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LAURA JEAN LIBBEY}
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A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT'S DREAM.
BY 3. W.
‘We had heard the night-birds
ealling in the thickets far
a ah
ing, ols the eilene
gathered
And the ‘scented gales of gloam-
‘watted secrets (rom the
And the first pale star was gleam:
ing in a golden mystery.
‘Then g holy calm enwrapt us,
iseful silence fell;
9 doves were ‘pia
Ant the words that are not ut-
tered, Tike the songs that aro
ft a
Are more “inusical_ in cadence
than are known to mortal
tongue.
Had we eaten of the lotus, or was
this @ land of spells,
This an Ancient, fable
‘rire reat End
Naight is fair but thet we dream
and we dreamt a little
_ As the standerer ip the desert
dreameth of the distant Nile.
All that by-gone time we dreamt
of, when the earth was fresh
and young,
And great Pan beside the river
piped Tustling reeds
‘There werd naiads in the stream-
Teta there were dryads in te
Fees.
Awd tho fei nae olden
ta the Thue Hesperides,
2 Soyo are Saar we hare ben
Fone ooie Banos erase ous
Au that wondering. faith tae
yenshed “pith the outlived
‘of Gold;
vet icn myooilight winds are
blowin, lovers! volees blend:
Morne auill the same old story
Paris whispered 1oog ago.
+ 8 we
‘Yonder moon is growing paler;
on witbin the reddening
Shall the star of morning van-
inna the Sun-god drameth
andi ie ‘visions that are born in
he sweet silence of the
Like inist, armies on the bill.
‘sides, from bis darts shall
take their fight,
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THE ROMANCE. OF ENOLA,
A POOR, YOUNG GIRL.
AFTER READING THIS ROMANCE YOUNG GIRLS WILL STILL SIGH FOR LOVE,
‘THOUGH THEY WEEP TEARS OF PITY OVER THE FOLLY OF OUR LOVELY HEROINE.
The Latest and Most Thrilling Story fresh from the Pen of the People’s Favorite Author,
MISS LAURA JEAN LIBBEY,
ne Auran,”, “FLORA GAREAND'S COURTSHIP; 1” Prerty MADCAP
Auruor oF “ Kinarrep at
Dongtur; om, Low Sux, Won 4 Loven,” “Dau
“THI
Hriunas oF
OVE OF A
leaner,” * Beacrieve Touts Love
‘Love
Cagtznon Hatt, «Mano Ie dtivens
's Lovg-Tzst,” ia ‘ErRUGGLE FOR A
ny Lert Rosen
me Face,” 83
eons Loven, i Daisy
BRooxs,””
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nay rss MippLeTON's Loven,” BIC, BTC.
‘This story was commenced in No, 1385 of Tas New York Fiagsipe Compaiion. Back numbers can be
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[THIS STORY WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED IY BOOK FORM)
CHAPTER
™pors HE LOVE 7M!
Why, you are transformed into a perfect hourt,
my y deat she declared, with a |
your own mother We
a
J She held Enola off at arm’s-length and surveyed
tom ‘i 9, weal by mlonal Packet ‘Who lived
, would be
her at tre
Grabam, the popalar bank clerk, he could not help
being smittea with her. Jolie
formed a
me et, oe the ‘white silk dress, which Julie had
arriedly from her aunt's wardi
ie showing ‘every outline of her leader
feos ers
The reds
shapely bead In a Payebe knoe
lying over the white forehead w
TRL WHOM REPORT SATS
fix 1S TO MARKY?” SOBBED ENOLA, PITROUSLY,
ns MarswARInG met Enola at the door of the
eye of a
thinking to herself what & world of truth there wi
nr cho old “Fino festhe e
ir was caught up high on the | declared
2B mee ‘single white rose- | bave never been in
bad nestling init, and the Iittie carling lovelocks | how to get before ‘tne Inales and gentlem
Julie bad
8
Mrs, Malnwarin
detect that it was a carefully pre
the maid had cleverly appli
80. consclent
little ete rapturous ery; | How
ly Tecognize
roman of fashion, | It was,
fall in love with
Carroll
ad indeed per-
parted ever so
Janghing aloud
weetly innocen sy"
“Only » fa
“not more than forty, or sucht @ matter; but they
are very select mostly all neighbors
you can rest for hall
will come down in the drawing-room, and you will
"Oh, aunt, T eo) asitT cought not to come dor
Enola, in @ very frightened voice. tT
refui jnt-blank to
ot know will not hart her,”
‘And, tony thie leader of eoclety, to be beautiful
x. slightly to one side, giving her a , bosist, jaunty
look that made her duite Jrresiatible.
bathed. her face ia t the. finest of per.
famed water, and Eno mazed to
a freck ice disappeu a0 if by magic.
Site Matomarne could cearcay refrain {rom
when het lees told her this,
to herseif, “that she did
repared lotion which
f she had thought
tious Is abe, she would havi
use it; bat what she
every woman.
a to have mauy guests, Aunt Matton?”
wisttuly.
wored few,” sai
id Mrs, Mainwaring;
After dinner
an hour or more, then you
rand company. 1 do not know
SUM. IN ADVANCE.
TWO COPIES FOR $5. }
ENTERED at Tue Post Orrice 4t New York aT Seooxn Crass Rares,
No. 1339
«Do not make that speech before any ove else, I
pray you: people would that you came
xa the backwoods, and Pepsuld noeiize that.”
"rT wi ill try to remember your instructions, aunt,’
said Enola humbly,
med toher like facing a great mystery when
we hour drew h in which she was to make her
earance in the drawing-root
Tne almost wished hereelt ‘ack in her own quiet,
little vilage agalu, where ste knew every one and
every ew her, ‘and 1 the world of fashion was
own.
ral times she made aa effort to go down to
the ore room, and each time the effort failed
le bend the arrival of many vebicleg and peep;
ig farough the Taco. € ie saw beautiful
ladles alighting from se
ure f ougl Togo dons, se tnonei
timidly” very suo. will eurely kiow that. Iam
wearing borrowed plumes. If they are neighbors,
tad all Know Aunt, Marion, It te most, Ikely that
they hav n her, hey will
Nhisper Soe, he ice: "Rees she has on or
i arose? and I should feel greatly mortided at
that.”
‘but when Mrs, Mainwaring tent up her maid for
her, requesting her presence at once, she knew she
inust faco the mnusic bravely, She dewended to the
drawing-room with a throbbing heart. Gay voices
apd Hppling laughter floated up to her a she came
slowly down tbe grand a ig her Way,
lest si a should Se
“1 must peep | into ‘the room first before I evter,””
feo how they look. I wonder
be iuging abo
tportires were drawn close!
gether, She angi theat trembling tp her "ete le
White bands, part tly,
Bile her ese a ansiouly 1S tho aperture: andthe
groups of lovely wonmeh I ebm
toring evening dresses Bere and there, leaning on
the arme of brave looking, come
young fin alttog ty ° a
of lovely Toses, that caugat and held her faze
looked at her in wonder.
peerless so faullealy fair, froma ne crows
af her golden head and ber Tovelyy haughty face 10
Of the tiny white satin slipper tbat peeped
fromm a bemiderng fil of soft creamy lace
ier aunt Ser to this bean gi, and
lald.a jeweled hand on her ite shoulder.
‘© Hyactnth—Miss se murmare, wil
yout sina song?” De fav
be aebgbtaly”
ee
from her seat with the navy
young empress, atid swept over t
fodozen oF more gentlewen ‘springing
ica to be the firet to reach her side to tarn her
ho first Was one whose form seemed
sari sal to Enola, althongh she could not
about that tall, slender figure
and the dark, ‘pro poised head that sent such
@ thrill to her
fh, be locked 20 like Carroll Graham! Enola
gazed through the aperture like one fascinated,
CRIED HER LOVER, HOARSELY, “I MUST HAVE A WORD WITH YOU HERE AND NOW—AND ALONE!”
At that moment he turned, and she saw his face—
the face bending ko near Hyacinth Reed’s beautiful
| ete ead that his dark curis altvost brush
ery almost took wher breath away. The
lights aad the dase sseeted to tb togetber, and
tile Toom into which she gazed seemed to mua
round. She latched frantically at the pordér
aod that terrifed grasp was fatal
et ‘went, Lula with them, almost, cover-
ing the il in their silken folds, a she fell face
down the room among the assembled
guests,
Mrs. Mainwaring sprung forward with a little
ry of horror, realizing in an instant, that it
Zuolapoor, wird tte
a ed In amg the fa tins
hate fainted, she thougut, fom sheer
trlgnt aod eztaustions
‘This, Indeed, proved to be the case, as the gentle-
‘ho sprung at once to the girl’s asaist-
ance, Te was Horace Pendleton who etecceded 1a
liberating her from the portiéres, and as he did
s0 he could not help but ‘notice whut @ character-
istic face the git] really ha
“Tt is my niece,” explained Mrs, Mainwaring, as
he.bore her in his strong arms up the stalr-nay.
well- © any excuses re-
garding th het obforcanate aecident, and after a few
murm 8 from ietrusting that
the accent fad Huot been seriouse the pleasure of
those present went on uninterrupt
Mrs, Mainviariog did ber best to make them for-
get the ludicrous incident. There was one, bow-
ever among that group upon ‘whom Enola's face
had made quite an impression, and that was Horace
Pendieton,
Not that his nad, passionate love for Hyacinth
Reed wavered fi jeast, but somehow he could
Hot ahake of from hia rind the odd thought that
somehow, somewhere, this girl's path and bis
shoul
Mrs. Mainwaring was relieved when the last
guest took bis departure and she was free to hasten
to her nieee’s apartment,
never was so mortally ashamed in all my Iife,”
she muttered, as she burried up the velveted staite
fand Gown the long corridor tow '8 apart
t. “It will be the lacgh aint
met 7 acne
ances, arid I shall be extenily faky if that litle
Incidéat does not fd its way Into the papers.
attempt to posh a little Sountry
gal ake it to the topmost rounds of good soclety,
il be Peasant, clothe im ‘ina cont of
jammonde The rat thug. 4 ill do Is to teach
that-eiet the staiments ‘of manners, and how to
enter and leave a room I wish, to Meaven T bad
not brought b ‘het here, Itwouldn’t be a bad idea to
send her
She found Biola sitting by the window, her head
boried in ber hands, and the white startled face
she turned toward het almost electrified her.
“On, eunti” she ertet, starting to ber feet in
agony, and creep! toher, “I ¢ mean t
doit,” Telt Cine alin, snd I iden no more.
el
Jp a borry. You gave Miss
Hyacinth Reed quitea shoe
pehtiola eaught quickly at the
“ "Hiyactn fh Reed,” ehe mar-
e girl sit
He isa
very tide young vitlow, bat
Hyacinth Reed is atted
With a prince
vo her?” asked
Enola, Th aval eo put and
boliow t hat it scarcely sound
“Why, certalaly he must
love her,” returned Mrs. Main-
waring, carelessly. “No man
ever locks on t the face of Hiya
way
Scart whole, They say?
abont Hyacint
cod,” breathed Enola falut-
Tho nigbte va on ie tis
quire
Bat nobtes andall that Sort of
thing; but we're living pe at
ferent age NOW, my quai
tle Fnola.””
“No girl is grand enough
for him!’ murmured Enola, in
a choking voice,
“Ah! you were peeping be-
bind tho portiores, aud you fell
in love with Hyacinth’ Reed’
lover,” laughed Mrs. Maine
Waring, amasedly, Take care
rel?
mn
nem save iyacia ith Reed.
He fairly adores the ground she walks on, if ever a
tan did, 1 should not be surprised to to hear of the
of {hale t wedding day The
face into which d whiter.
“What are you arsine or child?” she asked- quite
suddenly, looking amazedly at the girl, as she saw
reat teardrop ps aplabiog down her cheeks.
the most wretched gitl the sun
bed Enola, bitters,
\d looked eagerly
shone on?” eo
ler aunt caught her bands an;
into her face.
‘There js
said: “you must tell me Whi
ie affair?”
“Not” erled the gitl, looking up, fea
her No hore moa al my
Iie. “Other piss have bad wealth and beauty, £08
homes, and God has given them love, as well: bat
je has quite forgotten ue, ro is such a thing
as some intended to go Through “Tite alone, surely
that fate is marked ont for
jonsenee!” ried Mrs, atiwariog, imspationtly,
“ “ie only girls who hare no life
s who ‘tal
something back of allthis, litle one,"
at it is, Have you
rightness if you haven't other girs dos?
“TY could rave . anything else but natural,”
said Enola, ola,
“That is ary welt in the country, but
ple do ecuterently, declared Mrs, invade,
“By the way, there is to be a id a epren ang
in a Reet,
TF eli ot co! erled Enola, drawing back, the
Took of horror deepening | in her eyes,
“Yes, ill!” said her aunt, decisively. ‘You
must see ria other young girls do, and note
their ways. I accepted this invitation In your
ame.”
g an envelope from her pocket, ahe placed
in Loola's bands; and as she Gid #0, she sa
what she hed gqite, "orgoten to note Retore—thag
the envelope was “Mise Mai
inwaring?
iss Browalng a
we evidently made a mistake in your
ed her aunt, “I must set it straight
A gudden idea came to Enola.
Ob, aunts” she crled, ‘'do tot correct It! let it
oat i would rather they would call me
Siat varie than Miss Brownin
er aunt, frowning; “ people
an Tok euange ott ustes1'eult thouetrde von
now.
“But let the mistake pass this one time,” per
slated Enola, “No ono will be the wise ones
“Iti only a gitl’s whim,” Mrs, Mainwaring
thought; aud just'to please fer, Inve thoughtless
moment she consented.
“ Very well; you shall be known as Miss Main-
waring, then,” she said, amusedly, “But, you
know, gooner or later you Must confess to your 6wn
ame
T agree to that,” sald Enola; ‘but, ob, for the
resent do not refuse!”
“Then you will make no demur about going to
the party?” sald her aunt,