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VOL IV
LINCOLNTON, N. C, FRIDAY, FEB. 13, 1891.
NO. 40
Professional Cards.
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Jan, 9, 1691.
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A VALENTINE STORY.
BY ELSIE SNOWE.
KOMPTON MOORHOUSE was
yfyg heir to a line estate, and to a
gjte rent-roll o f fifty thousand
pounds a year; therefore he
went into the hest society of the
country, and though people smiled
in an indulgent aud often pitying
manner when he was named, he was
generally noted as a good, harmless
fellow, and a lucky catch for some
girl. Had he been born in a differ
cut class, and obliged to earn a liv
ing, he would have been called "a
solty,'' and his lines wonld seldom
have fallen in pleasant places, un
less he had taken np the profession
of a fieherman, for he was a skilful
angler. He was also a good shot,
an excellent sportsman when he
chose, for he really disliked "killing
things," as he said himself, and all
dumb, helpless creatures loved him.
For the rest there were people who
said he "wasn't at all such a fool as
he looked, don't you know I" and
that sort of uegative praise was the
highest pitch of enthusiasm ever
reached, even by hia best friends.
But be was modest, gentle, and
kindly ; and it hej understood the
opiuion entertained of him by the
majority of people, he probably con
sidered it just, and having no vani
ty his amour propre did not suffer
keenly. Was it, theu, an intentiou
al bit of satire on hia pait, or just
the irony of fate, that he should
choose to fall in love with the beau
ty of the season the prettiest girl
in Northumberland ?
"What a fool I am ! Ob, it is
worse than folly it is madness P
thought Compton, when the fact
dawned on him j far hia was iha
worst kind of love, the fiercest, most
irresistible love at first sight, and
he was fathoms deep in that fiery
maelstrom before he had eveu sus
pected it. "She will never look at
me, and I may as well blow my
brains out, for I can't live without
her !"
Miranda Dalton was too baud
goine for a poor girl, as some one in
the set in which she moved had
said of her, for so much beauty was
utterly thrown away, since romance
was dead, and now-a-.days all. the
great catches expected aa much
money as they brought to the mat
rimonial market; but all the same,
the season that Miss Dalton was
presented, Paw her the reigning
beauty, aud on the second season it
was the same, and it promised to
be the same for many seasons to
come ; but still she might have sung
with the humble heroine of the song:
"Nobody coming to marry me
Nobody coming to woo."
The most indifferent person in the
Dalton family on the subject of her
marriage was Miranda herself next
to herself the next most indifferent
was her father, who was so fond of
his daughter that he had no wish
at all to see her married : after Ma
jor Dalton came the servauts, who
didu't waut to lose the gentle pres
ence of their young mistress : ' but
of the personage known as the final
member of the family it could not
be said that she was indifferent at
all in fact, the most ardent wia'i
of Miss Meredith's heart, next to
her own settlement in life, was that
of the charming Miranda,
Lucille Meredith, properly apeak
iug, was not a member of the DaN
ton family at all, though she was in
the habit of calling Miranda her
sister, and often referred to Major
Dalton as "dear papa,'' as she had
always referred to Mrs. Dalton as
"dear mamma." As a matter of fact
she was a daughter of Mrs. Dalton's
first husband by a previous wife,
and as her stepmother had oeen left
the guardian of her small fortune,
as well as herself, the child quite
naturally came to be included iu the
family of her stepmother ; and then
as the relationship was somewhat
complicated, after Mrs. Meredith
became Mrs. Dalton, it was seldom
explained except to very intimate
friend. Mrs. Dalton had been a
great beauty in her day as great a
beauty as Miranda, aud Major Dal.
ton had been madly In love with
her ; and thongh Lucille was 011I7
her stepdaughter, he bestowed a
part of that aflVction on the dark-,
browed little girl, and was pleased
to be called "papa'' by the same lips
that were privileged to call his
lovely bride "mamma," and even
when bis own fairy-like daughter
came he felt no disposition to make
any change, so that Lucille in the
most natural way bean calling the
new comer her little sister, She
was ten years older than Miranda,
and sincerely attached to the lovely
child In her way, and although
there was the utmost dissimilarity
between them in every respect, es
pecially in their appearance, it was
not uutil Miranda began to be spo
ken of as the beauty of the couutry
that Lucille looked at her with any
slate of envy or bitterness. Her
cbaace of marriage had been slim
enough before, but now she felt that
whilo Miranda remained unmarried
no man that came to the Grange
would even look at her, and no
managing mother ever worked for
her daughter's settlement in life
more ardently than Lucille Mere--dith
for the happy and prosperous
marriage of her ".sister." .
With quick instiuct she divined
the secret of Compton Moorhouae,
and she was equally qoick to per
ceive that while others admired
perhaps eveu loved the beautiful
Miranda,. Comptou was the one who
wished to marry her. She took
pains to encourage bis visits, and
when the family left town at the
close of each season she managed
that young Moorhonse should know
whether they went abroad, aud
where, and when ihey returned to
the Grange. Major Dalton had
never been rich, and now he began
to feel that his means were slender
indeed, and the greater part of the
year was sptm i Korthumucico4
where he was at least under his own
roof as yet, thiugh the place was so
heavily mortgaged that he began
to entertain serious fears about
holding it.
He was still comparatively a
young mau, proverbially hospitable,
and fond of the company of his own
sex, and there were always two or
three meu invited for the shooting,
and later iu the season for the hunt
ing, and often for a quiet, oldsfash
ioned Christmas ; iu short, for any
thing that would lighten the wiuter
season aud brighten up the old
bouse j aud for every festivity of
any sort Lucille took care that
Moorhouse was invited. Miranda
and the Major began to observe this
obvious atteution to the young man,
and looked at each other and smiled,
while outsiders laughed and openly
ridiculed the efforts ot "Old Maid
Meredith" to carry off Moorhouse
and bis fifty thousand a year. But
Compton never for a moment mis
understood her. From the first he
saw that, she bad divined his secret,
that she encouraged what he scarce
ly dared to hope, aud that she gave
him a hundred opportunities to see
Miranda, which otherwise he never
could have compassed, and he was
grateful . Indeed, he loved Lucille,
truly as a sister , and feeling that
they quire understood each other,
their confidence aud intimacy was
easily mistaken by Miranda, and
was the cause of her own kindly
manner toward Compton. But
though her radiant smiles and low,
sweet tones when they were alone
together often made him dizzy with
hope and happiness, he had never
yet summoned up courage to risk
his present bliss by asking for more.
"Yon will Jose her," Lucille said
to him once ; she had beckoDed him
to her as he wa going out ou a
shooting expedition with the reit of
the men. "You have more than
one rival, but I happen to kuow that
no one has pet spoken, aud 1 know
Miranda well enough to be quite
sure that uot one of thetu possessed
any special atti action for her. She
is not the least bit in the world in
love with any one never has been
but sht likes you, aud if you choose
to take a friend's advice you will
make use of your opportunities be
fore some one gets ahead of you."
"I cannot I dare not!' said
Oompton, with a sigh of despair.
"It is presumption for me even to
think of her. I feel myself so mi'
worthy of her le 1st look that every
time I have tried to put my feelings
into words my voice die3 away, and
the beating of my heart nearly auf
focates qic ''
"Nonsense ! Must I tell you for
ever and ever that such a faint heart
will never win any woman, at least.
If she should know it. Now there
is, to a girl like Miranda, a certain
charm iu cuch excessive modesty
at least there wonld be it she knew
it. But if you can'r even summon
np courage to tell her how much
afraid yon are eveu to loe her, I'm
afraid she'll never find it out for
herself. Some other man will get
ahead r.f you, and you will have lost
your best chance, that of being first
in the field, and I have told you
again and again that with girls like
Miranda that is a very important
consideration."
"Lucille, you are my best friend,
my sister oh I how I wish yoi ivere
my sister 1 By jove! I'll try I
really will I'll epeak to Miranda
to-morrow I"
"That's right !' exclaimed Lu
cille, encoaragingly. "Remember,
'faint heart never won' auythiug,
fair or otherwise, and my best wish
es go with you."
And as Campton hastened away
to join the rest of the party who
were waiting for him, aud making
feeble jokes at his expence, to the
effect that he was lingering for a
few tender words with his sweeU
heart, Lucille looked doubtfully aU
ter him.
"If he didn't look such a simple
ton ; if be coulds only pluck up a
little courage ! He's really almost
handsome when he's very much iu
earnest ; he has fixe eyes, too ! and
such a rent roll. I hope Miranda
hasn't any sentiment ; but I never
understood her in the least. But
r. doM hire Compion, she always
listens with a smile when I praise
him, and her. manner toward him is
quite encouraging. She never seems
so pleased to see any mau that
comes here ; oh dear! I wish it was
over. I wish she was married and
settled."
It was impossible for his most
kindly disposed friend to compli
ment Moorhouse ou his shooting
that day ; iu fact, he aimed so wid
Iy, aud missed so constantly, that
bis companions ceased joking him,
and rather seriootfy advised him to
return to the house before he should
blow his own' head off or some bet
ter man'tf.
Comviton took the advise in good
par Y glad euongh to lie by himself;
and baviug brought himself to a
kind of Bob Acres' courage,-regarding
Miss Dalton be longed to get
into her presence, aud fire off ni3
proposal without an instant's delay,
since "valor will come aud go," anJ,
like Bob, he feared that he was tar
more likely to "go' thau to come
again.
Fate favored him so far as to give
him an immediate opportunity. He
found Miss Daltou alone in a little
sitting-room where only privileged
people were allowed to seek her ;
but he felt himself to be one of
these from the fact that he had
often been received there, and be
cause she now bestowed on hi in her
customary smile of welcome as he
entered.
Compton spoke at once, and al
though Miranda's look of amaze
ment, slowly cbangiog to an ex
pression of repressed merryment,
might have warned him to desist,
he would not accept the warning,
but pouied out the torrent of emo
tion that had been seething within
him cince the morning, and ended
by making her a formal and somes
what old-fashioned proposal of
marriage. The effect, coming after
his impetuous and almost incoher
eut declaration of love was irresisti
ble, and the young gill could, no
longer repress her merriment. She
laughed immoderately, shocked at
herself for doing so, and the expres
sion of anguish on her suitor's face
only served tc increase her sense of
the ridiculous.
'Sit down, Compton; pray, sit.
down," ehe said at last, "and forgive
my rudeness ; but you see you have
made such a blunder of course
you came in here expecting to find
Lucille, aud in your excitemeut vou
did not find out your mistake.
tried in vain, again and again, to
stop you but nothing could stem
the torrent of your eloquence, and
I 6imply could not resist the fun of
it. Don't be hurt. I know it will
be alright. I'm sure Lucile is fond
of you. In facr, she quite raves
about you to me, and I thought you
were engaged long ago, and have
quite wondered that ehe had not
tttken me into her confidence and
told me all about it
She paused suddenly, struck by
the expression of keeu suffering on
the face of her listener. He was as
pale as it he lay in his coffin, aud a
look of despair that gave strength
and h certain tragic dignity to his
common. place featnres,almost start
led Miranda. Every trace of ruerrii
meut lett her thrill ot paiu and ter
ror.
"I bavj never thought ot Miss
Meredith iu the way you mean,"
said Moorhouse, "she has never for
a moment made the mistake of sup
posing that I did. I don't think
she has thought any more than I
have that any one else had made
that mistake. I have never loved
any girl but you Misa Dalton. I
never shall of course, I don't know
how to tell you of it, for I am only
a poor, plain, 6tupid fellow. I nev
er meant to have told you, or any
oue about this, for though I know
how obsurd it is for a fellow like
me to think of winning a girl like
you, ray love for you is too aacred
a thing for me to bear to have it
turned into ridicule. Miss Meredith
guessed my secret. I don't know
how she did, tor I tried to conoe&l
it as well as I could, but womeu are
quick about such thin?, and when
she told me that you rather liked
me, I suppose I must have lost my
bead, for somehow with her coutin-
"oM tuUxrtn vio that. TOO VPfrA not
altogether indifferent, and then the
valentines ; besides, I was just mad
euongh to keep thinking and hop'
ing till I came to think it was im
possible ."
"What valentine?" exclaimed
Miranda, as soon as the meaning ot
his words had reached her brain.
"J never sent any one a valentine iu
all my life a valentine! How per
fectly ridiculous'
Poor Compton ! it was not possb
ble for him to grow paler, but an
expression of almost grotesque hois
ror came over his face, and Miran
da was again nearly overwhelmed
with an bystericle desire to laugh,
but she repressed it.
"You never sent me a valentine?'?
he atammered. "Then I am with
out any excuse, for that, alone with
Lucille's encouragement, was my
ouly ground for hope see ! ' and be
drew from his breast pocket a large
sized envelope which had evidently
seen wear, for be bad carried it
about with him, always as near to
his heait as he could get it, since
the February before.
Mirauda mechanically put out
her baud and took the envelope, for
M001 house held it toward her, and
casting her glance on it she saw
that it W38 indeed, addressed in her
own handwriting. A warm blush
crimsoned her face, and she said :
"This is, indeed, my writidg, Comp
ton, but I never sent it to you oh
this is too bad ! I never thought
Lu.MlIe could have done such a
thing! I remember all about it
now. This is how it was she was
addiesaiug envelopes for the maids,
aud she jestingly asked me to ad
dreS'i one to you ; thinking that you
and she understood each other, and
that she was going to play sc mi
silly jest,.I did as fihe asked me,ud
never even remembered it aain till
this moujour. Even bad I thougut
of if, believing jou to be engaged to;
each other, 1 never could have
dreamed of any misunderstanding. ;
While ehe spoke she bud drawn
out the enclosure, which she saw to
be of the usual heart and dove and
love character peculiar to the four
teenth day of February ; but iu the
centre of the paper were pasted
four iihes of poetry, cnt from some
magazine, and so marked as to have
a specially pprsonal aud encourag
ing effect.
I Concluded next week."
The Heneflt or Hough Exp,
rlencen.
It is a good thing for a young
man to be "knocked about in tha
world," though his soft-hearted pa
rents may not think so. All youths
or, if not all, certainly .niuetea
twentieths of the 1001 total, enter
life with a surplusage of ttlf-coor-ceit.
The sooner they are relieved
of it the better. If, in measuring
themselves with wiser and older
men tbau themselves, they discover
that it is unwarranted, and get rid
of It gracefully, of their own accord,
well and good ; if nor, it Is desirable,
for their own sake that it be knock
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a large school noon finds his levtl.
The world is a great public school,
and it soon teaches a new pupil bis
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which he cau aspire is respectabili
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great or truly respectable who ia
vain, pompous or overhe.-triug.
By the time the uoviu has found
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that the disagreeable traits of his
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Upon the whole, whatever loving
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it is a good tuiug for vo stli: 5 bn
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