The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-10-03

can you be so rustic as 70 suppose tEat
have a wish ungratife3 2"
| IF there was irony under the gay,
laughing tones, I did not discern it then.
| I met the law student at breakfast
next morning. Tall. elegant, handsome,
With world of unspokon, cynical criti-
cism in his classical face for HE hostess S
country friend, and look in his dark
| eyes that puzzled ne, when he looked at
his ANGLE wife lie seldom looked at
any one else.
Whether ny rustic life and education,
or my natural bad taste and. perversity
were to blame. l don't know but |
took decided dislike to this loW-t2ned
Edward StanIy.
We went cut shopping after breakfast
with him for our escort. and once, while
| lifting her into the carriage. [ saw him
hold her hand q moment az if he had
forgotten to let it 60 She caught it
away with tide Of angry scarlet flaming
| in her face, and We we're all very silent
for the rest Of the drive.
We rode out every day during that
long, bright visit, We always went to
the theater or opera or somewhere else
in the evening, for Josie was resolved
that should sse as much as possible Of
city life while ] gtaid.
Once she asked her husband 20 go
with us, aud the passionate, mute sD-
| peal in her face sihiost terrified ME
I fsncied I saw fash oftriumph in her
nephew's dark eyes, when Mr.. Winter
| ton begged to be excused from our party.
What vas the man thinking Of? Was
he bIind7 She turned around with q
| white, kImost desperate face. ''1hen !
will net go tonight. sle sait,. Mar
gerry you will not mind going without ne
this once 7" He followed her across the
room, and I caught a few words here
aud there, low, hurried, and passionate
you have no mercy on ale'' with 4
broken sob-''I wish I had never seer
yocr - why don't you 90 away before
it is too hate?
my darling, do ! safer less ?" VA
all | could catch Of his loT pleading; enc
when she came back l saw ttst she VIZ!
conquered.
The music was divine that night. I
walled aud throbbed and Quifsred, will
wall OF anguish through It's sweetness
that woke up my senses scutely ant
thrilled them with passionate pain. Il
wierd magic bound me as with sn en-
chsnter' spell, end then, In my dreamy
spell bound rapture, | saw . vision. |
saw masses Of inky clouds driven over ;
midnight sky. / heard the fierce clamol
of a storm that shrieked through sway
ing pine-toDs and dashed the suIIeI
waves foaming On the beach. Then
driven on wildly by the tempest thai
dragged and tore her streaming hair and
beat cruelty on her white faces Wo.
man came down to the beach. ] SAW heI
so plainly. Her long, black hair spray
dEenched her white, dripping robe
then the waves caught her-hold her up
| q moment IN triumphant mockery-and
she was gene. It was all SO vivid, that,
when the music ceased, and they all arose
to go, I awakened az from trance.
Was Mt it splendid 2" ! asked es /
sat on the side Of Josie's bed 10 have g
long, tslk school girl fashion. before re-
! firing, while my hostess colnbed and
brushed out her shining DARK braids. =
No answer for q moment, then she
threw down the brush passiouately 81
wish [ had never come here p she cried.
oh, Margery? save me from myself i
save me- am SO Fery. very, wretc!,ed
Oh, Margery pity lne, fer l need pity
SO much u
This sobbing woman olnging to me
thus with streaming hair-was this the
radiant creature of hslf an hour ego?
l held her in my arms, soothing her
like grievel child, until the tempest
of sobs wss speut, and then. kissing me
and calling me good, patient goose. ard
saying that the music made her nervous,
she vent to her own room.
The last lingering days Of summer had
folded their bright wings and do9n soft
ly away. [ knew that in she maple
shaded streets of dear old IngletoH. the
leaves lay piled in brilliant drifts, orange,
crimson and sold. snd that nay six seeks
| visit was ended
l had stayed one week longer than
had first intended, but. nov. not ell 10.
sizes pretty, pouting ezpostuIation.
should delay my return another day.
/ think | shall go back with Marse-
~, for visit" announced Josie next
morning as [ sat taking my last break
fast under Mr.. Win:er.on's roof.
Very well. my dear, you can do as
you please, OF ourse,-you always do.
/ DO not think l can find time. just now,
to escort you. but I shall try TO run
down there sometime before you re-
turn
Tie same shade had seen a moment
on the day | had arrived, darkened her
face ike a gray mask.
She would have been better pleased to
wake him TO anger than to gain this
cold, pre- occupied coukent. IF she had
announced her intention of taking trip
to Siberia, or performing Q balloon as
eension, believe lie would have said the
same