The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-16
"OREVASsE2"

"Miss Ruth Major says it's jes' on
ter shutdown, an tole me TO ak was he
ter come out yere?"
Tell him III come in Cappie." Cap
spun around on her bare toes few
times, then started slowly for the house,
while Ruth swung idly in her hammock
in the shade of the live oak, and l ex-
claimed:
Think what you are doing, Ruth.
He is not happy moment without you.
He loves you so that the thought Of not
being able to sail with you brings on
fever turn, and you know he had hem
orrhago the last time you went riding
without him. His life is bound up in
your
II know it, Aunty, 80 shall 90 riding
and sailing no mere"
"But such devotion will surely deceive
him."
when he came to us, with his doom
plainly written in every feature, | re-
solved that if could not nurse him back
to the life he so much loves, his last
days should be as happy as possible"
Suppose he dies deceived, believing
that YOU loved him believing lie?'
Don't You think when he sees no
more through glass darkly' that he
will understand"
"But should he recover, do you think
he would thank you for his life if you
had taken all hope and brightness from
itPn
II assure you that his happiness
should be, then rs now, my first and on
ly object"
Ruth" exclaimed aghast, "you
would not marry him with no love to
give him-loyng another as you dor
She raised herself slowly on her ell
bow, her beautiful brown eyes looking
steadily through the long lashes wei
with tears, and said:
"My life is something that do not
prize, but by dying | cannot give him
life, so if by living | can make his life
happy, why not' Whatever is for his
happiness that | shall do. Now I'll 90
and watch the sun set with him"
sat still under the spreading branch
es of the great old oak and watched the
swollen river which seemed trying to
force its way through the great wall of
earth that confined it to its course, and
thought of the beautiful girl who had
just left me,
When Major Grant had come to us,
sick and apparently dying, she had just
met the first great sorrow of her life. A
misunderstanding had arisen between
herself and Frank Russell, to whom she
had given all the loving devotion of her
warm heart, and by the interference Of
friends tho lovers quarrel became
serious matter, and the engagement was
broken.
She believed herself deceived and cast
aside for another, and life not worth the
living, but she was proud, and lived on
bravely, making no moan.
Major Grant had lost his health bye
posture during his army life, but would
not for moment doubt his entire re-
covery. He was always better. He
clung to Ruth-was never happy when
she was absent and built castle after cas-
tie in the mir when beside her. Aud
now the two were watching the sunset
one believing the sun of her life had
already set in clouds aud darkness, and
the light was fast failing for the other;
she turning ii dismay and dread from
the life before hor-he longing and striv-
ing for the life that was slipping from
him.
A bunch Of gray moss swung smartly
IN my face and reused me to the fact that
tho wind was rising, for added to the
muttering of the river mas the moaning
OF the pines. walked hastily to the
lcvee. Everybody was there, working
or watching, for should Jet OF water
force its way through undiscovered
crcvasse was certain and destruction
sure.
There was great danger that the leyee
could not withstand the force Of the WV
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