the son of the Planter millionaire, a grave, sedate 
looking man, wlio appeared to be at least thirty 
with a frail, beautiful woman, some years younger, 
leaning upon his arm, and whom he introduced as 
his sister.—[Concluded next week. 
to her nature, and she never looked half so lov ely as 
when lmr blue eyes drooped under his deep gaze, 
and her sweet lips trembled with emotion as some 
burst of eloquence escaped his own. 
He never tired of recounting his travels and adven¬ 
tures in “sunny Italy,” where he had acquired his 
artist-lore, and, strange to say, Kitty never wearied 
listening,— but would sit for hours breathing in, like 
inspiration, all the glowing thoughts and emotions 
of her companion. Sometime® she wondered if he 
loved her; then the blue eyes would grow dim, aud 
the mists would gather as she remembered his 
lonely, isolated life, and thought it was this which 
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And love brings joy the rarest. 
A richer boon, a summer noon 
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The old man’s face softened. 
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<*i if "you refer to my ability to support a wife, I can 
assure you-” 
“I know that you arc a rich man, Luke Jordan, 
but I take it for granted that you ask my girl to 
marry you , not your property. Wliat guarantee can 
vou give me, in case it should be swept away, as it 
is in thousands of instances,—that you could provide 
for her a comfortable home ? You have bauds and 
brains—do you know how to use them ? Again 1 
ask, what can you do ? ” 
This was a style of catechism for which Luke was 
quite unprepared, and he stared blankly at the ques¬ 
tioner without speaking. 
“ I believe you managed to get through college— 
have you any profession ?” 
“ No, sir; I thought-” 
“ Have you any trade ?” 
“ No, sir; my father thought that, with the wealth 
I should inherit, I should not need any.” 
“ Your father thought like a fool, then. He’d 
much better have given you some honest occupation 
and cut you off with a shilling—it might have been 
the making of you. As it is, what arc you lit for t 
Here you arc a strong, able-bodied man, twenty-four 
years old, and never earned a dollar in your life! 
again it was wan a sau anu euauguu iuu», 
“I am going away, Miss Martin, ” he said. 
“ Please give me some little token by which to re¬ 
member this happy summer-time, and forgive me 
when I tell you it Los been the happiest period of 
all my life! You will not refuse me some little 
memento, will you, Kitty V—pardon my asking it.” 
“I will give you tills, Arthur,” she faltered, as 
the hot tears rained down upon the little golden 
circlet which she drew from her linger and passed to 
him. “ Keep it always; it was my mother’s, and 
has been very dear to me! ” 
U Always!— always 1 ” he murmured, as lie pressed 
it to his lips; and then placing it upon his little 
linger, lie said, “ Sec, it is a perfect Jit, Kitty ! and 
maybe it is an omen of good. Heaven grant that it 
may be 1 Here, take this iu exchange, and keep it 
forever for my sake,”—and lie clasped a circlet of 
pearls about her wrist. “ And here are a few’ of my 
sketches—take them; all will be familiar to you.” 
Then be went away and left her riveted to the spot 
—the light all gone out of the blue eyes, and the 
white lips quivering with emotion. Only for a mo¬ 
ment, though, she stood thus; then she went out 
and took up the great burden of her young life. 
“ No one should know low site suffered—perhaps 
after all he had never loved her, and what if he had ? 
it was all past and gone now ! The bright, happy 
days were all gone ! ” Ancl so she locked their mem¬ 
ory away in her heart, as she locked the Jewels 
which he had given her away in their casket. That 
was a long and fierce struggle In the heart of one so 
untried before; but hers was no weak nature, so she 
looked the grim future fairly in the face and grew 
stronger. Only Once she wavered, aud that was 
when a letter bearing a foreign post-mark was hand¬ 
ed her—then she grew very weak and white, leaning 
against the mantel for support; but it was only lor 
her father, and a business letter, after all. 
“ So he is coming at lust, darling,” said Guy Mar¬ 
tin when he had vapidly scanned the contents of the 
letter—” So he is coming at butt.” 
“ Who is coming, father?” asked Kitty. 
“ Why Mark Fakniiam, the son of my old friend 
who died in India more than a year ago. Had you 
forgotten him, Kitty?” 
a Not entirely, father,—but it w-as so long ago that 
you first expected him,” 
“ Yes, I know,— but he is coming now and will be 
with us for the holidays. Have everything iu order, 
Kitty, and make his visit as agreeable as possible. 
And do you know, Kitty, that 1 can think of no one 
whom I would like better for a son-in-law than this 
same Mark Faunham 1 ” 
U I was not aware of your preference, father; I 
shall certainly do all in my power to make his visit 
here a pleasant one,—but really, papa, 1 can’t prora- 
ion 4 .. full in love with him, you know,” she added, 
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surroundings. Death had but once vim tea me 
quaint old homestead, but it then took the idol of 
the hearth -stone —the almost worshiped wife of 
Guy Martin. The same spring morning that ush¬ 
ered into being his first-born saw the white hands of 
the young mother folded dowu "with the orange 
blossoms, and left a blank iu the life of the father 
never to be filled. With the fresh clods of earth 
still trembling upon her coffin-lid, ascended a prayer 
to Heaven far strength to bear the terrible blow, and 
for the life of tile frail little blossom which had just 
oped into being. The blue eyes unclosed as wou- 
drously, and the baby lips learned to smile as 
sweetly as though no shadow rested upon the. 
hearth-stone, making still darker the dim hails and 
corridors; and at length the merry laughter rang 
ont in the old rooms, dissipating the shadows, until 
the sunshine lingered where they had once rested 
so dimly. 
Kitty was just seventeen w hen wc introduced her 
to the reader,—the pride of her father, the pet, of all 
the neighborhood, and the veriest little flirt iu the 
world, 
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Ot rcathyl nadlis os models vigne; 
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sluggard, consider her ways aud be wise. 
Answer to Illustrated Rebus:—Bad spelling, so trouble¬ 
some to printers, ought by all means to he avoided. 
Notiu the common acceptation 01 tne term, 
dear reader,—she was too artless for this guise, too 
ignorant of the fashionable world, “ to sway the 
scepter at will;” besides, there was iu her nature an 
under current of soul-sympathy, a disinclination to 
wound the* feelings ol others, which would uc\ct 
allow her to become one of the world’s heartless 
ones. Yet, for all this, Kitty was u llirt, and a 
most desperate one, too, in her way! 
There was Giils Nohtuam, only sou of the deacon 
of the parish, who imagined all her sweetest smiles 
reserved for him,—but who, if lie ever had a heart, 
would have been troubled to know just where to 
find it. Of this fact Kitty, too, seemed cognizant,— 
for she flirted with him to his heart’s content, and 
left him at last, “heart whole, and fancy free.” 
There was Schuyler Moorb, M. D., who had come 
to R-fresh from tbe “dissecting room,” with 
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youthful head, tmd who boasted moat emphatically 
that he “ would as soon amputate a limb ns eat an 
orange.” Whether Kitty thought such a man 
almost too handy “ to lmvc in the house,” or for 
other reasons best known to herself, wo cannot, say , 
hut at any rate we do know that little Miss Kitty 
Martin most respectfully declined becoming Mrs. 
Dr. Moorb. There, too, wins young Jones, a “ sprig 
of the- law” from the nearest village, wild quoted 
BlackstONB continually, and whose egotism was 
only equaled by his vanity. He also was wholly 
unprepared for the astounding intelligence that 
Kitty Martin preferred remaining plain Kitty 
Martin to becoming Mrs. Sterling^ Jones, Esq. . 
Now all tills came about in due course of time, 
with scores of similar things, and yet Kitty Martin 
neither wedded, nor was likely to wed, with one of 
the profession. It is a trite, though rather common 
adage, this: “’Tis a long lau-t which hftfl wo turn¬ 
ing," and so it seemed that our heroine was at lust 
to meet her fatality. Blie was nineteen now, aud a 
shade more, thoughtful and loveable than ever,—but 
how long things might have gone on iu the old way 
we know not, bad not such a man us Aktjmk Somers 
Crossed hel pathway. . . , . 
Young Somers had a face auu fignre width Apollo 
might have envied. Brown, clustering locks decked 
his palb brovV. Inch rose high and massive, reveal¬ 
ing rare Intellectual endowments, while his eyes 
were Of the same peculiar brown wlilc-h gave.to his 
locks their singular beauty. In repose they were 
soft, and dreamy as the gazelle’s,—but lighted up 
with strange brilliancy when his artist-soul was 
stirred within. HO bad come to 1. to do some 
sketching, and Kitty met him almost daily. 
At first she treated him with a shy reserve which 
was not at all natural to her,—but then he was so 
■unlike her gentlemen friends, she thought; besides 
she did not even know if he were pleased or not 
with her, as he always treated her with such grave 
durnity She only trembled When she found how 
h er whole heart went out to him, and how the 
golden links were being drawn closer and still closer 
about her hitherto unfettered soul. Intermingled 
the coming morrow. Kitty Juki nuuic au uww 
sary preparations for their guest, for he had vv rittcu 
lie would be with them the day before Christmas. 
There was plenty of spare room—for the house was 
large—but the furniture was the same that had been 
her mother’s; besides, it had never been elegant- 
only nice and comfortable enough, her father had 
said. Now the plain “mahogany and hair eluth 
chains" in the parlor had been rubbed and brushed 
until they looked almost as bright as new; the 
“three ply” carpet had been turned “bottom side 
up,” aud Biddy declared “it could never have 
looked the half so well in all its life 1" The simple 
curtains at the windows were as white as snow— 
there were winter bouquets on the mantle und 
wreaths of evergreen above. A few choice pieces in 
water colors, which had been her mother’s, were 
tastefully arranged, while two old fashioned poi- 
tl’ftlts of her grand-parents occupied a place over 
the sofa. Two ottomans in mosaic, with a small 
table, upon which were a few choice books aud 
Arthur Somers’ sketches, completed the arrangc- 
getns, simple enough, truly, dear reader, hut breath¬ 
ing m ai>’ Of refined elegance in their very simplic¬ 
ity, tievei'tholeoS. 
Nowit was almost tiuOh ami tiie “train” would 
be in at one; eo Kitty exchanged the patch work 
quilt in the chamber above for a spread of snowy 
white, arranged the curtains a little more to hei 
liking, laid aside the neat chintz morning wrapper 
and in Its stead put on a plain blue merino edged 
with Velvet, with a band of delicate lace at throat 
and wrist—all the time unconscious of how lovely 
she wtts looking—while all her thoughts were far¬ 
away in dreams of what the morrow might have 
been to her. O, Kitty ! 
“They’ll do,” he said, coolly, as he set down the 
last of the lot. “ What will you take for them?” 
“What I asked you for six mouths ago to-day— 
your daughter, sir.” 
The roguish twinkle in the old man’s eyes broad¬ 
ened into a smile. 
“ You’ve got the right metal in yon after all,” he 
cried. “Come in, lad—come iu; I shouldn’t won¬ 
der if we. made a trade, after all.” 
Nothiug loth, Luke obeyed. 
“ Molly! ” bawled Mr. Blifkhis, thrusting his head 
into the kitchen door. 
Molly tripped out into the entry. The round white 
arms were bared above the elbows, aud bore traces 
of the flour she had been sifting. Her dress was a 
neat gingham, over which was tied a blue checked 
aprou j but looked winning and lovely as she 
always did wherever shiqwas found. 
She blushed and smiled as she saw Luke, and then, 
turning her eyes upon her ffillitr, waited dutifully to 
hear what he had to say. 
The old mutt regarded the. daughter quizzically. 
“ Molly, this young man — mayhap you’ve seen 
him befei’C---has brought me a lot of tubs aud bar¬ 
rels, all bf his own make—a right good article, too. 
He asks a pretty steep price for ’em,—but if you are 
willing to give it, well and good; and hark ye, my 
girl, whatever bargain you make your old father 
will ratify. 
As Mr Blifkins said this, he considerately stepped 
out of the room, and wc will follow his example. 
But the kind of bargain the young people made can 
readily he imagiued by the speedy wedding which 
followed. 
Luke Jordan turned his attention to the Btudy of 
medicine, of which profession he became a useful 
and influential member ; but every year, <m the anni¬ 
versary of his marriage, he delighted his father-in- 
law by some specimen of the handicraft by which ho 
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