The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-10-16

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4 how treacherous, ] ami"
He smiled proudly, deIightedIy
even when she started wildly up the
path to the hotel, leaving him alone
with the darkness, the lakelet, the
stars then, as he followed slowly
after, the delight faded from his face
and he wondered if she would be
true to her heart, or her duty for he
had learned to know her sweet re
soluteness before tonight.
On the hotel steps, Mr.. Duncan
met him, open cigar-case in hand.
Don't go in, Converse. The wo.
men are holding the inevitable pow
WOW over st. Justin. and my Clara
regards him an especial pet simply
because he is her nephew select.
Good match for Osyth, suppose, If
that's all. Help yourself, Converse ;
you'll find them not to be despised.
imported them myself"
y Aud SO Clyde and Osyth's uncle
smoked their fragrant cigars out in
the lovely summer night, while Osyth
and the suitor to whom she is betroth-
ed sit talking together in the parlor
Of aunt Clara's suit-he passionately
glad to have the one woman he loves
where he can feast his eyes on her
sweetness, and touch her fair hands !;
she trying her best to be kind, for
Conscience sake, and succeeding ad-
mirably we'll, considering the warning
powers at her heart. <4|A
The next morning, the two men
are introduced, and curious triangu-
lar intimacy began between the
three.
Those were strange days that fol-
lowed-days when Testers love. and
devotion. and perfect confidence
were toachingly manifest-days
when Osyth dared not take upon
herself the task of telling him she
wanted to be free, because of an
others claims on her-days when
she realized, hour by hour, that she
must not even be Clyde Converse's
love-days when Converse himself
was forced to respect the nobleness
of his unconscious rival, and decide
that fate was against him, since, in
honor and mercy, Osyth would not
dare snatch st. Justin's happiness
from him. e=Erer--.-srzr a
And then, the night before the
Duncan party left the hotel, he
sought Osyth out, for the first time
since her lover had come.
'sYou have won my respect and I
admiration, as we'll as my love, by
your sweet patience and grand sense
Of honor. Osyth, the woman does
not live who can supplant you in my |
hearth You are first, best, highest,
and yet l must give you up!''
That was the way they parted-he
% his ways; she to marriage with
lester st. Justin, a month later-a
marriage that was not for long. a
marriage that had ended, for one of
hem, by the time Converse saw
)syth again, so fair, so grave, so
in her mourning dress.
The most natural of all natural
hings happened. In course of time,
)syth was won again-won by the
My man who ever had commanded |
Ter heart, who had always been to
Ter king and master-to whom she
vent as his wife, feeling that the
,ods had withheld no good from her
n permitting her the inefable de-
light of loving him aud being loved.
For awhile, she was exquisitely
Iappy. Then. gradually, she came |
@ learn that this man she had delft
d and worshipped was not calcula-
ed to make a woman happy nearly
o well as Lester had been-Lester,
Tho was all patience, and tender
ess, and forbearance, and devotion
Lester, whom she saw now had
1ved her with love exceeding any
ove she ever had known or known
!. E r1.sf sra
Not that Converse was in the
east unkird to her; only, in those
arly days she had charmed him in
} mad fascination of her that he
ad made sure was love-only he
ad somehow framed the idea that
he and Lester St. Justin had not
cen particularly happy, and that
ON him Osyth would bear consid-
rable. EsJl r.s I
So the first flush and novelty of
leir married life passed. Converse :
as given to a little neglecting her, {
little leaving her to her own devi
$, and gradually, before a year had
me by, Osyth came to realize that
g mistake of her life had been
here she exchanged the blessed
of Lester st. Justin and
8 exquisite devotion, that then was 0
for the fancied bliss +,
tn Clyde Converse. ;
1t was a mistake-a pitiful mis- I
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