Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-12-22

think men can do everything. Wnas 90
YOU suppose could earn breaking stones J!
"Your self.respect, If nothing moro.
You are Of no use TO anybody now. Your
uncle and aunt don't need you; they have
their own childres. have no doubt they
like TO have you with them, and Will give
YOU what you need; but you should De
ashamed to dawdle through life Dependent
on q rich mans bounty"
az don't feel that 1t Is dependence. l
am one of the family, and we all live hap
pily together, and have everything IN the
world we want. And, moro than all that,
uncle wants you to come and live there,
too. There Is plenty for all, he says. 1t
IL large house, and there are 30 many ser
wants they can't find enough to DO, and .
great deal coming in all the time that would
be wasted il we were not there"
"And you think would let you take me
70 such homo as that?"
aWhy not! Ii will be happy and lux.
urious home, and they all want you; and
YOU know how want you. my dearest
al will never go there with you, Ber-
na-d. never. would rather die!"
You use strong language, Jcssica-
and feel strongly | would rather
live in a leg cabin, on bread and milk, than
with a husband who would be willing TO
lead such life as you do. ] should be so
ashamed of him"
The sleepy look went out Of Demands
eyes in moment, and a bright light
| flashed int them. lis that tho reason
YOU would never consent to make me hap
py. Jessicas Oh, why did you not tell me
! this beforet'
/ II have no, told is now. You dragged
me into the discussion and was only car
rying out your superstition
will TO to work tomorrow, If you
will only promise TO lore me"
Il thought you could not DO it without
money"
Just give me as an incentive the hope
of one day calling you mine. can do
anything for the sake Of your love-
First Won could not do ii without
money: and now, you cannot do IL without
| love. Do il for the sake Of your manhood,
| Bernard. If YOU are true 10 yourselt and
work your way 10 manly independence,
Won will win the heart Of some good
woman; but il may not be mine-some-
body better, perhaps. On, you need not
say ANYTHING; there arc better women than
am in the world. l may be married to
somebody else by that time, for We cannot
say what may happen. Indeed, l think it
is quite likely"
"Jessica, you will not be 80 cruel az to
make me do this thing without the least
hope Of rcward?"
az don't make you do 1t: !: is your
awakened selfrcspoct. And you will find
your reward in the work, and in the indie
pendcnce it will give you"
And you will let me go away without
a shadow Of hope. ! can do nothing with
out your love"
"Let II alone, them" said Jessica, con-
temptuously at is nothing TO me; |
have only spoken for your own good, and
have but one thing more to say never,
from this moment, say TO me one word of
love until you can offer me something of
your o,on. The log cabin Is enough, but it
must be your own. Mind, / don't say
will listen to you then it is probable /
will not But, in the meantime, love must
not be named between you and me-"
at il clear she does not love me, and she
might rs well have said SO without insult
ing me with all that talk" Such were
Demands thoughts after Jessica had left
him, and he stood idly kicking pebbles into
the river She said some pretty singing
things That is the way she thinks of me,
is itg would be fool TO give up all |
have and work like q common laborer
She is always as busy as u bee herself, and
have thought how nice 1t would be to
take her from her home, where she docs so
much, to place where she would have to
do nothing at all. And her ladyship
does not like it, she gives herself too
many airs
Three miles below tho old farm house
stood the busy town Of Perkinsvillc. The
sluggish waters Of the rivers crcpt into it
and formed a basin around which there
was constant activity from morning till
night. Among the towering ware
houses little one-roomed, wooden
building had impudently thrust itself
and Haunted rusty-red stove pipe
into the air, winter and summer. 1t was
whispered about town that there was more
business done in this dingy little Office than
in two or three of the big warehouses.
On hot summer afternoon, two days
after the talk under the pollard willows, a
man sat In this room on wooden arm
chair, tilted back at comfortable angle,
while his feet rested on the battered stove,
apparently doing nothing, but really alb
sorbed in laying plans for the success of an
enterprise in which he had lately embarked.
He was an elderly, gcntlemanly- looking
man, with careless manner, but a wonder
fully keen look in his blue eyes. He had just
brought his calculations 10 a satisfactory
conclusion when shidow fell across the
open doorway, which shadow was imme-
diately followed by the appearance of Ber-
nard Leyburn.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Daryl"
"Good day, Leyburn. should a. soon
have thought Of seeing the Prince Of Wales
here as you. But come in and take seat.
Not very elegant quarters"
81 know your time IL valuable, Mr.. Oar
ryl," said Bernard, land in order TO trespass
upon 1t as little as possible, will state my
business at once, for there IL nobody in
Perkinsville can tell me what want TO
know as well as you"
"All right"
II want work. Can you tell me where
to find itf"
"Any money to invests"
"Not cent"
"Thcn you have not the ghost OF q
chance. Dozens of young gentlemen now
in town wanting work"
II told her So" thought Bernard. It's
of no USE"