Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-09

and being allowed TO know only that Mamie
had been taken suddenly sick because of her
weak condition, and was promptly recover
ing, worried his honest heart but little. This
could not last.
Mamie" said /. the second day of her ap-
Pearance down stairs. 1.-The doctor lets John
drive ont this afternoon. and will bring him
around to throw n kiss to youT window"
Don't do il. Frank" said my cousin. with
solemnity for which l was not prepared.
Don't do il. for | Can't'-and here came n
sob and "A sudden food OF tears-''I can't see
him.
MY silly little cousin.' said 1. drawing
near with the purpose of administering Ger
tain cousinly consultations. But Mamie put
out one thin hand 10 Tepulse me.
NO, Frank; don't want any thing of that
sort. ] know am silly, know am wicked.
AID know that al! liars have their part in
the lake that hurneth with coal and brim-
store" SIC Ike Mamie. with quaint miSuuO-
tation. as if she would spare herself nothing
IL tic way Of prospective torment for her
peTifdy. But when | promised John To love
him forever ne was John. Now hp is some
thing olSc-yOu knCw-yOu helped change
hnl-yOu saw him take mis- life from that
that-ShcCp,'
This was supremacy absurd. hut saw Ma
mic was rapidly exciting herself and thought
silence my best TO5c Hardly pausing to dab
each of her eyes with a small wet square OF
handkerchief, she confined. rapidly:
Il saw IL In his face, IheaTd il in his voice.
Oh. Frank, don't make me think OF it! Why
90 you. like her SuVrU>ititiOuS ancestor,
the wolf falsely accusing me OF mU,ldying
the stream of her thoughts. Il never can
look at him again He used 10 say he could
breed an animal that should equal a human
being. Now he has bred himself"
This was all too pathetic To he comic, q
least To me, who knew my cousins cOuStitG-
tioIal drean of the animal whose life-bloOd
was now 4hat of her lover and whose fea-
lures and voice seemed TO have reproduced
themselves in his person.
But the little girl was firm. She never
wUuld-she said She never cOtji-See John
again. II was p sorry business getting him
to understand the case. For a long time he
refused to believe it. He had long cOnSulta-
tiUnS with DR.. BrOUghtUn. He laViShel flow
erS upon Mamie all winter. hoping that wha
he called her halucinatiOn would wear of il
ne could keep himself in her mind by con-
tinuiHg attentions whose memory was all OF
the pleasant days before that fever.
1t was useless. Uncle Stuart told him 50
along III the spring. time, and advised him ~
take q trip abroad, shake OFF his mfatuatiOn
for Mamie. or come back in a year if he felt
no better and try his fortune again.
The year has passed. John came back a
month ago. He is fat and brown. and wears
his mUStache walked at the ends. But Mamie
has not changed. The wonderful metamOr-
phOsiS of my cousin from a marvel OfpassiOn-
ate affection To a prodigy of unreaSOning dis
like becomes all the more wonderful 10y its
persistence.
Last week, after ! knew Johns fact was
irrevOcaliy sealed, | determined To brave
what had never before dared, and put my
own fortune 10 the test. Before | had hail
begun my confession Nantes quick wits
recognized my drift, and thus she closed my
mouth:
"Inever shall forgive myself. Frank. for
what happened past year. though | cOuldn' [
help it, and / can't help il now. But |
haven't yet forgiven you for your part i'm il.
Unreasonable 10 the last! We are all vic
Tins together 0lpeI's BdzO.