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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1895)
BYMTUALOOXSESt- Mr. and Mrs, Meaainow wets slrapla, unaffected people, devoted to their children and to Nancy, Mr. Meesingarto young stepsister. One sunny afternoon la early na met Mrs. Messinger est at the opes bay window of the drawing-room read tag.' The door opened presently ana ftaney came in rather alowly. She came over to the window and seated heraelf in a low basket chair with aa ' air of constraint. "I have a letter from Jim," (he amid. "Does he say when he la coming?" "Yes; he came by the aame steam ship as the letter. He will be here to morrow, 1 suppose." "Kanoyl really?" asked Mary, look ing almost excited. "Are yon not de lighted?" "I I have a confession to main said Nancy, nervously, looking' out over toe sea. ' "I thought I loved Jin when he went out to India are years ago, but 1 was only ae Ten teen then, and did not realise what love meant We had known each other all our Uvea, and I mistook our friendship for love. i "I have felt it dimly tor a year or two, but what made it all dear to me was Jim's last letter, saying that ha , was coming home. It filled me with dismay and fsar. I felt that I simply could not meet him as his betrothed wife, so I wrote last mail and asked him torelean me from say engage ment" "And what doeane say r Hary asked, anxiously. "He hi delighted," amid Nancy, brightening. "He says that his fail ings have changed too." "Ion never hinted at any change be fore," said Mary, a little reproaeb '. fully.' "I only knew it dimly or I might have done so," replied Haney, gently. "And since I wrote to him I have been silent to spars you any anxiety. My letters have never been from the pres ent Nancy, but from the Itaney as I could remember her at seventeen. In fact, I have been writing down all the time to the level of his intelligence as shown in his letters, and that level is paiufully low." "He would be much more likely to object if he once saw you," aaid Mary, frankly, "for these five years .have done wonders with you in every way. " "Oh, he's so boyish that he will thiuk me strong-minded, and therefore dis like me," aaid Nancy, laughing. "And I did send him my last photograph, you know." "Hid yon send that hideous thing?" asked Mary in surprise. . "Well," confessed Nancy, rather re luctantly, "I believe I had some secret, uncontested hope that he would offer to break off the engagement if he once saw that hideous caricatare." A day or two later Nanny started for her usual afternoon walk along the cliffs. Walking quickly along, she did not hear footsteps behind her, and was enrprisedat hearing herself suddenly addressed. Looking up with startled eyes, she found a young man guinir at her with a puzusu, mteat expression in his handsome face. "Von are Nancy, are yon not?" be said, doubtfully, holding out his hand. "Why, Jim, is it really your asked 4 Nancy, regarding him with surprise. '"How yon have grown! When did you come? and how did yon find me?" " "I came two days ago," he said, red dening slightly in irritation at her first words, "but I called at the Ness this afternoon and Mrs. Aleesinger told me where I should find you." "Let us go home now, and then you can see them all," she said, turuing back. "You will hardly know the children; they were such mites when yon loft" "I certainly shall not, If they have altered aa much aa yon have dune. 1 scarcely knew you," he said, luusinir i down at her with intent gray eyes, and inwardly comparing this beaitli- I ful, graceful girl with the gauche schoolgirl of five years since. "I am older," she said, her heart sinking strangely. "Hemightdisguise the fact that he finds me a disappoint ing failure," she thought, rather bit terly. "Of course we are no longer boy and girl," he said. "But 1 hope w shall always be friends, Aaneyl V have been that all our Jives, haven't we?" "Yes, let ns be friends," be said. And, thinking that he was eager to im- : pre uiiun her that they were to be .iiuuMug more, sue auutm: "Ann It wss very wise to break off that oiilMish engagement before you earn home, wasn't it7" i "Y-yes," he said, doubtful! v "Those boy and girl engagements never answer, do they? People develop so , umerenuy irom wbat one would ex pect Judging from your letters. should have thonglit yon utterly difier- r ent irom wnat l tmd you." "Yon are equally different from what 1 should have expected you to be," she answered, "lint lot ns put up with each other as we are; we need not see much of one another, you know." They had unit reueiiud Liie rate lead- ihg into the garden of the Ness as she said this, and unconsciously she paused outside. Jim took this, coupled with htr last words, as a hint that he should go, and woe more nun tnan ae cared to own. 'Good afternoon." he said, stiffly, raising his hat. "Your suggestion is a brilliant one, and you need not fear xnat 1 shun trouble you with my pres ence more oiien tnan is necessary.'' "Cioud-by," she said, turning in at ine open gate m order that he should not see the rising tears. . "Good-by," he said, frcezingly, think ing nor absolutely cruel in sot Shaking hands. If Airs. Mebsingur had una given to iibstnise reflections she might have asked herself how Jim and Nancy could possibly avoid each other, ac cording to the compact, when he was always coming to tile Ness? For he came every day and at all hours of tiie day, as be had been weat to do live years ago. . . Kaucy lost all her-gratia brigbtaatt when speaking to Jin, aad re staidly, itlitti.t-;: jKn.-.'ji if, I'i.-a, nmm&ibm' a1 aariiidilavkwiaaBaslBswaa1 knew that her love for- him was strengthening day by day, and that no power of hers could prevent it His position In regard to Nancy was much worse than that of any mere ac quaintance. Every other man could tell her of Shis love, while it seemed to Jim that he had lost right by gladly agreeing to cancel their engagement One afternoon he found her alone, a vary rare occurrence indeed, for she was careful to avoid a tete-a-tete with him. "Shall we go into the garden?" she asked, thinking that anything was preferable to sitting atiflty in the drawing-room. "I should like it immensely, " he an swered, rising and opening the door with alacrity. ''Will yon take me to your old favorite seat? 1 have so often thought of those days when I was feeling homesick, Nancy." "I thought you were very happy in India?" aha said, unrespoiuuvely, "So I was, but I was homesick some- trans, especially when I first went out" "Mr. Penstone and I always quarrel over this view," said Nancy, anxious to prevent any embarrassing pause. "Who is Mr. Penstone?" asked Jim, knitting his browa "He is our curate," she answered. "I always say that this is the finest view in town, but Mr. Penstone maintains that the view from" "He must be an idiot, then," burst in Jim, hotly; "the views are not to be compared!' "Yon might have waited until I hud mentioned the other," said Nancy, raising her eye browa "I I beg your pardon," he said, in attar confusion. "I thought you must mean in fact, I understood you to say that that the view from Beacon was finer than this." "Yea, that is what Mr. Penstone de clares," she said. ' What a hideous name the man has!' amid Jim, irritably. "Of course you are devoted to him, Nancy?" "Yes, he is an very good and clever and pleasant" she said, surprised at hia vehemence. "Yon are going to marry him, 1 sup- poser" he said, with 111 -concealed an ger. "Yon forget yourself, I think," she answered, with gentle dignity. "And whom I may marry can be no possible concern of yoara "O, none, of course," he said, furi ously. "Only you might have told me the truth when you broke off our en gagement It would have been just as easy to say that yon were engaged to some one else at once. "Yon are entirely mistaken in think ing that I am engaged to anyone, aaid Nancy, calmly. "Mr. Penstone is married and old enough to be my father. Shall we go in now, or have yon any other interesting accusations to make? "Forgive me, Nancy, I was a fool!" pleaded Jim, earnestly. '"I forget sometimes that I have not still the rurht to apeak to you on such matters. For five years I have thought of you .aa my promised wife, and now that 1 am with yon 1 cannot always realize that you are mine no longer. Bay, that you forgive me, Nancy, for my rough ness and presumption." Alter this quarrel Jim found it im possible to be on the same footing of friendship with Nsncy. She was colder and more constrained than ever in her manner toward him, and he was too proud and too manly to force hia love on her, believing that she dis liked him; and at last, after a bitter struggle with, himself, he determined to return to India at once. He bad never been to the Xess lately without some valid reason, and this new decision was so good an excuse for sailing that he was uot alow in taking advantage of it He found Nancy in the garden, arrayed iq a large white ann bonnet, busy gathering straw berries for tea. "I am going back to India; I have had enough of England." . "To India? At once? 0, why?" she asked piteonsly, growing very white and looking at him with frightened eyes. "Do yon care, Nancy?" he asked eagerly. "Would yon rather I stayed?" "My wishes have nothing to Aa with the matter" .hernia, rather bitterly. "Indeed, they have," he said, very earnestly, -nancy, yon rather I stayed?" tell me, would j asked, quietly, "Only If you loved me," he said. "I cannot stay on and see you day after day, and feel that you will never care for ma. May I stay, Haney?" "If yau like," She suswered shyly. "There Is one thing I want to know," he said, presently, looking down into her eyes; "when did you begin to love sue. dearT' .-, : - "When did you begin to love mef" she replied, blusbinff under his crave. "I don't ifnowi I have loved you. all my life," he answered. " . "I don't ltuow, either," she said; "when I was about four or flvi. I think." "But, my darling, you broke off our engagement, " he said, woadorinirlv. "Yes, from your letters I thonvht. I did not love you. Thev were so atnnM I I mean" "Yes; they were stupid, but were silly, too, and I thought that was the kind of things vou lilted." h ii,l Intelligence dawning in his dyes. i tnougnt you were turriblv liovisb. I so wrote very 'young' letters, t'lirikiiiir ! ,i , .1 j.. . . ... i u?!jf nuuiu iiucrcsi yon," ne said, bo-1 ginning to laugh. j We both fell into the same mintnl I then,'' he said, laozhincr. too. '. I any magazine. -The first law that ever Cod gave j to man was a law of obeHInn.. I, vuiwuMtuuiueui pure and simple, wherein man had nothing m (,...;! after or to dispute, for aa mnnh ( obey la tbe proper office of u rational soul ookaowlediriiur a feriorand beuefaetor.--Montingne, n-A stray hair, bv It. nrai!...i i.-i nfltMti Susy five more Hnmu ti.. A Great Blessing My wife and I have found in food's BarsaparlUa. e.hs mad rhecau.lira v.-j severely, with ankles anil hji bid!7swc!!in,aiid hardly able to (t up and clown stairs wltkeut help. Ksayelhtr reaadlaa failed, but Iliad's Gm .perllla entirely ; aured her. It was ' e&lv shot tlv aft "1 that I was takes J with the aame jeasapUmt, aOset- hips, so I just triad the with the aame rssult My wife aad ahtt dna take Hood's BuwauiUa whenever they feel the need of a msalelae and k im mediately makes them fast better. Hood's Sarsaptrllla Saves me doctor's Nils. I am aa eswtaeev, asd well known la this locality." W. Wtait, White Bead Hill, ladika Tar. Hood's Pills 1 The Unenterprising Business Man . . . Uses a small amount of Print ed Stationery and other Ad vertising matter, and as a consequence his business dies Away and he is then like the man whose picture appears a oove. The Enterprising Bnsiness Man . , Uses a great amount of Adver tising matter ot ail Kinds. 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