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fi!f VOL IV LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JAN. 16, 1891. no. se Professional Cards. "BAETLETT SHIFF, ATTORNEY AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. CJ Jan, 9, 1801. ly. Finiey & Wetmore, - ATTYS. AT LAW, LINCOLNTON, N. C. Will practice in Lincoln and surrounding counties. All business put into our hands will be promptly atten ded to. April 18, 1890. If. h m mm- SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE IN COBB BUILDIXa, MAO ST., LINCOLNTON, N. C July 11, 1890. ly :. GO TO SO'OTHEHI SAIE BARBER a HOP. Newly fitted up. Work aways neatly done, customers politely 'Waited upon. Everything pertain ing to the toneorial art is done according to latest styles. Henry Taylob. Barber. A Puzzling Dlleuiuia The Republicans don't know whether to go ahead with their Force bill or let it die quietly. They remind us of the Irishman who had swallowed an egg without breaking the shell. 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She had evidently, however, been listening to the conversation of the other two, and she had learned for certain a fact which before she had only suspected. "Clarissa, will you hold this skein of silk for me It will only take a few minute?," Agnes had said, aud her little friend bad come forward with both white hands outstretched to receive the silken threads. "Ob, what a pretty thimble you have on !" said Clarissa, bending to admire the bright, golden thimble on Agnes' finger. "Yes I was stitching the border of this purse I am making. It is pretty, and a gift fromsomebody !" She gave a soft laugh, and her fair lace looked as if it had bor rowed some of the crimson from the silk she was winding. Had she not been so occupied she muat have no ticed the almost deathly pallor of the face before her, for Clarissa Vernon was a simple, innocent, dove-like little creatnre, who had not yet learned to mask her emo tions from observation. "To tell you the truth," contins ued Agne3, "it would fit your little hand better than mine. It 'a a tiny bit small for my finger, but I think it will wear smooth, and so I would not trouble Alec to chaDge it.'' "Alec !'' said Clarissa, sharply. "Why, yes 1 1 told you it was a present from Alec Thorndyke, did n't I!" "Yon said from 'somebody? and, of course I thought you meant " "Well, he is somebody and every -body to me now, you kuow ! I have promised to marry him very soon, Clara dear !" The skein of silk fell from Claris sa's fingers in a soft mass on tbe floor, in much danger of a tangle. "Ob, excuse me I How awkward I am ! But I always thought it was " "Who, for mercy s sake V1 "Why, Robert Hay ford, of course!" "What, Bob? Oh, no, iudeed! Bob is a dear fellow, and has aU ways been like the best of brothers to me, but I have no further claim upon him, I assure you !" Aud she gave a merry laugh as she took the last round of silk from Clarissa's hand. Thus released, the girl turned to resume her seat in a frame of mind bordering on ecstacy, her surprise and happiness were so great. She had forgotten all about Sibyl Dagon, and now encountered her gaze fixed upon her with an expres sion both peculiar and startling. "I know your heart's secret,'' it seemed to say, "and I am concerned in this matter. You love Robert Hayford so do I. Beware how you cross my path !" She was certainly a more danger' ou8 rival than the sweet and gentle Agnes, tnougn uianssa bad never before thought of her in that char acter. . She was a beautiful woman, with fine dark eyes and rich, oriental complexion, but with a sinister, thiulipped mouth that had always made Clarissa mistiust her, though she could hardly have explained the feeling. She was too true and sim ple-bearted herself to understand duplicity in others. As Robert came into the room, Sibyl rose from the sofa and walked over to tbe fire. She leaned oa tke mantel, with her long white hand buried in the luxuriant masses of her lustrous black hair, while the soft folds of her cream colored morn ingsgown fell around the tall, slen der figure in graceful, undulating lines. Of coarse, she was posing for effect had she not reason? "I move that we go for a sleigh ride afrer luncheon 1" she said, sud denly. "It is a positive sin to waste such a heavenly day by staving in the honse !" "I second the motion," said Rob ert, and there was no dissenting voice heard. "Carried without op position," he laughed. "The sleigh ing is splendid, and the horses will be proud to carry such fair freight." He looked at Clarissa, and smiled as he spoke. Sibyl Dagon tapped the fender impatiently with her slippered ioot, but she was far too wise to' show any displeasure. "The horses shall be gratified," she said, lightly. Suppose we dress before luncheon, so that we may be all ready to go after !'' and she went towards the door. A little exclamation from Agnes stopped her : "I can't find my gold thimble any place !'' "Any place but the right place, which is not far off, I'll wager," laughed Robert. "You saucy boy, you know I never mislay my things." "When did you have it last!" "But a lew minutes ago, when Clarissa and I were winding this silk. I can't think what I did with it after that." "Oh, I'm so sorry 1 We must find it," said Clarissa. "I've looked into every vase, box, or basket in the room where I might have dropped it. Where can it bel" "Oh, it has only rolled into some corner, and will be sure to turn up, dear," said Clarissa, sympatheticals ly. No one was iu the room but ourselves." "Yes, the boy was in to take away the ashes," cried Agnes, "and if the thimble rolled under the fender, he would have taken it up without nos ticing it.?' "I will go at once aud have him search the ashes, said Clarissa, running from the room, "I hope she will find it., There was no one else in the room, except Sibyl and Clarissa.", "And they are above suspicion," laughed Robert, jokingly. Sibyl had come back into the room, but bad not spoken. A strange lurid light smouldered in her dark eyes, but she waited in silence until Clarissa should return. In a few minutes she did, looking disappoint-, ed, vexed, and dowucast. "The man hart just come and emptied the ash barrels," she said, regretfully. Robert burst into a peal of laugh ter. "Aggie, dear, it's going to be one of those mysterious disappearances that will never be explained," he said, "Yon would not joke if you knew how much I valaed it," said Agnes, coming back from a fruitless search under tables and chairs. Tears were in her eyes, and she left the room as she spoke. "Oh, the dear girl ! I forgot the trifle was a gift from her sweet heart,'' he said, remorsefully; "Yes, and, of course, she values it threefold on that account,'' said Clarissa, earnestly. Then she look ed up and met Robert's eyes bent upon her with an eager, questioning look iu them that brought a vivid blush to her sensitive, childlike face, and she hastily followed Agnes from the room. "Temptation is a strange thing," said Sibyl, musingly, when left alone with Robert. "Yes, and a terrible thing," he said. "But why suspect the bey at all ? True he may have fallen a victim to cupidity, seeing the little thing was gold, but tbe chances are even that he never saw it, and that it will be fouud ranch nearer home than poor Jake's pocket !' and he, too, left her. MiS3 Dagon wa3 suddenly seized with a spasm of energy aud desire to find the lost article. She over turned cushions, moved furniture, and darted about with eager sharp sightedness. "Ah, if I could but find it, I would even yet wrest him from her ! He loves her ! She has won his heart : but separated from ber surely I could win it to mvself ! Oh. he must, be shall be mine the only man I hare ever loved !" She threw herself down in a chair, most mis erable, but passionately viudictive. i "Childish simpleton ! And he looks at her when 1 am by ! Surely, man, not woman, is tbe incomprehensible being ! Could I bnt find that baa ble I would secrete it among her things, so that she could not escape ! 1 would find the key to her jewel case, or her private drawer, and place it where no one but herself ever goes. It would entrap this in nocent angel so that no denial, no explanation could clear her so that the strongest belief in her perfoction must be staggered by such evidence and proof ! But, if I can't find that means, I will find some other to wring her heart as she has wrong mine ! ' The holidays were now over, and Clarissa was about to return home. Sibyl was going to stay some weeks longer. Clarissa had said good-bye and was waiting in the drawing room for the carriage to come round to take her to the station, when Sibyl came in. "Oh, Miss Vernon, I am just in time to say gooddiye. I had almost missed you." "Why, 1 thought you brought good news, you came in so sudden ly," said Clarissa, almost dieap pointed. "Oh, about the thimble ! I fear it will never turn up ! Ar. Hayford exonerates tbe boy from all blame, and thinks it much more likely, since you and Agnes bad it between you, that its loss has a very differ ent explanation." "Why, what can he mean ? Agnes could have no object in losing her own property!' And she smiled in some perplexity. "Ob, Aqnes ! Of course not !" Clarissa looked ac her with wide open, wondering eyes. "Miss Dagon, I can't think what you mean !" "7 f I don't mean anything ! 1 simply repeated Robert Uaj ford's words, 'If the thing is ever fouud, it will be much nearer boms than poor Jake's pocket,' was what he said." "Do yonr words imply that Rob ert Hayford insinuates that 1 might account for the loss ot Agnes' gold thimble ? That 1 that I could ex plain its disappearance?" "Sibyl shrugged her shoulders. "It seems stupid and absurd, of course, but I can't uudertake to regulate Roberts thoughts, you know, nor account for his suspi cious." Clarissa looked at her with a qniveiiog face, from which all color had fled, then turned and walked out to the waiting carriage without another word. Sibyl watched her from the win dow, with a malignant joy iu the pain shtt had given. "Presumptuous, palesjaced crea ture I" she muttered. "If cau't have him, at least she shall not ! She could never speak to him on such a subject, so I am sale." AndClari3sa? She felt as one stricken to the very earth ! "Is it possible that he could have said that? And I thought oh, heavens! That, then, was the cause or that strauge, intent look, that 1 interpreted so differently ! Oh, foolj infatuated and blind, ever to have thought of one so unworthy one who could be smallsminded enough to so misiudge me ! And I loved him so yes, even when I thought he belonged to another. Ah, what shall I do ? How shall I bear this shattering of my heart's hopes this bitter, cruel insult V Poor girl ! she little thought how thorough an actress her rival was, nor how utterly unscrupulous in carryiag out her plans. Agnes was much engaged in the preparation of au elaborate trous seau for her approaching marriage. Both Sibyl and Clarissa had prom ised to be bridesmaids, but Clarissa bad tried earnestly to escape, since Robert was to be tbe groom's best man. However, Agnes threatened J to be both hurt and offended if she failed to keep her promise, so she wore her pretty dress of gauzy white tissue reluctantly. More than one remarked upon the change that a few months had wrought upon the girl's appearance. In truth, the experience of grief had developed her from a thoughtless, confiding child, to a reserved and self-cons tained woman, bearing her trouble in secret, with do outward sign. Many a guest looked at her with admiring eyee, oven while the bndd swept by in her robe of satin and lace. Robert never took bis glance from her, but she bore his gaze with a haughty, indifferent grace, ihough the sapphire eyes glowed in a face of marble whiteness. The bride had gone. All the tra ditional offerings of good lack had been hurled at the bridal carriage, and the horses had not taken fright. At the ball that night, Clarissa had no lack of partners, but she re fused to dance. She was sitting in an alcove alooe, when Robert came up to her. "Will you not give me this waltz !" he asked. "Bnt no, you are tired. I should not ask lor ench a favor. '? "I am not at'atl tired, Mr. Hay ford," she answered coldly, "but 1 do not care to dance." Robert bit his lip, her words were so eyideutly inteuded as a rebuff. Then he sat down on the sola be side her. "Miss Vernon," he said, softly, .you seem displeased. At times 1 have even thought that you avoid ed roe. Have I offended you ? 01), pray, pray, tell me how, that I may remedy the fault at ouce. Believe me, nothing would grieve me so much as to think '' She turned, and looked him full in the face. Then why was it? The blood raabed to her own in a torrent! Over her white throat aud pearly ears, to the golden rings of her shining hair that clustered on the forehead, it surged in a tell tale blush. Her eyes fell, aud she tiembled beside him. It was all false, she felt that it was. That woman had lied to her ! He loved her ! She saw it in every line of his face, heard it in every tone of his voice. Ah, it was she that had wronged him! Robert hardly comprehended the sudden change, but he seized the auspicious moment. "Clarissa, I love you! Darling, if you will let me love you ; if you will be my wife, I wifl gpend a lifetime in atoning for the fault, whatever it bo!" Clarissa slowly raised her eyes. They met those of Sibyl Dagoo, who, as she placed tbe dance music in quick, true time, gazed at Claii 8a with a contemptuous smile en her cruel lips. "So," they seemed to say, "proud as you are, you can yet love the mau who thinks eo meanly of you !'' Slowly the color ebbed away from Clarissa's face. Surely this woman had cast au evil spell over lhe girl, depri?ing her f tbe power to use her own judgment. She turned to her lover with an icy haughtiness. "Mr. Hayford, you have not of feuded me. That, I think, would be impossible !" with a scornful curl of the lip, 4but you have raisuoder stood me. I have given you no right to speak such words to me, i have no no regard for you !" Robert was thunderstruck. He flushed violently, but when he left her Clarissa thought she never be fore had seen a man so pale. He rose to his feet- 'Miss Vernon," he said, quietly enough, though his voice shook, "you are quite right I have misun derstood you T' Aud, with a slight inclination of the head, he walked away. The dancing ceased; Sibyl rfn- ihhert her playing with a sees of brilliant runs and chords. For the present Clarissa' foe was triutn. phaut, aud she knew it. Two years passed away. Robert had gone abroad on business for his father's firm, and had but lately come back. Clarissa had kept up her friend- ship with Agnes, who lived near her old home. One evening she bad come to stay with her, as he often did, aud was surprised and secretly distressed to find her old lover there. "See, Clarissa," said Agnes, taks iugup a silken ball from which she had been knitting, "this is what is left of the very skein of hi k we were winding the day I lost my thimble. How odd that it should never bave come to light! It most have dis appeared iu the ash-barrel, for I'm sure Jake was honest. See, I'm making a pair of stockings for baby of this won't they be sweet f" She let the bail fall to the floor as ehe spoke, aud it rolled away. Clarissa looked furtively at Rob ert, but not tbe slightest change of expression showed that he had no ticed the reference to the gold thin ble, though he had been listeum?, for he smiled at Agnes' last remark. She changed her needles and pulled her thread. What waa that sharp clicking sound against the frame of an ottoman ? Agnes gave a delighti-d cry, and darted down upon the floor. "Oh, look. It is my gold thimble! It has been in the ball all this time! You remember, Clara, dear, I had it on my finger, and uever missed it trotn it. How funny." And she held up the little shining thing to her two hearers, so darkly fateful ! Robert put it on the top of bit little finger. "A tiny thing to cause 60 muob trouble !" he said. "You may have it now, Clarissa I It has come too late for me. My finger has growu mncb too plump P And she ran up stairs to to 1 the story ot its discoveiy to her aunt. Clarissa aud Robert were alone for the first time since her scornful words had parted them. She rose hastily to leave the room. ''Stay, Miss Vernon ; do not be disturbed. If you wiah it, I will leave the room." Sho stood still a moment, p either moving nor speaking. Then she yielded to a snddeu impulse. "Mr." Hayford, this tiny thing' has caused more trouble than you are aware of," she said. "Indeed? What more is it re sponsible for ?" "Oh, I know now I was all wrong. Sibyl Dagou told me you had said had insinuated that I that 1 had taken this thimble when it waslo-"'!" He looked at her like oue stupe fied. kI do not understand you," be said. "Ob, do not try," she said, coming toward him with clasped, imploring hands. "Ouly forgive me. Say that you forgive me. I must have been bewitched dazed." "Do you in an thBt I believed that you believed I had ever said " He looked at her with a growing horror in his still bewildered face. -'It was the cause of all my horri ble and insane treatment ot j on," she Maid, burying her fao in her bauds. He was silent for a time. Then he came to her side, and gently drew the hands from the tearswet, remorseful face. "Then you do love me, after all," he whispered. "Ab, so dearly I love you have always loved you,' she said betwe n her sobs. "But, ob, Robert, if yju really love me as you say you do, never make me (peak of tb la dread ful mistake again, "Ob, dear love, I am so soiry, so ashamed. Tell me yu forgive me !'' "I do, darling; and you shall on'y speak of what you please, and only when yon choose." And he folded her in his arm and laughed kindly into the troubled face. She raised her lips to his in mute gratitude, and what lover could have wished for a more eloquent substitute for speech ? People may laugh at Hon. Jerry Simpson, the sockless Congressman elect of Kausas, but there's method in his eccentricity. A Jersey City hosiery manufacturer, learning that Jerry wore no stockings, sent him a fine outfit, but the gift was de clined in the following terms : Sir Our forefathers refused to driok tea because it was taxed 3 per cent., and held a tea party in Boston for the purpose of getting rid of the stuff. I bave just finished figuriog up tbe tax upon those stockings, and I find that it amounts to 70 per cent. I will wear uo socks tid the tax is taken ofi.'' Hurrah lor Sock less Jerry I Er. The only positive cure for chick en cholera ever yet discovered is Ganter's magic chicken cho'e-a cure. It has never failed, but if, perchance, it Bhoul J, it will cost y ja nothing. It is guaranteed by Dr. J. M. Lawing.
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