There was in Minion's heart liugeriug feeling of contempt and annoyance at that ridiculous present of paper luce, satin, and painted (lowers. She was vexed that he should have shown such bad taste, first, in sending it at all, second, in following it so soon. These and similar thoughts irritated her. She would not hurry her toilet for bis waiting ; she had never since they parted been less in a mood to meet him pleasantly. John's hopes, too, gradually died out in Ms lonely hours wailing in the empty par lour ; and when Marion descended iv all the pomp of silk and lace and jewels ; he felt a sense of intrusion which no true lover ought ever to be allowed to feel. He was placed at an unmerciful disadvantage, but he had come determined to tell Marion that ho loved her, and with somcthll.g of the dour obstinacy of his race he would not be bashed and frightened out of his inten tion.

The meeting was not cncournging.but he was now beyond noticing that. In a few manly straighlforwaul words he showed her die depth of his love, and offered her the holiest devotion of his life. Then some per verse spirit took possesion of the girl. She knew that she loved the tall,handsome fellow, pleading so earnestly yet so man fully for hot regard} but "she would not say the one liutlifiil word that would have made both of them happy. >She held him with the assent of her eyes, while she tortured him with her unruly tongue. She even acknowledged that she was far from indifferent to him, but declared that it would be impossible for her to give up New York and its delightful scenery. John was far too truthful to temporize; lie said " that bis fortune was all invested in hia mills, and that lie must of necessity live near them."

Marion supposed "ofeouric his interest was of more consequence than her pleasure." John denied this for himself,but.said that "his interest was hound up with the in l.r©st of bin partner, creditors, and the hundreds of poor men and women that he employed." -very word sent them further opart, and vet the wilful girl wits longing to bo forced iuto having her own mind. Had John been less afraid of her, and more confident of himself ; bad he taken her hands and pleaded with all tho passion that was trembling ou his lips : had he dared to use the simple power of his great positive nature over her contradictory, undecided one, f-he would have yielded gladly and proudly. But though it is a commou say ing that "men don't know their weak point*," it is a great truth that they still more rarely know their strong ones jaud lor tho want of this very knowledge, John Monteith went out into the dark winter night a wretched man, and Marion Laurie went up stairs, ca-d oil' her gay clothing, and saLb.il in passionate abandon the whole night through. This circumstance —though the world know it not—shortened tho period of Marion's social triumph in New York. She suddenly announced her intention of going abroad. She said she was sick, and going to die, and Mr Lanrio left all his business in John's charge, and said he was ready to go wherever Marion wished. Yel, if she had desired, she might have made her journey a bridal tour; but lovers had become a bore to her; sho would cone of them. She shocked Mr Laurie by saying she " wished sho was a Catholic, and could boa nun." If a child of his could have thoughts of that kind she must be seriously ill; he had no further doubts of his duty to devote himself to In r.

So they went abroad, and remained a year, travelling here and travelling there, but finding happiness nowhere; lor happi ness was with John Monteith, and ttiey wore thousands of miles asunder. At last Marion longed for her Jersey homo again. The truth was that in this hard struggle between pride and love, love had conquered. She wished to go back within the reach of reconciliation.

Even if John no longer loved her, she could show him that she was sorry for the sullering she had caused, and that she loved no one else, at any rate. She had dieamsof settling down n quiet little old maid of nineteen years. Perhaps John and she might even conic to be very dear friends to each other, and if he should marry any other girl, she could try and love her too, i'hen she tried to imagine Ella Dcremas or Minnie Hogarth as John Mon teith's wife, and i-he felt that learning to love them in that capacity would bo a lesion likely to give her employment and discipline for a very long time.

Marion's condition grievously puzzled her father, and also certain grave and learned doctors, whom he paid liberally to unravel the mystery. Rut it did not nuzzle Janet. Just as you set a thief to catch a thief, you may set a woman to lind out a woman. But then there was in Janet's nature a great deal of that fatalism which is the legitimate outcome of John Calvin's theology. "What had to be, would be; and it was none o' her business to sort threads some wiser hand than hers had tangled." Not that she was unwilling to do so ; she only waited for her appointed opportunity. It cauie one dreary evening in a London hotel. David Laurie, utterly depressed and anxious both about his business and his daughter, had gono to his room early to write letters, and Janet and Marion kept gloomy state iv a drearily mngniueent apartment, big enough to frighten two timid women. There was a slow, dismal rain falling outside, and the muddy, miserable-looking streets filled Marion, wko was watching them through dripping wi-doiv-panos, with a kind of terror. Suddenly she turned to Janet, and with something of her old impetuosity, said ; " I want to go home; I am sick to sec New York again."

'"Deed, child, I am glad, you have come to your right mind once more."

" I wonder if papa will be willing to go drrectly?"

" I am thinking nothing will please him better. He had letters to-day that were none too good ; forbyc wo are neither of us free of anxiety about John. John is my only kith or kirn"

"John Monteith! What of him, Janet ? Is anything wrong with John»" " There is nothing right, it seems. The hands are on a strike, and behaviug very ugly, and John is not just the man to manage them safely; besides which, he is quite worn out with doing your father's as well as his own share of thinking." "I wonder if he ever thinks of me, Janet?" " What for ) not ? He liked you weel enough."

"Oh, Janet, Janet, he did more than that: he loved me with alibis heart-far better than 1 deserved."

"That is eh an impossible, honey. And who s to blame for not loving him back again 1'

" Oh. hut I did love him ! I did indeed, only—"

. "You made a mistake, and said 'No,' instead of ' Yes.' Eh, dear ?" " I said foolish things I did not meau, Janet; and I wanted to say 'Yes,' and he would not muke me."

" I know, dear. I am Janet Monteith Jo-day because I once wauted to say 'Yes,' and somebody would not make me. Men have mostly a good conceit o' them selvesj when they have not they make a deal o1 trouble, for the whole world is sorted format condition."

" Tell me about it, Janet." "There's little to tell, child. Thirty years ago there was a handsome lad that liked me wool, and it behoved hiiu to go awa' to the East Indies. He wanted mo to go with him, and I wanted no other thing ; but ho misdoubted himself and misdoubted me, and to bo sailed cast, and I sailed west. Life was just a weari ness for a loug while afterward." And the old lady looked with wistful, tearful eyes backward, backward, after the long vanished hopes and years. She was roused from her reverie by a low passionate sob bing among tho sofa cushions : Marion Wits weeping bitterly. She let her weep; such tears were gracious raiu, and would bring clear skies after them. Three weeks after this conversation the weary little party smiled into each other's faces as they turned into Broadway again. " There is not a city in the world like New York," said Marion, enthusiastically, as she looked almost lovingly up tho long, picturesque vista. David nodded a pleasaut assent, and Miss Jane made no other reserva tion than a slight one in favour of Edin burgh. After a night's rest at his daughter Julia's, Davie Laurie set out at onco for nis mills and his home, and Janet insisted on going with him ; but Marion was to stay a few days iv New York, until the whole house had been thoroughly warmed and made coinfortablo. Perhaps she was not soiry to do this, now that she was with in two hours' travel of John. She wanted time to consider what she ought to do and say in every possible contingency likely to occur ; and ho, alter Janet's and her lather's departure, she spent the whole day in arranging progi amines of her unavoid able meetings with Julm. When ilie evening arrived she had decid ed on all her movements, and was quite ready to take an interest in Julia's dressing for a grand dianer party. Marion herself would not go; she did not cure to unpack her trunks, or provoke a round of callers, for she had made up her mind to go home as soon as Janet notified her that the house was in comfortable order.

Consequently she was to spend the even ing alone, and she was rather amazed at herself for liking the idea ; but now it was sweeter to think of John than aught in tho world besides. She withdrew to a small parlour containing a piano, for it would help to pass the evening if she practised some of the old Scotch songs which she had not touched since John and she had sung them together. Would they ever sing them together again ? That was of course among the possibilities she had arranged for, but— She started at the "but,'' and began to walk thoughtfully up and down the room, noting, in the midst of her anxieties, what a pretty shadow she cast upon the wall. So little changes our moods when wo arc young. She smiled at her vanity, and sat down to play, taking the songs as they carac in order, and becoming slowly but thoroughly imbued with their spirit. By andbyo she came to one that touched her own case with a startling relativeness, and it was with a sobbing cadence the music set itself to the pathetic entreaty of Marion, singing—

"Could you come back to me, Douglas, Douglas, Back with the form and the face that I knew, Iwouldbesofnitliful.soloving.Doiiglas, Douglas, tender and true," The verse ended in a sob, and the fair golden head fell heavily into the clasped hands.

"Marion! Marion! Marion!"

There was no need of further weeping. John found her in the right mood this time. She lifted her tearful but exquisitely tender

face to that loving call, and answered it only by one low word—"John 1" Yet her whole altitude was intensely eloquent. Without making a step, without a move ment of the arms, she gave her lover an im pression of overflowing expectatiou. But her first words after this tacit confession were thoroughly womanly: "Oh! Johi^how much you have made me suffer I" _ Perhaps at first John was a little a«to nished at this charge, but when his cruelty had been made manifest to him, he was very properly indignant at his own stupidity. Then Marion forgave him. And really John's behaviour would have led any one to believe that the most delightful of all experiences was to be foryiven for an un known and unintentional ollcdcc

John and Marion have been m-m-ied sonle months now, and yet John, with _ a man's blundering incapacity, often mis understands his loving little wife. How ever, I do not know that this is an occur rence to be in any measure regretted, since both of them seem to enjoy the explanations so much.

The Doctor and the Lawyer.

A smart young sprigof a. awyerhad a grave old doctor on the witness staud in a case of assault and battery, and he questioned him unmercifully. " Ah, Doctor," inquired the lawyer, " did I understand you to say the cut in the man's head was dangerous?" "Yes, sir," replied the doctor. "Well, Doctor, dosen't it sometimes happen tbat even a less cut than this one is dangerous ?" "Yes, sir." "And, Doctor, is it not true that even a scratch is dangerous ?" " Yes, sir, and I have known of cases resulting fatally when not even a scratch was visible. Only recently a in.au died under such cir cumstance." "Ah, indeed," quiskly put in the attorney in a pleased and satisfied way, " will you be kind enough to tell the jury the facts ?" ' 'Certainly, if you desire it." " You say there was not a scratch on him ?" "Not one that I could find." "And he died?" "Yes." "Now, Doctor, just tell the jury how it was." " Well, you see, he had the colic and he was dead before 1 could get him untangled." The young attorney called another witness.

Smith Was Out.

THE Detroit Free Frcss says : A Griswold street lawyer was sitting in bi- office the other week, when a stranger appeared at the door and said *' Beg pardon, but can you tell me where Smith'sofficeis?" "Yes sir; next door." The stranger uttered his thanks and parsed to the next door, which was locked. Returning to the lawyer he observed, " Smith^eenis to be out. A —" Of course he is. If you had asked that ques tion in the first place I should have an swered it by telling you so." The visitor had a troubled look on bis face as he passed out of the building, but that leok was gone when he returned next day, and inquired of the lawyer, "How much will you charge me for a verbal opinion iv a little matter?" —"Oh, about five dols." The case was stated, and the opinion given, and the stran ger was moving away, when the lawyer said, " My fee, please."—"lhaven't a cent to pay you fy" You haven't!"—" Of course not. If you had asked that question in the first place I should have answered by telling you so. Good morning, sir."

Truth.—The Great Unfound. A successful debater.—The hornet always carries his point.

Hens scratch up flower beds only when they are barefooted. That's why women run out and "shoo" the liens to keep'them from doing damage,

Completely Accommodated.

" You had better get rid of that stove-pipe I hat; you'll be livelier without it," said a powerfully built red-faced young truck driver the other day as he nearly drove over a delicate-looking gentleman on Park Row. The pedestrian had to skip in a very un dignified manner to escape.—" You want your neck wrung very badly," he said, as lie gained the sidewalk and looked after the truck.—The driver heard him and pulled up his horse at once.—" Will you wring it?" he asked in gruff tones.—The gentle man took a few seconds to consider the question. Then he said : "No, I'll leave that job for the hangman; but I'll flatten your nose, if that will suit you. "—lt appears that the proposal suited the driver, for in thirty seconds he stood before this fragile looking man. " Now flatten my nose, he said defiantly. It was done before the words werew ell out ot his mouth, and as he lay on his back in the gutter the expression on his blood-bespattered countenance was tbat of mingled pain and amazement. " What did you strike thatmanfor ?" asked a police man, hurrying up, and seizing the gentle man by the arm, " Because he asked me to strike Mm, you know," was the reply, " and as he looked like an honest, goou naturcd young fellow, I didn't likes to disoblige him. The policeman lookeel at the truckman, who rose slowly, and without making any complaint mounted the seat .of his waggon and drove off. " Well," said the policeman, impressively, as he walker! away, "there's no aocouutiu' for tastes."— " Detroit Free Press."

Odds and Ends.

" Oh, papa, that plate is just too too,' said a lovely young girl as she stood look ing in a shop window in Main-street, '' Only 2 dols. 021" said the old gentleman in sur prise. "I should think that was cheap." "You'd better buy it." It was a natural enough mistake, but the old gentleman bought the plate all the same, though it did cost him 15 dols.

" What is your religion," asked the land lady of her new boarder. " Meat three times a day," was the reply that startled the good woman, and put lier into a reverie as_ to whether the man was a heathen or misunderstood the question. A smiling, sunny-liaired stranger stcp]>ed into the sanctum this morning, and after stamping the snow from his shoes, said :— "I have a little poem which I wish you would publish."—Cautiously reaching for the lever we inquired, " What is it called ?" —" It s name is ' Bsaut—' " Wh-i-r-r-r-r ! The valve opened, and a current of XXX comptessed air swept the fiend through the translation tube into tho milky way, where he was scooped up by the great dipper. No, he didn't feel strong enough to push a baby wagon, altough it was a fine, bracing day, and his wife said the exercise would do him good; but in the tap-room that eveniug it took three men to keep him from licking the apothecary's clerk, who wanted to bet him drinks that he wouldn't dare to tell how he became bald-headed.

Gallantry : A lady stopped the other day to look more closely at a handsome seal skin sacqne that was displayed in the front of a store. The price was ova conspicuous placard—sl9o. She looked admiringly at the garment for_ a few moments, and then gathering a furlined circular more closely about her started up the street. "Hi, there, missus I" veiled a small, ragged and thoroughly typical New York bootblack, " Come back 'n I'll bay it fur ye."

Boy's Compositon on Doing the Men agefie.—The rhinozerus lives in Ashar, audi you kau't stick a pin in 'im, 'cause his weskit is built ov old stoves. When a rbinozerus is gonter be kild yu muz always go up to him before, so e/, he'll loio' somothin' ov it, an try an' make a place for a bullifc to git i.v His nose is got a upper teeth that's got no.: business whar itiz, and if a hoy should sit down on it, he better stay plugged up with the tooth,'rcls he'll he all one pore. I'd1 rather be a polliwog if I was a ihino-orug,. tho'l s'posc if I was I wouldn't. .;,,•

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, JUNE 3, 1882.

Printed and Published by tho Pn pnctor, H-SB* Brett, o£ Syfnonds-street, at his G^gV Printing Ofllco,*Wyn_ham-street, In tneJtW yince of AuckJind, New Zealand.! SAT6R_-_ Jvkb 3,1882, r • -



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