The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-13

COG Lbye, Miss Sydstyr' he said light
| ". G.d III So SOU and old z lis in
yoGr new llie:"
She, ios,, stood up, AMI strove 10 m Ike
a reply. Tears were MT conamOn visit.
ors To the deep blue eyes-now that she
wtItl d fain drive thtm back-they cana
| weiiing up from some secret fountain,
falling 50 this K and last she could not
wipe them away as fast as they fell. nor
| check the sobS which racked the sien-
der franz.
"Instineiively he opened his arms and
drew her To his heart. She felt 1t masliy
Deaf as in hoarSe tune>, bus in every
Toad, endearing accent, he muTmured
her name. Suddenly she wrencbed her
self away, The tears were checked She
stood pale and trembling before him,
but with the liked light of resolve in
her beautiful eyes.
Il heard that no woman had ever
touched your heari," she SAID. Il de-
termined 10 try-you see the result For
you is scored another victory-.or me
defeati I wish my humiliation to be
complete, therefore / make my unnec-
essary confession. Now, goodbye: Bat
do not add the blessing; do not deserve
that"
sYou tried to teach my hearth he
answered. "For once, Sydney, let me
speak the truth The first hour saw
you, it passed forever into your keeping.
Honor, loyalty to my absent friend,
have led me To play my poor part in
disguise; but you have wrung from me
my pitifuily-kept secret Sydney, is II
our fault that we have thus learned
loves lesson? My love, my darling,
what is all the world if il debars us from
each other2"
ut is not of the world We have to
think" she said, lit is uf Ellis. SiIail
he be made a sacrifice on our altar: No,
no, Jack, LEI US be true to him, and so
true TO ourselves. We will utter no
sophistries. The way is clear Life
will never be quite dark dear, now that
l know that you, too, loved and lest.
But Ellis shall not be the one to suffer
from girls wantoH experiment. This
l swear
And on the pale girls face was some
thing of the expression the ancient
martyrs have worn
"GOr she added II am not very
strong Leave me my faith in myself,
and in that in which you wood and won
me. Should you stay, YOU would not be
the man 10 whom gave my heart, but
another. base and ignuble, from whom 1
would Withdraw il. Hushl'' she en-
treated, as he was about To speak-"not
u Single WORN Leave nc my dreams
A shudder shook his frame; then he
stopped from his great height and let
his lips moment touch her brow
The next minute she WAS alone-alone
henceforth, through the long, weary
years to cOme-alone even as, three
months later, on the eve preceding her
wedding. she sat by her levers side and
listened while he told her OF the NOR
row and the bright future of which it
was to be the threshold.
TOO bad Jack disappointed me-" he
added, presently. do you know 1
fancied you and he did not quite hit it
together: You wrote me something
about an interesting experiment, but you
forgot to tell me the result. What was
it, Sydney?"
Mot worth the telling" she answered,
with a little laugh, which sounded
strangely TO the mans ear, as though it
held in it ring of unshed tears. "Or
perhaps-perhadsI was worsted in the
fray. Ellis, will you promise to heal
my broken heart! '
He thought she jes,ed as he bent and
hushed the red lips 10 silence with his
kisses; but she knew that the Jest was
sorry earnest, and that in its answer lay
the happiness of the life she had so
nearly wrecked, the experiment the tu-
ture only might solve.