The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1875-03-19

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didn't expect To meet YOU"
No. 4 couldn't expect you 10 keep IL
and | didn't mean 10 meet you. | shouldn't
have come here had | Known
What made you Gomez
With a little. low, hzlf-sai laugh the
lacy said ~ was afraid OF a ghost.r
Il should think you might, perhnps.
be afraid OF "A ghost. You seen afraid OF
nothing real. You might perhaps like a
ghost better than a flesh and blood man. -
She laughed again, half embarrassed. |
could fancy In the shadow that she blush
ed. Perhaps | might
you grow morbid. shut up with books
In a sick ROOM"
Was this the explanation OF the slender
white hand and wrist. the forehead and
cheek. 50 pale in the half light, conrrasted
with the dark hair and dress: She was an
invalid. Yet her step. | remember, was
full Of a springing grace.
mo, | only learned some new things
"And found that | didn't satisfy you.
Before, YOU half fancied that | should. and
the change seemed 10 Come on the Friday
that l found You writing letters by the
window, when | brought you your ring |
had found in the lily pond. You never
explained il to me.'
The lady turned gravely and said
"How can "A explain ne's own devel-
opments? That day, l saw myself and
you. You but fancy yourself unhappy.
That you cannot gain me serves instead OF
other excitement. and the moment YOU
had won me would be the moment in
which you would be again adrift. Ii l.
not myself that you love. Forgive me
for trying to make you see your own mis-
take"
As if 10 change the subject. she pointed
with her fan To a humming- bird. nj this
moment poising above a cluster of honey
suckles, and. rising from the chair. stretch
ed her arm up The dark vine and plncked
the blossom.
She was a mere bodkin of a woman. with
a slender throat and little waist. Her mo-
ton was exquisite, depending on a certain
poise and balance. She drew my heart
with every step. Her companion seemed
half stupefied Is he watched her. She stop
ped near him. fastening the ho~neysuckle in
her dress. Now that | saw her face. it
haunted me with a resemblance TO | knew
whom. Somewhere | had seen it
yet surely not this face. Ii might nave
been that of IN enthusiastic nun. There
was a holy fire in the eyes. and the i'm
petuous mouth was strangely sad.
"Iou don't know what you ask-whaf
you would ignoranily take on your shout
ders. Marriage would be TO you a CALLING
tie-an impossible responsibility. IL /
loved you | would not marry you. Ii il
well that | do not. liz would be harder
for US both. There should be the sympa-
thy that outlasts youth, and has It's roots
in the secret springs OF the mind and
soul,
"lou don't know what you saw" said
the man. springing up and standing be-
fore her. You don't know what il means
TO love" He paused as with a sudden
fear. do youg Is il not I.-
II don't know she said softly.
A sound in the Don startled me TO a
realization of my position-eavesdrop-
ping, but the people were strangers
whom / should never see again. The
sound was from my first acquaintance
in the hotel after the host-the stout old
lady-who had entered the room without
my observing her, and fallen asleep in the
chair l lately left. OF her cheerful rest
she was giving audible evidence.
wen TO my room with an uncomforf-
able sense Of resuessness, pursued by the
remembrance of that strangely sweet voice
and exquisite motion of the ma neless lady.
and her fairy-like figure came ever be-
tween me and the vision Of my intellectual.
plump cousin "A sympathy that out
lasts youth. and has its roots in the secret
springs of the mind and soul" l took
from my bag a little pile Of letters very
precious TO me. and counted them over by
the light of my small lamp.
IL must have been ia the small hours of
the night. or morning. that I fell asleep.
and woke to find with the healthy day-
light a healthy impotence TO see my
cousin. and the strange little lady in the
gauzy black. with her strange companion.
seemed to me creatures of a dream. gone
like the humming-bird and the moon
light.
The earliest train found me the earliest
passenger. and the hot summer morning
found me walking rapidly toward a high
garden gate in B. The keeper Of the
lodge came out as I lifted the latch, for
two purposes-iO quiet a snarling terrier
and TO tell me that Miss Delaney and the
aunt who had lived wi h her since her
fathers death. had zone away.
"Gone away ~ Mingled with intense
disappointment and chagrin. l felt an OBJ
stinate determination TO 90 the ends of the
earth. If need be, TO find her. "Gone
whereg-
"0nly to N for a few days
why, I've just come from there,-
IN very rpfI., -aiu the Nlhn. apOlO-
getically, drawing back a. IL he expected
q blow.
I a v him a small fee instead, and
back to the station 10 take the next
train, which turned out TO be some three
hours later / didn't half believe the man
at the lodge, and asked the host with much
doubt when | reached the hotel If Miss De
lancy was staying there with her aunt.
"Since yesterday morning"
"Was she in the house?''
He'd see.
| waited some time. remembering that |
hadn't given my name, and presently he
saying that Miss Delaney was
asleep having returned from a long walk.
] gave the host my card, telling him to