Miss McDonald

ouen, France, and

15,

ns, two of which concern cousin Tom and one of which has to do with you and that miserable settlement which has troubled me so much. I thought when I brought it back and tore it up that was the last of it, and did not know that by no act of mine could I give it to you until I was of age. Father missed it, of course, and I told him just the truth, and that I could never touch a penny

d, Guy, I have tried to improve just to please you; believe me, Guy, just to please you. Tom was as a brother-a dear, good big bear of a brother whom I loved as such, but nothing more. Even were you dead, I could not marry Tom after knowing you; and I told him so when in Berlin he asked me for the sixth time to be his wife. I had to tell hi

anybody. I did not think I could. I felt that if I belonged to anybody it was you, and I cannot have Tom; and father was very angry and taunted me wi

paying for my bread, and when I heard that Madame Lafarcade, a French lady, who had spent the winter in Berlin, was wanting an English governess for her children, I went to her, and, as the result, am here at this beautifu

ful to me, and I was willing to be free, though always, way down in my heart, was something which protested against it, and if you knew just how I was influenced and led on insensibly to assent, you would not blame me so much. The word divorce had an ugly sound to me, and I did not like it, and I have always felt as if bound to you just the same. It would not be right for me to marry Tom, even if I wanted to, which I do not. I am yours, Guy-only yours, and all these years I have studied and improved for your sake, without any fixed idea, perhaps, as to what I expected or hoped. But when Tom spoke the

ask her to give you up, even if it is the very day before the wedding-for you are mine, and, sometimes, when the children are troublesome, and I am so tired and sorry and h

o-I was a bother to her once. I'll be a comfort now. Tell her so, please; tell her t

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safety I shall send it to New York b

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rting the worst from wounded love and disappointed hopes. Then he had said to himself, "I can never suffer again as I a

who called herself his wife, when just across the hall, only a few rods away, was

the priceless thing he had once thought her to be. The first moments of agony which followed the reading of the letter were Daisy's wholly, and in bitterness of soul the man she had cast off and thought to take again cried out, as he stretched his arms toward an invisible for

ain he should always carry in his heart. "Darling Daisy; poor Julia!" was what to himself he designated the two women who were both so much to him. To the first his love, to the other his tender care, for she was worthy of it. She was noble, and good, and womanly; he said it many times, and tried to stop the rapid heart throbs and quiet himself down

asked, alarmed at the pallor on his face

his agitation, and he answered th

l pass off as suddenly," he said, trying to smile, and

is your heart?" she continued, as she ru

morse flitted across G

re you there is no danger-the worst

ds pressing his. Perfectly healthy herself, she must have imparted some life and vigor to him, for

ght be happy yet, for Julia was one whom any man could love and be proud to call his wife. And Guy said to himself that he did love her, though not as he once loved Daisy, or as he could love her again were he

omething whisp

had thrown around Julia, who was sitting with him upon the sofa,

sit; and Julia, who had hitherto regarded him as a great, silent man, given to few words, wondered at the change, and watched the bright red spots on his

Daisy, with only the faint tracing of a pencil to indicate the paragraph. "Better so than to writ

to the house, and by many little acts of thoughtfulness showed how glad she was to have her there. And Julia was very happy save when she remembered the heart disease, which she was sure Guy had, and for which he would not seek

ard no tidings of her until six months after his marriage, when there came to him the ten thousand dollars, with all the interest which had accrued since the settlement first was made. There

to close again; and when, at last, one year after his marriage, they brought him a beautiful little baby girl and laid it in his ar

you half as wel

d hair in which there was a gleam of gold, and

object to

's choice, knowing well who Margaret had been; and herself first gave the pet name of Daisy to