Show TO END 1 ive jint been been learning earn in the lesson 0 life the sad sad nad lesson of f loving lall all of 0 its ita powers olirs ii for r ahre are or p pain 21 n dep bon slowly and sadly proving here the sweet girlish voice falters and jesse asse gray sighs 0 s is as she p picks icks up her sewing a again she is sitting 0 in ia tho garden 1 under the apple trees and a wary pretty picture she makes at least arthur thorne thinks so as he be walks walk s quietly qui etly up the path and evento where she is 1 I dont see why you sigh ali miss Ss jessie there cannot surely bo be any application in that song to your 1 self how your voice startled me mr air thorne thorn e I 1 did d id not see sec you coming co on account of the intervening trees arees I 1 As she says this jess jessie le looks up ait a i it at him vainly trying to eur sur prees press the blush that rises to her face of course there 27 she con iti referring to his big remark 1 11 1 I 1 was not thinking 0 of myself and 1 I 1 suppose supposed oseI I 1 sighed unconsciously 11 1 tl ti 1 thinkie cou could id apply to such a heartless little littly coque coquette tte 23 says arthur holding her little brown hand band a than necessary noticing ssie draws drawe it away and thorne throws himself on the grass at her feet while they are g wo we will take a picture of them arthur thorne is A perfect blonde tall well formed forme d and fea features as finely cut cui as those of tho the purest cameo lie he i is s the only son eon of a very wealthy alaby widow lady hidy who is spending 0 the summer at scarbor ough 0 u m la arthur A r thur has been with her until about three weeks aim ago w when he be suddenly tired of the round of fa fashionable gayety gaiety he be was 0 in ing ginand in and bidding his mother a hasty goodbye good bye he started off and soon EOM found himself in a quiet little hants village villa e upon questioning different 0 ones nes he be was directed to grays pleasant farmhouse farm house where a cordial we welcome loome bof course the plain though comfortable combe 1 for foT table zoom room with t the be great f sath or er beds was something very novel nov 1 to chis fashionable young gentleman still everything was sosweet andelean 1 fand and clean that he be rather liked it and decided to stay as long longas as be was contented at first lie he thought a few days would Bu fiTce I 1 but when lie he caught M a gliese of lits his kind hosts bests pretty daughter daug liter bee changed hc banged biskind hie bis gaind mind jessie gray is indeed pretty enough to to attract anjorie an anyone vorie A either young or orold old she is just j u S t eighteen eighme on a pretty slight girlish figure short black haar baar curling all oyer over her proud little head haid and low white forehead a small strai straight lit nose ar addlie sweetest little ruo mouth uth inthe world but best of all are the beau bea u ray gray eyes that one minute flash fire as she says rol something nothing unusually saucy and the next grow sad s adaid and tender as she ehe listens lis telis to some touching story that awakens allege all th e sympathy of hor her anly nature come Co roe dont be so BO industrious miss jessie jessic says arthur as ho be tries to take flie the sewing from her 1 I 1 want you to come for a row as it is too lovely an afternoon to stay atay away from the water and he books kossat kok sat at her with a coaxing ex e that she 4 poor litif dirl emirl M can cannot nt resist so S 0 they start off a cross across the fields I 1 and soon soon reach a very pretty lake nestling in the midst of mr grays many acres unmooring mooring Un a dainty I 1 ai i nty little boat just juet large enough for tw two oALey they get in and are soon seen skimming skim icing over the water by arthur ill master aste r strokes after a he st resting oh his oars looks up to find fiend jessies beautiful eyes fixed on en him with an anax ax in them he c has never before seen of what are you thinking little girl you are not half balf as merry as usual As he be says this a strange feeling comes over him bin a and he be suddenly realizes that why lie he basso content ed during the last two weeks yes he loves her lier not as lie he has thought it I ha loved a dozen ethl other r girls girle to tire of them in a week but wa with the strong overmastering love that comes hut but once in a lifo life time he ion longs ions 0 s to ibold old her in his arms and toll her of kofl i hut but thou thoughts 0 abts of his proud naught haughty mother drive back th the e words so he only takes her ait little hand band in his and waits for her answer 1 I was thinking says jessie in an her own sweet voice how much I 1 shall miss you when you really go and how very pleasant the last two weeks have been this is too much for him to withstand and in another moment arthurs arms are around her and jessies curly beades head is billowed pillowed pill owed edon on his breast I 1 i I 1 A my darling little girl and his voice voice is is tender as he be sp mlis do you realize how bow dearly I 1 love ilova you and can you feel any of that deep ni mc e V arthur I 1 fear you already know that I 1 do and jessies glorious eyes looked bravely and tenderly up at him they sit quietly for awhile till lauy beally the lie sink sinking indof of the sun bun in the west reminds jessie jess ic that she lias has household duties to attend to so arthur rows her herback back to the laud land and they return to the I 1 hoube in the evening after the farriter far farm riler er and his wife have retired thelo the lovers veirs have a long talk and arthur ox ex plaines to jessie that it is best not to tell her parent of their engagement till he be had arranged everything with liia hill mother she has already selected a great helle belle for me to marry darling dailing and it may he be rather difficult to convince her I 1 that I 1 shall be far happier bappler with my dear little jessie are you sure eure you will be arthur thur r asks jessie looking at him rather wistfully my dear little girl when I 1 am riot not contented a moment away fr from orn you I 1 arn am sure bure I 1 would never be happy with wit h esther hamilton p answers arthur bisbin kissing g tho the sweet lips eo 60 near lis his own 1 two more weeks pass which they enjoy to the utmost when tt at the end of that time a telegram arrives telling arthur of the dangerous illness of his in mother otiler and asking him to return at once 1 I cant bear to have you go arthur I 1 feel as if something would happen to 1 koop cop you from me and tears dim the brial brightness atness of her bar eyes as aa jessie gays 8 this wt what fanciful little dittle girl you arel are he showers ac 48 he kirms them i away dont you know I 1 now my darling little girl that iio nothing thing could if do clo that r finally the goodbyes good byes byea are said and ho he is g gone one arriving in scar I 1 borough boroug ab lie he goes directly to the I 1 house at which his mother is laying to find her indeed very verdill ver ill the doctors say a trip to Ale menton raton is is I 1 all that can save her and so be heroes ga without seeing his little fiancee lancet to be sure lie ho writes write her a loving goodbye still she is ie sorely disappoint ed atthe time of arthur first coming to the farmhouse farm house there were several of the neighbor tans who paid jessie a groat deal of attention att eption of 0 course she received them graciously elou enough b s still 1 she had nover never cared particularly for any there was well todo do one in an exceedingly to jo young 0 farmer who had loveil loved jessie all his life lie he worked a very fine farm and mr gray and his wife wanted jessie to marry him bim still when lie he proposed and was refused they thought abo much louch of their daughters happiness to urge the matter ile he felt very bitter about it and arthur Thor noa coming only added fuel to the flame eec cepec balli when he saw how muck the latter and jesie jeesie were together toc rether he always brings the letters tram the post office to mr grays so when letters came from arthur thorne it is ik a very easy matter to keep them at first jessie thinks mrs Th orites illness prevents arthurs writing hut but as the weeks wear on she begins to grow heartsick goncsar twice the farmer and his wife say it is stran go they never hear from art arthur chur but finally they ceased thinking of him not so with poor poof little neby desby each week finds her longing 0 more and more for some word that will tell her she is remembered and loved but hue biane passes on autumn winter and spring come cole andge and it is on once ce more beautiful june jessie is again sitting in the garden but now there is no song on on ber lis lips p and andt there bere is a sadness in her beautiful eyes that never used to be there finally the door doer of the farm bouse opens and kind motherly sirs mrs gray comes out there ther eis is an anxious anikis look on her face as bhe sees her tor A few weeks week 6 before on being questioned jessie told her mother about her engagement men t to arthur thorne and all his strange silence during durin the months of his absence the kind mother said iio thing lhing to reproach her as she pitied her too much for that jessic dear she says bays as she reaches her why dont you go for 11 a TOW row or a walbor walk or something I 1 hate bate to see you sitting quietly thinking all the time go darling find some amusement I 1 ste see some of the young people and forget about arthur thorne for he is not worth one of your pure thoughts it dont mother dear I 1 cant bear to hear you speak b bitterly bitler tf orly ly jf of arthur remember I 1 love him and cannot will not believe anything against him j jessies impetuosity brings the color to her face hut but as it recedes leaving it so white its delicacy is very precept ible she is very fra gile these days so different from the rosy cheeked cawed little beauty of last I 1 summer I 1 11 1 I dont understand how bow you can believe indis love after a years silence says mra airs gray but regrets it instantly as she notices the pained I 1 expression I 1 on hor daughters face 1 I will not ot try to exola explain in but I 1 have perfect faith in him if I 1 wait for years or forever saying this ZT bessie essie leaves the I 1 seat and walks toward the lake Arri arriving viRg there and feeling to tired after the exertion of walking she ho lies down under th the e frees trees where she soon falls fast asleep anliot an hour ahas I 1 has passed n the perfect nesa iese is la disturbed by a drep and arthur thorne comes in view he is sual bun burtred and the careless look hitherto seen on his face is 0 gone on e As AB he be loo looks U down at jessie looking so pure and swee before him a Bome something thih g shakes his big frame whose trea treachery ciery is it that has made this change in that bright 0 sweet face he has just come from the house where every thi thing 1 ng has been e explained on both sides bobbe h as written conti duall ty without ing a word in reply and ana abhat bi his in mothers illness had kept hind him at ker her side sido until dea death th released him after nearly a year elapsing clapping ile he had then hurried to toressie jessie to baye everything every thing explained As lie he bookson looks on her a great longing to take her in his arms almost overmasters over oTer masters him when when jessie moving moring inginger ingin in her sleep murmurs 1 I knew you would come coine arthur in spite of your never writing in an instant she is in his arms und and awa awakening bening na looks once more onais loved face Ar arthur thairl is all she says and then quietly faints away I 1 he carries her to the house and she is laid in her bed from which slie does docs not rite rise for six weeks braia Brain fever cori confines fines her and from her wild ravings c they learn of the fearful suffering she endured so patiently patient lv finall finally y consciousness I 1 and strength return and cheis briois carried down stairs for thi the first time just a year from the day she met arthur ie during 0 their co conversation I 1 it dawns upon jessie that tbt william black must be responsible for all ail her suffering 0 but sho I 1 is so ao b happy appy now that she insists that nothing shall be done dona to hini him everything ta is explained now dear dea arthur and his conscience must reproach him biln more bitterly than ever we wa could doand do and jessie looks at him pleada pleadingly ila oly of course yon will have your your own way my darling 0 and if the c co larwill only return to those dear little white cheeks I 1 will forgive foreve n him bim answers an answers arthur tenderly kissing the cheeks iri in question until there isa 4 good deal of color in them in a few weeks jessies aca health alth I 1 if i s full fully y recovered and then there is a quiet wedding in the little parish church chura the the sun never ebone oil 04 a lovelier bride than jessie gary makes as she stands at the altar in her simple white dress and veil and gives herself into A arthur r thui kee keeping piner forever foreve r i we I 1 will have elegance afterwards arthur says as he be insists on desimple he her simple dress 1 I want you to corns come to me ille as I 1 found you a sweet little little wayside flower |