Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-08-31
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had gone to bed three hours before.
A storm brooded over the eastern
heavens. 1t was thoroughbred brood
storm. Hopbrewed, for it was coming
from the yeast.
llawkeye creek was rolling tumultu-
ously in its sandy bed. Bugs, probably.
Or it might have been nervousness.
A little form covered at the garden
gate. Many a manly form has been
coward at just such gates, ever since
summer nights and gnats and beauty
and love and june bugs were invented
"He does not come" she murmured
softly, n, she pcered into the darkness
II cannot see him. I will call him.
She was wrong. If she couldn't sec
him she certainly couldn't call him with
the same hand. A manly step came
scroping down the sidewalk. 1t was
Desmond.
She threw open the gate, and in the
next instant he clasped in his great
strong arms twenty-seven years of foulard
three yards Of ruching, seven dozen Bro
ton buttons and pompadour panier as
big as dog house. 1t was all bis own
"All is lost - he exclaimed Con
stance do Belvdere, the Bu slams have
crossed the Balkans. We mast Gy
Constance was noble girl She only
said, whittier shall we dg Z"
lie wanted to fly to some lone desert
isle, but she submitted Ia amendment
providing that they should lily TO a an ice
cream saloon. They few.
In the crowded saloon, where the soft
light fell upon fair women and brave
men. and the insects Of summer night
fell in the ice cream freezer. They spoke
no word.
When two sentient human beings
are engnlphing spoonful's of startch and
eggs and skim milk, language is a
moekery
At length Desmond broke the tender
silence. He said:
More, dcarestY'
She smiled, and bowed her lovely head
but did not speak. She was too full for
utterancc.
Desmond gloomily ordered more. -
And more when that was gone. And a
supplement to that And an addenda to
that. And an exhibit to that
Gloom safe enthroned on his brow. -
Constance saw it. She said
What is it, dearest p
lie spoke not, but sighed
A dreadful suspicion stabbed her heart
like knife.
Desmond" she said, "you are not
tired of me, darling? y
"By heaven, no" be said and then be
looked (and thought unuttcrable things.
Her brow lightened up with a ray Of
celestial intelligence.
81 scc,' she said, tapping the empty
plate with her spoon, TOO cold"
lie denied it bitterly. and babe her re-
main where she was while he settled with
the man. She, guided by tho unerring
instinct Of her sex, pocped through the
curtains of tho saloon She saw her
Desmond holding earnest conversation
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his head rcsolutely in answer to Dcs-
moud's pleading looks and appealing ges-
lures. She saw him lock the door. take
out the key, put it in bis pocket aud lean
against the door. She saw her own Des-
mond draw from his own pocket and pile
upon the counter pearl-handlcd pocket
knife, six nickels, four green postage
stamps, a watch key, two lead pencils,
book, theatre ticket (of
the variety dcnomination.) n pocket
comb, an ivory tootbpick, shirt stud,
one sleeve button, photograph Of her
self. a package Of tricks. two street car
checks, silk handkerchief and pair of
gloves. And then she knew that Des-
mond was bankrupt,and when the man
swept the assets Of the concern into
drawer and opened the door she sobbed,
convulsivcly:
"And it wos mine extravaganza which
hath did this thing"
They did not talk much on the way
home. Once she asked if no were rich,
and he said Enormously"
Such is life.