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[Copyright by Robert iv. Chambers]
Cl-I PTEl't 1.
0 YOU desire me to marr
him?“’asked Miss Castle,
quietly.
"Let me finish," said her
uncle. "Jane," he added.
turning on his sister, "it
r you could avoid sneezing
r a raw moments, I ehould
be indebted to you."
Miss Jane Garcide. 3. sallow lady of 40,
who sutlered with colds all winter and
hay-lever all summer, meekly left the
room. ,
Miss Castle herself leaned on the piano.
tearing the pink petals from B. half-
withered rose. while her guartlizm, the
Hon. John Garcltle, nnished what he had
to any and pulled out his cigar-case
with decision.
have only to had." he said, "that
’%S?i‘&"
S
>:w:v.wxQj
'7 9.? er way;
3.?
James 1. Crawford is one man in :t mil<
Her youthful adoration 01' G.’-lrcidc had
.changed within :1 few years to 1:. sweet-
tempered indifference. He was aware hi’
this: he was anxious to learn whether
the change had also affected her inr
heritetl passion for truthfulness.
"Do you remember a promise
made?" he inquired, lighting his cigar
with care. ' ‘
"Yes," she said, cnillilye
"lvhen was it?"
"On my tenth birthday." s
He looked out of the heavily curtained
wim our.
‘'0! course you could not be held to
such a promise,“ he remarke .
"There is no need to hold me to it,"
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she answered, flushing up as she evoke.
Ilcr delicate sense of onor amused
him; he lay back in his armchair,
Joyin;;' his CHZIH‘.
"It is curious." he said, “that you can-
not recall meeting Mr.
winter."
"A girl lms an opportunity to Iorget
hundreds of faces after her met season."
She said.
There was another pause: then Gar-
. .1
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made to him by a mere child of ten.
‘'1 Garcide, piaintively
wonder."
llild
.1
did."
Yea rs before.
said
vhy you never npen your heart
when the firm of
Crawford last cide & Castle -went to pieces, Peter Castle
omel
a?"
wonder, too," she said; "my father
0"‘ Garcide turned his hushed face to the
'in<low.
Gar-
stood by the wreck to the end. patching
it with his last ulcilnr.
broke u
6
him
ide.
But the wreck
into the last harbou vf all-the par:
am going to ask you to, of human derellcts. " V
however. contrived to cling
llcr tare pale-1 :1 triile: she bent’h9r.,lo some valuable ilotsam and paddle into
calm water. and lane 0
head in acquiescence. Garcide smiled.
t had always been that way with the
II 1113!! FE ‘VHS
a now ryarclde
grntiilevl
'Ai'ter n
more Years
V Iew ye
Cnetlcs. Their word. once Riven, ended house above Fifi.
are he bu
ieth street: after a few
e . (I bu
to learn the Value of‘: promise Sun: Bel-old's Hospital; and after n few
ilt
ilt a handsome
wing (or
