Little Golden's Daughter

e temerity to approach her in her character of the Glenalvan ghost. On the contrary, she had confidently expected to

andsome man start from Elinor's side, and cross the roo

ly and fled down the long, dark corridor, her heart beating with

tification if he should find out her girlish p

n ran down the dark hall, but her rapid heart-beats could not drown the quick an

ld be compelled to go up a wide stairway leading dir

at it would be very unwise to return to the haunted rooms just then. Sh

scape into the open air and hide herself in the bel

ecret nook within it. Her pursuer d

py thought, Golden flew past the wid

teps outside, and struck brea

"a foe-man worthy of her steel." Bertram Chesleigh had ne

he flying form, and kiss the face whose beauty had struck h

he novelty of the chase. He was determined to ke

As he followed her over the lawn he was so near that the frightened girl could hear his quick,

touched everything with weird beauty. It shone on the leaves, the

led through the moonlight, her white arms and neck gleamed

nto the path by the lake. When once she had crossed that path she would be into

flying leap over the flight of marble steps

kly around her waist, her head was drawn back against a manly breast, and to Golden's horror and

vainly to struggle out of his clasp, lifted her eyes and saw a dark, splendid, handsome face gazing into

yes full of angry tears, "let me go! Ho

leigh began to realize that it was not a phantom, but a

e into the girlish face that was so very beau

id. "You should be glad

she demanded, in a sharp

en's captor sparkled with mi

uld catch and kiss the Glenalvan ghost its wandering spirit would be laid fo

hand that she could not leave him. She looked at him with bright eyes in which a

lf so very handsome,

lied, unblushingly. "One must always tak

replied, impetuousl

ul name!" cried Golden'

enalvan,"

hen he looked at her more closely. "

sins," the girl

anding there talking to this stranger from who

power; the warm, soft hand that clasped her own, sent st

, smiling face once she liked to look at

ne like a sheet of silver; but Bertram Chesleigh had no eyes for its be

all his life he had never

t a ghost, afte

o frighten my cousins and spoil their party. Do you thi

a little

" he said. "Why did you wi

, and said cruel things to me, besides,

ite you?" he inquired,

sooner think that grandpa guessed the true

andpa guess?

o Elinor," she replied, readily, and without a suspicion that it was the "rich gu

d merrily, and the little girl aw

will be very angry. Oh, please don't tell anyone I was th

es and laughter was borne to them

she cried. "Oh! do let go my hand. I must h

, then he kissed her small hand and released her, f

f in the shrubbery. The young man lighted a

t? Did you kiss her?" t

pursued her across the lawn to the border of the lake, and that just as I might have touched her wi

as a statement of facts by the credulous. The r

returned to the house. But though they praised his bravery, everyone cha