The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-08-21
FREMONT SANDUSKY COUNTY OHIO; FRIDAY AUGUST 81 1874

BODY put you, and thought he knew
it all the time. l told him how
i good you had always been to
me, and how easily YOU were
/ hurt, and he promised to 90 away as
lsoon as you came. Don't be un-
kind, it's not liLe you" And she
reached out both hands to him ap-
pealingly. He looked at her, and
down on her outstretehed hands,
but did not move toward her: and
he asked Just as before
'Is there nothing more?"
| She drew back her hands, and
lifted her head. "You have no right
to ask what l would not let him
ask; what would not ask myself,
nor let myself think of. I am true
to you, and that is is all 1 can do,
and all you have a right to expect.
You are cruel, and if you keep on
you will"
She stopped short in her rapid
speech, and Colyer spoke slowly.
81 have a right to know the truth.
I do know it. l knew it when l
first met you to-day"
The girl began to rock herself,
and to cry again, diseonsolately
now and with fear.
"Ob, can't help it" she sobbed.
1 don't know it came about. I don't
think we were to blame. It's a for
saken place, and I had no friends
when you were gone. And you in
troduced us, and told me to be kind
to him. And he was very pleasant,
and helped me not to be lonely; and
l meant no harm, nor thought any
could come of it any more than
you"
"But it is none the less true" he
continued slowly. "When you look
back over all that has passed be-
tween us, it seems a little pitiful,
doesn't it?"
They were silent, and seemed to
listen for some intimation of escape
from this malquandary. But on
ly the breeze sang under its breath
in the pine boughs Of the sea so
hopelessly far away, and a stone,
loosened from the frowning heights,
clattered down the sleeps, aimless-
| ly.
Colyer stood up and looked down
on her lingeringly. sim going
away, now," he said. "Good nigh" "
She stood up and took hold of his
arm. "No, don't CO." said she and
looked down.
"Why not" he asked. Is there
any more?"
"Oh, don't speak like that" she
said with a sudden hoarseness.
"You're not going to hurt himi
promise me that you won't hurt
him."
"Oh, indeed" he answered with
a laugh. $50 you don't want me to
hurt him? Did you ask him not to
| hurt me? Maybe he's on the watch
for me now down in the hollow here
But don't trouble yourself on my
account. I'm not much scared"
Then with swift change of manner
he turned facing her and took hel
arms. Look here, Maggie" he
said, she might better have lain fol
me and shot me, than have done
i what he has" Then he turned from
her abruptly, and left her alone
among the whispering pines.
He went straight to Ridley's room
which was also his own, but he
found no one there. Then he Went
out and hunted the stores and no
tells, but did not find him. Coming
out of one of these places he was
met by a man named Mercury, anc
a prominent citizen, who fastened
on him, and told him something
about q committee of arrangement;
for proposed reception of the city;
distinguished counsel, and celebra
ton of the happy termination of the
lawsuit fraught with such important
results 20 the mountain metropolis
as he was confident Cinnibar wa:
soon to be.
| Colyer bade him roughly to let &C
of him, and consigned him to perdi
tion with his celebration. Many
other hands and voices greeted him
but he pushed past without needing
and answered no one a word.
He came out of the Suburban
hotel, and the town was behind him
He looked up to the dark outlines
of the height, and saw above hin
the tower of the little church, tippeC
by the moonlight, and dim, lowe
, down in the shadow, the school
/ house, perched like q bird house OF
the cliff. He climed the break-necl
path, and came out beside the silen
J building. Here, on the point of
ledge, where a pine or two made
little shade in the daytime, he hat
: sat with her that happy afternoon
t before he went away. 1t had beel
E so hard to go then, and now he look
, ed back to that parting as to a grea
j and unatrainable happiness. All th,
months he was away he had seel
> her sitting there, with the sunligh
slanting down from the peak, an
Pickering through the pine needle
t on her face; and he had hungereI
< for meeting her here again. H
I wished he had never come back, ,tha
e he had died with that thought @
: her in his heart. He lay down o
his face on the bare rcck where sh
d had sat, and did not move for Ion
t time. In the saloons and hotels {
t more towns than one the news sprea
: that Colyer of Cinnabar had com
J, back, and many q man envied hill
g his good luck or praised his we
t learned success, and prophesied
: golden future for him. And th
rock felt the pressure Of his face, an
J. the wanton wind played with hi
hair, and the only thing that pitie
him was the heights that cast the
l. shadows over him and hid him frOl
}, sight.
By and by he got up and wei
/ slowly down the path and throug
d the town. The saloons and hote
E. were the only places open now. =
q went up to Ridley's room, and foun
1t him there asleep. His disordere
d head was over the edge of the be
h and the bed clothes half on the foo
E. The moon had got around by tn
le time and lighted this upper ROOF