Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-25

Ihally talk tneV nau, anu MISS Al
ger, watching with great interest the
progress of their amity, observed that
the more they talked, the more they
seemed to want to talk, and the more
they were with each other, the more
they wanted to be. Especially one
moonlight evening, when Miss Alger
saw the two figures strolling slowly IN
advance Of a lounging group along the
greensWard by the river, she felt that
they were talking heart to heart. And
50 they were
eff l had your brave, bright spirit,
Miss Bessie | might yet do something
in the world" .. f..
And do you mean." she asked, with
an incredulous little smile, that you
had ever contemplated doing nothing in
the world?" .9r- ".
Hardly that" he answered, seri-
ously; "but I have no purpose, no
plans. My chief motive is simply to
kill time; and here IN the hunting sea-
son one finds chance to do that with
some zest."
''But time is not like the other game
you kill, is it2" said Bessie. 81 imagine
killed time is more like the genii in the
fairy tale, that when slain rushed i'm
mediately to life again in new and for
midable shapes"
Harry Barton listened thoughtfully
but made no reply to this. &.
81 WONDER" she said, after q pause,
eff the world looks half as beautiful to
you as it does to me-"
No, | fear not half. But it looks
more beautiful to me since | have
known you,"'
Bessie did not acknowledge this COM
pliment by word or blush: perhaps III
deed, she heard it not. She was CLAN
cling away from her companion, her
eyes turned slightly upward. He search
ed their expression with an ardOr new to
him, and the fancy that crossed his
mind was not inspired by vanity or
passionate hope, but by som ething akin
to reverence. "Her eyes, he thought,
have a hymn IN them" OIL"
Just as the Sabbath stiffness came I'M
hidden into the western wild, unheralded
by church bell unattended by observant
throngs, and poured the echoes of the
DID, old hymns into the air of the
solitude, SO into that nook of wilderness,
unbidden. unheralded, unexpected,
! Love came. .u..a...
When the people whom Bessie was
TO accompany westward reached Aglers
Rancho, and fixed their departure for
the next day, Bessie knew that she was
going to leave there, in that strange
place, the sweetest dream and expert
ence of her life. How many. times in
the sleepless night she repeated to her
self, more sorrowfully than she dared to
know, az am leaving the dearest and
brightest spot of rest that will ever
be in my life Of loneliness and toll"
The morrow came. The travellers
meeting at the early breakfast fastened
| to depart The stage was at the door,
and one after another took their seats
Bessie fingered; she had many part
ing words to give to the good Algers.
At last she too entered the vehicle, al
ready full, with the exception of one
vacant place at Bessie's side.
Harry Barton had not been seen that
morning Must [ Co." sighed poor
Bessie, with sad, sad sinking Of the
heart, {" without even saying good by?"
f. But at the last moment he appeared.
Somewhat flushed and excited, he
came quickly down from the doorway,
and Bessie involuntarily bent forward
and held over the wagon door her hand
he seemed hardly at first to think of
taking it, but he did, and even with
sudden impulse pressed it to his lips,
as, with such glow upon his radiant
face as made the moment memorable
to Bessie for evermore,F 81 am going
with you," he said. -" a.-t 81 s@.. ....