The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-12-16

not better; and could do and have done,
the same exploits as be. Dost thou for,
getthat bat for the accident two years
ago when promised my dying mother
never to wiIdern again, could ontdo
HanseI any day p
OF course" said the girl, softened,
" that was a misfortune to shoot QUE S
mothers brother nearly dead. He had
a narrow escape"
"And, after ALL Roserl, it is not re-
spectacle to be a wildschiltz. 1t is
against the law. Thou oughtest to be
glad that thy lover has tried hand at it
to show what he eau do, and has given
up the dangerous Pastime."
Somehow l can't be glad at that"
Roserl," Kissed Franzl with a strange
huskiness in his voice, thou couldst
almost tempt man to break his sacred
VOW
Nobody tempted thee. Did p
at seems the only way to win thy re-
gard Now, II l were free to outdo Han,
sci in wild hunting, thou wouldst not
be ashamed to acknowledge thy prefer
ence of meT
There came pretty little shrug of her
shoulder as her doubtful answer.
"If there were a grain of love for me
in thy heart"
IF thou choosest to doubt it -
She could not continue she all bat
wrestled with her wrath.
They had both managed to work each
other into an ungovernable passion.
Look here" cried Franzl, with sud
den determination His lips were white
with surprised agitation. 4" WHAT'S the
use of wrangling? Thou must choose
between US; we both cannot court thee.
If thou hast chosen meas l had a right
to believe little while ago-it would
not be fair toward him to let him 20 OF
losing his time after all"
Fortunately for Hansel, he doesn't
regret his time lost upon me" said Ro-
serl He would give his life for n,
more than to see me twenty yards off
Very different from some others"
Franzl took no notice of this last him
aud continued Because he hope.
| still to make thee love hin some day
He cannot know that all shame is lost
How can he suspect such double play
Roserl, it is wrong
But now the girls hardly restrained
wrath fairly broks out. 81 W hat p scream
ed she, teach me wrong or right dar
est thou Now, before we are married
What wouldst thou do after marriage
Remember, she painted, "we are not
man and wife yet; perhaps never sha
be. No, mol l won't be tied to
Here her voice broke down; her Who'll
frame shook; her eyes flashed in rage
her lips were white and trembling. Wa
this the same girl who few moment;
before had nestled so lovingly in FranzP
heart? the same sweet eyes so diYinel
shining into his? the same fond lips VI
raised to meet his kiss? All, me a
that had been little, very little, Will
ago. So short had been the time tha
had wrought the change, that Franz
was bewildered, beyond himself wit
surprise. The grief, rage, and awe, tha
min gled in his breast, found ezpTessio
in his look
The weather seemed to rage in con
mon accord with them. Flash after Gas
of lightning, peal after peal of thunder
showers of rain in the roaring hurricane
But the two were now beyond notin
that they had become wet through.
"What dost thou mean by never be2
cried Franzl.
"Tbat won't be bound to such a t
rantr'
"Tyrantr' shouted he, above II
wind-and stopped to rally his strength
MARK my words" with great stres
'thou must give mp Hausel or me !
will not be a traitor toward a rTlenr
| will not suffer him to be wronget
Who is it to be-him or me?'
) "Get thee hence, and that instantly
cried the girl at the top of her voic,
and mark my words now I throw tn
7 off as l do these fcwers-there they 9,
and all my love for thee departs wi
j them from me--gees with them down
l. the bottom of the precipieel" Thus sa
+ ing, she vehemently plucksd Franzrs
quet from her heaving breast, raised
arm high, and hung it far away fro
] her Down, down it went into the gre
o dark gulf
a deadly pallor spread over Franz
;, ia,e. lie sprang to the brink Of Il
e preeipice. His tone was icy, his tee
/ chattered, as he replied, VERY well,
won't be more difficult to bring the 10
- ers out of the hole than it was to brir
them from the summering. When
!, have brought them back again, l v
e give them TO Feferl %
His words sounded ike a death kne
l. as be disappeared the way the now,
> had gone down before him.
{ Raging as the clements were arou
II her, the storm raised ID RoserTs bre
u was yet fercer, aud seemed only now
D reach It's climax, as she, with 4 he's
burning with passion, paced up a
o down the short space under the og
? hanging roof OF her hut. "The Will