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Full Title	Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. 52, no. 7, December 5, 1896, [Incomplete].
Contributor	Montrose, Lesley.
Date Added	2 March 2022
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1896-12-05
Publisher	New York : Street & Smith
Alternate Title	New York Weekly. Two black sheep; or, The siren's secret / by Lesley Montrose. Siren's secret
Topic	New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals Story papers > Specimens.
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OCR Entered According to Act of Congress, in Three Dollars Per Year, - Vol. 52. 29 Rese a Sow York. Two Copies F Five Dollars, “Die Erste | Liebe Ist die Best.” anisupderstand them,” 1 Lave és Bests) gently, But in spite’ot Dimelf his cbeelt . {Mth the memory of the rich we : nian's barsh, ‘ungenerous words. “4 BY MAUDE HAMILTON. has higher views for his daughter than to vegetate among the rusties of Spray- - Roo atone one winter night, crest Egnd co would any one ne fast ell the whi snow Mtho loved you, Merry?” ‘ Av room looked eheetfi) and bo lov rh Sty Merry ndorstand,"” enid the girl, breathlessly. “Why should U give you up—you, of all the world? im fre he's ruddy glow, When boneath mine eyes came'a simple line prouglit back tie Past await possible!” mo Aud thrilied through this foolish heart of The childish fee. was pale with feelin now, and the eyes were fastene in mumne. Witla 'niingled joy and pain. longingly on the horsion, where the gol. den gates of day were closing in tinspeakable, And Marsh, with svvelling wrt, stood by his unconscious little ‘and they were alone, the gray rocks shutiing then in 10 ‘ tilon Tuayence botwee ue aud the dictane : singing of their companions stole itteully 3 their ear “When other lips and other hearts thele tule of love shall tell, came the sweet old words, “Then you'll remember—you'll remember 2 'Twas only a proverb that caught mine Ke to. AKO, When some one my hand had pressed, While a tender voice whispered eott and low, “Dear, 'Die evsle Liebe ist die best: Tieaned my head dreamily on my hand, Anil gazed of the leaping blaze, mS While ‘Faney Uke & wizard's And the youth’s very heart-beats echoed ae bright vlawons of by-gone Dore, ind song the refrais, while passion urged him on “3 wos, Rea ‘loge ror, saanlig alt, to speak, ‘and awake the child-to wontan- And they t iu’a busy Ob, Meny, my love Morry the words which crowded to bi . Seotued to hum, “Oh, the world is fair! “When the black time has come that I can see on the way, and I am driven from your side, and others speak the love 1 Gare not speai—ob, love, will you then . were down by the water—wy love aud f phteid anruited stream ‘Tint mirrored the Hie nf the cloudless sky Au the siuligh’s golden gles were mute, and the girl divined nothing of her old playmate's eo he wir wae Tull of fen ent of ove nid the song of ssion Abe laled away the pencet pascion. tvs what you had to tell me!” wise at the povaaue shay trees. sho aide vresently, ‘at fe tell met” won't have - bears in’ her oy.’ But so. TL falls “to papa, and by round... Never: mind, Marah; meu). to ba, disagyeable, Te = Bani. pew bigheans-migh He's full of those gra: -hos mado, aut cau think 6 else at presont.. You'll not say wage will you, Marsh?” ‘And she laid her hand Ag sone ta life will the memory last -yon summer dag Sen were'e An nator his is pot Dent Jeway. * We eating—i book of po a 24 And mg heart feaped in mea ‘When he, my love, with a gian Rend ‘Die erste Liebe ist a best! o" ok his bead, foreing a smile to And then pressed my hand in his, with a 0 comfort hor. ‘a That tliitied me through and thro “Weill seo how things turn out after > you're been at ho ‘while, suggested Fed tome as uo closed the hook, is Tee “And with tender murmuring w Nords of love, H6 drew my head ou his breast While it acemed to me that the Tanke above i ie erate Liebe ist Hie ea might ~ight speak, harshly to you, and that must never be for me, iny dear.” ‘Nevhad captured. ¢ flim hand now and way holding it eprea open, “inoue of |- his a trhcod thettulicate Les Uaek from he Past A finder fell and pany with one ‘slight s intently as if he were | fen shiv ‘the gnow Is falling fast, ‘And che puet ie cone forever! br : Yor somehow, though Thave had other tracing his figure there. ne “Marsh, was papa harsh to you?”” asked ales she, with Sudden suspicion. PATS: “There, Isee that he must have said : Neat stil roves @ first love 1s the best.” something a u wouldn't 4 oe es want to hide it. Ob, that miserable ~. cinoney | 18 it golug to spoil everything? > =) atick to her “like a linlpet to a rock” (as Mirabel | “I know she'd nover dare to come out here,” | And covering her shamed face with both bauds od sixt |said), especially after the appearance of young | chuckled Mirabel; “that's why 1 proposed it. |she burt into the passionate tears of si @ | Lodinuer, although: she must have known the| But won't she be frantic! And no chance to pay sb watched ber with listening eyes These 2 young man’s preferanece for her viva if or | mo off, now that I’m going home, Poor Loriuel tours wore for him! Was it likely that the day |vanity had not blinded her. —Good-bumored | It’s too bad.” would ever come when the wealth she now de- Mirador had tolerated her amiably enough, till « Nover mind ho We haven’t much | spised for his sake would outweigh her loyalty? i Marsh laughed the idea to scorn. percelved that ber” presoucs was “vexing | time,” said Marah, apa her away; and to- on. Marshs and now her little manouvre was fa the | gether they ellmbe 1d the fissured crag, ‘from the sa Soothing her with hopeful words when ’ ature of a reprisal on her for her malicious] top of which they could ew the “sesttered pies | he: sight of a bout skimming, under its ister ekers among the sand bills; aud the two, boats ting, yall from the other end of the lets Le wa @ pair in frout reached the end of the slen-| they had coin in drawn up in a Lit | filled with Jadies, whose, bright wraps ‘glaanod e Penh Th 7 h 1 n’ e r der bridge, and paneed, for Lorine to. come up, | the distant se ene Garnett Iolo. suiminer | Out t and with the darker . I e wie suo boon did, with a sprightly air, fel in the distance, ‘They scrambled gown the | fornis of Wenvalfors, Marsh started sot Blam elt side toa natural cave scooped ot of | to his feet with an exclamation, ance at the waters foaming ‘under the nar which was piled with slippers | the rock by the waves, and there they sat “iowa | “ct Look yonder, Merry ion't that some of our Tladder-weed, changed’ ber smiles, to abject | side by sid party?” he asked, blankly. dismay ; she shrank back, biting her lip. ater glenn you'll find great changes when Yhy, yes; {see madame distin BY LESLEY MONTROSE. ‘Let’ me go first, Marsh," cried “Mirabel, | you go tioine to Hathleague,? began Marsh. gnewered Merry. ‘How, odd of her to Tava ue cagerly. INE iaagest should think sol’? interrupted | to go back in the other boat! Come, we must forine stared at her, tv doubt of, her sanity, | Mirabel, dolefully. “Matchett wrote me about | burry! They're awiting uss no doubt? Did she mean it, or was she ouly “showing off” | it.” (Matehett yras tho faithful soul who had| They scrambled to the top of the rock, and CHAPTER I. ver the numerous sand hills and rocks which | to her. disadvantage? She was fairly dancing Kept house for Loftus Romney ever since his| after one glance around stood trausfixed.’ The dwHY SHOULD 1 GIvE YoU UP—YoU, OF ALL Surrounded them, Let's all 9 and climb, to /and clapping ber hands in, apparent len as | wi fe's death. second boat was already half way to the main 1 NE onan 2 Xue top of that ridge, and look af the sunsot while | wild to be off and gota “ducking. ‘y good,| “5 esas won't know home when I see it, | innd; and as if this was not enough, the ledge : ° jour say,” er eyes wore dancing as Loriye bad no a a as proved’ it ounmercifully. Ob, deart by srbich they bad ‘Teached the rock was coveres! =, “Marsh |—Marsh Lodimer! Are you bearing? She pofnied towata qe Of Fock which rose} "Yes, ear ets es eee you do it firs changes; when 8 dear old | by the tide. y did they run the risk of im wherever you are,? ; nife-like ridge, | she, soreetlys ut Marsh ently ut daddy ian ‘his. ainy ttle country-bred danghter missin the last train that. ran to Spray-Crest Do oot ba ck t Oe ‘he ear, of a moody | 20H, t0,be covered with the tide, being its ouly |” “Not first, Merry yiywadon't Enow these rocks | were just ourselves in the old- fuioned home: | for the night, but it was quite possible that, they bond young miss calle: 'Y | connection with the beach« do our own, b he said, smiling fondly a stead, where mother lived and. die when | might be Imprisones on rock till the tide fouth, who sat on a rock, absently ‘aravinig re you crazy?”? said Lorine, sharply, for her dis ppointed T could run round all day long wie you in the| went out agai aigebraie figures on the sand with the point of|steWas an arrant coward, and iniew tuat 'Mtir-| “Phen he lightly rau actoss the precarious bridge | woods an nes, how much bappier it all] And there “ss 8 worse risk that it, sickened his cane. abel was awa: ‘We'd break our necks up to the firm rock beyond, and turned to hold out| was! But now—to seo him when he ‘ame to elt Marsh to thin! ne chance of setting heed- . , " there! - Ad,’ anyhow, Atattame ‘Do Waldo | Stee ee eo axa and, turned to quick| madame be wanted me home—barbered Tose perhaps maliolous tongues babbling, with a eee pon aisturd him, exclaimed oon the wouldn't permit any such tomboy actions,” for him, iad skiunmaed alter, bird-like, with tailored out of ‘all memory of himself, ‘and. me heir prey. What madness had pos- ~ awe. ‘He's far away with tl But the other two were off, already too deep | outspread, balancing a and ber burnished | bear him talking like a born grandee that had sessed him t 0 allow | i ear parti How can 30 Pe so ernet | 2 a reli to sar or beta tind she followed eer a thy w ashe rag. Arrived over stooped to ‘trade! declare, Marsh, 1] With what justice her father could now reproach oe ‘arog ver beck te y*humble come Jy, swolling with eal whe ay hey stot He aide, oho cag this arm and gave it al didn't know whether to laugh or ery!” And | him for thus compromising bis daughter! by lo hug of del she blinked fast to quell the rising tears, ‘But, pany??? and she shot a glance 0 of. daring coquetry va w the waving sunshine by the incoming att ae ip ‘i riod she. “Isn't it like| as usual, L keep on chattering about me, and it’s at him. tide: abel Romney, on? heroine, frst: ‘Tatt, | aa es? Oh Bh Dave longed for you L want to har about; Go on, Bars? CHAPTER IL. + a rn rst: Tal hem back again. os Sut Marsh seemed to find it hard to go on, . . But Marshal Lodimer heeded her not. He had| slender, and graceful as a silver-birch, with sun’ | And Mai cagiin tn down at her wistfully. | His ‘The blood rose slowly to his face, and receded, THE COLONEL MEETS WITH A MISHAP, started his brooding attitude at the voice | bright ‘bair streaming down her back, loo little madeap playmate, grown up to be a bean-| leaving it strangely stern, an he heaved a qui i rid are we to do??? cried of Mirabel ‘Ronmey, and it was at her that he the stroug salt breezes, and eyes as deep a sine | fat young lady? Ouee bis daily—nay, bourly sigh OF galling trouble before be could” falter Merry, when she could speak. ‘Cah you ever forgive me for drawing you * cumstances are, very differ| into this?” faltered her companion, sed be; he is now a| His grief and agitation seemed so dispropor- EF as tho distant hills; ‘a simple America girl, | companion, without whom no pleasure was per- w r . ow te ow with, suet troubled earnestness scarcely out of school as yet, but sho aright bave| fect, now about to set forth on a life-path “far “Your fat hors schoolgirl spirits that something was wrong, © | been one of the nymplis of olden story, the| from his, with which he could have no concern! | ent from w wha’ “What is it, Marsh?” asked she, gently, Yook- youngest and fairest of them all for innocence fren the beach Lorine watched them, alone wealthy ran, ee has ‘had is daughter educated Honate to the thoughtless schoolgit] that she ing up in his ayes with frank solieitudes '*+Now | Ad candor: 4 forgotten. and ‘bated them both aud longed |so as to do honor to his wealth. Has he not told | burst into a ringing peal of laughter, partly trom - Tahini of it, you haven't beew-a bit like yourself | ggugriue Addersley, her somewhile rival nie to'do them harm, > ys 0 dnoose fronds. in your own oe itement, bue alco from actual pleasure in the . antday. Wha ads the bother??? ¥ sominary, was small and brown as Reading the heart of the youth in his face, she| station, Merry?” adventure, tell us, Mr. Lodimer,? chimed in Lorine gueens she hada narrow face, an aqu suddenly grew pale with fierce, gnawing euvy.| Sue vada with a rneful pout. you forgive me for laughing??? she Agden i iainatig her share, 68 his [2 S,PAlE Oo groen-Rray. sparing eyes, vvehich | Sho eyed© the dizey” pass desporavely could soo “And that you are to drop ‘uch obscure people | gasped, thying: to recover herselt® «But to se Adderley, Ssh 1 hide you if it’s a crime you've she could use with ‘‘fetching”’ effect on the other gare it? No, the very iden page ar tremble. as—t Sars Lodimer??? choking over the name. | your look of desperation, as if you had ome committed, and, cousole you it it’s a sorrow |X, walked away wit and they Her innocent eves ‘es flashed hot reproach. commited, x {As for Marshal Lodimor, or Marshy as Mirabel over missed hers”, 0, indeed, then, He nover told me anything var ‘Theyoung man havdly seemed to anpreiato led hos the rete when they’ played to-| ‘It’s been a lonesome snough time to me since | so hort + 1d just like to catch him trying it!” funny What. do I care for s “reine? Tt will this generous olfer. He gla need at her with so wl her, £ ildren both. was not yet twenty-| you went away Merry,’ Marsh was saying, | cried she. ‘WI hat vould Rathleague be without | serve us rig you know; we ought to have re- 8 but ne face and figure | while the wind blew her tresses round them both | you, Marsb?_ Who elso have I ever had but you | membered ‘he tide. Buty T say, Marsh—1_ feel a purpose in his | ike a golden ser aida al in from care for me, cranky, a hat Lorine bas contrived to get the - was | the world beside; and as Mirab dat. hit ash fo vi * . slight old), tut he di not warm under het ready to act as one if need came. heveould see his own image Fellocted fo thea ch Jad theweet eyes smiled into his, the fond ponte oe ‘thot Sh Was ie for miei, . “Miss Romney and I are ald friends, as yon these young people were members of a party | ening azure of her eye words! rang ont fearlessly. Marsh's trouble increased. If Miss Addersley know, Miss Addersley,? said ore om th had come fe Pieuic on @ certain fairy islet oot do look as it you badn’t been having a Marsh Lodimer’s heart leaped up in joy, then | were indeed accountable for their dilemma, her Ciiidron together, and have plenty to tally absne | ogee ast of Maino, called Garnett, Isie. ‘The | very good time," said she; marking certain siens| fell to the heaty sorrow of what must be! For| malice sould make the mest of it to Merry's i that would interest nobody else. ou won? et ke. ud ma mo oarding-school in the ore care which rere new toher; “but come along, though she was so sweet, this laughing, care-| jury. He. raged ty Bina for pis fo fond seals Piikte nee eerie somal tes 1 Shaperoned by madame, ethe principal, | and tell me all about it. Wh nare's Forint I do-| free, true-hearted Merry, sho, was not for him) in detai side—i ing her a piss if ask you to excuse us for a—) | and one'of her aids: whilo the nuusculine element | clare if she hash" egone of Ma hut And she | she rich man’s only child, and ‘Meat for | all, a ar father's expressed, dente von in Mirabel, who kuew . . oho: jikes,: was contributed by the brothers, cousins, ‘aud burst out laughing. wot! serves her right. She'd | hi: mast ” Tru rentwed to promise to break off the pralicious nature bette: than ‘Maoh FY hoo mate's: friends of the aforesaid misses. As Mirabel Rom- | no business to hang ’r She only di ii ‘These old days are past, I fear, forever,” ola fatimecs without aword of mutual under- Bo, necessity in rousin, ity ‘but ie id, and saw had been recalled home by her father, and | to pay me out for Somethin i cid to her. 7 sal i he, **Dear, it is your father’s w ah nding, considering that Mr. Romney had no necessity in rousing it; “but i avo any ti was ber last day among thom, her rhates | Here Mirabel laughed again, “a mischievou Papa’s? Oh; impossible!” cried. Merry, in-| right to exact a course of conduct. that would : hing particular to Sie al a ta ad shown her unusual attention—one of them, | merry peal, that caught the ear of the aifronted eredniously. “bat makes you t hin thas | eet atm ‘Merry’s respect. But since be had acted o Pl Za rapid glaneo| namely, Lorine Addersiey, going s0 far'as t0 Lorie, aud quite infuriated er. “He told me so in plain terms! 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