Show POCKET att r what its contents disclosed and the vow she made now sacy a egweet sitting idly by the win adow and watching her daughter as she put the finishing touches to a most be witching toilet 1 I trust you will give TOi insel wad not in abo hearts companions today to day be circumspect and font I 1 pray give any encouragement to bob lester unless you mean to marry him Your flirting proclivities 1 am sorry to say are alarmingly developed I 1 wish yes yea mamma broke in abo girl adjusting the rose colored knot of ribbon more satisfactorily at ber white throaty 1 I know what you wish so dont draw a despairing breath for I 1 all attend 0 o your advice and as circumspectly as ever rose manfrin Mar abo ugliest girl in rosedale Ros edalo conlu ao you apprehend any I 1 dislike bob lester intensely and I 1 only consented to ac toa the picnic because bo id tho json bf the richest man in tho county too for that matter brides I 1 have a penchant SOT iyub paused abruptly with tho name auroe fu roe one warm upon her lips and a her piquant blonde face a lovely girl slender petite and graceful as one of tho sweetbrier sweet brier branches that clambered oscr the garden wall ShO mischievous gray cyca a ol 01 red goad hair allowed two massive i strands tolay bolay a rosebud of a mouth and tho j bands and feet imaginable alfar Alf cr m other regan led her into natly aho tit herlip and turned aside as if in bueb ahat aro rou searching for now luc mrs sherwood your boiles seems complete not quite mamma you forget my charming pocket all the girls will weartie today to day vo are to bring homo barro sin it you know vt Nonsense lucy I 1 would abt wear it if I 1 yoni it is absurd for a young lady to have one of those useless appendages pen dages dangling ather aide bul head sorry but I 1 really cant relinquish the charming accessory 0 o my toilet apama chy it is ou otibe question altogether bachof Is to wear oD eLten sw J mrs Sheo food said noi more and lucy began to fasten her pocket by its tasseled tasse led cord to the rose colored belt at r just now the girls of rosedale had mania tor wearing pockets of the most fanciful description not to deposit any thing therein but merely as a matter of how bucys lucys was heart shaped of w ine hood velvit rid artistically acome d with gold cord lying against thesbit background of pa ery apte regarded t admiringly as she turned away from he long mirror at a man reined in two spirited black steeds in front of the maples as widow sherwoode She cozy place was appropriately called there is mr lester now mamma cried lucy abo was slyly peeping at turnout from behind the japery at ihei window my won jac cje the envy of overy girl at the wha t lovely horses kneir and just the sil ver dear aniol lester have such nery red hair and was a bit more pol and yes yes mamma I 1 am epidy rp idy and will not keep my cavalier y there goes jane with the big frosted cake and the basket of sand oh 1 anticipate a splendid on her wide egypsy the girl tripped merrily down the steps was assisted into the carriage by mr lipster and away they sped in the direction of the pins woods or throe miles away bou leitert ft man of twenty eight compactly built with fliming red hair lid his best to make himself agreeable lucy laughed at his and back witty tees but all the while sho was wonder finif what ditl bad been cherey th erey kosa wilde a strikingly intelligent but rather impecunious young lawyer to escort hep to the picric out of caprice or a desire perhaps to try her dwor over him she had coolly rejected pine woods were alive with tappy people when bob and llucy arrived way going on and a string b and was discoursing a most jubilant air T lucy closely the motley crowd there underneath ono of the sho beheld the man who had solicited the favor of be assiduously paying his jhai into ai gazelle eyed brunotto brunc tto in a costume of crimson and gold yes sho he would tiring squire bogers daughton daugh tor would te in the meshes of sh was weaving to her father was a and well did assert that he cared a i very eft th e un questionably lovely and no matter sho louia show ross waldo that his at togher so 1 ha flirted flir tod v ith Bol iLester ana addressed n er anda felt wretched aletho while i afa C fax latoi orbe she brodio alacy ron tho grou scattered herp ind there unde iab e pluma aanal banac af a I 1 ala kj a j J k fv I 1 hru hg a chasm of sat down on anioga aw ates nsf VS I 1 j as tho puy of the cool water tho sigh ing ot the wind among the jungles of tall brakes soothed her abo hbo partially closed her bejes ejes ahon sho started to her feet a stat ledl exclamation cla mation dropping from her lips she bad just discovered that the ruby velvet pocket that had swayed from her belt a short time before was missing where had she lost it and oh what if it had fallen into some ones hands especially bob desters lesters Le or ross wildes abo remembered that her little aluc and gold diary reposed in its depths and she had been foolish enough to jot down some thoughts concerning the rivals never believing it would fall into the possession of either what if bob or ross bad picked it up and no no both of the gentlemen were honora blead would not try to pry into an others affairs still reason as abc rould she did not feel quite easy about sir loster he might not buta heavy footstep crunching the pine cones that littered the ground fell upon her oar and raising her eyes she encountered the malignant glance of bob L stor what had brought that angry frown lo 10 hiT Tace had he found the pocket extracted fr in its depths the diary which ashe had not been wise enough to remove and gleaned the truth of her feelings for him lie had indeed somo perverse fate bad led him to the spot where it lay in its brown bed like some brilliantly tinted bird ot parji disc lie recognized it at once and stooping down ho picked it up with the intention of restoring it to its owner when from its mouth tho tiny blue and gold book clipped out bucys lucys Lu cys diary by jovel ho ajac u lancil see what she has jotted th foin no compunction whatever ho 0 it admired the italian spidery i iff and then read the atoms t 1 III brow grov carlf as a i furious Jc clings raged and the I 1 him lie know that abe dp allf afi m and floied his cival II 11 nut tho bell talo pages in but be controlled himself and the diary back in its receptacle alie pocket he had recently thought ao ho it into the nest of from which he bad taken it lot the accursed thing lio there ni confront my lady and accuse her of her bery bucys lucys face blanched white as death as bob lester like some raging demon halted in her path white faint if you can you treacherous creaturo cro aturo ho hissed with ill the venom of a serpent 1 I have found you out you flirted ith me on and to your diary that it I 1 tho last man on the face earth you would not marry me more wu vowed you loved ross wilde sh beless creature I 1 scorn you 1 I hate jou pie half a mind to bobs you down among those ebarp toothed rocks you such a fate no you need not shrink from me ill not lay h ands on you but 1 shall try to turn the heart of my rival against you lie was gone and lucy sank shivering to the earth hy did I 1 over flirt with him sho wailed it was heartless I 1 know but I 1 never meant hiim any harm I 1 will never coquette again avith any man she covered her face with her bands and wept bitterly aliss sherwood lucy at the sound of a familiar voice she raised her tear wet face this time boss wilde stood before her and in bis band she saw the ruby pocket she began tofate to hate it ha extended it toward her your property I 1 boli ovo I 1 found it probably where you lost it she took it and drawing forth the and was there paul pry enough about you to make yourself master of the contents of this journal regarded Ho her haughtily you arc unjust miss sherwood I 1 am an honorable man but lowering bis voice lot me congratulate you I 1 met who informed me that you had just consented ito be his difo jl wish you all possible happiness 1 trust he will bo you as I 1 should have been bad you the right ob lucy you know hyso crot think of mo as kindly as you can he start ed to leave but lucy calleri him back mr lester saoko falsely ross if you had read the diary aa ho was mean enough to do you would itaco learned that I 1 lovo you only you it matters not what followed simce it to say that lucy was blissfully happy and that she would never again wear that pocket keep a diary or flirt with any man john A peters biln Y weekly |