The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-11

reached a still higher round in hi-
profession. an assured position and
ample income. Sentiment had gained
a tirmer hold upon him at this stage
than he had thought possible with one
of his reticent nature, but its avvowal,
if ever made, must stand over t.
some indefinite future
So words hopefully longed for, were
left unspOken; two fates that had
seemed ready to blend in beautiful
completeness, divided and went differ.
ent ways, with silent pain in the pres
ent. and 10 promise i'm the future.
Five years since that episode at
Monagaw-a long interval of com
plete silence. Was she living or dead
the swee: vanished presence that had
come from afar within reach of his in
fuence in those never forgotten days
Cold, proud man as he was, Phillip
Hearne felt pang at the thought OF
the luminous eyes STD often uplifted IL
his own, closed now. perhaps, forever
under the violets whose hue they ri
vailed, and whose name their own bore;
Yet this was easier to reflect upon
than the Consciousness that she M. NJ
be the wife of another man with nj
kisses upon her lips and child o,
her knees. Married likely as not to
that outlandish cousin, who, after all
wasn't a bad sort of fellow. In any
case he. Phillip had no right to COM
plain, but how her memory haunted
him of late. Well the business of this
journey should leave time for him to
look up old friends and open a new
chapter in that incomplete romance or
have done with it for all time.
The day was drawing to its close,
and his destination near. The Omens
were net propitious. The sunny June
sky had been overcast in the afternoon;
rain had fallen, and ceased, but the
clouds had not cleared away and the
air was heavy and depressing. The
shaggy hills along the line of the Bal.
timOre and Ohio railroad. looked grim
and Scared with outcropping granite
lodges. Here were no prairie reaches
of billowy grass. diversified with
herds; but enclosed pasture
lands among SUBMITS which offered
stones for bread apparently, to the
comparatively few cattle feeding upon
them. To add to the diablerie of the
shifting scene, as twilight deepened.
gnome-like human figures suddenly
sprang into view from the bowels of
the earth, coming here and there from
mines, with lights bound OH their
swarthy forheads, each a miniature
with his single frey eye.
BelIairs, seen from the elevated hack,
As the train swept over it, under all
overhanging cloud of coal smoke sus-
pended in the murky atmosphere,
looked like the inferno of the impish
operations passed by the way, and in
o Philips mind came the words of
loom.
Hope resign, ye who enter here
A good supper and nights rest at
he Mcclure house i'm Wheeling, re-
stored the lawyer to his usual prac-
ical bent, with a reservation held in
he background until true to trained
Instincts, every detail in the case
whose interest he was working for,
mad been thoroughly mastered. All
hat could be done here was accom-
pIished on the following day. Then
he irresolution usually foreign to his
strong will, again beset him with
wearing effect upon his spirits. Hav-
ng come so far, partly on account of
Violet Grey, should he look up her
nome near the city, and seek revival
IF an old time attachment with his
unclaimed love; or forfeit this oppor-
unity and avoid humiliating disap.
Dointment perhaps, by returning home
TO for-et if he could, this tender ex
Derience i'm forming some new tie
which would not require a trouble
some explanation on the score of his
past reticence.
The vexed question was not vet
settled i'm his mind, when the next
without any definite object,
out following some leading which
people call chance, fate or providence
recording to their peculiar ideas, Phil
lip Hearne entered the public parlor
IF the Mcclure house, where a lady
vas waiting alone. and stood face to
ace with Violet Grey.
The same. yet not the same fair girl
whose wild-rose sweetness had ripened
nto the perfect grace OF this match
ess womanly presence which, how
ever moved by their sudden encoun-
ter, gave no outward sign of emotion
bevOnd slight tremOr about her sem