The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13

| more of contributing to her happiness, her
aims in life, her ambitions and desires, than
| in having her as some devoted reflection
| consecrate all herself to me and minel"
| He distinctly remembered what James had |
often said, .Wait until you have learned the |
| lesson of love, when all things will look
| differently TO you.' This experience had
| now come to him, was coming to him more
| and more every hour. He recognized the |
difference without being able to explain to
| his own satisfaction why, with the incoming of |
| love, which should endow every emotion and |
| impulse with increased magnanimity, there |
should be awakened corresponding jealousy |
and selfishness, desire for close and unique |
possession. sasl7
| With Ricardo, the delight of having Uncle |
| Dick at home again knew no abatement, al |
| though what she at first termed delight |
| gradually changed to another feeling, which |
she knew not SO well how to define. But |
/ as women arrive at conclusions more quickly |
| than men, because hampered with less in |
nate stubborn self-righteousness, currently |
known as logic, she very soon acknowledge
to herself that this strange, new
! interest and sympathy which her lifelong
| friend aroused in her was love itself, or the
mysterious power that was preparing her
| heart for its assumption. With this concession
or recognition once yielded to, she fully be-
lieved that she had only herself to think of,
entertaining for no moment the possible
thought that feeling akin to her own had or
could take Judgment in the heart of Richard
| Lane.
.sAt the very best" she argued, "he would
be disappointed and ashamed of me, if he
knew or even suspected that I loved him
otherwise than as Uncle Dick. He would
think, if he did not say it, i hoped better
things from you, Ricardo" So she quickly
and firmly resolved that his expectation of
better things should not fail of realization be-
| cause of lack of effort and will on her part.
Anchored to this resolve, she turned for sup
port to the thought of her Gfe-work, keeping
its purpose constantly in her mind, and, to
strengthen and aid it. resolved to secure the
help of her father and friend in its undertake
ing and achievement.
The arrangement to go abroad was full of
satisfaction to her.
$50 long as can be with Uncle Dick, l
shall feel my wings plumed for any height.
He stimulates me to my best, and If am
} ever to touch the bottom of my life at any
one point, and rise to its extreme zenith at
J the other, he is the one to help me to do II"
The difference of score more of years
!, between the ages of Lane and Ricardo seemed
, in no wise to affect the equality of their
companionship. Lanes habits of life, re-
moved from all tendency to dissipation, had
robbed him of none of the elasticity and
x
4 upon him, as upon Mygatt james, leaving
him dscrowned and bereft. But most of all,
4 his affections had not been dissipated in I'M
: | holy or frivolous channels, nor his heart
wlthered by selfishness, leaving him so
e many unwedded men are left at two and 40,
t but as sign-boards for the label, 'God failed
on this animal
James, II shall never be able to get away
t from myself and this is reason enough why |
/, should keep myself as righteous and decent
S rs possible In doing this he had consciously,
t. and maybe necessarily. incased himself IN an
5 armor of reserve that led him to appear I'M
n social and distant to most persons, even
d brusque and opinionated; but with bis friends
il and especially with James, he poured out his
n feelings with the fullest freedom, and which
d had led him at one time to compare himself
o to champagne-bottle, and his chum to a tirt
: bouchon. "You uncork me- Jim" he laughed
IS sand 1 bubble over until there is nothing lief
1t in my mind but dregs of humiliation at my
is loquacity.'
: He felt the same disposition to stalk him
r, self out to Ricardo that he did to her father
g and now for the first time in his life he hat
y touched upon an experience about which b.
# could talk with neither.
Is This effort on the part of both to concea
he mutual feelings, each for the other, and a
y the same time to conduct themselves towart
" each other with their accustomed freedom
lie and confidence, would have required NOR
t. tact than either possessed, if each had no
III felt that the other was entirely unaffected b.
ID unusual feelings. If Lane thought he de
in tected a constraint in Ricarda's manner, h
er attributed it to but reflection of his owl
as conduct, and if she felt change in him, sh
tx as readily attributed it to her own fancie:
as OF the three, the father alone perceived tn
h. possible result of the relations between ri
If carda and his friend; and he felt, upon tn
he whole, that if his child could love him, haI
he piness could find no better security in huma
ct keeping than in the heart and hand of Ricf
1T ard Lane. But he also kept his thoughts
e. himself; and so the weeks passed away will
ly out any special event, until the middle {
ad September had come
se, The day dawned cloudy and sultry, an,
he after the midday luncheon, Lane propose
at that they go for ga breath of air. to the to
he of one of the hills that formed range
rn miniature mountains, nearly an hours wal
tn distant to the northwest from the cottag
re This hill was the highest of the peaks, bu
Id, from the ease of its ascent and the wide vel
all it afforded of the country for miles aroun
had at one time been favorite resort for
an party of tourists who had spent summer
by the locality and had erected on its summit
nd rude pavilion, which, having at the time bee
to matched like the cottage of French pea
la ant, was now thickly overgrown with vine
M furnishing at once a picturesque monumel
ri in the midst of few sturdy old trees, as we
on as shelter from rain.
ng Il think, Dick" replied James, "that yo,
7as proposition is a remedy worse than the i'll.
I'D should lose what breath have in climbir
es, to that atmospheric Pisgah. Moreover,
da think it win rain; the air is surcharged wi
all electricity"
"Oh, then, let's gol" cried Ricardo. "Thert
Tas no equal place within our reach for watchir
,ht an electrical storm. If the rain descend
es- we'll HE to the pavilion. We have only
i've go armed cap pie, in a Boston uniform