Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-21

ler by and by, when the winter
came, and that would be time
(
again. / shall never forget that
meeting any more than / shall for
pet our parting. j saw her standing
smart from the crowd, and went to-
ward her. She saw me coming,
and and her eyes lit up as morn
ino-glory does when the sun strikes /
IL Suddenly. Her face was radiant
for one moment. Then her eyes
vavered and fell, and she did not
look up until / was close by her ana
held out my hand with few words
of greeting. My heart was in Hut
fer of gladness. She was near-and
I loved her!
After that we met often. Once L
came near showing her my heart,
and would to God / had done so, |
Rothermel! / was very near heaven
the gates were almost Open-Dut |
T dared not venture in, and they |
will never unclOSe for me again.
| DON'T accuse me of talking sentI-
ment. for / am not. If you ever
love q woman you will find that
her love is to YOU on earth what
heaven will be when you are deau.
| | believe that. So will you,
said that | came near showing
nv heart. We were alone. had
been reading some poem to her, ana
its story of love had carried my
heart along on its tide OF passion
until 1 felt it was my own story. l
shut the book and turned to her
with nav heart on my lips. Her
ewes were strangely tender with the
: feeling which the poem l haq Deeh
reading had awakened in her breast.
She smiled into my eyes-l touched
her hand as you might touch rose
and was dumb J!
If / had only spoken! But that
!. wild, cursed fear was upon me, ana
| the happiness of a lifetime slipped
from my grasp, and was lost for
/ did not see her again for months
y She had gone South to visit some
: friends.
It But / dreamed of her in my day
If dreams, and laid my plans for tn
IS future, and not one plan was woVel
= in which she was not the centra
a thought. When she came back
d would speak out. would daily n
re longer.
+ Nv and by | heard that she had
a lover in that Southern city Wher
~ her friends lived. A wild fea
IN sprang up in my heart. What II
2; should lose her after all! But tn
a. thought that she loved me quiete
as me.
10 / waited anxiously for her comm
a home. She came at last, and the
)u told me that she did not come alon'
Id / would go to her. / would spea
A., ont now. i would make my happ
:. ness sure.
II, i went to her. She met me wit
he a touch of the old brightness in III
ne face. Then / grew pale, and fal
n cied that she was ill at ease. 81
~ did not seem like her old self. Tru
I conld call the color to her chez
lie, for a moment, at some low word
mt mine, and her eyes would light |
-, with the old tenderness, but swi
y" shadow would fall and hide it all.
DIV At last l spoke out:
at, "Alice," | said, 81 love you.
lat have come to tell you so at last.
iii Her face grew pale as death. ii
ewes filled with a darker shadow.
AeS "Oh, why have you told me I'll
rs. now ?'' she cried. "IfyOu had on
re, told me this before"
,ut NV heart seemed to stop its be-
as aYou love me - / cried. "Not
APP ing must come between US, Alice
the "There is a promise that cam
md break between u.s." she said a
her voice sounded far away. u
to marry Douglas Leith."
led 1t was then that | realized wi
ern 7 might have had, had it not be
and for my insane folly. | had lost h
~ and-God help mel loved her
4h we'll!
the II thought you loved me" lisa
,en- bv and by, when could comma
zen. my voice.
,,o1 81 didr' she cried, and burst i
nay q nassiOn of tears. "But / thou
ours YOU could not care very much
it'll me, for YOU never told me that .
loved me-"
the cannot tell you anymore ah
, he that last interview, ROthermel
80 went away knowing that the won
alei I had lost loved me, and mi
mbS have been mine if had spoken
and like a man when / ought to h
ined done so. But / had lost her
~ T. ever. / must go on my way alC
lileil haunted by the memory of W
and was, and is, and what may not
, the You never dreamed that | WI
keen haunted man, ROthermel, but /
foelr one. When | see that woman
-Iour we saw her just now, you car
t, di- guess how my heart cries out
isky what it might have had, if
,llow not been coward
,eak. For your own sahe t anu laIA
J. you i ioF0 1 q m Sbi9wreck vonr
and her happiness as L have n
\ illyou give me Lii
nv ciOar has gone out.