Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-23


admirable! | see You must be my
collaboration. We might almost have
n rehearsal on the spot Here is the
scene. nd who knows what marvels
we might eXtemporizer'
ave can scarcely play all the parts
ourselves"
1--WE can manage the principal ones.
at any rate; and IL we require more.
there is Graham. who is putting the
palm-house to bed; we might call him
when he has finished work"
Then. it would be as well TO have
some general idea rs to what our play
was To be about" suggested Mauri e.
mildly.
II have ever so many ideas too
many Tor my powers to arrange. You
must help me- ...I
II shall try. This pretty scene ought
To inspire Us"
They were on the terrace now. and
she took her place within the doorway
Of the bungalow. She grasped the
ropes OF one of the hammocks, and
rest ng her cheek against the uplifted
arms her face was in darkness. viii he.
standing without, had the full benefit of
the gently fading light.
well, am waiting for your inspira-
ton"
The time, the place and the actors
make it impossible to think of anything
but a love scene" he re responded. amused
but with that unconscious meditation
which even the harshest voice obtains
when sentiment is dominant.
Let us ha one, then" was the
NJ nj
.ment in voice or manner than might
have been infused in a request 10 pass
the salt or to shut the door.
Am to play the lover?"
There is no one el.e on hand. except
Graham. and he is so busy with his
plants that nc would be sulkv for n
month il we were to call him away from
them for such ridiculous fools play, as
he would say. There is no help Tor il; so
go on. and I shall be the heroine. Am
/ anything like one?"
think YOU are so like one that"
He stopped; she had bent forward Tor
an instant, showing her face. on which
there was a curious expression of min
gled anxiety and mischievousness, while
in the eyes there was look of tender
yearning.
THAT find it difficult not to speak
in earnest" he continued.
We'll, the more earnest YOU appear
the better will be the performance &C.
cording to your theory; and there is
nothing so easily burlesqued as-love."
She had Withdrawn into the deem
shadow again. and the long breath
which she took before pronouncino that
last word seemed to him only a part of
ihs stage business of the character she
was assuming
Yes. it is easily done. 1 approach
You softly. and try TO look into your
eyes and on draw back. Just as YOU
have done; and say: Miss Cuthbert,
may be permitted to make love TO
YOU? It's very nice amusement for
leisure hours. and i interesting alike TO
peer and peasant"
"Ridiculous! You would never speak
That way If you were i'm earnest. and
YOU are to pretend to be so. YOU know P''
Nv hat would happen II the pretence
should prove real "
"Ne shall not discuss imposSibilities
Proceed, and o not call mo by NV own
name. Gail me Ara ella, Mary Ann or
any other iine-sounding name"
Have You any preference
None unless YOU could bring YOUR
self TO use the name YOU liked best. -
II did not know that | had displayed
any 8artiality.''
Have You forgotten-but there. we
shall find another IL wa, "A silly { ncy
OF mime that You liked lucy as name.
and that it would suit me. Use none at
present. and perhaps we shall discover
good one rs we progress. We are
not getting on very fast, are we9''
I'VE should go faster if you were to
give me Your hand"
THAT Il too much TO ask all at
once
Then let me take it without asking
not vet
THAT is droh wayAto take it with
out asking; TO say let me- is surely to
ask leave AMI | do not give it"
Nv ny. You are challenging mer'
To what
ITO mortal combat of wit and heart
you are daring me to take possession
of prize Tor which SO many are SIGH
ing. an ], blind coward, am afraid TO
louch u because 1t seems too high for
one so low To- reach
els that in Y ur part, or are YOU
are you forgetting yourself again, Mr..
Calthorpe p
1T is, indeed, in my part; but we
shall drop the play SO far that | may
speak my own ceilings. | shall call
you Lucy, if you will. or anything" he
went on, excitedly. ''She was to nue.
in thought all that you ernbody. 1
loved YOU before i saw you because [
loved her--for God sake, let me .ex-
plain. She came across me like a dream
and disappeared. You came-my heart
was filled, not with new love, or form,
but with the reSlization of INV dream
BE what YOU may; Won are TO me Lucy
Il love You and live for YOU"
Passionate rs his words were, his
voice was so low that it sounded little
above n VIII sper; but this subdued man.
ner intensified his meaning.
She had shrunk so far back into the
darkness while he spoke that she was
invisible. He did not attempt TO follow
her; he waited. hreathless, for her to
speak, and there was n strange stiffness
in the p ace.
The silence lasted so long that the
idea flashed upon him that She might
have tainted. ami he was about To call
her name when he heard her dress rustic
and she spoke.
Would You have said this o Lucv?"
she asked. and the words seemed TO
pass from her hps with a Gentle. tremu-
lous sound. ike that made by the leaves
just before NH. --.---
"To her? Ay. / am saving it to her
now. can not see you but hear your
voice and she YES in YOU" -. q
But she was poor" "a
lie waystung to the quick; that was
not Luc, s Vo,ce or thought. The tone,
too, was harsh asthe sheer was cruel
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