Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-09-28
"MYRTLE'S MARRIAGE"
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From nsMyrtle's Marriage by Joseph Me
l. l. uoadilL thetTribune Novelist,
will you kiss NE before Ego away-7rgp
to leave you perhaps forever, Myrt1e?''
l. The speaker was rugged, athletic
looking young fellow, Just in The full
Hush Of manly strength and beauty.
His muscles stood out like whip-cords.
But in strong contrast to the splendid
| developements that first attracted the
attention Of all who saw Percy Montrav-
ers4 was the high forehead, with skin
/ soft and white as womans, over which
clustered mass of curly golden hair,
which betoken the Saxon blood that
came to him through long line offerce
| old Norsemen who sailed The Northern
| seas in dead and gone + centuries, while
the blue eyes that looked so lovingly at
the fair young face pressed close to his
heart beamed with an indispensable
| tenderness. 5yiIDJ ali mort r..nd..l,...
20, Wiping away the tears that would
| come from the gentle hazel eyes in
| spite of all her efforts, Myrtle NIaginnis
ftHined her soft arms around Percy's
neck and rained kisses on his lips In a
| mad. passionate ecstasy Of love that
| seemed to know no ending twill |
akiss YOU again, my own, my SWEET" she
cried, sobbing as if her heart would
| break. "God knows that if my love,
| nv kisses, could avail aught in
4 in = beating off the cruel, destiny that
seems fited to separate us, would hold
YOU in these arms for ever, and let my
l. kisses fall like the dews Of heaven that
7 leaves never a spot untouched by It's re-
vivifying presen e. On! my sweetheart,
my only love, let us forget, II we can,
the unhappy moment when you must go
| and make me desolate, the hour whose
first moment shall begin for me a cease
| less. weary vigil, relieved only BY your
| letters, the days between which will
| seem to me as the blanks between the
4 stars. NV sWee my own, my precious
| darling, let us think only Of love" And
with these words she clasped him al
most fierclv to her pulsing bosom, as if
toward off the -. dark spirits of
! doubt and despair that rose be-
for her in all their horrid reality. Just
| then carriage drove up to the door.
1 With one last, lingering kiss, the lovers
a separated; the man went out into the
1 starry night, and the girl threw herself
npon the sofa in an agony of grief.
Percy Montravers had started for
| Cokomo. = ' =. ...... ...
Midnight.on the Panhandle road.
With never-ceasing rumble and roar
and now and then a wild shrek from
the ,brazen-throated monster that with
blazing eye dashed like some maddened
Cyclops with fearful speed over hill and
through dale, past wild ravines whose
rocky fastenesses reechoed the dreadful
clangor of the rushing mass, the tran
| sped on. Finally the motion was slight
~ checked; The telegraph poles that
had been fitting past the car windows
became more distinct. Slower and
! slower went the train, until with a Titan
like pant and sob the eng inc came to a
stand-still. "''
Percy was in Kokomo.
! In the parlor of an elegant cut-stone
residence stood a lovely girl. Over her
beautifully nodded shoulders fell a
wealth of nut-broWn hair, while on the
snowy'bosom that rose and fell with the
regularity of the Chicago wheat market
sparkled a. necklace OF diamonds. The
door-bell rang, and presently a servant
came into the parlor, and handed the
girl card.}l She grasped it ca erly, and
Il d blush lo'erspreal; her beautiful face as
i she read the name. e'ShoW the gentle
| man in, Thomas" she said. ''-@ - "
=" In another moment Percy Montravers
stood before her. With a quick. pas
fsionatel movement the girl sought tc
throw herself into his, arms, but Percy
I prevented her. a'sBack, woman" he
7 cried. "You do not know what you are
fMoing. &! have lost, my love TOR You
Back, I ,say,,''' ,,,.- ,,,...'..,, .....'..
l ~ A deathly pa1lor spread over the face
! that but an instant before was sutfused
Z EwithI the,rosy flush of love. 10 mort %.
4 p She couId not back al i H Her po7lto'naise
I September in Peoria " ~" ~" If.
itoa Up the shady street that leads to the
ID house where Myrtle, the pride of lii
/; h heart, lived, Percy walked with elastic
i step. He would soon be with Her; soor
see her face, and feel her right earring
scrunch into his shoulder after an ab
sence of three months; soon feel he
warm kisses on his lips, and her: sof
K arms round his meek. . A. mall7a simple
ii, honest fellow whom he had known sine,
q boy-coming toward him, whiting 1
lunch from a plug of tobacco. Perc,
grasped him by the hand. They talket
4 of various matters for a; moment anC
4 then the man said:
Z "Come up for the weddin', Perce?"
) 7FsWnat wedding?'oy 81 .sw 9r9u3 .
i e,"Why, ,Maginnis's daughter of course
j She's goin' to marry that there bigges
boy OF Deacon Ell ierberry's this evenln'
Though likely you might be q grooms
man." ~ And Ithes good sou
laughed heartily. yrgy aea ,mn. =
: Percy did :, not reply. There was,
dead. cold feeling in his heart. and n
{ turned slowly back to the hotel. TIL
next morning he did not appear at tn
. usual time. An hour passed and still h
did not come Then the landlord rappe'
violently on the door of his room. Their
was no response. Becoming heightened
70 the man summoned assistance, and tn
room was broken into. Percy. lay O
his. bed, his clothes not having been re
moved. On the table stood a. bottk
They shook him, lbut he did not respont
: Ifil sGireat heavensW said the landlor
che has killed himself. Some one g
, for doctor at once" '--
/. Presently the doctor came. He place
n his handaover Percy'sa heart, and the
. looked into the bottle on the table.
lle Ills he dead?" queried the landlord.
Il h. YES" replied the doctor IN solem
, tone, he is dead drunk" ~
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