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Vol. XLIX.
GEORGE MUNRO, Proren
17 v0 27 VANDEWATE
SYRRET. |
NEW YORK, FEERUARY 27, 1892.
[seven Wexxiy.—Esrenen acconnixa To ACT oF Coxaness IX THE YEAR 1802, BY Gronok MUXnO, IN THE OFFICE OF Tus Linnamiax oF Coxonzss, Wasuixotor, D, C.—ExTansn aT THE Post Orrice at New York a Szoonn Cisse Rares,
PRICE, $2 PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE,
TWO COPIES FOR $5.
+ And fond of a life of ease,
Aud I've heard it sald that no other
sat in the Nap ot iurury
royal line.
‘Your hands wore sott—I remember
“Thought not #0 soft an your head
+ For you shout n0 fellow worth ook.
orked for his daily bread.
You nlered into our sports and joys
vith none of the southful gest
‘That fi is of the other
a
\ Who were not as finely drest.
Lroughed it then, and I've roughed it
‘And fought every inch of the way.
- While you're been living the lite of a
prince,
‘With plenty to serve you each
y. .
‘There were many to envy your rich
fomains
And many fo pay you court,
And Eight bare followed the foolish
rat
‘Had you been of a manlier sort,
Wo were boya together, remember,
Andit a t take long to see
‘You were proud of the house you de-
Right peti ie ur pel cree,
‘Your talked of "blood ” of the bluest
stain,
‘Our plebtian veins to shock:
But we listened, and thouglt it was
iain
“You'caine of a watered stock.
bar had never Iporensed
= aprovident
BET Soured the ort Seite vot the Teast
And T never gave single
ought =
Leones —until
a sight oe our r wellknown face T
you were going dowa bill,
I's hard work climbing; the way is
And few ever reach the top:
Bat the going dows 3 easy enough,
- F know where you'll
And, fom, Poor fellow! your lack of
a
“gp Xour lofddy indolent wars,
‘me that at the foot of the
pat
‘You'll certainly end your days!
—
Auuthay of Delta's Handsome Lover
Plone tnckes™ Ss umie Lov
“Little Kosebud's Lovers
CHAPTER XIX.
ther rondeetal
in her
's fine feathers: that wake fine birt t
she reload, _iaatly.
Vincent i argh | ‘She's rigaed 0
Painted, 100,
fear which she
erept into her
ginning of a terril
3 Sho leaned
80 white that Katy was frightened.
thy?” 6!
do ber mistress's blag,
ect.
“Tt almost seems as If 1 shail go mad!”
ured" Fes, monl—with this torrie fa feat
air.
sent Katy, Dorol
pcan
MT fon Love of a Fine Hace
6" that Pretty Young Giri.” * Miss Middleton's
TENE fs Xo PAIN THE MEANT CAN EXDUME WHICH
ely—and on ail iach ot 6 Theat
tonight, ona
Ne, "Shee ted oat ies thrown tn concact with ¢
and {ani quite sure
nd I've beard him
ests, 10
Bull Dorothy did ot t feel comforted, A nameless
reely define by words had
“fart; avd a Y smoldering flame of
} caiousy burst euddenly forth; and that was the
‘rearily back tn her seat, and looked
s’ Bball 1 get you 8 glass of ice-water, Mise Doro- her
pg murmured assent, and she flew to | down
Left to herself, Dorotliy sprang bastily to her
if
“GOD GIVE ME STRENGTH TO BEAR THE TERRIALE TRUTH!
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1891, by George Munro, in the office of the Librarian of
Congress, Washington, D.C,
RETTY MADCAP DoRovHY:|
HOW SHE WON A LOVER.
A Romance of the Joliest Girl in the Bock Bindery, and a Magnificent Love Story
of the Life of a Beautiful, Willful New York Working Girl.
Tue Sweetest, Tenperesr Story Even Warrren By THE Peoriy’s Favonrre,
LAURA J EAN, LIBBEY,
Hall,” * Madotin Rivers,"
se ‘Biruagie for a Heart,”
ver," ete,
‘This story was commenced In No, 1262 of Tag New York Fiexsiog Coxraxiox, Back, pumbers can be
‘obtained from all newsdealers,
[tHI8 STORY WILL NoT DK PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM.)
from the ballroom near where she sat, sho groped
her way thither,
“The night air fanned her feverish eheck, but it
S CRUEL AS IBA) aid hot al the foror ln her br: rain OF the | fre tak
“ ated Dorothy, brill, awful into her very h
whisy Teh ‘he, base you Mi eel fancies co weird nid strange tat the ited res
You avo said Miss Vincent seemed -ssion of her
that she was om n what they. halt told here ma
—that the feeling wal
was
Jealousy had never before oe
sho knew that Harry Ke ‘ial was
Eliper, and that no matter how Tick bo might bo
‘irl who was plain of. face,
oy ban | he would never drain of Being anything else than
Simply courteous t
‘Now affairs seemed to take on a new and hideous
oRno recalled each and every incident fhat bad
taken place since Miss Vincent's arrival, a:
Trifles light a aie
Seemed confirmation sro as Holy writ”
as sho viewed
on the Euets notice bow attentive he ts to
her,” she said to herself, with a bitter sob, wringing
bereold Hetie bands and elateting tem tightly over
ca
Saniosiy sho heard the sound of voices, and sun!
pon aseat at hand until they should ‘mass
8 did not know that the seat which #he bd se-
ected on the broad pinzza was directly buck of one
he mt oie fhe large, vine-wreuthed, luted lars, and in tho
eluteh- | den
suiting
*Atendainatal of thoerrond spon whieh ae
yy rose hastily to her fcot, and,
membering that there was a rear entrance fea’
“This Lime sho readily disined thatthe voteos must
belong to two light-hearted, happy girls.
Te you having a good time, Grace, dear?” asked
{Oh qnite the foe Ir tnce ever had fn all may
lifer” re tne. “I haten’t missed one dance,
and all m: fe bevtt 30 hendoome quits
the preted ‘ellows in the ball-room! And how is
mth
vOho I'm enjoying mysif, too!” laughed t
other me “@ patdid sou notes what a pinay LI ited
that last walte-quadtille? Tdon’t 4
a raight-as-e-mackerel kind, who
fold you so Uisht you cau scarcely catch’ your
reat”
oth girls Want off into uproarious
tanyehter, wh ‘suddenly ope of elem exclaimed:
Have you yet bad a wal with bandeome Larry
adaly
No," returned the other, mefully, ‘At the last
ball I went to be was almost wikd to put his name
for every with me. But, after all, T
not wonder at thac whea J sce lw greatly Dele
intatnate wii with the beauty 9¢ the ball to-night—the
ir Tris
{Have you heand all the talk to-night about
that” chimed in the other, her voloe sinking to. 8
tial tone," Every one has noticed ft,
anit othe talk of the hal room.” :
‘it 18 shamefal for him to carry on ¢0,” return.
ed he panion, “" when every ono ktows that
bis weadiogd das, “with poor, biind Dorothy Glenn is
tbo you koow,” said the other, stowis, “chat T
doute iv "te ei exer marry Dorothy nowt You
r that he became scorned to
Tore that treble seciea you kur
f opinion as to whether the
er oF
not very
bout {boo lovers proving trie
to there flrncer through e vere trontle and tribuia-
tion—bit T tell you tho con't do it in real life.
When trouble comes to a girl, nine lovers out of
ten fy from her to scele pontutes es new? and, after
all, to come right down to the fine point, between
yea ‘and me, could you really Vane ll Harts Kendal
I he were to break, of With Dorothy? He is young
‘and handsome, an: I would be bitter
shame for Bina’ go tines life with a bling eel
for a wife: and when I think of it T Frectnly feline
aignane wich the gil for huidiog bim to
ment onder mich tre Sbe
at fn time he Twould actually hate het for ie
ene of his jors., Why. che would
be omy a niet burden to band:
dalt’ That hom bi
om 7 so ‘nfattated wh
es mere, wuitable Xo
Ob, what a bonds sme couple ef
‘And every one can see, though they hak the they tite
Xt so well, bow desperately they are in love wit
hot.”
<iihey sored on, tle arvaming of the ruin and
blight oe, bad left behind them.
were scarcely out of, hearing when the
fat ery that had been cheked back eo Joni buret
orth in a wilds piercing wat ot Peony that meant
@ breaking thon aud there of a
But the danee-music ‘teide, to Which the joyous,
merry feet cpt timo, eo mpletely drowned
Dorothy I infront her chair, aud the Took
on her face ‘was te erible to behold,
“Lot me quite understand {t,” she whispered—
) MY LOVER IS FALSE TO ME!”
slot mo try to realize and rasp the awful t
Marry Kendal, my lover, ti al to eae fOr ma
and is lavisbinig hie titenton, Day, pore, bis udec:
tion, upon another, and one who tn totura 10¥%
im a fey say that I stout give vi up to her
jo love bit, better than my own hfe! Te is
al, lik Trave fot to ta ay tor
ol Tite throwe
lifet
in peaven! ean it be trac
And again the angels at the great ™ bite Torone
were startled with the el that
broke from the girl's white il whic 2 ‘oho more
the dance-tausto mercifully drowoed,
“Twill 09 him and confront hima with what T
have hear:
the people ass ‘my>
eel upon my ene at t his feet, crying out: ‘Ob, my
darling! my" Write teh me that the eel
Tumors which ‘Thave heard are false—that. pou do
not hate me becatiee—becatise of the awfal aftic~
tion that Heaven bas seen ft to pat pon met Turn
e gin] by Four side to, me our
can never love Jou as” do,
allay world At 1 were fo die
day—ay, within thls honr—my id not Tea
the earth white yon were lero! T would cling fo
Fon in life or in death?”
Dorothy turned and re-en-
tered the house, forsetial of her blindness, and to
cotint the steps which she ing
only that she was un ergolag the greatest tal of
fe.
enor as 8 fluttering swallow she hastened across
,e broad piazza, but in the contusion of ber whirl:
at Drain abe bad mistaken
Geamied &
to
quick
vehe had ‘stepped ‘off the veranda. and
ve fee 1d
fh witha t & terrible thed down fi t below, an
lay, stunned and waconsclous, on the graveled
val
ic was 20 sudden, so terrible that sorely
God in His merey was kind ‘in that the fearful 1 pai
of fe fall was not realized by her.
The ents
sbe lay ‘there.
missed her save Katy, no 0
penetrated only by the dim ight of the atars._ The
dew of night fell sien ntl, pityingly upon the bite,
upturned face and ettriog goldeu hair, which ing
tangled aimong the sharp pebbles. Grajually con-
scfonsness dawned brain. ‘Tue
rept back to. {oo child veils aod pulsed
tec rh with ieame the romembrauce Of the
selves We: arily by as
fod! can it be true? Heaven bas restored,
ny sight tomeus miraculously a8 (was taken from
met
ce again she eaw the blue be ite
rin of golden-b Beatle tame beadine over "ners
ie Eteat with its iigated mdows, ad
beyond, the "tally dark ‘oak-treesy with thelr great
lespread, tossing branches; and
she ‘ell upen her Ences and’ Kimed
to heaven with such piteous
fulness that the an-
"peand sod ‘wept
thy's eight had been re-
er as ‘miraculously as i
iad been taken fro
“iiuteven ia the midet of her great
joy the dregs of woe still tingered
niemory brought back to het the
terrible ordeal through which she
tad
bated breath she turned and
ctopt Mwitay ack to the house and
up to the long windows that,
‘out on the porch, sobbing i Ske
to bervelt that she would see at las
if her lover was true or false (9 her,
CHAPTER XX,
Wir her heart throbbing. wi vita
the most intense excitemeut, Dot
against the window-pane, and gazed
we the gorgeous scene
tt gradually, litte by Little, she
an to distingish objects abd at
‘upon the
With a great cry, the girl clutch-
ed her bands tightly over her heart,
Sho never thought 1 fat she would
spon is this
won
ue face of her
es , fee tier before which aif else
me int of the pals aun.
Thelen lenly she saw the face be-
side him into which he was zuzing,
and it was then that the heart in ber
bosom almost turned to
T life bad oi
better view'of them, and perhaps
She could bear what they were say-
abt as she reached if, to ber great:
jsappointment she saw them link
< aengand stroll out of the ball-xosm
toward (he conservatory, aud eae
erste bent. her lens, Aitent
Poaching it before they
she ereened herself
behind a tall jerdintére of roses and
flowering plants, ere, laughing and chattering, the
two entered the floral bower.
“The ball js a grand success, Irie,” he was say-
Ing, gaylys “they all seemto be enjoying thems
selves {minensely: Glow is is it with yout?
“Tt isa night that will stand out ‘forever in my,
Ife.” she Feeponted, glancing up at hi
dangerously fark eves and agile on i
‘The itl who them bre
bind the roses elu
‘The sight mutdened bet. The
each other, their heads bent so close: and while sie
gazed, ef Kendal beut sill closer and kissed
the git's
thy tried
contront them.
to ery aloud, to sprin
Her brain reeled; the blood,
out and
even a moan, she unl unconscious in ber
biding place,
What ts that sound?” cried Isis, with w start «”
the cor
T Buty Irs, aro
Fou ting wo 'avoud mor I bave brought you here
fo tell you something, and you must listen, ‘The
@ when we must fully understand.
tach oiher Tou know guito‘as well asf that tho
1ife we are leading, Iie, ean not go on like this for
ever. From Thoment We met
won ‘T fort foward you changed the whole current
fe.
Irfshid her face in the bouquet of white hyacinths
which she carried.
100 late to talk of that now.” she mur-
ured. Four heart went ont to another before
before I met you.”
There is such a thing as affections waning
when one discovers thet Sue's Beart tah
mated, Iris,” he erled.
‘She did not answer; and thus emboldened by her
silence, he went on, buskils:
Sat me wive son the whole historr of my meet-
ing with Dorothy Glenn, from Srst tolast, and you
will understand the situation better. You can real-
jot truly
throngh a flirtation, as it were, can
true Tove. Such an acquaintance fs not foine
one. down on this rustle (edt
Iris, an it here tn the dim, mel-
low ie aot ‘sa “Judge me, and your decision
eel
shall se
ae moment in which Hatry Kendal
astbeesin ia uarrative there was quite acorns
Thotion at the’ outer gate which guarded the main
entrance of Gray Gables.
‘ue of the servants, lounging lazily at bis post of
duty, was suiediy Startled Out of the doze into
aw
which he had fall shadow of
Ting hurriedly past
‘Held on, "here! ila on, Tsay! Who are you,
and wyhat do gon wa
re elnd ip 8 long dark cloak; hooded and
rolled etopped chort, witht a litle exesotwaions
which'he could not quite eateh,
“Hold on, there! Where are you going?” ho rev
peated, springing to her side. “There is some
jing going on here to-night. You can’t enter these
grounds unt I know who you aro and what your
Dis 18 “Gray Gables, ts it ott” exclaimed &
tremulous voice from bebiud the veil.
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