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And haunt ber face.
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And work tbeir will.
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JSy HENRY JAMES, Jr.
?3? TWO PARTS.-PART L
[Copyrighted.]
O LONGER ago
than last summer,
during a six weeks'
stay at Newport,
John Lennox be?
came engaged to
Miss Marian Ev?
erett, of New York.
Mr. Lennox was a
widower, of large
.estate and with?
out children. He
N? was 35 years old,
' of a sufficiently
distinguished ap
?N i .'?. >iz^ pearance, of ex
]? }?J?jj?$?g*^ cellent maimers,
\ ^^^>t?.~ of an unusual share
"bf sound information, of irreproachable
habits and of a temper which was under?
stood toha^?su^?r?^ati^ing and salutary
probation during the short term of his wed?
ded life. Miss Everett was, therefore, all
things considered, fe?ieved to be making a
.a very good match and to be having by ito
means tho worst of the bargain.
And yet Miss Everett, too, was a very
marriageable^oarig lady-the pretty Miss
Everett, as she was called,.to distinguish her
from certain plain cousins, with whom,
owing to her having no mother and no sis?
ters, she was" constrained, for decency's sake,
to spend a great deal of her time-rather to
her own satisfaction, it may be conject?
ured, than to that of tfeea? 'excellent young
"women. ....
Marian Everett was penniless indeed; but
she was richly endowed with all the gifts
which make a woman charming. She
was. without dispute, the most charming,
girl in tho circle in which she lived and
taoved. Even certain of. her elders; women
bf a larger experience, of a heavier caliber,'
es it were, and, thanks to their being mar?
ried ladies, of greater freedom of action,
were practically not so charming as she.
And yet, in her emulation of. the social
graces bf these, her more fully licensed sis?
ters, Miss Everett was quite guiltless of any
aberration from the strict line of maidenly
dignity. She professed an almost religious
devotion to good taste, and she looked with
horror upon, the boisterous graces of many of
lier companions. Beside being the most en?
tertaining girl in New York, she was, there?
fore, also the most irreproachable. Her
beauty was, perhaps, contestable, but it was
certainly uncontested. She was the least bit
below the middle height, and her person was
marked by a great fullness and roundness of
outline; and yet, in spite of this comely
ponderosity, her movements were perfectly
light and elastic. Ia complexion, she was a
genuine blonde-a warm blonde; with a
midsummer bloom upon ber cheek, and
the light of a midsummer sun wrought
Into her auburn hair. Her features'
were not cast upon a classical model,
but their expression was in the highest
degree pleasing. Her forehead was low
and broad, her nose small, and her mouth
-well, by the envious her mouth was
called enormous. It is certain that it had an
immense capacity for smiles, and that when
She opesed.it to sing-{which.she did with in?
finite sweetness} it-emitted a copious flood of
sound. Her face was, perhaps, a trifle too
circular., and ber shoulders a trifle too high:;
but, as I say, the general effect left nothing
to be desired. I might point out a dozen dis?
cords in the character of her face and figure,
and yet utterly fail to invalidate the impres?
sion they produced. There is something es?
sentially uncivil, and, indeed, unphilosophi
cal, in the attempt to verify or to disprove
a women's beauty in detail, and a man gets
no more than he deserves when he finds that,
in strictness, the aggregation of tho different
features fails to makeup the total Stand
off, gentlemen, -and let her make the addition.
Beside her beauty, Miss Everett shone by
her good nature, and her lively perceptions.
She neither. made harsh speeches nor re?
sented them ; and, then, on the other hand,
she keenly enjoyed intellectual cleverness,
and even cultivated it. Her great merit was
that she made no claims or pretensions.
Just as thero was nothing artificial in her
beauty, so there was nothing pedantic in her
acuteness and nothing sentimental in her
amiability. Tho one was all freshness and
tho others ail bonhommie.
John Lennox saw her, then loved her and
offered her his hand. In accepting it Miss
Everett acquired, in the world's eye, the one
advantage which she lacked-a complete
stability and regularity of position. Her
friends took no small satisfaction in con?
trasting her brilliant and comfortable future
with her somewhat precarious past: Lennox,
nevertheless, was congratulated on the right
band and on the left; but none too often for
bis faith. That of Miss Everett was not put
to so severe a test, although she was fro
quently reminded by acquaintances of a mor?
alizing turn that she had reason to be
very thankful for Mr. Lennox's choice. To
these assurances Marian listened with a look
of patient humility which was extremely be?
coming. It was as if for his sake she could
consent even to bo bored.
"Within a fortnight after their engagement
had been made known, both parties returned
to New York. Lennox lived in a house of
bis own, which he now busied himself with
re]wiring and refurnishing; for the wedding
had been fixed for tbe end of October. Miss
Everett lived in lodgings with her father,
a decayed old gentleman, who rubbed, bis
idle hands from morning till night over the
prospect of his daughter's marriage.
John Lennox, habitually a man of numer?
ous resources, fond of reading, fond of music,
fond of society, and not averse to politics,
passed the first weeks of autumn in a restless,
fidgety manner. When a man approaches
middle age he finds it difficult to wear grace?
ful!}- tbe distinction of being engaged. Ho
finds it difficult to discharge with becoming
alacrity tho various petits soins incidental to
tho position. There was a certain pathetic
gravity, to those who knew him well, in Len?
nox's attentions. One-third of his time he
spent in foraging Broadway, whence he re?
turned half a dozen times a week, laden with
trinkets and gimcracks, which he always
finished by thinking it puerile and brutal to
offer his mistress. Another third he passed
in Mr. Everett's drawing room, during which
period Marian was denied to visitors. The
rest of the time he spent, as ho told a friend,
God knows how. This was stronger language
than his friend expected to hear, for Lennox
was neither a man of precipitate utterance,
nor, innis friend's belief, of a strongly pas?
sionate nature. But it was evident that he
was very much in love; or at least very much
?? bis balance?
"When Pm with her it's all very well," be
pursued, "but when ?>?t away from her I
feel as if I were thrust out of the ranks of the
living."
"Well you must be patient," said his friend;
"you're destined to' livo hardVyet"
'. Lennox was silent, and bis face, remained
-Tather more somber than the other lik<vi- to
=seeit
"I hopo there is no particular difficulty,*
the latter resumed; hoping to induce bim to
'relieve himself of whatever weighed upon his
'consciousness.
"I'm afraid sometimes I-afraid sometimes
she doesn't really lore me."
"Well, a little doubt does no harm. It's
better than to be too sure of it, and to sink
into fatuity. Only be sure you love her."
"Yes," said Lennox solemnly, "that's the
great point"
One morning, nuable to fix bis attention on
books and papers, he bethought himself W an
expedient for passing an hour.
He had made, -at Newport, the acquaint?
ance- of a young artist named Gilbert, for
whose talent and conversation ho had con?
ceived a strong relish. The painter, on leav?
ing Newport was to go to the Adirondacks,
and to be back ?n -Sew York on Oct 1, after
which time he begged ?is friend to como and
see him.
It occurred to Lennox on the morning I
speak of that Gilbert must already have re?
turned to town, and would be looking for bis
visit So he forthwith repaired to his studio.
Gilbert's card was on the door, but, on en?
tering the room, Lennox found it occupied
by a stranger-a young man in painter's
garb at work before a large panel.
Ho learned from this g?atfeman that
he was a temporary sharer of Mr.
Gilbert's studio, and that the latter itad
stepped out for a few moments. Lennox ac?
cordingly prepared te await his return. He
entered into conversation with the young,
man, and, finding him very intelligent, as
well as, apparently, a great friend of Gilbert,
he looked at him with some interest. -Ho was
of something less than 80, tall and robust,
with a strong, joyous, sensitive face, and a
thick auburn beard. Lennox was struck
with his face, which seemed both to express
a great deal of human sagacity and to in?
dicate thc essential temperament of painter.
"A man with that face," he said to himself,
"does work at least worth looking at."
He accordingly asked his companion if he
might come and look at his picture. The lat?
ter readily assented, and Lennox placed him?
self -before the canvas.
It bore a representation of a half length
female figure, in a costume and with an ex?
pression so ambiguous that Lennox remained
uncertain whether it was a portrait or a work
of fancy; a fair haired young woman, clad
in a rich medioeval dress, and looting like a
countess of the Renaissance. Her figure was
relieved against a somber tapestry, her arms
loosely folded, her head ere .rt and her eyes
on the spectator, toward whom she seemed
ito move- "Dans -un flot de velours tra?nant
ses petits pieds." -
.As Lennox inspected her face if seemed to
reveal a hidden likeness to a face he well
knew-the face of Marian Everett He was,
of coarse, anxious to know whether the like*
ness was accidental or designed:
"I take this to be a portrait," he said to the
artist, "a portrait 'in character.' "
"No," said the latter, ""it's a mere com?
position.; a little from here and & little from
there. The picture has been hanging about
me for the last two or three years,' as a sort*
of receptacle of waste ideas.' It has been the
victim bf innumerable theories and experi?
ments. But it seems to haye survived them
all. I suppose it possesses a certain amount
of vitality.".
"Dd yda call it anything?"
- 9
"Do you call it anything f
I "I called it originally ?l?ter something I'd
read-Browning's poem; *My Last Duchess.1
Do voa know, it ?"
[ "Perfectly."
"I am ignorant of whether it's an attempt
! to embody the poet's impression of a portrait
actually existing. But why should I Caret
This is simply an attempt to embody, my
own private impression of the poem, which
I has always had a strong hold ba my fancy.
I don't know whether it agrees with, your
own Impression and that of most readers.
But I don't insist upon the name. Tho pos?
sessor of the picture is free to baptize it
afresh."
The longer Lennox looked at the picture
the more he liked it, and the deeper seemed
to be the correspondence between the lady's
expression end that with which he had In?
vested tho heroine of Browning's lines. The
less accidental, too, seemed that clement
which Marians face and the face on tho
canvas possessed in common. He thought of
the great poet's noble lyric and of its exquis?
ite significance, and of the physiognomy of
the woman he loved having been chosen as
tho fittest exponent of that significance
He turned away his head; his eyes rilled
with tears. "If I were possessor of the pict?
ure," ho said finally, answering tho artist's
lost words, "I should feel tempted to call it by
the name of a person of whom it very much
reminds me."
"AhT'said Baxter; and then, after a pause
-"a person in New York?"
It had happened a week before that, at her
lover's request, Miss Everett had gone in his
company to a photographer's, and had been
photographed in, a dozen different attitudes.
Tho proofs of these photographs had been
sent homo for Marian to choosef rom. She
had made a choice of half a dozen-or rather
Lennox had made it, and tho latter had put
them in his pocket, with the intention of
stopping at the establishment and giving his
orders. He now took out his pocket book
and showed the painter one of tho cards.
"I find a great resemblance," said he, "be?
tween your Duchess and that young lady."
The artist looked at the photograph. "If I
am not mistaken," he said, after a pause,
"thc young lady is Miss Everett."
Lennox nodded ascent
His companion remained silent a few mo?
ments, examining the photograph with con?
siderable interest, but, as Lennox observed,
without comparing it with his picture.
"'My Duchess very probably bears a certain
resemblance to Miss Everett, but a not ex?
actly intentional one," ho said at last "The
picture was begun before 1 ever saw Miss
Everett. Miss Everett, as you seo-or as you
know-has a very charming face, nnd, during
the few weeks in which I saw her, I con?
tinued to work upon it You know how a
painter works -how artists of all kinds work:
they claim their property wherever they find
it " What I found to my purpose in Miss
Everetts apj>earanco I didn't hesitate tc
ndopt, especially f.s I had been feeling about
iii thc dark for a type of countenance which
her face effectually realized. The Duchess
was an Italian, I take it, Now, there is a
decidedly southern depth and warmth of tono
in Miss Ever? tt's complexion, as well as that
breadth and thickness of feature which is
common in Italian women. You see the re?
semblance is much moro a matter of typo
than of expression. Nevertheless, I'm sorry
if the copy betrays the original."
"I doubt" said Lennox, "whether it would
betray it to any other perception than mine
I have the h^'-io?^^^addedi ufter a pause,
"to be engaged " ; Everett. You w?h,
therefore, excuse if I ask whether you
mean to sell your pi<_Jure."
"It's already sold-to a lady," rejoined the
artist, with a smile; "a maiden lady, who is
a great admirer of Browning."
At this moment Gilbert returned. Tho
"two friends exchanged - greetings, and their
companion withdrew to a neighboring stu?
dio. After they had talked awhile of what
had happened to -each since they parted,
Lennox spoke of the pa?uter of the Duchess
and of his remarkable talent, expressing sur?
prise that he shouldn't have heard of him
before, and 'that ^Gilbert should never have
spoken of -Iiim.
"His name is Baxter-Stephen Baxter,"
raid Gilbert, "and until his return from
Europe, a fdrtnrgtifc- ago, Iknow-little more
?about -him than you. He's a case of improve?
ment.'.! met him in Paris in'62; at that
time ho was doing absolutely nothing. He
bas learned* 'what you ' see? in the interval.
On arriving in New York he found it im
.possible to get a studio big enough to hold
.him. As, with my little sketches, I need-only
occupy ono corner of mine, ! offered him the
use of the other three,, until he should be able,
?o bestow himself to bis satisfaction. When
he began to unpack bis canvases I found I
hod been entertaining an angel unawares."
Gilbert then proceeded to uncover, for
Lennox's inspection, several of Baxter's por?
traits, both men and women. Each of
these works confirmed "Lennox's im?
pression Of the painter's power. He
returned to the picture on the easeL Marian
Everett reappeared at his silent call, and
looked out of the eyes with a most pene?
trating tenderness ?end melancholy.
"He may say what he pleases," thought
Lennox, "the resemblance is, in some degree,
i Iso a matter of expression. Gilbert," he
added, wishing -to measure the force of the
likeness, "whom docs it remind you of F
"I know," said Gilbert, "of whom it re?
minds you."
"And do you see it yourself F
"They are both handsome, and both baye
auburn hair. That's all I can .see.'"
Lennox was somewhat relieved, tt was
not without a feeling of discomfort-a feel?
ing by no means inconsistent with his first
moment of pride and satisfaction-that he
thought of Marian's "peculiar and individual
charms having been subjected to the keen
appreciation -of another than himself. He
was glad to be able to conclude that the
painter had merely been. ?truck with what
was most superficial in her appearance, and
that bib own imagination supplied the rest,
it occurred to him, as he walked
home, that it would be a not. unbe?
coming tribute to the young'girl's loveliness
on his own part, to cause her portrait to.be
painted by this clever young man. Their
engagement had as yet been an affair of pure
-sentiment, and he had taken an almost
fastidious care not to give himself tho vulgar
appearance of a mere purveyor of luxuries
.and pJessarcs. Practically, bo had been as
yet for his iuture wife a poer mon-or rather
a many pure and simple, and not a million?
aire. He had ridden with her, he had sent
ber flowers, and ho had goao with her to the
opera. But h? had neither sent her sugar
.plums, nor made bets with her, normado her.
{presents of jewelry. Miss Everett's female
friends had remarked that ne hadn't as yet'
piven ber the least little bethrothai ring,
either of pearls "or of diamonds. Marian,
however, was quite content. She was, by
nature, a great artist in the mise en scene of
emotions, and she felt instinctively that this
classical moderation was bat the converse
presentment of an immense matrimonial
abundance. In his attempt to make it im?
possible that his relations with Miss Everett
should be tinged in any degree with the acci?
dental condition bf the fortunes of either
party, Lennox had thoroughly understood
bis own instinct. He knew that he should
some day feel a strong and irresistible
impulse to offer his mistress some visi?
ble and artistic token of his affection,
and that his gift would* convey a greater sat?
isfaction from being sole of its kind. It
seemed, to him now that his chance had com?.
What gift could be more delicate than the
gift of an opportunity to contribute by her
patience and good will to her husband's pos?
session of a perfect likeness of her face?
On that same evening Lennox dined with
his future father-in-law,' as it was his habit
to do once a week.' .
"Marian," he said, in the course of the din?
ner, "I saw this morning an old friend of
yours."
"Ah," said Marian, ""who Was that?1
"Mr. Baxter., the painter."
Marian changed color-ever so little; no
more, Indeed, than was natural to an honest
surprise.
Marian changed color ever so little
Her surprise, however, could not have
been great; inasmuch as she now said that
she had seen his return to America men?
tioned in a newspaper, and as she knew that
Lennox frequented the society of artists.
"He was well, ? hope,"" she added "and pros?
perous."
"Whero did you know this gentleman, my
dear** asked Mr. Everett
**I knew him in Europe two years ago
first in the summer in Switzerland and after?
ward in Paris. He is a sort of cousin of Mrs.
Denbigh." Mrs. Denbigh was a Lady in
whose company Marian had recently spent a
year in Europe-a widow, rich, childless, an
invalid and an old friend of her mother. "Is
he always painting?"
"Apparently, and extremely well. He
has two or three ns good portraits
there as one r?ay reasonably expect
to see. And ho has, moreover, a certain
picture which reminds me of you."
"His 'Last DuchcssT" asked Marian, wit!
some curiosity? "I should Uko to seo it. If
you think its liko mo, John, you ought to
buy it up."
"I wanted to buy it, but it's sold You
know it then?'
"Yes, through Mr. Baxter himself. I saw
it in its rudimentary state, when it looked
like nothing that I should caro to look like,
I shocked Mrs. Denbigh very much hy telling
him I was glad it was bis Sask ' The pic-tar?,
indeed, led to our acquaintance."
?And not vice versa," said Mr. Everett,
facetiously.
'How vice versar1 asked Marian, inno?
cently. "I met Mr: Baxter for the lirsttime
ut a party in Home."
"I thought you said 3-ou met him in Switz
erland," said Lennox.
"No, in Lome. It wns only two days be?
fore we left Ho was introducid to me with?
out knowing I was with Mrs. Denbigh: wt?
indeed without knowing that she had heed ia
he city, li.' was very shy of Americans.
The first thing he said to me was that 1
looked very much like a picture he had been
painting."
"That you realized his ideal, etc."
"Exactly, but not at all in that sentimental
tone. I took him to Mrs. DcnWgh: they
found they were sixth cousins by marriage;
he came to sec us the next day, and insured
upon us going to bis studio. It was a miser?
able place: I believe he w:is Very peor. At
least Mrs. Denbigh offered him some money,
and he frankly accepted it. She attempted
to sparc his sensibilities by telling him that
if he liscd; h? could paint her ? picture in re?
turn. He said he would if he had timo.
Later, he came up into Switzerland; and the
following Winter we met him in Paris."
If Lennox had had any mistrust of Miss
Everett's relations with the painter, the man?
ner in which she told lier" little story would
have effectually blighted it He forthwith
proposed that, in consideration not only of
the young man's grea^ talent hut of his
actual knowledge of her face, he should be
Invited to paint her portrait *
Marian assented without reluctance and
j without alacrity, and Lennox laid his propo
?ition before tho artist. The latter roques
i day or two to consider, and then rep!
(by note) that he would be .happy to und
take tho task.
Miss Everett expected that, in view of 1
projected renewal of their old acquaintan
Stephen Baxter would call upon her, un(
the auspice* of her lover. He called ineffe
ilone, but Marian was not at nome, and
failed to repeat the visit. The day for 1
irst sitting was therefore appointed throu
Lennox. The artist had not yet obtair
i studio of his own, and the lat
lordially offered him the momenta
isa of a spacious and well light
apartment in his house, which ?ad been
tended as a billiard room, but was not 3
?tted up. Lennox expressed no wishes wi
regard to the portrait, being eontent to-lea
the choice of position arid* Costume "to t
parties immediately interested. Ho fou
the painter perfectly well acquainted wi
Marian's "points," and he had an impli
confidence in her own good taste.
Miss Everett arrived on the morning t
pointed, under her father's escort, a
iSvorett, who prided himself largely up
?ding things in proper form, having caus
Himself to bo introduced before hand to t
painter. Between- the latter and Mari
there was a brief exchange of civilities, af 1
/hich they addressed themselves to busine
Miss Everett professed the most cheer!
deference to Baxter's .wishes and fancies,
{he same time that she made no secret
possessing a number of strong convictions
to what should be attempted and wh
should be avoided.
It was no surprise to tho young ,.rnari
End her convictions sound and her wisi
thoroughly sympathetic. ,,-He found hims
called upon -to make no compromise wi
Stubborn and unnatm<J prejudices, nor
sacrifice his best intentions to a short sight!
vanity.
"Whether Miss Everett was .vain or n
heed not hero be declared. She had at les
the wit to perceive that the interests of 1
snligbtened sagacity would best be served 1
A painting whick r?teuld bo good from t
painter's point of view, inasmuch as the
are the painting's chief end, I may ad
moreover, to her great credit, that she thc
oughly understood how great on artist
merit should properly attach to a pictu
executed at the behest of ? ps
?on, in order that it should be anythu
more than a mockery- a parody-of ti
duration of that passion ; and that she kne
Instinctively that there is nothing so chillii
to an artist's beat os the interference, 1
illogioalSelf interest, either on his ownt
half or that of another.
Baxter worked Armed and rapidity, and 1
the end of a couple -bf hours ho felt that 1
had begun bis picture. .Mr. Everett, as 1
Sat by, threatened So be a bore; laborir
apparently under tho impression that it wi
his duty to beguile the session with che's
.esthetic.small talk. But. Marian ge*
Wmoredly took tho painter's share of tl
dialogue, and he was hot diverted from h
work.
; The nett sitting was fixed for the morrow
Marian wore the dress which she had agra
apon with the painter, and in which, as i
her position, the "picturesque" element ha
been religiously suppressed. She read i
Baxter's eyes that she looked supreme]
b<&utiful, and she saw that his fingers tingle
to attack his subject. But she caused Lenne
to be sent for, under the pretense of obtau
hag bis adhesion to her dress: It was blacl
and he might object to black. He can
and she read in his kindly eyes a
Augmented edition of the assurant
conveyed in Baxter's. He was entbus
astic for the black dress, which, in trutl
teemed only to confirm and enrich, like
grave maternal protest, the yoong girl's loo
of undiminished youth. . .
"I expect you," ne said to Baxter, "t
make a masterpiece."
"Never fear," said tho painter, tapping hi
forehead. "It's made."
On this second occasion, Mr. Everett, ed
{musted by the intellectual strain of the pm
ceding day, and encouraged by his luxdriot
?chair, sank into a tranquil sleep.' His eon
panions remained for some time, listening t
his regular breathing; Marian with her eye
patiently fixed os the opposite wall, and th
young man with his glauco mechanicaH
traveling between his figure and the can
vas. At Last he fell back several paces t
survey his work. Marian moved her eye
and they met his own.
"Well, Miss Everett," said the painter, i
accents which might have been tremulous j
he had not exerted a strong effort to raak
them firm.
"Well, Mr. Baxter" said the young girl.
And tho two exchanged a long, firr
glance, which at last ended in a smile
smile which belonged decidedly to the famil;
of the famous laugh of the two angels benin;
thc altar in thc temple.
"Well, Miss Everett," said Baxter, goinj
back to his work, "such is life!"
"So it appears," rejoined Marian. An<
then; after a pause of some momenta: "Wh;
didn't you come and see me?" she added.
"I came and you weren't at home."
"Why dicurt yo? come agaf ar
"What was the use, Miss Everett?*
"It would simply have been more decent
We might have become reconciled."
"We seem to have dono that as it is."
"Imean 'in form:'"
"That would have been absurd. Don't yoi
see how true an instinct I had? What Could
have been easier than our meeting? I assur<
3*ou that I should have found any talk aboul
tho past, and mutual assurances or apologia
extremely disagreeable?"
Miss Everett raised her eyes from the Sooi
and fixed thgn ou her conipauion with ?
deep, half reproachful glance. "Is the past
then," she asked, "so utterly disagreeable f]
Baxter stared, half amazed, "Good hcav
ens!" he cried, "of courso it is."
Miss Everett dropped ber eyes and re
roamed silent.
I may as well take advantage of tho mo
mont, rapidly to make plain to the read?
the events tc which the abovo conversation
refers.
Miss Everett had found it expedient, all
things considered, not to tell her intended
husband thc -whole story of her acquaintance
with Stephen Baxter; and when I have re?
paired her omissions, the reader will probably
justify her discretion;
She had; as she said; met this young man
for the first time at Rome, and there in tho
course of two interviews bed made a deep
impression upon his heart. He had felt that
he would give a great deni to meet Miss
Everett again. Their reunion in Switzerland
was therefore not entirely fortuitous: and it
had teen the more easy for Baxter to make
it possible, for thc reason that he was able to
Claim a kind bf roundabout relationship with
Mrs. Denbigh, Marian's companion. With
this lady's permission he had attack**! him?
self to their party. He had made their route
of travel his own, ho had stopped when they
stopped ami boen prodigal of attentions and
civilities. Before a week was over Mrs. Den?
bigh, who was tile soul of confiding ?<">od
nature, exulted in the discovery of hil invalu?
able kinsman. Thanks not only to her natur?
ally unexacting disposition, but to tho
apathetic and inactive habits induced by
constant physical suffering; she provec? a
very insigii?Rcaftt third in her companions'
Fpending of the hours. How delightfully
these hours were spent it requires no great
liffortto imagine. A suit conducted in the
midst of the most romantic scenery in Europa
ts already half won. Marian's social graces
vero largely enhanced bj* the satisfaction
which her innate intelligence of natural
beauty enabled her to take in thc magnificent
Icenerj- of the Alps. She had never ep
; peared to such advantage; sho had never
j known such perfect freedom and frankness
? nid g?yety. For tho first time in lier life
! ihe had made a captivo without suspecting
! it. She had surrendered her heart to the
! fciotihtaius and the lakes; tho eternal snows
I and the pastoral valleys, and .Baxter, stnud
i lng by, had intercepted it. He felt his long
! projected Swiss tour vastly magnified and
beautified by Miss Everett's part in it-'0y
. the constant feminine sympathy ^-???h
' rushed within earshot, with the coo!:;ess arid
! ?learness of a mountain spring. Oh! if only
it too had not been fed by tb" eternal snows 1
: And then her beauty-her :kidefatigable
J beauty-was a continual enchantment, Miss
Everett looked so thoroughly in her place in
1 drawing room that it was almost logical td
?uppose that she looked well nowhere else.
But in fact, as Baxter learned, she looked
quite well enough #ft the 'Character of what
ladies call a "fright"--that is, sunburned,
travel jstained, over heated,'exhilarated and
hungry-to elude all invidious comparisons.
At the end of three weeks, one morning ss
they stood together on the edge of a falling,
torrent, nigh above the green concavities of
. On the ed^ of'a falling torrent
the Mia; Baxter felt Hmsglf irresistibly
'urged to" make a declaration. Thc thunder?
ous noise of tho cataract covered all vocal
utterance ; so, taking out his sketch book, he
wrote three short words on a blank leaf. He
handed her ?he book. She read his
message with a beautiful change of color and
a single rapid glance at his face. She then
tore out the leaf. ... ~..
"Don't .tear it up!" cried the young m??p.
She understood him by the movement of
bis lips and shook her head with a smile.
But she stooped, picked up a little stone, and
wrapping it in the bit of paper, prepared to
'toss it into the torrent.
Baxter, uncertain, put but hi: band to take
lt from ber. She passed it into the other
hand and gave him the one he had attempted
to take.
? She threw away the paper, but she let him
him keep her hand
[TO BE CONTI*
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Our State Contemporaries.
Lancaster Ledger.
Track-laying oa the S C's bas beeo
finished to tie Catawba River, lo miles
from this place and within 12 miles of
Hock Hil!. Tbe bridge for the River
is being bailed froto Welsh's and
the work of putting it together will be
began at once. The road is expected
to reach Sock Hill i* time for a big ex?
cursion from tbat place rc Charleston
on July 4th.
Aiken Journ? and ?evt?w.
A fand has been started in Charles?
ton to pay for tickets for poor boys to
see the base ball games! This is stretch?
ing charity mighty thin. When we
tb ink of how mach good this money
would do poor people; of tbe thousand
and one ways it migbt be used for alie*
viatiog distress, we wonder that the
good people of Charleston are willing to
contribute for such a purpose. We
dare say it is a freak of the base bali
craze.
A Slander Upon a Worthy Order.
TimmonertSU Farmers' Friend.
"There seems to be a disposition on
the part of certain persons to spread
abroad the idea that the Farmers' Alli?
ance is a third political party in dis?
guise-that it is composed of negroes
as well as whites and is a thing to be
shunned by all well-thinking people.
Our learned contemporary at the county
seat seems to be awfully disturbed about
the danger of an unsuspecting public
running against the fangs of the alleg?
ed viper and being swallowed up and
gulped down by a third party. It came
out last week in a stunning editorial
warning the public to be on thc lookout
and 'shun the new order as it would a
piague.;
This is bat a single Dbe of a thousand
j lies that will be invented and manufac?
tured for the purpose of impeding the
progress of the Farmers' Alliance in
this State. It is a matter of very grave
doubt whether there is any such thihg"
in existence cs ? colored Farmers' Alli?
ance; and if there is, it is, as apt as
?ot, an arrangement concocted by some
designing party as a reflection Upon the
real Alliance: If there are colored so?
cieties calling themselves Farmers' Al?
liances, they have no connection what?
ever with the white Alliance-no more
than the colored Masons and Knights
of Pythias are connected with or recog?
nized by the white lodges.
The following extract from Article
IV, Section 1 of the Constitution of the
Farmers' Alliance should set forever at
rest this question :
'No person shall be admitted as a
membei unless be has been a citizen of
the State of-for six months past,
and not then unless he be a farmer, a
farm laborer, mechanic, country school
teacher; country physician or minister
of thc gospel, be of good moral char
acter, believe in the existence of a Su?
preme Being, be of industrious habits,
is a WHITE PERSON and over the age of
sixteen years."
Cur olino, Spartan.
Capt. B. Ft. Tillman, in thc late
State Convention* denounced the influ?
ence of the State House and the Colum?
bia City Club and said that when the
farmers elected good men they soon fell
from grace when they got to Columbia.
Col. John C. Haskjcll replied to him
and then after adjournment invited him
to visit the club. Some of the farmer
delegates were horrified to go td the
club and see Haskell and Tillman suck?
ing lemonade through the same straw.
Verily, tba ways of politicians are past
finding out. ;#
A Comparison.
Florence Times.
Thc economy of the system of Graded
Schools for any town is well evidenced
by those at Floreuce. Few of the pat?
rons here realize what a saving to tberh
our schools are* and we propose to eliow
how U-'any dollars and cents arc iii their
favor by the difference in cost of graded
and private schools. The Graded
School here has been tn Operation tr?\ee
years. Thc total cost per pn-.^j uas
been $S 00 for the three Tear9j 0r
?'2 9<j*pcr bupil per *%car< making a
j total cost for the 'jobo'i 27.
With the sam'w nunibeP of pupils at
private sch ools> and making 'the com?
parison 0y aQ avcrag? aQ? by putting
jj?tuition only at the regular rate ol
*?d for thc first ?r primary department:
I the total east wouM nave been.$40,'
! ?05 for tho three yc$?;dr $U,63?
j per year, Not io take into' Considera
i tion the superior" System that ? graded
school offers above* ail others, the ?etna!
saving in dollars and cents to the citi?
zens of Florence by onr present sy&teu
is $*Z,m 73 jfor tho three years. Ii
the total -cost and a ye rage per pupii as
; given above for the Graded School, ts
: included the cost , of building t?? addi
; tioo to the high, school hrfuse,-school,
j furniture and supplies. This showing
j well evidences the monetary ad van ta?
ges of a graded school, while its system,
is well, worth doable the cost of ?c^
"private school ra -?be land.
The Hot Springs Convention.
' Cqlvmlna Register,.. ;. .v
Mr. L. A'. Ivansour, who Was the
Secretary of the Hot Springs Immigra?
tion" "Con ven ti on, says that the criticisms
of the proposed Southern Immigration
Association and the week it is expected
to accomplish are premature, from tho
fact that the. Association has edt' yet
been .organised, sod, of course^ no
schenie for the conduct of the work has
been adopted.
So far nothing bas been d:>?e except
that a Convention, corn posea of .dere
gates from eleven Southern States, rep
reseutiugevery shade of opinion, ree
om?ended that the people :n , those
States form a joint organization for the
parp?se of inducing thc incarnent of
capital and the promotion .of immigra?
tion to this, section. Adverse criticism
at this time is, therefore,. simply oppo?
sition to the proposition for united effort
on the part of the ?Southern States in aa
important movement for their indus?
trial development. .
The Joe James Tragedy.
There have been three arrests made
daring the past week iu the Joe
?James murder case, but whether these
arrests are based upon Nany thing more
than suspicion remains to be learned,
as if there is any real crae to the
insider it is kept tfuiet. The air is
fuil of rumors* but the^ are rumors
only and cannot be traced to any re
liable authority.'
Two of the parties arrested are
William Scott and ?otiis Williams,
colored, and the third party is Joe
James, Jr., the son of the murdered
man. li is ?aid thai the two negroes
who are in .fail cfoigi that young
Jaine3 offered them "?B06 each to kill
his father, but they refused. Bob
Arthur, colored who is said to be
really the murderer, has so far man?
aged to evade arrest, though he is
still hiding in the neighborhood.
Young Janies is chaiu?d down in
the dungeon, and the trial justice
who committed him refuses him a
preliminary hearing, although his
counsel fcas_ repeatedly demanded it..
It is possible, and indeed probable,
f?at the sheriff is in possession of
some very strong evidence which he
does not care to have made public
before the case goes to trial. It is
whispered that the party who did the
shooting was told where to find
th? reward as Soon as the work
was done, aiid that according to
agreement. he went to the appointed '
spot and. found it, and then made
bime?f scarce; and that-young Joe
James is the man who made the con*
tract.
lt is the almost universal opinion
of the public, and has been ever since
the murder, that Jantes, was shot by
so me negro whom his son Hired to
commit the deed. This opinion, too,
has been expressed freely and openly,
lt is stated that young James was in
C arlington for the purpose of swear*
ing indictments for slander against
people who accused him oi* the mur?
ner of his father when he wan arrest?
ed- TimmonsvUie Farmer's Frieri?.
Love Sick.
The following was banded lb bs a
few days ago by a 'gentleman friend
who says he has been there and
knows how it Teels :
0, how can I, how dare I attempt
a proposal tb such a s Weet, object of
j love's sweet innocence, without giv?
ing offense ? For her * innocence is
like a flower which withers when
roughly touched, but blooms not
again though watered witts bitter?
burning tears. Her charms ar? so
irresistible, I am truly love sick; and
must tremblingly confess I am iu a
stale of captivity. I would plead
most earnestly for a merciful banish?
ment, while 1 would ever hope for a
"perpetual local habitation'7 in the
heart o? this most bewitching, adora?
ble, fascinating, enchanting, charm?
ing, captivating, and most lovable
creature of loveliness. 'Twere vain
to tell her alf I feel. 0, that I pos?
sessed an off-cast shoe from one it
thc dear little feet of this most love?
able creature* as a souvenir in ?ubsi*
leutio.
The Darlington County Alliance waa
organized at Timmonsville, Saturd*y?
May 19ih. Ten Sab-Alliaacis were
represented.
The South Carolina Department
of Agriculture received requests
last week from Ne? York, Ken?
tucky and Illinois for copies of th?
pamphlet recently issued showing th?
resources of thc State. The gentleman
who writes from Illinois says? "We aro
taking great interest io th??otith. . All
of us are workers rip h?re". We have
six months of straight winter. Corn
only ?boat half pteuted. Ice last night,
Mav 18 A."
af
Two young men of Oraugcburg on*
Friday disguised themselves as ijfrls
and decoyed a festive hook agent into ?
flirtation. At tbi proper tinie two inc?
personating ^rious parents appeared
j with pistol and the masher took to the
swan>- 4 and had not been he?rd of at
Kst accounts, his baggage being left a>
thc hotel.
J. D. Ratteree, of Chester enjoy*
the unique distinction of being the only*
man on record whose life was saved by
thc kick of a mule. He was recently
acquitted of the murder bf #ack Reed*
a colored man, on tue. ?round of insan?
ity caused by the, kick of ? mule in the
head, ftc also had a good balik ac?
count. ,
Mr. Henry Clay Lakens, of New
York, has accepted a position as editor
in chief of the Charleston World. Mr.
Lukena is a journalist of several years'
experience, and was held in high esteem
by the newspaper fraternity ot New
York, where his ?bm^* ^^??^^
recogniic*L'- ? Wv??^^^SB"^