Show THE LUYE ItS never while I 1 live said miss leigh never while I 1 live will I 1 ace your face again sho it when sho said it and as sho spoke she threw her ring towards who biad offended her it missed him and rolled down upon the boor and over the sill 0 an open closet one of those old closets that used to stand on cither side of the mantelpiece mantel piece sho did nut notice where it rolled jie did though and after alio had the room he turned to pick it up the ring she had worn would always be precious to him miss Kash leigh went straight to glicr own room as miserable a girl as ever lived and a moment later grandmother bustled into alic drawing pushed alic open closet door to picked up the fallen magazine set the annuals aud books of poetry straight on the table pulled blown ho shade arranged alio chaira mathematically against Ihu wall and bustled out again ive had things lifty years jhc said to herself and thiera conelia Co nulia and her beau with no more respect for them than if they were so much lumber then sho closed the door her and went away to her own room up stairs where a line silk patchwork quilt was in the frame a surp riso for said cornelia grandma gave every young person of the family something of her own manufacture on his or her wedding day now the old lady had said a dozen limes to king who was helping her 1 I rather think cornelia will have the best tiling ive done and theres a bit in it of every silk theres ever been in alic family and of her fathers and grandfather i wedding tests acs u its memorial quilt said it lakes you mum to plan such things the qu ailt wa wai i finished and bound that afternoon and boy of being over sho went homo luit abo carried about the village the news eliat she was sure nil was over between miss I 1 ashleigh and mr spear shed aicard cornelia saying something to her and alio old lady wa furious he would never have done that it lie had cared for me you know grandma cornelia was saying at that moment stuff and nonsense ho loves the ground you walk on taid the alil lady boull ro ull get such another cornelia 1 I never marry at all I 1 hato benl cornelia answered and then her grandmother made alic house too liot to hold her and she went her usual course when fell out with grandma three davs parsed at the end of alie third stepped in at MM young mrs us they called her though alio was nearly fifty for grandma was old mrs kash leigh 1 I expect feel upset I 1 tell you the new cornelia said she too ernal this time ho lie he orvilla spear hant been heard of ho was it your uis mother says ho went over to explain and miiko up ami lie never canio lack he hoi she thought maybe hed over to his brothers but ho he hafl I 1 reckon hc drowned 1 I ilont know why tho whole lews talk over my aal aira and every meddling old maid giggle about them cried cornelia piety jumped to iier feet seized aci parasol and turned towards ihn door good afternoon misa cornelia and mrs she said with a con courtesy ill remember tny if other folks forget only theres other folks as likely to b old maids ns me and 1 fancy its mrs nal nfl air giov if anything haa happened to iier boy away flounced alft pratt youve mil piety in a rage cornelia eaid mrs IS thais u pity alio liis ii long tongue aut cornalia was crying 0 mother dear tho sobbed il true is it orvillo did feel dreadfully wont olec mother hut nt thia sally tho little servant girl froni grandma came hying into he room without any dioro warning than if sho had been shot from 1 gun the old lahsin says you are over nt once both you ladies aho cried standing before mrs Kash leish and iier acs son aiko a parrot theres thing of and youre needed at const get your bonnet cornelia 1 said her mother ill aust pul on this sun lisit what ia it sally do you know 1 I know its something seisu ia almoite wild and theres lots of folks there about mr spear two indies eai d no more they ninny and entering grandeas grandmas grand mas i arlor found assembled more of alic members of alio llio spear family and a friend or two besides orvilla had indeed disappeared lie had never been hamu since his vi ail to corneli aud now the i lanned relatives anxious to pet all tho information they could regarding the interview between orvilla and cornelia 1 I biad reason to bo angey sir spear said cornolia Corno lii proudly good reason and I 1 took oil my ring and gave it back and went out of iho room thai is all I 1 kaow I 1 dont know when lie went or where 1 1 thought lie mind so much I 1 lio had slopped caring about me lie ought to bow at all events nid grand ma my boy is dead ini I 1 have alic pond said mis spear amidst her tears ilo left all his money al home lie hau gone traveling without a bhangu of clothes 0 you wicked gill 1 hope the spear that holl haunt you 1 I could kill you cried the youngest miss spear cornelia had kept up bravely until koiv but when her two friends turned upon her thus sho pave a little scream and fell over on the sofa alio was in a dead swoon and tho water they sprinkled in her ance did not bring her to grandma grew frightened 1 chupo it an attack of heart sho said poor child she looks as if jhc were 0 cried mother they gathered around cornelia anil daiil all alicy could for her ind soon she recovered and sat up but all her arido was gone 0 dear 0 dear sho sobbed 1 fisli I 1 hail died I 1 wish I 1 hid never come to 0 orvilla Orvil lc orvillee Or what has become of you 0 O oil moaned alio llio mother 0 O oli alio anil cornelias head fell back again emma get ho lavender out ot the hina cloice said grandma to her daughter quick its on the corner shell mm ia rulice to alio closet it wont onan she cried wildly its i patent loci grandma locks as it shuts clerus tic key and mrs law buck to this door opened it and uttered a shriek on tho floor huddled up under the shelf lay poor orvilla spear lie was white and limp cornelia sat and staled at him in the most awful way she thought him dead but alio more experienced matron taw that ho hiis yet living sally was sent post for alio doctor and there in mrs drawing room ho found cornelia and orvilla lying quito unconscious like homco and in the scano at he bumb and tho rest of the party in a of bewilderment and terror past description at last how ever both were conscious and seated chairs regarded each other alio observers kept silence and mr orvilla spear uttered tho birst word a of all the confounded tools who dear naked his mother me said Orvil lc regardless ol 01 grammar who shut me in what were you in the closet for grandma with a guilty conscience to pick something up that rolled there said orvillo jhc ling asked cornelia frantic call v yes the ring said mr spear Moro fool I 1 some door to I 1 shouted and lion led und kicked nud no one heard me boli oh oh shrieked cornelia 1 I belies 0 hid tharo just to kill me for no other purpose than out of ro 1 ou banged alio door on mo said mr spear A jealous woman will do anything i banged the door orvillo said old mrs agh 1 I left everything hying 1 just pushed it as I 1 passed and you ought to bacas your baars blars clial you arc alive for people dont go into the drawing room sometimes for a fortnight in this small family wo luo the parlor much more and I 1 niu deaf and so is old and you leavo died there yes and haio killed him cornelia ailder the old lady throwing his pretty diamond ring on the bloor 0 O moaned cornelia 0 O it her fault I 1 was a confounded fool nil through cried or ville 1 I knew that closet had a spring lock no dont blamo cornelia 1 I shall always blamo ins ineck cK sig aed cornelia 0 O how pale you abiol and how pale you arc cornelia sighed orvilla Orvil lc did you really caro when you thought I 1 was dead ladies said grandma now that orvilla lias recovered and is getting on let uj go into the anil leave those two young folks to talk things over together ahe led alio dav the othora followed when iho tea bell rang soon after or ahlo aud cornelia cani out of the drawing room arm in arm and the wed diug day was alicd call mrs strong was alio first cotton raisch in california and last year alio bales am W |