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Show fTT ' - 7 . ;Ov' f :. Ml V - V V V ' ,' LOVn ON TVO CONTKiENTS. i his directions, and In polntlrsr out th llmbi which -he wlstI tn.. :nel oft and thoee which were to be retained. When they had gone Into the1 library, li-brary, while aha wai asUag tor Lady Reade, the General, who was a little near sighted, drew hi eye-glassea from hi pocket boldly, and put them on to have a clearer view; when suddenly Mrs. Gifford sent to summon then to dinner, and then, before the' twilight grew too dim, Olga put on her garden hat and toolc Sommerfleld off for a Walk about the place. First ' came , a great garden, then wide stretches ef rreen fields: & cheerful cheer-ful green lane curved round to left, and they had reached the summer-house, summer-house, the sides of which were covered with wild grapes. The frosts of winter win-ter and the heat of summer had sadly warped the benches covered with an accumulation of moss. As they entered and - seated themselves, them-selves, she espied beneath the shelter of a ftone a pretty little snail, whose shell was not only fragile, but 'was scarcely large enough to admit the whole of its body. 1 i 11 ' (Continued tomorrow.) ' (Continued from Yesterday.) . After this. 6orr.merf.eld and she had a good many inuresta in commdn. lit had no! developed Into any violent love making, but was usually hovering about, trying to be as agreeable 1 to her as possible, . Kothlng came ofher venture In the pool, but when Sommerfleld had spent twenty, pounds he one morning tools the pool of eighteen pounds,' and rest ifig on the Oxford rug. brought now to the bow of the boat, and planted In ,the shade of tn chart house, a champagne cham-pagne supper was arranged. I "I'm Just thinking", Sommerfleld," said. Uncle Dahlgren- at the supper, "that if you enjoy scenery, you woald Ilk Edgewater; can't you take It In ort .your way. as you pass through to Canada?" . , Sommerfleld and Olga looked at each other.' - ' ' . "Is there any-sort of an inn whert J could stay? he asked. "Oh. yes, the Taconlo was opened last year; It Is fitted with electric light, end all that sort of thing. Contrast Con-trast it, Olga. with the house we were in at Jurlch!" , "What da you say?" said Sommerfleld, Sommer-fleld, turning to Olga after a moment. mo-ment. Olga blushed a little. "I say come." "Then you may ba sure I will. I thank you very much, Mr. - Dahlgren, for kindly suggesting it." ' The next morning the white sandy shore of New Jersey was discernible through Bommerfleld's glass. Olga and he were walking together. "They say that man is running away from his wife." she whispered, as a tall, athletic-looking fellow pssd them, ' talking with animation to a young lady on bis arm. ' 1 V'Yes. so I've heard." said Sommerfleld. Sommer-fleld. ."and. poor dog! I can't help pitying him." ' ' ''Bat. it's awfully wicked in a man to desert a woman," said Olga. Somroerfleld's face grew suddenly Srrava, .1 "Of course It la; every one detests anything of that sort," he said. "I'm sure I da; if a man has been a fool In marrying,- nothing . Is more Just than that he should suffer for it. But you had better not say a word, for It la In your country that the divorce courts are most open to dissatisfied husbands and wives. After all, why should two perrons who hate each other be doomed to remain for life together? I think they might better be galley slaves." "Nevertheless, I do not approve of divorce," said Olga. The heat of New Tork was so Intense In-tense that the Dahlgrens determined to push on to Edgewater at once. Out of town everything was perfection: there was summer everywhere, on palisades, on river. In the sky. The Hudson, almost without limit, and as clear as a shadow,, was at its bluest. With every turn of the wheel. Olga's father and home began to reassert thflr old dominion. Her mother had dlfd when she was six years old and Gen. Dahlgren liad thrown off ' every possible occupation to rear her until she should be a wornan. He was now a retired officer, close upon fifty years of age; his constitution had been somewhat some-what shattered during his frontier service: ser-vice: his duty as captain of the Fifteenth Fif-teenth New Tork Infantry had led him through numerous skirmishes with Indians, and to meet them he had often ploughed his way through forests and over prairies, with the winters cold and furious and the summers hot and dry; still, It had been a congenial service, and he had hardly realized what he was going through. A beautiful August sun was shining over everything when Olga arrived at Edgewater. The stir and bustle that she made in the house was jdellghtful to the General, and even Mrs. Gifford, the housekeeper, who was of a domestic domes-tic turn of mind, and thought v Olga had quite as many new Ideas as were good for her, enjoyed having a young lady to talk to, even though she had to talk about Europe most of the time. As for Sommerfleld there were several sev-eral short, pleasant notes from him. and after a few days his thirst for sight-seeing was satisfied, and Olga drove her two white ponies over to the station and met him. When she returned the General was In the garden. This garden flay on the slope of the green lawn,! which trended to the south, and was shielded by trees and hedges which kept off the edge of the eastswind; here were to be found roses of all colors and varieties: and the General, busied In directing the pruning of a tree, curious to see Olga's new friend, was still exact In |