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KKIJ)AY,JUNE22,18S8.
SCORN FOR SCORN.
A CONTINUKt) HTOItV.
1
".I don't know what ltten you may
have revived ycxtctilay or any other
day," I auawfrwl angrily; "hut you cer
tainly hail none from me, seeing that I
ner wrote lo jou in my life, nor ever
wUliecl to do to."
I blurted out the lait uorcli, for the tie
ttable idea had come to me that he some
how fancied I wanted to correcjrand with
him, and thin carry on our friemUhip; and
I forgot that I had once had audi a with.
He (Hit Ills handt Into one of his pockeU
mid brouitht out a toiled and tumbled let
ter, which lie preaenled to me, ayini
"Look at it. Tell me did you not
write that?"
1 opened it impatiently, but with a feel
ing of curiosity. To my horror, I recoil
lilted my own writing. I read
"Dear Mr, 'I redennick I Iiec to thank
fru for the offer of marriage )ou have
ide mc and regret "
'I dropped the letter a if it ivera a live
roal and itareil heltiloMly at my rejected
"(Sailor who hid no suit to pruai; then I
covered my face with my handt.
"Von did write it?" he cried, looking n
amazed at though ho had never thought
that I had written it.
"I auppoM I did," I muttered behind
my fiimera,
"Tlitn why did you deny it?" ho aikod
angrily.
"I wrote Its but I never eut it," 1
KH.
"But why did you ay ynu had a letter
from me?" he periltted.
"1 never taid it."
"But jou have Jiut confcd that it
wa you who did say it!" he cried nugrlly.
"You any it line--in the letterl"
ThlliRi) had become clearer to me by
tint time. It uaa ttill a nijatcry uu
fathomable how the letter luidgutie tohlui
after being m I lielieied lorn up nud
burnt. What wat clear to me wan that I
had really and mott unexpectedly be
yond my vuldntdieami had the pteature
and triumph ul informing Mr. Kemick
Tredenuick how umitaUen ho wni in
thinking I wanted to mairy him. Still I
did not want him to I. now how till)' I had
Imh'U to think ftlKmt til n at all, or to know
that thelatWi m only a joke or a Motion,
and not deadly eatmut, 1 pondered what
to tay, nod he tuiatiuilerttaml my aileiiue.
"1 ell inn the truth, chlldl" he ulmott
thundeied. "I Mlevctl ini were lliu
muet innocent, tiauiMmit little uieatutu
in the world) and now 1 find luiinii-u
iiiah of faUehood and "
"I am no'!" I ci led, in paMluaute in-
uienation. "Ihavetaiil nutliiuif that it
not true. The letter U true too .ir would
ll. I wittte il and I meant evuiy word
uf its entl I am glail.it w tent to you.'1
"I am aure 1 don't know why, ' lie mid,
Ilia voice aoltsnliig from bitterneu to Mid
nee. "We had been very good Irieudi)
nil I em wiry m tay ei 1 never wrote
to you."
"I never aanl you did, I alum Id think
yotdhtn'tl" I amwered loftily. "You
wHld hardly have Neil m liitano."
"Then why ou earth did you write to
His manner touched me very much in
tpite of myaelf; it wat ai like hit old
manner the manner that had taught me
something of what it would be like to have
a dear friend that I might have for
gotten my dignity If I had not repeated
Ilelen't words to myself to keep my pride
up to the mark.
"I suppose I wat not thinking at all,"
I replied oareleesly. "One cannot be al
ways in solemn earnest."
"And it that the way you would have
antwered me if I had written you that let
ter!" ho aaked.
"Kxaclly," I answered, with a horrid
little laugh lo keep myself from softening,
for I felt perilously near crying. Of course
I mutt stick to it; I could not admit that
my mind had changed in lots than three
days, any more than I could.admit the let
ter to be a prrtence.
"Of course," ho rejoined hastily, "I do
not quarrel with the substance of your let
"Nonsense! Who should!'- she ex
claimed. "Violet knows hardly a soul no
one capable of a praotioal joke. Ily-the-bye,
why do you belie ro such a letter was
written?"
"Ilecause I have had her answer."
"Oh. that is awkward!" said Helen
symMthetioally. "Then you are engaged
invjlunlarily? Well, you will have to stick
to it. You must not enlighten her, poor
thing!"
"Hut," he stammered, "she has refused
me!" Then he tried to laugh it off, but the
attempt was a sad failure.
"Kefusod you? Impossible!" cried Hel
en. "You must have misunderstood.
Slio has been shy afraid of sa)ing too
much, or uncertain of your moaning."
"Oil, there is no uncertainty on her
partHic said bitterly. "Here is her let
ter you may read it for yourself. It is
not so tender that there is any sacrilege
in showing it."
They were alone ut the far end of a con
servatory. Everyone wan crowding , to
the ntaiica.u to see tliu royalties arrive.
Ho took a letter from his pocket and hand-
edit to Helen.
"It is certainly her writing and her
Htyle,"shosnid, handing it back to him af
ter a brief xtiual. "She might liavo done
It mote amiable more gratefully more
like u hidy; but sliu is n little spitfire, and
ilou not understand the meaning of grati
tude. I suppose she doe. nit think ou
neaily good enough for her. 1 told you she
was saving hertell for a duke. Hut don't
think unkindly of hur- -it is not her f-iiillj
paupers nro naturally proud."
"Not her fault tho little chit!" ho ex
claimed. Hut 1 shall not lot hur rest in
delusion. I will put the mistake right.
To bo refused by a girl that one would no
sooner think ol marking than one would
a a fouudliiii Iwbyl Hut we must go
the 1'rlnce and l'rincese aie there. Come
alougl 1 will pay her off the conceited
little monke)!"
"Alter i all," said Helen, "it mlulit
have been worse alie illicit have accepted
you. That would hate been a fix."
"I didn't not exeotiy that it, I w rote
that letter, but 1 never meant it to no to
)oe, of oourte. It we a sort of joke"
"Bat (I came by (net to the club. Some
body west have (Matted it,"
"I em certain I did not!' I eritd.
"Iloweouldl? t don't hue- the name
of root club."
'ThwyuudiJ twladdma the envel
ope?" "1 em sure I did not. I could not."
"1 wish I had kept it," he stvid Theo
he put hU hand iutu his pooktt end
brought out e beterogeoeom colleotion of
unpen. On sitting them, he Rwnd an en
velope eddreieed "Kennck TMetuik,
Esq., Junior United heivine Club."
"Dsd yon nut eddrew that?" he asked.
"Nut 1 nevet heard of such e olb 1
don't know en out the Carlton end the
Reform. Thai m Helen's writing," I add
ed, a suddenly nude Use tieooveiy.
tie took it (mm see end compared li
e ,
took!
Hs
with wv writing. To hint it
cartful (nutation. To me it did cmm
in the leaet.tifee nUne, but unite like
We.
"1 eee it it uoly copied from yonre,1' ne
eeili "hoi a cannot be yonr oeneinV.
Whjf should she do took n thing! And,
beeMe the dented nil knowledge of it.
She oontd not heve sent u nnlnee eke had
received it iron yoe to tend."
"She sent! have picked it up; eke wee
in toy room.' I tnid vegeery, lor I bed
not ret r4Miwr4 the eereen el dnrk
neeel provided h her by bktwing out ike
nsttMeteeneineike nayetety,- ke
hid, niter a song yonta, " yon wrote
that letter, lied yon nny renecei el elr
eny letteir
-Ne, kJ ," I nenneeeeeily, re
neeenkeHng Use reeenn naeet enneUy,
"it wt inereiy n joke.''
"Sot eqr Menaity yake,- ke eats) t
neoacklnjly. "I ked tnnesesl sjnj eee geeat
Men til I ste4yeAreestJ4nMkenrebeeni
'-'-luwg ot me kfaedry, to eey the lenet."
They all went oh' to town, to their balls
and inuts, and ride in Hotter. Ron, and
tell in at home like Ciudeiella. I was
wiy gUd, I told myeelf the huuae was so
much pleaMiiter without them. The yar-
don in their fresh iotulincu wrie an imiuli
sweeterand fairer than irK nrllonsU'
shost, and the tree) in Iheir young gieon
would surely laugh to scorn sucli nnwra.
blc atteiupU at fcilu as l.nidon squares
oould show. .My pliilotophy was assisted
by my igtiorauoe an much as my pride, for
1 did not know then how fie.li and ureeti
and luxiiiiant lndim trees could bu.
Well, I was Cit.riervlla; but had not Cin
deiella the ImmI of it, after all?
Nevertheless, when, on the next Thurs
day alter their depnitme, I hennl that
Mi. Keniick Tiedenniek hn-1 called to eee
we, end wat In the diawiug.root), I did
not for owe menem imagine that he was
the delivering fisiry prince.
"What do )u Uimk is the matter?" I
athed Itetnulouei)- of the maid who
brought the message, I had turned coW
end giddy. 1 wa eure Udy Tre4eou.es.
wet dend, end he hM come to bieek the
newe end get the nonee toady for her ten
etek
"I'm ante 1 een't sev.Ue," mid the
eivasst. "lie looks like Kevins bud
news for you."
I hurried lo I he drawing.toosa.
"I know whet it is," I- cried, without
nor etienstM et convenlionel saiutMioa
"ihej ere deedl lte of no nee beating
about ike bush( I know it M lenet I know
tontebnJy ie deed) It it Udy Treden-niekT
He looked so genuinely enseeed end con
leautded lkt 1 lecoeeeed any settees and
eaw the I had ntede e uttetnke.
"Whet it the nutlet Usee?" I eeked
therply, out olbseeaper witk eyeeufor he v.
Ing wedv euch e nsssukr. "Yon loU ee
if you nad bed new. I naseoo nsoney lo
iaee,eoilcentbe tkeu Hit Sir llnw
pkrey loetkaeT
Verleinlf not," ke aewwered
ly. "I eaete to nsnkeen eai
inaWlotwksore,H
'AneepiMtnUnn! eekeed) end.
n
V
mistake ha been made. Yon bad a let
ter?"
"Yes," I answered, puzzled as to bo
he could know and what It could mattter
to him, I very seldom had a letter; but
it did happen that I had bad one that
morning from Lucy Berdell.who had gone
to school. '
"Well, I must tell oe that letter waa
a forgery."
"What nonsense!" I cried. "It was
nothing of the sort! As if anybody would
forge that sort of a letterl"
"I assure you I did not write HI" he
said earnestly, "I am sorry; but, after all,
it falls most heavily upon me, doesn't it?"
with a little pretenso at a laugh; then,
as if recollecting himself, he added, "Still
I prefer naturally that you should know
that a mistake has been made, and that I
had not the faintest Intention or inclina
tion to write you suoh a letter."
"Hut who on earth I don't under
stand," I stammered.
" I am sorry to disappoint no I
mean, to lot you know," ho went on hur
ledly. "Perhaps I should have been si
lent, and made you a present of the tri
umph, such as it was, 1 meant to write
and explain. 1 came in person only on a
sudden thought at the last moment; for I
fancied I could doit btttcr more kindly
if I saw )ou. Not that you had any such
scruples in your treatment of me," he said
bitterly. "You certainly might havo
done even the most ungracious thing in
the world moro graciously."
"I haven't the leat idea of what you
aro talking about," I interposed im
patiently when he gave me a chance.
He stared at me for some moments, and
then a light seemed to dawn upon him.
"Why, that must be a forgeryl" he ox
claimed. "Do you mean to say that you
did not write a letter I received yesterday
evening!"
ter; I am not so vain, I hope, as to think
it possible for a girl to be ready to marry
mo after four da)s of acquaintance, any
mole than it would bu pussiblu for me to
think of asking her. Hut lot me suggest
that on future occasions you should let them
down gently, poor fellows."
There wan nothing more to hey, of
course. I. shook hands and wished him
good-b)ous frigidly as if he had offered me
a deadly insult; lint, when he had gone,
I nearly cried my ces out. Alter all, he
had been very kind, and I had nut by one
word expressed any sonow for tho wound
I hadgicii linn; and I kuuw that he was
gnnu out of my hie for evor, and that the
world was cold And blank as it had ueter
been beloro. Woisu still, I knew I had
only in) self to thank for it. In my deep
repentance I almost lorgot Helen's share
in the mischief, while 1 thought of the ten
derness that had oome iuto his voice and
of his stern face when he said good-b)c.
The months rolled on, the season passed
and Lady Tredenuick took Helen on a
round of visits. I heard nothing more of
Kuuiick; the hoiinx wastilhd forChritt
mas, but he was not among the guests.
I left off dreaming about courts
grtxt.iieet. All through my sweet lonely
summer, all thiough the golden autumn
and tho dark winter, I dreamed new
dreams er, sweeter dreams of what
might have been, but I enjoyed them none
the lets mwiaute they weie sad. They
were lnted for me in tho Christmas fires
dirame al vays of w hat might have been,
never of w hat might be ttill. I had no
thought for the future. Had I not slain
it! 1 lad I anything tweet and dear of my
own hut the past?
Not for a whole year did I meet Ken
lick Tiedenniek again, end then it was by
moot unluokcd-lor accident. Helen
was married to an old lord who had
already buried three wies. I knew that
they had never teen Keunck to speak to
tince the lecepilon at the Foieien Office;
and no doubt Helen had reasons of her
own for suspecting that no chain of c
oideoU pmented him from meeting her
ami from accepting LaJy I'redennick's in
vitation '.o Crix Knowelvy. So she took
he old lord lor better for worse, and, hei
mother being left deughtcrlee,I wat taken
lo Sootbved in the following autumn iu
Helen's pleoe.
One day we the house-party were in
vited to lesson t aynoht that wnt lying in
the bay beneath our Castle weilt. It was
Lord Weethitl'e yacht; he and a party of
men wete cruising about ihe IlesHfd, and
had put in here tot provisions and tetter,
He wee our hostess's nephew, end he in
vised u all tor that day. They were go
ing to tail in the erenwg. Hi take
advensage of a enenge of wind, or ke
would have been delighted to brief kit
friend to the Castle
lite turn men I tew v. he
eejwelyejeosiWnud wet Keunck
lie eterted, end to did It kg
awksreidneei wee all on ear snlst tin
forward witk kit old
my side in the most natural manner
possible.
"is Crix Knowsley looking as pretty as
ever!" he asked.
"I suppose so. I shall not think it is
so lovely after seeing this Scotland I
mean," I said disparagingly.
"It is very pretty, though; we had some
nice rides there, hadn't we! Do you
remember.
His voice set my heart beating so fast
that I could hardly speak.
"Yes," I said, with a little gasping sob
ol retrospective regret.
"That was not a very nice letter of
yours, was it?' he went on, laughing in a
forced way.
I do thick you might let it be for
gotten,' I interposed. 'It was never meant
far you, you know; and it is too bad that
you should remind me of it.'
'But it was meant fcr me. You owned
it, and you stuck to it. You said that you
meant every word of it, and that you were
of the same opinion still.'
'But I am not!' I cried hastily, mean
ing that I admitted I had been unnecessa
rily rude.
'You are not !' he questioned eagerly,
looking down into my face. Do you
mean that you would not write it now if I
wcro to wtite asking you to be my wife ?
'I mean I would not be so rude,' I stam
mered. 'I was anery; I did not know
what I said. I am sorry now that you had
the pain, but I was glad at the time that
the letter had gone to you, however it
went. I liked to think that it had made
you hate me.'
'But you didn't do that,' he said grave
ly; 'you gave mo greater pain than you ex
pected. You showed me tbat I was mad
ly, deeply, truly in love with you; I found
it out at once, as I could not have dono so
soon but for the enlightening power of your
letter. Violet, would you make the same
aiiswcr,now ! If you knew I have thought
of you ever since how I have dreamed of
yon!'
'You cannot forgive it.' I whispeied.
'It was too cruol too dreadful.'
'I can easily forgive it if you wi'I say
which I half believe that it was not
true.
'It can never be forgotten nothing can
atone for it!' I sobbed, as his arms stole
round me.
'Yet. You can write mo a new letter
to-night that, will cancel overy seuttment
expressed in the old one. Do you love
me, Violet do )ou lnvo me now?'
Not half so much as I loved you then,' I
answered, laughing through my happy
tears. Alison Buckler.
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