The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-01-30

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That day before his departure, Kate
and and Ruth were all together in our
class room, when Jean ran in with a pa
per-the WesILy Monitor, which Miss
Primrose took regularly every Monday
'Such a sweet piece of poetry, girls!'
she said EDO read it."
And she handed us the paper.
We all read 1t, Ruth last.
SONG.
If you love me, tell me So
I have read it in your eyes,
| 81 have heard 1t in your signs, r& ETf.
But my woman's heart replies
1T you love me, tell me So"
Should give you Yes or No?
Nay, a girl may not confess
That her answer would be EYES,
| To such questioning, unless
He who loves her tells her SO.
IF you love me, tell me so
Love gives strength to watch and wait,
Trust gives heart for any fate:
Poor or rich, unknown or great, S
III If you love me tell me SO,
II wonder who wrote it" said Kate,
"and whether she meant it?"
Il think she did" said Ruth. "It
sounds so"
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and cut the poem out. le 61a sa
Then she sat looking at it and reading
1t over, with such color in her cheeks,
until Miss Primrose opened the door.
Then she started and looked terribly
frightened, aud tucked the scrap into an
enVelop shat lay upon her desk.as though
Miss Primrose was able TO do her some
great harm should she detect her; for she
paid we'll and was in every way credit
to the establishment, besides being her
own mistress, so that she might go az any
moment if she chose. s" a' .t.7
The Signor wanted Ruth In the music
room, and we were wanted for botany,
and We did not meet again until supper
time, when, IN the corridor, on the way
to the refectery, Miss Primrose said to
Il found your French exercise sealed
up upon your desk, Miss Rill, and sent it
to the professor. who, beng about to leave,
was in haste to correct it," e.f f1aa
Ruth looked at her, looked away from
her-turne red and turned pale, and
said:
Eyes, ma'am." f.s"AtF tsa.
| saw something was the matter.
| : At supper poor Rabin GoodfellON, sat
correcting his exercises, as usual.
Ruth never looked at him, but did,
and saw him open one in which fold
ed scrap of newspaper lay, instead of 8
written sheet of note paper, and then Ruth
slipped from my side and ran out of the
room. t...1. ~f T. - jn -.t.
81 fear Miss Rill is faint" said Miss
Primrose. Follow her, Fanny"
And went, but l could not find her.
You see, as she told me afterwards, she
had hidden in the garden under the old
oak tree in terrible fright. ........
1t was only ridiculous mistake of Miss
Primrose's but it turned her faint and i'll
somehow, and out there she began to cry,
and was sobbings as though her hnrt
would break when hand touched hers,
and Robin Goodfellow stood behind her.
Ruth" he said; ooh, Ruth, you are an
angel Just when had given up all hope,
darling" he whispered; "when / had
made up my mind that was too unpre-
possessing and too poor, and too unlike
what girls fancy, to be thought of even so
very little, by one like you. Ruth, God
bless you'll love you, and dare to tell
you so now. Don't answer No. Ruth,
! for Heavens sake!'
Aud Ruth did not answer "No," for
she tainted dead away. sf....
You see she had written that poem and
sent it to the Monitor, though she never
meant the professor to see it, and the way
he came by it almost frightened her to
death
And she loved him dearly, and she
| knew that he loved her.
And when she came to and felt his arm
about her, and heard his words, and-snd
all that, you know-she couldn't bear to
to tell him it was all a mistake AndAI
know she kissed him under the old oak
tree, for saw her. '1'.' '..' ~.
Papa Rlll didn't say "No." Indeed Ruth
vas of age, so why should he? Ard kig
wife hardly cared to have step-daughter
of her own age at home, III
So Ruth has been Mrs Robin G0odtel
low for q long while now, and is, she tells
me, very happy, all because of Miss Prim-
roses mistake.
WHAT WILLIE's PUPPY DID,
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