Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-17


Alright 10 interpOse your own cl4ims-claims
THAI sprang into existence too Suddenly TO be
Va AID, That Is, it Gems SO to me"
Nassau continued:
"You aud / are men of very different temper-
ment. You are man Of impulse, aud | AN a
man OF elaboration. Nou are a pow srful, yISur-
GUS Athletic, and man of the world l am a
student. We each require TO love and 70 be l5y-
ca. In order that our natures shall be satisfied.
u WIN De necessary that we each secure the at
lection OF one suited TO them. 1--we are seek
ing, Ike honorable and intelligent men, aft
true wives, il is preposferous that we should
strive TO secure the regard Of the same woman
Que must be entirely diSsimtar to one of rs
and DO not think that we can both persist in
our attempts to gain her hand without doing a
gross wrong. You understand me. | do not
say at whose door this wrong will rest do not
say that you are blameworthy for what yol
have done, and neither do admit that am I
merely insist that the delicate, sensitive and
thoughtful girl should not be subjected 20 the
rlfk OF enlargement in marriage with one OF
us TWO mat Is unit for her. Winch one of us
Is the unit one he himself must decide aud
think, IN PLAIN words, that he, in the nameyof
all honor and msnliness, must feel bound to
withdr .w."
Nassau stopped and looked attentively at vii
lis, who still kept at wsrk.
THAT Is very fairly put" said the other, re-
Nasssu's face lighted up with sudden. bril-
liant look. His eyes sPaIkled, and his fjugh re
turned into his pale cheeks:
"Then-then ,you Wall consider it. / know
you Will" ff''' vi ~
us must be put to, will be a severe one"
50 Yes, undoubtedly" returned Willis, calmly.
Il was about 10 say that my self"
ne two men exchanged glances. Nassau.
Trained to The task Of comm Sudiug himself felt
that to say more would be dangerous. Yet, az
Tue same time, he was convinced. by the char
acter OF the look he had received, that he had
made but little progress. 1t had been defiant
and aggressive. Still, he forced a smi lie into
lis anxious face.
81 will not ruin your pretty picture there by
go and take my walk"
ing"
"And-and," added the rector, stepping away
down the slope, 1--WE agree to think the m alter
over, do we?"
Yes, we agree to think the matter over, IRE
He raised his head and looked after the send-
er figure OF his rival as it slowly moved down
the gay, betiowered slope.
"Poor DEVIL" reflected he; sit ia lucky for
| him that he did not live in the DAYS when they
/ won their wives at the point OF the sword-he
| would not have earned a milk maid"
Another week passed by. In it Willis showed
! no mercy to Nassau. He opened his ports "a il
we're, and declared himself TO all who cared to
| see.
With his strong voice, erect and energetic
bearing, ana glowing eye, he habtually over
rode the simpler and CENTER man, aad vet he
gave no cause for an outbreak. Where Nassau
would lave been content TO sit in. quiet beside
bis sweet mistress, Willis talked graceful senti-
ment Where Nassau would have pondered aud
have answered gravely, Willis had something
decisive TO say. Nassau was satisfied to avoid
prominence in manner and language, but Willis
always appeared in the van, and beside each
ether they we're as gray and crimson.
Inc host, who was little else IAN a white
haired boy himself Glove openly to the strong
er youth, and Nassau, sick at heart, felt that
the ground was slipping away from beneath
Ea
praying for means to combat his enemy, but he
thought that he got no answer.
His little world grew dark to him.
There was something incredible in it ali.
SO monstroUs, so fearfuly wrong, tn st he often
refused to contemplate it, but now, that mat
ate with him, he was forced to confr0Ht it,
herself.
II he called and asked for her now. il was
likely that he would be told that she was stroll
ing with Willis. He knew tn at she praised Will
rs lie had seen her eyes ned upon him. He
Ead seen her give Willis her hand when she
withheld it from him. She gazed at her father
whenever he told of Wilisrfortunes at the trout
BROOKS, or OF bis long and rapid walks, or Of his
bold riding, or of his wit.
II all these tTitles and their kin were indca-
TORS negatively adverse to him, there was
another set OF tifes that told positively against
him 1alas. how eagerly, now angrily, did he
catch at them and apply them for his dis COM
fort. She now no longer read with him; no
longer visited the sick with him: no longer
praised his work; no longer smiled when he APP
proved; no longer blushed and turned aside her
race as she had been wont to do whenever their
conversations had led them ap-haZard into
strange confessions. She was distant with
him; reserved; retreatipg: anxious: IN at ease
One day he saw her in the distance throw her
self weeping upon her fathers breast. "Ah,''
said said, he to himself, stopping, chow she loves
Hardly had he thus formulated the thought
wnen there opened upon his confused mind
1t was as if a sudden fash of sunli ,ht had
been shot down in the middle of the nj yht. He
now saw clearly. She loved her father! Strange
that he had overlooked flial love in his contem-
Ptanon Of ms own own love- Strange that he had
not imagined that her sense of duty and
accountability might have had some force with
He felt in second as If he were walking upen
air.
Still wait! He must be sure of this. lie must
nave proofs. He must not make protest until
hard and think hard.
Another day slipped by, and We. another.
Ahee now iorbore to speak with him. HIS
cd aud sang, and his gay voice and HANDSOME
presence still filled the eyes of the father.
Finally, Alice fed from the garden, when
Nassau, one afternoon, suddenly entered IT,
The escape was precipitate: yet, as she disap-
peared she turned full upon him q gaze of indie
scribable meaning.
Nassau's soul arose in arms
But he reflected one more day.
Then he went in search for Willis. He was
Intent upon making one more appeal to him.
Ii he failed in it, he would hasten to the
father, and, with all the strength aud eloduence
that he could command, would beseech him to
look more closely to the complication that
seemed so dangerous and 80 full of wrong.
lie fastened first to the old dOmicile.
He found no one there. 1t seemed that Will
Jig lad gone into the woods an hour before with
his easel and boxes.
well, but Is not the doctor in his study"
"No sir; he is in the lower garden. 1 heard
hi say that he was going over near the White
hull Pit to see II there were any trees there that
he could transplant.
"But Miss Alice?"
"She has gone out, too, sir. She has gene for
walk, think"
"AlOpe?"
eyes, sir, alone. She asked me in which di-
recti0n her father had gone, and she followed
him."
"And is she well to-day"
"She is pale-very pale"
Here there was a pause.
Then Nassau nquired for the direction that
Willis had taken.
"He went in the direction of the White Hill,
too, sir. l think he told Miss Alice yesterday
that there was cliff there that he wanted to
paint.