Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-05-18
"CREVASSE."

"Miss Ruth, Major says it's ies' on
ter sundown, an tole me to Ak was he
ter come out yere"
"Tell him I'll 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 a moment without you.
He loves you so that the thought of
not being able TO sail with you brings
On a fever turn, and you know he had q
hemorrhage the last time you went rid
ing without him. His life is bound up
IA you T.
al know it, aunty, so shall 60 rid
ing and sailing no more"
- But such devotion will surely do.
ceive him"
When he came to rs, with his doom
plainly written in every feature, 1 re-
solved that il could not nurse him
back to the life he so much loves, his
last days should be as happy Us pos
sible."
"Suppose he dies deceived, believ-
sng that you loved him-believing Q
He2"
"Don't you think when he gees no
moro through glass darkly' that he
will understandT
''But should he recover, do you
stink he would thank you for
his life il you had taken all hope and
Brightness from it p
"I assure you that his happiness
should be, then as now, my first and
only object"
"Ruth," l exclaimed aghsst, you
would not marry him with no love to
give him-loving another as you do |"
She raised herself slowly on her ell
bow. her beautiful brown eyes looking
steadily through the long lashes wet
With tears, and said:
any life is something that do not
prize, but by dying I cannot give him
life. so il by living can make his life
happy, why not9 Whstever is for his
happiness that shall do. Now I'll go
and watch the sunset with him"
I sat still under the spreading
branches Of the great old oak and
watched tho swollen river which
seemed trying to force its way through
the great wall of earth that confined 1t
TO its course, and thought of the beau
tifnl girl who had Just left me.
When Major Grant had come 10 US,
sick and apparently dying, she had just
INST the first great sorrow of her life.
A misunderstanding had arisen between
herself and Frank Russell, to whom she
had given all the devotion of her warm
heart, and by the interference Of friends
the lovers quarrel became q serious
matter, and the engagement was
broken.
She believed herself deceived and
cast aside for snother, and life not
worth the living, but she was proud,
and lived on bravely, making no moan.
Major Grant had lost his health by
exposure during his army life, but
wOuld not for moment doubt his en-.
tire recovery. He was always better.
he cluBg 10 Ruth-was never happy
when shs was absent and built castle
after castle In the air when beside her.
.And nov the two were watching the
sunset--one believing the sun OF her
aifs bad already set in clouds and dark
ness, and the light was fast falling for the
~ogher she turning in dismay and dread
from the life before heY--he longing
.aDd striving for the life that was fasI
slipping from him.
a bnnch OF gray moss swung smartly
IA my face and reused me to the faci
that The wind was rising, for added Il
chs muttering Of the river was tho
nsoaning OF the pines. walked hastily
60 ths Ievee. Everybody was there
waxking or. watching, for should is'