Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-06-02

across this broad mesa to the terraces
and plateaus, the valleys and hillsides.
wonder how these terrace formations
so noticeable on this coast-Occurred
Glacial action, doubtless, away back in
the gloomy past, when the great ice
belts that locked our ocean shores in
its embrace moved downward to the
sea and southwark, impelled by irresst,
ible forces, sculpturing the rocky coast
barrier, and planning off the irregular
hills to level mesas."
Lillian had suspended her work, and
looked down upon the splendid, manly
form that lay at her feet. He was
looking out upon the wide sea-dream-
ing, but dreaming an intellectual
dream; looking back, back, back to
when the continent was more than
primeval-when it was chaos-before
it was clothed in the grand old forest,
glimpses of which he caught upon the
Coast Range; before grassy lawns came
down to be kissed with the warm sea
waves.
81 wonder how this lone rock es-
capped the embrace of the glacial mon
ster-I beg your pardon, miss; is there
any service can render you? think
your mother is sleeping"
Accident, | suppose" she answered.
81 sometimes wonder, Miss Mercer,
if there is any such thing as accident
in the world. | wonder if everything
is not ordained from the beginning.
There can be no accident allowed in
the material universe. Everything
must move in accordance with some
plan. If one of the heavenly bodies
should, by accident, slip out of its
place, it would play havoc with the
rest of creation. l do not believe in
accidents. 1t is said marriages, even,
are made in heaven"
"And," interrupted Lillian, "if such
slight and uninportant events are pre-
arranged by divine method, you think
all more serious ones should be likewise
provided for?"
81 did not saysO. | did not think so.
| regard marriage as mans most Sc
rious act. When we marry our destiny
is cast our fate is fixed forever-for
life-for eternity"
Lillian turned her great luminous
ewes mon the now erect form and said
with Il laugh-a hollow, mocking,
taunting laugh: "You dream of some
fraulein at work in yineyard on the
Rhine"
81 dream Miss Mercer of proud
and beoutiful girl that love gifted
voll horn and nroud rich and arropant
becouso she is well horn. She was nv
nciphbor when we were children: and
if we were NOT companions friends and
child lovers il was because we were
senorated by n cruel barrier. She
ynllJ love me if she dared. She
knows that | am her enunl in every
thing Int name She knows that in
nv love for her | would fling myself
iuio thc sea from the apcx of wonder
height She knows that | am moor
but she is not mercenary and would
NOT care for that. IL is this deyilish
pride of family: and vet her family
was several generations AGO. no better
than mine. A great business glacier
NAV have wounded nv ancestors. and
the family bears the sears and seams !;
while she like the Moro. ESCAPED and
now stands I'M so proudly: and 50 she
would scorn me. Yes nh yes-I he.
lieye in accidents"
"And have Won told her your loycy'
81 never dared"
"Then YOU are n coward. and per-
haps-weil as this does moi concern
me- | think we had better call mamma
and return will YOU he kind enough
TO attach the horses. Mr.. Won Dam ?"
"You must excuse me. Miss Mercer
| was presumptuous to tell YOU my
story. will drive the carriage here
and take in yourself and easel, as soon
as | have my team ready
While he was gone, our Lillian solilo.
duzed, all alone with the sobbing
waves, as they broke against the rock
of the "NIoro,' and then came ripping
to her feet: "Oh, what fool am | l.
what an arrant, laundering fool! And
so he loves another; and I-oh! | could
whip myself!-I-I thought he loved
me, and thought him presumptuous,
and was fighting him in my heart |!
Had it been me, and had he proposed
to me. how I would have wounded
him. how proudly l would have re-
buked him-the servant. And now
see his presumption. WHY does he tell
me his stupid love talep Some fat
fraulein of a German baroness in a
ruined castle [ suppose; some family
with name, some proud, unpronounce-
able name. And vet he has not been
rejected by this German woman-that's
, not in the way at least"
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in hor haar3 sba Laval tb;s mon cor.
w vart Of hor motber,s sba knnw that
IN nV avoru w inf intoiloctna, cuaIitv ba w,s % hor
smnor;nr Ma n,as 70 hoy nova howl.
S"p Soa'a Than any "thor % W MON She hnaw
% tInt th;s % man % wos brove and GOOD and u
nmro C ' Sho % nnow % That ho was @ % 3bo oo,ai "
! pS e. onr ~ man And vot wbon sho
thonaTt bo invod hor and ,yos n,an,ino
Lo,u :" oartmrohor m sho haS dotnrm;naS
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