Mr. Middleton Has More Callers From New York

As we watch young Stanton's movements, we observe a certain restlessness
in his eye, as it wanders over the crowded room, seemingly in quest of
some one who is not there. At last there is a new arrival, and Miss
Warner, a very prim lady and a teacher in the seminary, is announced,
together with three of her pupils. As the young girls enter the parlor,
Mr. Stanton seems suddenly animated with new life, and we feel sure that
one of those young ladies has a great attraction for him. Nor are we
mistaken, for he soon crosses the room, and going up to one of them, a
rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed girl, he says in a low tone, "I am glad you have
come, Nellie. I had almost given you up, and concluded you were doing
penance for some misdemeanor, and so could not come out." Then taking her
upon his arm, he kept her near him all the evening.

There was a strange history connected with Helen Ashton, or Nellie, as she
was more familiarly called, but of this we will speak hereafter. She was
formerly a member of the young ladies' school in New Haven, where she had
become acquainted with Robert Stanton, who was in college. An intimacy
sprang up between them which at last ripened into an agreement. Stanton's
home was near Geneva, and when he left college he suddenly discovered that
the Geneva Seminary was superior to any other, and with but little trouble
he persuaded Nellie to go there to school.