The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-10-26

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and hiding his haggard, agonized fact
in his hands, e.!..-Yfts FFgit sdt ID
"On, sir, you do not know how was
tempted; for her sake Iistrove to keeT
off the evil day. eaaf .ug, y, e4a-
"And SO, !" answered the other, ssyor
have spoiled the future for both;" and
then, in gentler tone, as some though
Of the suffering that must come to hit
child, and some remembrance Of the
love he bore the dead father of this mar
stole ON him, he said ~ YT&89 gdi1h
Cameron, if you had to borrow this
money, why, oh, why, did you not come
to meP l might have saved you this
but now it is too late. You must write
to Julie at once, and release her. Il
would be better, in my opinion, for you
not to see her again; but I leave her to
decide that. / can trust her fully to dc
what is right .,.gs;s,
/, And SO this was the story of the ru.-
ined man, poured into the ears of the
girl who had loved him and placed her
happiness in his keeping. She had
summoned him to her, and no, one had
interfered with his coming, but had left
them alone in the cosy library seated at
q window that opened on a beautiful
garden. IL was the sunset hour Of q
late spring-day, and there was q warmth
of splendor and beauty outside that
contrasted strangely with the sad,
heavY-hearted silence that followed
Lees recital 81 II fots = ''''''' s5''
She had heard him very quietly, only
closing her eyes, when he spoke of the
interview with her father, and when he
spoke the scornful words, Your debts
of honor can not cancel, :" she instinc-
lively drew her hand out of Lees 1.-The
spirit of her father for a moment pos
sessed her-theA, remembering all they
had been to each other, she hastily put
it back and murmured in stiffled tone,
"My poor boy, that was hard.'' i''' .
I After he had finished, she sat perfect
ly mute, lost in thought; the, shadowy
twilight crept upon then, ,and presently,
firing Of the silence, Lee raised his head
YEARLY and said: = ''+ 80 -
g Speak to me = tell me something,
any thing. What must we do?"
@" We can not do any thing" she
murmured, with a, slight infection in
her tone and strange, troubled look
in her eyes; /" but you must go away
somewhere at once-of course there is
no chance for you here.' ~ 1''3
q" Co awayP'' he erepeated wondering-
= csisainiy. 81 dny. replied Julie, impa- inp.
tiently; "do you suppose you could ever
do any thing here? Your failure is not
so bad; but who will trust you? Will
not the whole town, know of-of-''
she stopped short; she could not frame
the. words, the thought Of the dishonor-
able conduct smote her with so keen q
pang; her own instincts were so high
and noble, she would sooner have died
than practiced such deceit upon iunsus-
pecting friendship as he had done; and
it hurt her more than she cared to
show to miss this quality of honor,
which she deemed so essential to true
manhood, in, his character. iGi .n0iiay
a You are cruel!" he exclaimed.
So" God knows I am wretched
enough. without being reminded of
? She rose and faced him steadily
studied his countenance asa physiog-
nomist, the face she had never before
studied save in love. Was it fancy, Of
had she. never before noticed that ex-
preston of irresolution about the sensi-
tive, mobile mouth+t beautiful, al
most, for a man? The eyes looked up
to q her with the tender, appealing
glance Of q woman. But she thrust
these thoughts away from her hastily;
they seemed treachery to her gracious
nature he had been so dear. to her in
their brighter sunlit hours, and her
whole heart went out to him in infinite
pity in this the first day of his adversely,
Alas I the birth of that pity was but the
prelude to the death of her great love.
Love. they say, is sometimes born of
pity; but . woman rarely continues to
love a man whose weakness has once
demanded pity alone. "a sYu1uf ed
Julie let her hand fall caressingly on
her lovers head, and, lifting the face
toward her own, looked very tenderly
into the shrinking eyes as she said
4" Forgive me, mon cher, and remem-
Der that it is equally hard for both of
US. Trust me fully Lee, do you not
feel that ! can only counsel ryon for the
best? Is not my honor and yours one?',
s4sttAh,. mia belle,l ma belle, ''ghe cried
passionately as he drew her down to
him saask any thing of me but to leave
you. I can not 60 away unless, 'tihe
added, dropping his head on her breast,
and winding his arm tighter about her
waist-"you can go with me. -
The selishness of the eidemand struck
her, but she .forgave it for the sake Of
the great love.tha had tempted him to
ash fho saorifioo of har and nnlv oo;d.