Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-09-06
MY yes will go with yours, Milly

NY yes VIII 50 with yours, Milly
dear"
God bless you, Hester my darling,
my dear, dear sister, cried Millv fervent-
ly; and for a long while we were both
silent. Nor, indeed did she mention Mr.
I Sutherlapd's name again, nor reeur in
any way to the subject, till about the mid
die of the next day, she suddenly sprang
up from her place by the window, md
glancing at me with a vivid blash and
smile. ran ont Of the room, and l heard
her dy up stairs.
Then knew who was coming, and
sat still, because to move won have been
out of my power SO, when he entered
the room, sat, and though held out my
hand and tried to utter greeting, kn,w
that my lips only muttered inartieulately.
He looked at me as he held my hand in
momentary grasp, and l thought there
was both pain ari shocked surprise in
my face Then he began.
Il have not come Unexpectedly, /
hope MiIly promised to to ask you-to
tell you-'
She did tell me; l expected You" /
strova to say; ana | hope said it quiet
Is.
Did you not guess why wanted to see
you?' he asked, with that dircctness Of
speech | remembered 50 well
Yes, l even went so far as chat" I
answered, and smiled-ohl what a wintrv
smile, if it die not helie MY heart.
"Of course, ! could only have one pur~
pose in asking to see you again he went
on quietly; but ahl Hester what viii
you say to me this time 2
"What does Milly say?'
"Alilly always Milly stillt But Hester
it is for you to answer me first he said
and abruptly walking from his position
on the hearth, he came and sat down be
side me-
"Hoster-I must call you so-did your
sister tell You what l said to her ycstor-
day."
"She left me infer t
"lnfer! fddIedec, Nothing like plain
speaking to express a plaiE meaning" he
spoke out rather impetuousIy. "But you
are so cold so unlike your old self Hester,
that ] could not Just take it for an answer
10 what / came to ask Did Mily tell
you that yozterdoy-for have grown t.
love the little girl dearly Hosterl
Hesterl what have l said? What is the
matter 2"
hated, dispised myself for the wicked
ness, but the mortal struggle OF yesterday
was not done yet could not hear this
man, whom I had loved so long, so deep
ly, avow to my face his transferred afec-
to my sister, and he unmoved Inyolun-
tarily I grasped the arm of my chair for
support, for my lite seemed fading from
me in the struggle lie bent over me, he
fitted my faint head on his broad breast,
but l shrank from him fccbly.
at IS nothing. ! am only faint am
quite we'll again. You were saying-yes,
60 on, Mark Sutherland
Il was saying-ab, Hester-I think |
neeG not 90 o"-your are SO changed my
Z
sudden perplexity. "WeiI, well, Nillv led
me on to hope but ought to have known
hette< Yen never cared for me in the
beginning as did for you"
"Suraly, surely, that bycoue ought to be
a hygonc now, cried bitterly,
IF YOU say that, it ought indecd,' he
answered turning from me; "but / told
YOU then, Hester, that ] never. should for
get you; and from something MilIy said.
and your remaining unmarried, was wild
enough to drcam-to hope -"
Something "a light that dazzled my poor
eyes-was breaking in upon me as he
spoke.
Mark said I. '.rhat do you come
/ here to-day to ask me-
The same question that I asked eight
years ago by the stream in the marshes
/ Hester / have done with India; [ am no
I longer poor man, and want the woman
| have always loved. Hester, is this true !?
I Is she mine at last?'
For a long, long time, | think, after this,
we forgot the existance Of any one be-
sides ourselves Then told Mark the lit
tie game of cross purposes We had been
+. playing. His incredulous wonder that /
could imagine that he had ever thought
Of any one but me, touching me TO the
heart
"Pool Milly," he said $50 you would
have put her off with the rcrersi6n of the
heart No, when she marries, may she
be what you are, Hester-her husband :
first love and his last