, 1842-07-30
BOWLING GREEN, PIKE CO. MISSOURI, SATURDAY, JULY 30 1872

You here. Clemen?--I know not
why 1t was, but hoped not to find
you at our trysting-place. Nay
chide me not,.' she continued. hall
piayfu'ly, and half in earnest, as she
put her hand to his lips--"a strange
fear has seized me to-day. | have
feared that our happiness was soon
10 be clouded .~forever!n
"Rosalie has ceased to love mel"
"Oh. no!--her love ends only with
her lifer
"She doubts me, then?
"She cannot!-She sees you, and
forgetting all. is happy"
"Between those who love there
should be nothing to forget. You
confide in me or your heart is no lon
ger mine!!" he spakc harshly and Bit
terly.
"Unsay those w~ords--in mercy
unsay them! Pain me not by a deni-
al. You wrong me much-indeed
you wrong me- could never prove
taithless 20 the one ! love!"
sand yet your hand trembles in
my own-your eye regards not mine
YOU shudder as | look upon you!'
"'Speak not harshly to me. Glenn
ent! If | shudder, it is only when
you frown on me. | have not sought
to give offence in look. word, or tone.
| cherish no thought of fear for you.
| am but a weak, ;imid girl; no Won
der should sometimes give way TO
the vague forebodings my magma
ton will, spite Of my better iudg-
mcnt, often conjurc up. They have
all vanished now in the sunlight of
your presence; and il You ba: smile
on me, ask no other ioy--i know
no other happiness! Resale loves
not idly--she Is all, all yonr owa!r'-
and the wafm-heartcd, higii-souled
maiden, in her unselhsh abandonment
10 the love she bore for him who
would have vexcd and sighted her.
threw herself into his arms, and sob
bed long and loudly.
For one moment Clement Lee was
the lover. Large, burning tears dim
med his eye; his bosom throb5ed
madly and wildly, as he felt that warm.
conIiding heart, beating against his
own; and, while he pressed her fond
lv 10 his breast, hcmurmured in those
accents she dearly loved to her
"Rosdlic--I Tore Hce!!' That an
swering emotion was but evane.cent.
His whole soul was bent on one OBJ
ject, and he hesitated not to thrust a.
side every thing which interfered
with its attainment. His mad was
wrought up to the determination of
taking M decided step, and he fall
tered not in his resolve. A shadow
passed over his CONFERENCE.-The
lips were joined firmly togeiher-and
he was again the cold, schcming. am
bilious man, ready TO venture all on
the high stake for which he played.
But for the tender one who hung
on his neck-she knew not that he
had already changed toward her
she had only heard those glad words
which spoke peace TO her troubled
heart, and those sweet tones of aiIec-
ton TO which she had listened with
so much rapture IN hours that were
past; and with a brow of light, and a
cheek tinged with the rich vermil of
her mantling blush, she raised those
soft, gazelle-like eyes, glistening with
tears, all too fondIy trusting that the
smiles Of Joy would once more greet
and bless her. That smile rewarded
not her devotion; a whitening frown
fell darby upon her, and sent back
the warm llfe-blood chilled to her
heart. Her cheek was blanched to
a deadly whiteness; her frame tren-
bled like the young aspen; and her
voice was checked and hollow as she
wildly uttered,
"Clement, are you ilI!'-You look
strangely! Your hand is cold, and
your brow hot and feverish! Ny
heart tells me you are i~ll-forgive me
that | spake unkindly-let me lie your
physician--I will, Heaven knows !
will, gladly minister to you!"
81 know you would-but it is use
less. NV illness was only momen-
tary, and | am caImer, frmer, nowr'
He took her hand in his as he conclu-
ded, with n strange and unwonted
energy, and in a broken and hurried
tone" Rosalie-' dost thou love
met"
"And can you doubt it?' she spoke
warmly and enthusiastically" Have
| not often told you how tondly and
| love you2 | have kept
no thing back from you. have Civ
en- you my heart wholly and forever
over hat heart yours is 'no divi-
led omnire'--Jiye md hra,4ba h,,t in