The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-02-01

Goodbye, Sweetheart I"
A TALE IN THREE PARTS.
~ RasDA Bousssos, Aursos o. I'm ~ Ron
ena," No.
CHAPTER XVI.
WHAT THE JEx1MA SAYS.
1t is halfps.t eight, but still broad
Daylight. Paul and Lenore have no
yet returned. vkh they would
"Good-night," Say I, closing the old
spinet At which l have been varblin,
in the little salon that overhanes th,
street.
"Are you going to bed!" .sk. Mr.
scrope, dissuasively ; "do not" He /,
lying On three chairs, neditatisg, lik,
Mt: Pietwisk, with his eyes closed.
II have . headsebs;" I sssvsr,
rather GROSSLY "esa 10 on. keep svako
in ny sooisty!' b ny reflection.
"Plesss sing Goodnight, rod.
oight. Beloved before you g." ny.
he, lifting bis blue eyss With lasy On:
treaty 70 my fsee, "do."
I laugh.
"You are like the man in Sam
Slick Who said to tho girl, Thing me
thst little tho*g,' when she had already
sang it twice. l sang Goodnight.
good.night, Beloved ten minute, ,go. ~
He fr.t looks confused, and then
hughes With boyish hs.rtineas.
"Did you1 You zee it VI, better
lullaby than you had any idea cf:"
"Good'nieht," say I, tsndssine my
hand for the second time.
"Do not 60" he says again, drawing
himself laDguidly up ;''it il only half.
past eight"
"ls it not a. we'll to sleep comfortably
and peacefully in bed n unoomfortably
and spssnodically on three ha.d.bot-
toned chairs I"
~ think not" (risiug aud yswning).
"1n order to get to bed 10 have tho
trouble Of going up-stairs. Nov, if one
had some one to carry one up it would
be different"
II wish they would como baek," "
s.y I, uneasily stepping out into tho
little balcony. "It is . great shame
OF Mr.. Le Mesurier keeping Lenore
out 80 lste."
"Row do you know that it is not she
that is keeping him QUIT"
l drew myself up with dignity.
"What do you mean 7"
II mean no offanee,' he answers,
good hunosedly ; "only, from the very
little I know Of your sister, I should
sey that she vss not the sort OF person
to let any one make her come in OF 60
out asainst her own will"
"Yos do not lite Lenore," s.y I,
leaning ny arms on the rails and gsz'
ing down the street.
ITO toll you the TRUTH" hs answers,
oou6dentially, "she fiightens mo out Of
my vitsl Kew do not in tho least
but, when I go her come into th.
room, my first impulse il 70 take 70 .y
heels aud hide in dena and caves"
"1s itl' ~ I, surprised. "Why p
"Hsr eyss 60 through one like gim'
'e.," he says, his handsome young
checks flushing ; "and che has . ~,
Of looking over, and sadsr, snd
through, md On each sids Of enc, With
out affecting to perceive oss."
" "Hae shs," I ssy, ~oadsriasly; 20
never Observed it,
"Psrhsps il i only I vhe. an isvii
bio to tie naked eys," sejoias b. vitl
IN indolent smile. "Shs peseeive'
Pasl, 10 doubt ; ~ saa all ~ that
Of couns."
@Thers y no accounting for tsste,"
soswer, tritely ; "Bostom and Tit.ni.
are Of very frequent occurrence nova
days."
II did not mean dat ezaetly," ..y,
Mr.: Sorope, TOO loyal to his ftisad 4
relish the Ingenious comparison thu,
I have institassd bstwess him and tn,
ass headed weaver Of Athens. ~ o.
not in tho least surprised At Min L.
uors,s preferring Paa' 70 me, for he il
the very best fellow in the world, and
consequently I can only be The second
best"
"VerJ best! r cry I, ea'ping At such
unlimited praise bestowed upon 4 POI
son whose merits I have - yet bssn
unable to discover. "How vsry best
Most religious, do you mean :"
He looks down.
mo, not that, I suppose"
"Stsadfast r.
He smiles significantly.
"Rardly. Poor old PAUL. they
used to call him Lincoln and Bennett
in his old regiment, because he was n
mad a. two hatters."
"Most amiable !"
"Well, No, l think not. Paul is ,
queer tempered fellow he can be very
nasty when hs likes"
'"1n what, then," inquire I, astonish'
ID, "n.y I ask, does his 'uper'niueu'
nevie ao,n.;st ?"