The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-07-27
Tbs color vent and came on Dick.

ihs Color went and Fame on Dickf
face.
Miss SYM. Ii wanted 10 tel yor
something-to ask you somethingf i
know I'm not 10 compare with Mr.
Carleton, and that I'm not worth youl
thinking Of at all and I know I was
very foolish and wrong from tho first
Here he came To O dead pause, and
wiped the perspiration from his fore
head He-was actually trembling; but,
with an effort, resumed:
1--WE wanted for some time TO tel
you. but felt bashful-like /; and, besides
/ thought you were sort o. ~fancyinE
him. He's rich, and could give you q
grand home ; while - Why, / know
this old farm amt the right sort O.
place for you. You amt use TO work
churning. and ironing. and cooking,
and such like and I'm afraid"
But Sylvia could no longer keep her
countenance. She put her handkerchief
10 her face. a she extended her hand
TO her difident lover, and murmured.
indistinctly-
s.Don't let us talk about it now, Mr..
Richard. l have the greatest esteem.
the greatest regard for you. hut"
And then she had to leave the room.
and going to her own apartment, laugh
ed until she cried and. sitting down to
her desk, wrote Blanche q most ludi-
crous account of her unsophisticated
rustic wooer.
All that day and the next. Dick looked
tupremely miserable, and hung about
y . house a. II anxious for, and vet
afraid Of, another interview with his
charmer.
at is time to put an end to this folly"
thought Sylvia to herself, '1f I don't,
Mr.. Carleton will suspect something
and. besides, that poor spoony u get
ting to be quite q nuisance. I'll crush
him at once. and be done with it."
So, while Mr.. Carleton wa out Of tho
way-which seldom happened now. for
he was becoming very devoted-she
lured Dick into the garden, and there,
with q sweetly-pensive look. began to
tie up one or two blossoms.
do you know what they are EN-
blems Of ?" she asked, softly. mol
Well this is forget-me-not I; and this,
tender recollections and the other,
farewell You know / am going soon,
Mr.. Richard. and / want you to keep
them for my sake. don't ever expect
TO see you again. for IL expect to be
married In q few months"
Dick started Is If with an electric
shock. and his great blue eyes grow
wide as he stared at her.
Miss Sylvy, you don't mean itr" he
gasped.
For an instant she pitied him. Per-
haps she had gone too far. for after al.
she didn't want to break the youths
heart or drive him to suicide. Still,
now that matters were come to q crisii
between them. sho must be firm, and
crush all hope out Of his heart.
Richard, l am sorry. but IL Is truo
lexpect to be married In o very short
time.n
us I. toto Mr.. Carietonsv
"Oh, noi1 she answered coyly.
But is it to a man you love, Mas
SylvyPn
Eyes 10 q man I love-
She was almost afraid 70 iooB up,
But when she did 20, Dicks Ersa3 eye
wers fixed upon her with a wonderful
light in them, and his voice trembled
when he spokei
.'Oh, Miss Sylvy. I'm SO glad I
never was 80 glad in my life Then
you didn't care for me all along, did
your"
She stared ut him In wonder. Had
she driven him TO insanity
''You see. Miss Sylvy. / never was in
love but once, and that was with Susie.
And though l wasn't engaged. / let her
know l loved her; and so. when l came
home, 1 met you, and let you go on tho
way you did. l had a kind o. mean feel
ing, 'sif l was trifin' with you. you know,
and not actin honorable-lIkc. l vent
too fur. Miss Sylvy, l know it-but yet
l never meant it. I bag you to under
stand, and it made n miserable to
think l was lcadin' you 10 fix your AZ
f~cctions on an object which could never
return 'em."
Here the tears welled slowly into
Dicks blue eyes. and he paused to wipe
them away with his coat-sleeve.
II was glad when Mr., Carleton came,
for | was in hopes you'd take a fancy
to him. And now / know why YOU
didn't, and it's n relief to me, / can
assure you, Miss Sylvy. 1 never could
have abided the thought that I'd broke
any wimmin's heart"
Miss Markham arose, and, with O
rather flushed lace and curious express
sion Of countenancc, observed that Mr..
Richard Higham had indeed made a
most extraordinary mistake and then,
with great dignity, she sailed away into
the house, where she looked unusually
subdued all that evening.
Just before supper, Dick came In,
smiling and radiant
''Mr. Carleton won't be back to sup
per, mother" he said, cheerfully. 81
met him down in the village, and he
told me he'd stayed longer than he in
tended, and II he don't come to-morrer
for his things, he'll send for EN-"
After supper, he whispered to Miss
Markham:
II felt SO happy, Miss Sylvy, that
when Mr.. Carleton asst me what good
fortune I'd met with, I jest told him all
you'd said and did that led me to think
you'd q fancy for me ; and I told him
how sorry l was when you said no
warn't nothin' to you, and how glad l
felt with KNOWN that you'd been en-
gagged to BIO married all along. And he
said he was very much obleeged to me
for tellin' him, and sen his respects
and goodbye to YOU"
II looks could. kill. Sylvia Markham
would have slain Dick where he stood.
But all that she could do was to 90 to
her room and shut herself up for two
days with a terrible headache.
Mr.. Carleton did not return for. his
baggage, and whether Miss Markham
did really or not get married that winter
W. have not been informed, though the
plymouth Mercury" three months
after. contained a marriage notice Of
the nupitals of Miss Susan Weston and
and Richard Higham.
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