing assumed the proportions of homely, so! Let this disgrace gown; told of her and then, bear And then she the white, swollen a as my me me arm, the before lounging-chair in who sat insinuating! I dimensions. “Forever a be be present. But is to must “this you your rough, punishment—only Mary—her he do secret, kind-hearted Aunt he realize what doing, respect (did my was before I wouldn't have said that when' it, surprised, John, get guess Ifully you reading. drea you window, lef for its Catherine, eldest wound sake. Come, blunt-spoken Uncle James—her the smarting think ?) married course!” Oh, of own know it!” didn’t want cover you. you can I to you now oh, for you graceful With quick movement, as a “Didn't like to know?” I’d towards it first, and go!” staggered thought best. school, and she he saying, with audacious you made Edgar with kisses, say cousin at John me us an answer away an cried John, excitement, drawing great his while pulled again he said, perulexed, she nearer spoke audacious, m it he hei When hard she with both hands pressed he Frank, whom into the half-averted that was look as two over years younger, eyes, “wife,” who the small he called bewilderment creature settled between pucker of 1 sma a burning him, and mischievous., from remembered wild, where sweets face. w'ell the bees morning knew' indignation: gazing at him with blazing of paper away as a as as eyes was his eyes: shame— Moved suffering—her by hei' everything!” full spirit, but seemed “I can’t bright-eyed boy, of be found. Annie Carter endure Betty, this thing,” to don’t what I floor, her pretty generous the “But dropped it were set see, on more' I do,” cried “And if bear than with did, do scarcely I in the had to knowing what you finger fault. remembered, impulsive I to and to be forgotten, if Laying to on gown one a or, wholly firmly. it little foot Betty, “why, beyond control upon now, sigh.” the humiliation, pity her conclusion, great for said in consideration “But, dear!” she held in secondary to be my my little then, I’ll give up,” bitter and she and then she broke into Betty, gave a “That,” said papa?” she asked. “What do say, harsh things you I said bitter, tc he is growing I witnessed by this time With pain “I’ll his guest. laugh and tossed her head again. a with the wager mixed laugh, that got up so meriy a with fickleness, what is it, pet?” Frank Russell, taunting him And here they in midst of “Well, the fellew each other’s that verdant, gawky, their evident liking for brown for quarrel dancing were a and the my dimples —a eyes overgrown ! These before, had two who, but I “Oh, John, couldn’t finish. concluding a year she falsity, and By the intimacy, ripening moment clown. society—their veritable country a gentleman did meaness, old not The way, seem help each promised to love and protect and buttons. They those worrying over so and was him Miss Carter, by bidding 1 deep and to Catherine, do know to try day into something seek mean more you every other through life. I could do best the liberties she they the of for but much out temper good, wern’t were playing. rehearse he had been the whole interfere part hand him? A I could and he brought his tender. not “Now,” said John, arts ’em yesterday. bought summer or warn I’d only And my on then. putting his about taken, but, had arms the table before him down with such bang surprise, but JlO intolerably He listened in indignant that will delicate for And when put without conquest be them—the too a on whole dozen. matter Two you was a shoes that Betty nearly skipped of her little out I hardly know it, but I didn’t toward him and kissed hand, her her, drew seemed bill in that light to would could triumph be who at my stupid, and such skill and yet to name a new a a my manage, controlled the start, for she would bi't —only she I sigh, for little of did give I a one suppose his mind. reak world, worth would be ? flirting the result again. Any novelty in the fail know w'hat her and to let “we across have had John it, died before she over one, buying over that I had waited see provoked not was so Is it possible “Miss Carter,” said he. nonsense!” sun-burned, whether Alice’s will have of this scheming Imagine bleed, for. One heart must to-day.” more until no them the pair, would a glance half with at a around the lines His face pale and dressinggown labored under the little that have very betrothed such was caught standing before Frank’s John shock-headed youth that of the fickle woman, 9 up you me, or Alice Rossiter the it would have known that the month drawn that to have have think they gone don’t was so and all. I ever been that She has mistake ? simplicity, hoisting My selfish love would with bashful grinning I could not engaged as say. have their expression. one's heart to heard least I have seen any quarrelled since—at never father’s darling of her heart. and pride these brother Edgar for other in to the and then chosen tiie latter. first foot have will change help “I don’t know how it my one you or it of her dismay it,” Betty lightly, to hide years.” said going Alice and two at instead of and together, Well, sheepish embarrassment, stammering One night “ sat you see, papa, we “I’msure!” the had taken, and turn affairs his in Alice love-avowal chair The moment Her next bis ardent I, chamber window. by out was I something Miser. with Helen and Marion, Brighton our Victoria to hair light, waving from a she pushed back the blushing laughing and sobbing, “W-w-w ill she mine, and this fashion: drawn close after to arms, indifferent gesture. was up her forehead with Russell, a saucy, visit Auntie for six want to is fact the Queen Letter:—The is, a London a Alice?” head lying all at Cousin half leaned always smoothed have against her That John hair that when once. y-y-you me, me, rustication. It has been long weeks’ Her love of is so simple. and struck to his miser, money he ” Her the river, called her “child. together by gesture them pure myself her loosely I left clasped I laughed in spite of at her bosom, my arms on I inhaled real breeze, since country locks, and the heart at her he glanced least, if power—at a her love of by sunny equaled as only maliciously whispered until I had have been but not bade her shoulders. We had comical picture, but a across my underneath, and before cool, indifferent face actually I have forgotten what that homage one rights to the prerogatives and the petty always Alice; to coquettish neither of speaking for for silent, he saying: knew it he games were us care; very was and daisies would Buttercups she is like. called power—aud lackeys of court be can have I suppose.” the “W-w-w-will help it might I wondering “There is and she be nearly hour, and for dangerous m-me-me, y-y-you now, no was her ones, an loose let her will on pursestrings luxuries than jewels | grasp to be greater never me, still in that Betty, there is,” said “Oh, Cousin Alice?” yes all. Sho shook her brought such pensive shade after had be smitten what national the treasury long can a as one as I life I don’t believe deceived for the of have and ought to calm that not cool, me way the Her from instead. skeptical abruptly. drawn when she spoke income nation head with Alice’s face, to at upon a merry, me little of women’s him. But know whether , certainty eo could tell to pota- men eighty-five thousand hundred and a is three reply in words. clew the the laugh, but made Her question to with them live for they hearts, although no me may me gave dollars, millions of bushes. Then I two vines close Father. pounds, toes Her She N Spoke to upon or grow on or ever “You need friendship. not closest in until had had been indulging again she She did speak reverie not years long is said to have we this she Out of annum. telling grandma overheard Dr. Andrews per Peabody, if don’t it, John endure try to you key while Lancaster under lock and reached the end of journey. the in. A number of and by recent saved, put our care!” don’t how shockimgly thin and I yesterday to. I’m want sure England throne, the has sat sum she s yesterday did little Miss Carter upon blue-eyed “You The pleasant mean?” woman, of saw contained “What do (Pa.) New Era account you I getting. He said I needed sallow an she pounds. Seeing that of millions four was of and wooden Catherine?” grasped her the gate to who down not, Her husband to arms compelled you it came nearly forty-five reigned for than physic—that has and exercise George W. years, air death of Mrs. the sudden more look to him. the J)town to eyes up the picture she like “Yes,” I replied. merry have meet difficult job to such not yery us, was a seems weeks in the with plenty few country, mother’s,” said Betty, back to “I a in the provokingly. Beartown, extreme Sensenich, of can go Indeed, her income. much from motherly she is?” she I and the “Am pretty saved had painted of her; so as as day, and then fresh “She wants romping, pudding and milk, air of me any think in what difficult to it way seems back the No asked. the which she smoothed end of county. in eastern it yourself, and was quietly and to suit one live way you can flirtation with rustic lover,would her income half of and rid she gets of every a a around.” kissed her prettier, darling,” all and thousand times will be better brown her niece “A curls of Mrs. my death but patronizes witness the she state: present to She keeps no in and dimples for no set year. up roses a violent protestation me bringing out Instead of a anl “Why, her face is her her kindly voice, said I. patronize it. As for white forhead, should Queen art no a as Besides, papa—” whole who for twentyfive she Sensenich’s daughter which affection aud fond of remorse, year. then One and they? what charities, whic with than now in compared all, cordial be are the to above i yours a manner more himself looked John drew fully expected, rattle-headed cat! up, “Hush, been “graciously majesty has with you pussy talk refused to that had to her sees or introduction, in years hand flower is those clasped to then she at long, long minute, ti.xedly for at her roses your my wax a aid pounds” in of hundred Your forcible and send pleased to a so reasons are ones, said with white lips and sisters. and with mother two dropped her and but her heart. hair—fresh, dewy, sweet quite arm, and whenever perfume. want; any one distress of won my or arranged I think some case and well that plenty slowly: bring three to achman unfortunate directing the is While as proprietor of c< Sensenich, woman so George W. the were a we better all have made list of them be must out it “Yes, as you say, a may you birth she thereupon the world at into children a “I said Alice. “Do think so?” baggage, gent■emai about am from a you best!” and our know around. You was gone But Downingtown turnpike, learned them by heart. what the old “The and is called what tannery entitled to becomes on a gai I her that horseback galloped glad, though I don’t know could from lady she and before the recover y ever room of three on Bounty”—viz., the ? I don’t understand Queen’s sum Brighton about of East line township the between sound. utter enough to astonishment until lately. a road, and nod ed much being valley to cared for pretty pounds the down the imagine—three from Just Sounds. season—the how the belle of its last vain the rusned married Miss Betty With wild Earl and Caernarvon, across cry a donations these beneficent her But likes—loves they I Frank Mrs. Russell past. even swept ueen. very suppose as bill savagely ten-dollar the who home again with her first tossing miss union room, pocket. In which other came Elizabeth Kurtz, from the Queen’s of out do not come you?” much—don’t flinging herself said, in it, and Frank,” she throw “My she could far an explanatory as herself anything turned her as giddy little head quite with son not to deny she has words, daughters. all children, there three broke than were comfortable old sofa, something into There ths a by. “We have to they more a people often went was on other give, order in to relinquish as way, as conquests—can James is married the oldest, to numerous Lydia, she had shed during first tears—the bitter flood of opinion in thousand curiosity hear nearly fourteen careless to of The until do. expecting to-morrow my sum not triumphs.” you chance her thus the repeat were to life. is the her married especially Harriet Emery, Salisbury; of her under alotted is pounds I her question. Had answered vear that a remained home this he would have at it! Oh, what have done “How could he her lip disdainfully. Alice curled scarlet or don’t Bounty.” I Wenger, of “Royal suppose head wife of Levan the of esteemed decided given frankly, I should have John!” Oh, John, have said? a I afternoon.” be got to could England in Tory smiled. That rankest Her father the and question Bareville; Emma, the youngest, in little in his twittered bird with like hers, The cage over But, negative. nature one-third of expends the she and looked after retrea a he believes I turned ever disposed of. say - lived sketch, Betty has plants. was the subject of this the the window remembered among sort of charity. I in risk. I dared this any year that tai', sum every mentally comparing unnecessary run no ing pair filled and she had prudent foryou John “But Alley, it won’t be how like flash thirty is about weddings with mother. She a gives at her presents she the look Then at hope the latent wou!d not had he elegantly-formed carrying encourage morning, how that the seed-cup ms gift alone. What with fence-climbing, man, very makes she to to the only a this time —about ever during old, and way go never years the slumbering in her heart. it in between that I tried to put she laughed when own' his they? proudly, and managing family. What head saw of her out are new-laid and similar hunting for so and any her mother eggs but spoke to without reach getting couldn’t when she anyone bars, and I answered. worthy, and course,” “Of nice and Very shawls. graceful, India very with that spirited steed easy propensities which would develop his when took her in great since, chair he days sisters until few arms two her they cost But do upon a doubt. a grand, dismal sigh, that long, She sighed—a no very horsemanship, is the beauty of skill, which child, that she just like I should be in held her themselves in and a titled up, did, I fear dead in her No. If they you, continual her mother fell anything? many a presence. over quick. Just then the heart to smote bashful youth herself. shock-beaded, suit it the my might fix to to her shawlless sprained wrists, dislocated would of be fear bride marriage on the circumstance related afterward She said in his tender underneath the window. “bits” had he heard voices And the way, year—twelve, recalled I think she Alice’s fancy. of we She gets every so many ankles, bruised head broken neck. morn. since and has ladies, or a several the depths of her a to to deep down they had she India, and mine, for gone of quicker than Her tribute believe—as I empress as for her glance followed words, her ear was too, You keep about her would need her to own sending little heart, foolish others. some one continual spoken would if she to (which she them sell unable to many her head, eagerly, bent herself lifted of pleased mine, and the look Aud up spirit. gladness of singing for work We could watch bridal not very rid of them refused she gets school, but to could), She decentlv as over you. went to then I and if listen, to moment, whole saw now! face surprise that brightened her as present's, of having a the herself and and of the for expense servants, saves mute and seemed spare any as recite lessons, into her as hard fingers flush any stuffed her the of color like Betty rose quick Shrewd, decidedly, instead. their anything else vanish till the dust of buy did a to not ” having private companion Nevertheless, speak. chirping. unable bird’s a if she to out the shut to thing the of cheek. We as was ears exactly sort her one ripple into but not the distance. settled in hoofs had horses’ a rose, she going sighed,” moaned. “That just I I what to only why “If knew he fair education. the acquired subject of was was she the But in looks for a very queen. window. of the a together leaned out the Birthdays—nothing will Deliciously cool and sweet husband! “Oh, me,” Alice was is interrupted when my and penuriousness regularly, one meanness church queen’s She attended say you Frank Rus'sell and I why can’t Beneath Oh, difference make assigned now. discussion were considerable little chamber to us any has undergone which “There Miss Dunbar, us, broke in eagerly. is spare Bridgeville. member and consistent at die?” and was a pacing backward forward the topic. of Annie Carter, almost gets change of l weary bath and of ite, and and after one who could be a apparel, Hattie’s a crouched down seemingly there, society, she stayed long governess, She into How went projected with the connection in her hand Still, taken lawn, the on the low, myself by grassy I seated on Over and knew. she well and I open sofa, spared the old not, never aud the when and daughter, much, am sure enjoying it on her favorite as as marriage of very down, face bent handsome his arm—his realizing she went, leaned through the dreadfull and out the window, furnish scene called to me.” will be would be willing oblige over she country to ths upon speaki that fact the spoken the only to i answer brushed despair, until almost time in locks her each till dark worst features his its pair, it married newly enjoy the net-work of climbing to support of the “Very well, and she roses just She has smile. as you can would receive “Betty!” and said: kitchin the a voice out in a through which was safety-valve forehead. a sort of becomes of the beautiful freshness a the You have summer consent to proclaimed that footfalls Many heavy was anything of some one agree. my special horror a one feelings. men. vent one’s crush to eyelids droop to Alice’s I Alice before tile spread out saw her uninvited. breaking in point of off, gaze. reasonable. And be my upon scenery and made talk, on now thought that she must have she would not back the back her sobs, and tears choked me Betty was—l where, though know not up, sprang I Here is something to defray a ft is said reply, vain efforts get gypsy. to herself might to Quartermaster a all her instinctively I with and the put tried compose McClellan and clearest my arm the warbled snatch of see, under in Pick that song, gay father her small her trouble. paper quite expenses. up that when all traces of and remove from the her and drew her about away thrill of laughter, voices, of Budget in Boston possible she smother with Perley Poore and don’t merry the worst Ben: or a toes, visitor The one gold-pieces if she with was me your tempted her heart beating feel her could I window. the circumstances. occasionally betraying her under had could have indefatigable in to McClellan pussy.” placing banknote kisses, And, me Gen. reorganizing was him, but word speak to a only would one when, bodice, and the closest her of stormily under terms herself Crowding on All I her whereabouts. at and Bull Run, he routed at Rossiter in her hand, Mr. unseated once saw the her army Four it with useless. bride, who her years ago the pretty with she was intimacy sobbing low, with long, cry, slipperless, the barn foot emerging from a walk through the his following her —one ride her from knee, and day to village twelve used illness, and moved into the or lingering had every father died husband, after a a buried and herself into threw citizen’s dress, her arms in her frock, my Washington rent great had Elvira Simmons made about in previous,Miss with graceful for figure moment a mouth camps with the attended him a constantly a she I One bosom, be remedied. in convulsively to abuses her face for opportunities, and by out looking my her hay, her most of tangled with bits of curls the pride, very pardonable fatherly gay glance of would word resumed but kindest not the of through strolling helping one care, her rear a her secret parade day, that great he miking conscious was she dint of as over knew She with filled was silk his reading. eggs. was apron The pail of he console him. encampment, him regimental somedark-looking she speak to such house cleaning, to work saw a domestic as possession. some in into had passed all in breath; and singing my laughing by fire, and standing “Dear, unselfish Ally Rossiter! a mixture sweet, the maiden lady like, a entire and the making talk of the the dress is at present passed case the next and day The next coffee,” said the soldier “It’s her slipped it danced along, foot what she vocation, that of asked but other ply her managed to was. thanked heart of hearts I had How from as my end of the county. eastern “Tome,” with cook. one' I officiating enough, but dismally time, who replied and the pretty as a sensation news-gather at saw, was fell. I heard the same pebble and she when she into few her, on a slops.* room came my a like looks “it McClellan, more shunned Alice effectually. relief, that of and in clash of her the told of her apron saw drink,, afterward and eggs not fit minutes “it is to soldier, the “Oh,” said me her first by called her always She roused name Once to Drummer. attentions. yolks Frank’s An Old a and whites trickling and other the broken with it, have to when she but put our The day before up it; and she made we resented though Betty was .success. a half the evil danger, fault of her “Well, whose better.” was bit ground in little rills of food is the handle'of sense not out friendship a coming lives it her gayly with the chatting of Phillips, who great upon Israel on every occasion, me now Quartermaster is “Oh, asked. it?” he thought. is I our pearls. remedied violently and going John Just I making gold and vow a rage watering-place the fashionable as was at he he is and when season is in his eightyseventh the time, not and of Greenfield, Mass., drunk most I day should the third “old-maid” walk. of ths thousand On the afternoon times the I caught sound of her assistance, to passed McClellan than cheat.” I confident —foil her how is studying to was more dimly, had—and scenting she But I now, ramble remarkable never solitary has had the for out went was career dirty and mirthful laugh by the gate year, a evidence of amused the seeing and elder more either of her haughty sisters that trouble an carion its on, like after were own prey, a I dinner. after the Quartermaster take which accustomed to in slovenlv having retired from Russell Frank drummer, manner and the moment white the little next to the pretty house, might wish that accidently let fall was —I had as a come a he his accosted in tent, operations conducted the and, river, the to walked down to her work; if do my make-mischief had to forty-six rise. in 1882, after assisting her come to business years vacation from I might have few weeks’ that the remark the with were a him men already commenced. had neared favorite seat— devastation not I surprise, regular trips my His laid first “What carelessness! Six as road. the him. The treatment from in ti of bad duties complaining to new on e pass plainly than as governess crying!” she said, my “Been more willows that the clearing little when he did and not shall among Chicago, flew everlastingly ruined! How took him Quartermaster passton, swore to into a Ever a chintzcovered the the pretty coolness and quiet of country. sinking down into eggs politely, Ally’s better —I he had bank business and the his skirted of thickly it saw commercial traveler during he that none loss?” said in another with remedy such rocking-chair was meet longing an energy I had been a the a since we make mischief. spring around trying to sneaking not the lying made the dome sun-lqonnet and white that to stay, grass, showed she meant language on In his journey. voice. “This whole mocking is the own singing birds, the fields, the my telling him for merry, answered him, McClellan green fearfully. chair creak herself thrown further little and Springfield Chicago from Even if I had on, “To reach lam cousin Alice, a he talked. Quartermaster be tious how meadow clover he had better smell of the sure. : the can husband that and “Only folks do young your you say crossed her ground, the down that the Erie “Who arms Springfield replied, I to anticipating arrival, I from you assume are you, been on went not la! I wouldn’t live happy—but sight the growing for don’t and the of your corn; authority?” “I buried apparent and her face much am the cool fault.” Schenectady by stage, thence so grass, mind—l know ’tain’t known this face canal should have on at your maiden, and bred I born among country a a pack and was McClellan, George B. up you can of attitude still. Had it to stood Her Betty’s heart in them. come was one miles, by hundred very three You little Buffalo, thousand. changed—so to old and instincts Quartermaster and the tastes are very The leave.” and were traps live happy! To be she your this? John and nut should I sure and grief, passionate hopeless twelve Chicago, and I dare thence turned little, indeed, that greet packet boat, to McClellan and struck dumb, breath within The hot of with strong remembered was didn’t, she they a pang me. as I if weeping, she Quartermaster known the have evening even by That the lakes left him. round and was miles, I used ago," hundred just to words and hot tempers; dreadful of with the I told her and years stiffled as scene town you so me, Mareh,” “Rogue’s the sobs. the tune of stifled left, to her heard had in not The story weeks. had gotten around told but it cheek all two blushing he kissed her taking so soon—a stooping steamer, shadow A wistful in tears wind who had. got came boys eyes. of the my by played undecided, some hesitating, mouth? everybody's stood While I board first-class through, including gallantly. fare speaking, while I her fair face it of was she saved of mind over With all her distress was speak with forward and whether to together, the house go into S2O. They involuntarily. I checked myself mouth. So Miss Simmons, I her and came was opening from her her to her, leave sorrow conquer and forced to like old friends, pretty chatting or failing that, Locomotive. her go on. stirred was With without meaning it m had Hace generous a from out Russell rocking herself Frank so,” she said, alone, I tell folks “An’ came her dress Alice to change Blessed impulsive pity. up nature to came soon Monument. The Great effect her witness the of Enterprise. and forth He, back Virginia (Nev.) to the opposite From willows the me. usual longer than She lingered among for tea. that 1 darling! She did know not talkin’; can’t they git to saw words, “when you so wereatWabuska and, girl, Hock Mason’s weeping Several the of noticed of the Advertiser men too, of' Boston The for'you^ spite and I smiled, in says her glass at don’t I’m things her affectionate little blame if through stratagem, go easy me knelt by good-by of their forward, to quickly other day to the springing one say sure!” which the painstaking One myself, at monument: when the Washington she ne't care to may see me came did Evidently he not Betty, vaguely North. Just the repeated tell folks?” going number who side. “You her as vias That manifested in dressing. she and asked if I should be evening city, from adk> the approaches he morning, me departing it “Whai? I don’t the quite still. fairly under and standing train her, he vaquero for understand. way comfort as was to what to know say the porch, together in sat willing her visit to to he had left his we back that as * shouted accompany over-, on a faint white miles silently, hair of smoothed her tance a only away, apparentlv’unconscicus many with mischievous finding asked her blame all his’n,” cried the resulted in the aunt, is seach Alice that the “Whv, A short coat. relatives. Her air a ar^ her country was purple sky of against the proximity. rising close line of a maid, mood discussion the exasperated at strange and hurried to her tide, my old and Frank, who the arose as glance at a and she preferred young anxious inquiring, for is the first She and when it misled her. day, “Isay I, why there couldn't it to ha cloudy restoring Aliev’s heart acknowledgement her dullness. best cry some of For says owner, wav had whom mice, might be lady soliciting on rather than conferrii seen we to suggested been enough g with him, let alone that wife had quick seem pretty that they live delight for its beauty. of myself. one intruder no was thought the was that afternoon. horseback though mistrust Bettv. his I And then caught the train did That’ what might have favor not he's them she got of say,. on —as one hand, a it at he Or near Catherine,” she may see Carter,” the not' blame fire “Do he is, how like flash of Annie suggestion “Oh, she I tell ’em what horse. The me, cross, soul with delight was a queer man was a leaped was how very up my against dark glow, sunset against disappearing the glance after fast it—indeed I a ’* One powder. help “I to from cannot in said, “I an— reply, expect cannot. her question. I refused, now year At first a at hard, and saddle, lines sharp toll people sueh things the with the dare to of Dan Farley in “And and brain light, was you handsome— good—so She cousin. He call her will be ablo to knowledge so confronting her of was with and you drawing steed, herself husband?” cried Betty, rowels his both in plunging a and up my before which agan vague, were so loving him that I this long engaged kind to been through has to was the but height,, and towering self-denial sacrifice; me, ditches, and son extremest tender my to her and her so so over over away, away, the Or spectators of its beauty. speaks he hollows, the thought of chair that she the. smiled goodnaturedly in the jumped in hills and down I sagel.irush, the the old ladv the old And before while.” consequences. resolution, woman up adhered steadily her to she so lowering afternoon, it madman, to like storm she had raised,and stared confusion the though dear life, on a at for come ridiyg a from here to-morrow, may will knitting. We as her away declaring did that if I not go over accompany blooded above thorough blazing ami with heavy into the face still, like clouds blindly reckless the when eves rosy a on more are Catharine ?— good dear, Alice’s face not, —will I shadow hon indignation—tier her, she would stay at over we about come nly saw thought but in p e righteous hard cowboy. It a lose the was run, was a to and his city, the runs up Frank again. ^ye shall shadow —axid I train but still where and faint, the she had raised overhauled the see from storm never get Dan • would how mile and half entirely, that she noticing to not a —very away a go anywhere clouds. How the in monument phantom that he could break!” she sobbed But speed she forced to will could not stay, slackened struck coldly heart but stop. the conductor sudden pain Oh, was so that, Suffolk, if she could to my not a go asks thia As he beyond ? that Dan the does it stood just is front of chair and needles to It is far Betty the deliver coak say for without lifting go of broken what accents, fear in instinctive heart—as out, holding to and with kisses, -coaxing my r.p it exciting me she slunk back into tha the and that delight blocked rode good horse the was an bq so way, question, up a same expresses about. would bring head. weeks her the few that I had next picture it best horae before the and took she it A of it spectacle those who smallest to raeo as saw me very corner before." throat with leaped but there not heart to as dwelling smiling, My Betty, comoariaan. Frank husband!* cried in “My be affair yearnii my a could. would in tame day painted the before was was a my g