Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-06-28


profoundly convinced that he was a vic
tim of the blacklist treachery, and tina
if Emily were false, then all the world
was false. Six months of the bitter diet
with the swift, mad scene before hi
eyes, changing only to show the mar
falling, Sophy running forward with ;
shrek, and Emily standing frozen t.
stone as she had started from her chair
and the open-heartej and gay youth hat
become a taciturn and gloomy man
without word to spare, ready for AM
dangerous service, and never half 81
pleased as when some black tempest fol
lowed them, and the thick darkness shu
them in like the curtain of death ant
Judgment that they were just about Il
lift.
Yet when twelvemonth had passed,
his bitterness began to be something
less in degree; occasionally ray o.
sense would break upon his gloom, ant
the thought would come to him that
after all, he bad never once spoken Of
marriage to Emily Travers in so many
words; he had taken every thing fol
granted; he had left the way open fol
every other beggar that chose to come
along. Why, he asked, mad ne evel
doubted Emily? She loved him to-day
Ike brother, as she had always done
Loved him like brotherl Not she, he
would reply to himself, when he had
felled her lover to the ground, and had
flung her from him like a snake. She
had reason to hate him, he said; OF
course she did hate him.
Life looked dark enough to Norman
Macpherson at that tine, and you may
be sure he made no effort to set things
right; but, with the persistency of his
Scottish race, he fitted his back to bear
the burden; and when the three years
cruise was over, he made no visit to his
home at all, but got another term of
sea service, much to the relief of some
one else who wished to stay ashore.
As for Emily, she had not been sure
that night that she was not beside her
self. Talking to the young naval officer
who was going to marry Sophy-a Sc
cret's she kept at Sophy's requirement,
snd concerning which she had often
drawn on her fancy for Norman's pleas
ure and surprise when she should be al
lowed to tell him-addressing him af-
as she felt toward one so
soon to be her brother, and answering
his threat of taking Sophy away by beg
ging him not to part her frem her sister,
white maniac with blazing
eyes had appeared in the window, an
up-lifted arm had fallen, the shrieking
Sophy had run TO lift the head of her
senseless lover, and Norman was gone.
What it all meant she could not con-
lecture, and she was too stunned to
make the effort. She went about as if
she were moving statue; every thing
seemed to go on long, long way be-
yond her view; she was waiting for
word that did not come; and when day
after day and week after week crept BY,
and no explanation came from Norman,
and she knew nothing of his where.
abouts, except the official statement,
she realized that her world had col
lapsed like pricked bubble, and she
collapsed with it.
When Emily came up from that sick
ness it was like one emerging from the
lark valley of the shadow of death, and
'ome of the shadow still chung to her;
here was look on her pale face as if
The were gazing into a land beyond.
Sophy was married, and went away; her
mother closed the house, and took Emily
o Europe, sitting down at last in lit
lie town on the Mediterranean shore,
where they could pick up their scatter
ID threads, and see if they were still
Americans; and the days went BY so
luietly, with the slow rising and falling
Il the blue water of the tideless sea like |
N indolent breath beside them, that
hey hardly knew how many of them
'assed. II they were not happy days
Emily, neither were they entirely un-
appy; only there seemed to be nothing
o look forward to, and, except her
mother, nothing to live for. She used
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