Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-09

merrily: "you have been tried by |
court-martial. and condemned TO severe
punishment for your desertion last T.
night"
- / am. afraid / shall be frequent
offender if the judgment OF the Court
is TO be so agreeably communicated to
me. / am the only loser by my de-
sertion last night. and | believe the
Colonel himself will act as counsel for
my defense. These papers, sir, will
explain my absence; and | have only
to say that your cousin has given his I'M
qualified assent 70 all your proposals."
The Colonel grasped his hand warm
". and there was evidently some agita-
ton underlying the pleasure viii h he
experienced in receiving these tidings.
Thee was even slight huskiness in
his voice a he spoke.
THANK Won, Maurice. most heart
ily. Some day. perhaps. you will learn
why l have been So anxious to avoid
further proceedings in this case.
Enough for the pr sent that. had my
proposals been pcrsistently refused. it
would have been necessary for Mabers
$ Ike 10 have gone into matters the re-
membrance of which disturbed me
greatly. Thank you again"
lit was the liberality of your pro-
pcsals. sir. which satisf d your cousin,
and no arguments of mine"
"You have at any rate spared me
much pain. Excuse me for the pres
ent must 60 in and look ut these
papers"
He turned to his daughter and kissed
her tenderlr on the brow-a very I'M
usual manifestation of emotion to be
made by him in thu presence of a third
person. Then lac walked slowly AVA,
his head slightly bowed. and a sad
quietness in his movement, rs il he
were walking away from the grave of
some one very dear TO him. -
Mabel watched him till he had disap-
peared in the Jungle. and then turned
10 Maurice with such look on her face
as he hal never before observed; it was
thai of the subdued anxiety of earnest
love-as if a soft shadow had fallen upon
a clear lake that had been moment AGO
all brightness.
II must not ask YOU. Mr.. Calthorpe.
what is the meaning of the strange eff
feet your news has produced upon nv
father. / know that he will tell me
himself. if he thinks it right that /
should know it."
THE case was simply the question
of the success on to part of the prop
erty let him by his uncle. The mat
tiers 10 which he refers rs sources of his
agitation have not been revealed even
TO me. OF course, il the case had pro.
ceeded, he would have been obliged to
tell me. or whoever conducted it and
the fact that he has not TO do so relieves
him."
And il was for my sake that it would
have been necessary for him to spealr'
she said, in a low, nervous voice, think
ing rather than addressing Maurice; and
her eyes, still fixed upon the place where
her father had disappeared. slowly filled
with tears.
Maurice became pale: he stood for a
moment motionles,; then Il strange
light overspread his face; he uttered Il
short cry, and impulsively seized her
hand.
at is Lucy!"
He stood trembling with a strange
awe upon him; the mans whole being
was quiverino with love and great Joy {;
next moment he was like one hurled
from n height and lying stunned below.
The hand did make convulsive
movement in his as he pronounced the
name he felt sure of it. And yet he
knew that it must have been his own
imagination which made him think so,
or the effect of her natural surprise at
his singular behavior: for the eyes which
had been full of tenderness and tears
turned upon him so coldly thathis heart
was frozen. and when the hand was
withdrawn from his i'm quiet, pitying
way which conveyed the keene [ re-
proach. MIR Calthorpen' was all she
said. The voice was soft and
sympathetic. Is if she understood his
mistake and was sorry for il.
He could not speak, and he could not
help gazing into her face. which was
now 30 changed and still so beautiful
il was rs if he had been privileged once
again to see his living love, and on the
instant TO know il dead.
- 1 beg your pardon, Miss Cuthbert. -
he said mechanically, pausing at each
word. Il feel as if had been asleep and
dreaming. | scarcely know whe her or
no' am awake yet. hope l have not
offended YOU
There was a pathetic WEAKNESS and
penalty of his brief eNaltation was utter
pfostration.
You made n mistake, Mr.. Cal
thorpe she responded. kindly. land
YOU startled me little"
"leS. il was mistake. Looking al
You now. can not understand t-the
difference is so great. And yet you
were so ike her?"
And now?' she said. slowly wind
ing her handkerchief round her FIN ger,
but Stll watching his face as if expecting
To discover there the solution of some
riddle which perpleved her.
He reused II msclf at the question.
And cow / feel how much I must
bore YOU with this nonsense of mine.
e DO you call it uonsense?"
There was a faint movement of hsl
lips. which might have indicated agita
ton, had there been any cause Tor it
tut, OF course, it could not be soin hel
case, as she was so calm and so full o.
plying sympathy.
What else "Ahe answered. with ar
attempt at n laugh. II know it must
appear SO to YOU. and do not know
how you can endure my company ri
ALL
z Miss Cuthbert dropped her handker
chief. and stopped quickly to pick il
up: he STOPPING also. theif hand:
touched. As they rose, he was startled
again by an aggression OF something
like pain which flashed across her face
butt 4 was only a flash. and again, he
concluded that he must have cen mis-
taken. Her conventional exclamation
anf naHn
lam sorry to trouble you. Mr.. Cal