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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
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ginning to laugh. j
We both fell into the same mintnl I
then,'' he said, laozhincr. too. '. I
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