The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-09-10

AIs. AeO nau placed near 10 eaten the
drops which fell from flaw in the
roof, in dismal procession, mimicking
the tired tread Of the poor suicide.
Thus having laid the ghost Melli.
cent went back to her pillow, and the
rest Of us to our game.
81 don't know" said Lu, while VIC
talked it over; II was quite certain
that I.heard a kiss up there. Did any
one kiss me? because I should like to
resent it.
''It is my lead," said Escoriaza.
'When you kissed me, kissed Inc, sweet,
What quick music two hearta beat.
When you missed me, missed me, love,
There was music up above"
he sang in his own tongue, though !
rhyme it for you.
II shall have to get pony, as the
collegians call it" said Lu, "if you
are going to ride your hobby, Escori.
aza."
'Oh, WE'LL" said he, II can go afoot,
though I limp, since
4 know a little hand
IT'S the sweetest in the land,
And feel its pressure bland
While I sing"
''Do you" said I. "The game il
ours"
"Whist with caution" quoth Sid
ney, who was in a fog.
Dear Sylvia, if I tire you with my
rehearsals say so; don't let me amuse
myself at your expense.
LYRA.
You say that Escoriaza interests
you, he assuredly does the rest of US
even Earlsworthy, the sedate, unim-
aginative Earsworthy, comes home
after a little absence with an anxious
face, and Sidney is so afraid that
Escoriaza will make love to Lu,
though there isn't the smallest danger
Of it, that he doesn't give himself
time to sleep As for myself, when.
ever he requests to ride or walk w1ta
me, l feel it were wise to refuse, but
consent, nevertheless.
Last week we went up the Treach-
erous Pass. Mrs. Leo was greatly
against it, never expected to see US
again, and told all manner of goblin
stories about it, which might very
we'll be true, seeing that it was a per-
feet labyrinth of deceit so darkened
with overhanging precipice and
tangled growth, so noisy with the
capricci;o Of neighboring torrents, SO
fragrant with the breath of trailing
plants which detained one at every
step that it fairly became a point Of
dispute whether, II be I, as I do hope
I be-, or some Changeling, spirited
away by gnomes of the mountain.
Just where we sat down to lunch a
little thread of pure water bub-
bled over a rock, and tumbled
headlong downward to catch up
with the advance corps that
danced beneath rainbow a hundred
feet below.
"White hermitage" said Escoriaza
filling his silver drinking-horn. "Whc
knows if it is not the fountain of youth
which my revered ancestor thirsted
for? Drink, Senorita," said he offer.
ing it to me; "unless YOU share il
perpetual youth were insupportable. y
1t was the strangest thing how We
became separated from the rest of the
party afterward. I think it must
have been that, following the trail o.
a splendid scarlet creeper, we sudden
ly found ourselves alone in the wild
est and most ragged solitude.
"Oh, we are lost, Mr.. Escoriaza r
I cried.
''Perhaps so" said he, coolly lift
ing a bough for me to pass. "What
then 2"
"What then? Do you fancy this
lonely height at midnight?''
81 fancy any spot where the Senori
ia is," he answered, bending low ove1
my hand.
Well, do you know, the sun went
down and left US there, and the great
white star leaned down to look into
the gorge, and by-and-by the moor
rose over the jagged points of rock
and touched the rills of leaping wa
ter into chains of silver, drop by drop
and made awful lights and shades al
each step, and interpenetrated every
seam and fssure with its frosty phan
tastes.
I told Lu afterward that it wa.
worth being lost to see such an effec
of moonlight.
81 am afraid it was an effect O
Escoriaza," said she.
However, we returned safely a
last, the clock holding up its tw'
hands at One in holy horror, ant
half the neighborhood out seekinl
us.
"Your time-piece is fast, is it not ?
asked Escoriaza.
"Dear no." said Mrs. Leo; ct
only lovers who doubt it,"
"Truly. Do I not belong to tina
happy companyT he whispered, un
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