Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1883-03-31

es,' SAID Bessie, keeping "a'cn, couiu
see, on the opposite house, no, 10 'ose SIGHT
Of Arthur when be should come home
There would be so fex more conings home,
for he was to 90 away the very next day.
. 81 uish Clark wouldn't come here" she
said. after a pause. L don't care for i'm
bat he seems 10 want peop'e TO think that
| DO. Maybe he does't ne.n ii; but its
Just as provoking.
| was turning over a photograph album,
aud >'opped at q pictured .ace that gave ne
a chance 10 say something eis- wanted to
say.
This IS a very good Photograph Of julia
RAYMOND. She takes well Here is just
one Of tbs. faces that look best in a pic
ture, bfc4use it is uncharging. She has
more pretty features, but 10 expression.
Bessie face Frightened a title. Some
people admire her very much she said,
family.
Il don't know any one whodoes," | repli-
ed In a careless voice.
men me "dS ItiChkN. go" IA
cJrne home, walk up the steps of the house,
without even looking across the street, 90
IN. and presently AL ar in the window Of
his room, d.rcc " opposite us, Bessie sat
With eyes downcast, be color changing
from rel to white, her bosom heaving with
HE tun u'tuous beatIngs OF her heart. her
poor Iii e hands all in a culver.
+ The yong man may ave given a swift
glance across. but it wa only a glance. He
cio.ed ore Of his windows, and, since the
window was fot high, closed the blinds too,
all Dat one-haIf; and then be disappeared.
he ha4 been wont I'd sit there, and, with
some . etpnse Of reading q book in his
hand, keep watch on the girl over the way,
bothrof then happy in that companionship,
slough perhaps, they did not hov even to
each other.
looked at Bessie as the last blind was
closed, an! scarcely could restrain an ex-
clamation, 50 pale she had grown. For a
moment She seemed on the point of drop
ping OFT Of the chair. But, as she did not
look up. | kept silence. Poor child !!
knew, like shutting her out.
The wind ro and beat the trees, and
twisted off the leaves and branches. 1t
shook the windows, banged the blinds, tore
off slate roofs and carried the slate about
like feathers. Undern ,ath our window it
bent a street lamp post and scattered the
broken glass about. There was a roaring in
| the chimneys, a crash every moment, as
some shutter, skylight or fence went by the
board. From our sheltered windows we
looked out on the storm. | with that inter
est which such freaks Of nature are calcu-
lated to inspire, Ressie with the cold list
~essnes7 of a creature half senseless. She
never said a word, glanced out now and
then, and idly scriobled on a piece of paper
that lay on the window ledge.
After awhile, | began to suspect that Mr.,
Arthur Blake was not so very far from the
front Of the house as he would have US think,
A glimpse of a coat sleeve was vouchsafed
me from behind the blindthat was half shut;
, and ! soon got a comfortable as urance
r that not q lock or motion on the pallid cir
at the other window was lost on him.
While looked the winl rose in one O
rs most fearful gusts; it fang TIE rain il
: my face as if its drops were ice instead O
| water 1t caught the maple tree under tht
/ window, and bent its head to the earth; i
carried on lis wings leaves, dust, bricks
I safe, everything that il could catch and j
caught and carried Out the slip Of paper 0.
. VIII ca Bessie had b en- scribling for Tie la
x talt hour.
She started up with q cry. aad tried t
catch II back, leaning into the tempest with
and as red as she been pale the monen
F., before.
20, what shall | dD?' she cried In dis
/ tress Il hav. been writing every sort Q
nonsense on that ., what shall | do
Could | get II by going out, do you think?
I should die il any one were to rea it NJ
1 name IS written there
The Wind se.mal fairly to laugh as il lf
ed the iiatt"rrg sip Of paper stra git up i
=, Tie air, then |lowere! it tan'al zi4g!v acait
4 ouly 10 snatch i, away from the two &,
STR tehe! white hands that vainiy caught /,
:. il through the rain.
III Some one besides me was watching. A,
e thur B!ahe was leaning from his winio,
and boxing over with ea.er eyes that wer
) 'ail OF doubt and questioning. And he 10
watched the tio,ting atom, on which.
course he had seen Bessie betray;ur II
Is wanier.ngs Of he- thoughts.
II IS my inmovaole belief that the w;n
vas reading that paper while it suspende
4. curing n hist minute. For al the worI
< II locked as though two invisible hands
at an invisible w2n.ei creature he'd the sir
e then, WITH af~hrl aud a whistle, d4r,e
az across the way. Tia < 1t into the cpp1si
ne window, aad tiew oil 10 knoca somebody
chimney over. or wrench away a skyli-t