Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-27


not written, and | am too impatient to
wait longer.
"Dorot think that rebuke is implied in
my words. Nothing could be further from
my M nd, for ! still believe what | said To
you when last we talked together: Ii
were to hear from you no more till die, |
would nevertheless know you to be sin
cerely my friend Therefore you see ]
am not rigorous in my demands, nor am
eXacting. True friendship must neces-
saEily be free; and rue friendship is what
we have laid claim to.
do you catch the restless tone Of my
letter? You could always read deeper
than my words, you know. Frankly, |
am in trifling mood. A question arises
Shall ! always be of poor Alfred Var
graves temper-s'vigOrOus various. YER
satiley Do not always disappOint when
/ should satisfy most completely?
''Ah, well, The days 20 by, time rolls
on, and life will end itself some day even
for the Weariest.
Il wish | could see YOU to-day No! |
do not. You have seen me at nv best 4:
have shaped figure from your fancy and
nave named it Lois If you were to see
me now YOU would shUdder as one does in
a dream sometimes. and would wonder if
this creature could be one and the same
with that other one YOU knew in times
past.
i told you once that after desperate war
fare against the circumstances of my life
l thought could at last see victory ahead
of NE. Ny friend, | boosted all too soon.
! fear me l have failed. And yet | am
struggling still, although this sense of
failure numbs me. The cost of failure is
so great that l cannot give DER the
strife.
ave are at RysfOth for the summer.
Doubtless you know that Miss Charlotte
has been good enough to accept nv invi-
tati0n and is with US already. You will
md merry party when you make up
YOUR mind to Join us. The WaltOns are
here. Roberts cousin, Lesley Douglas,
came yesterday You have never seen
her, j believe. A sweet-faced, amiable
girl, just trifle too cold in her manner
the youngest daughter of the Scotch
branch Of Roberts family.
II am looking for Robert and another
cousin, Col. McRhea, to-day. | hope YOU
VIII like this cousin. / met him i'm Scot
land three years ago, and | can promise
YOU a companiOnable acquaintance.
But enough. Try to remember me at
my best l am a very frivolous woman
now. Very gay because l am SO very sad.
Can YOU understand the paradox?
but always am your best friend, and,
M spite of the years and the changes, still
your arfectiOnate pupil,
'LOIs Conway
Your letter hasn't put you in cheer
tut mood. Maxwell"
Upon my life, Conway! l thought you
were at Rysioth, rising from the little
lunch table and almost upseJting it as
turned to shake hands with the friend
whose voice had startled me.
And 50 l would have been if our
steamer had got in on time. Some con-
lOunded quarantine business stopped US.
lbut that's disagreeaDle letter, Max.
do you get many such?'
Its only a letter from Lois She says
me guests nave ABOUT all arrived, ana
lhal sac was looking Tor you the day she
wrote
les. was sorry TO dlsapnolnt her.
DID she say ANYTHING about McRhea|'
me new scotch cousin: she men
-teht4 Aln- .s. ANA aholher- Lesley
DoQ-.'9 How do you thlnk Rysioth
VIII manage To- SURVIVE tWo lmportatlons
ln enc season. Boz:
ON, ,hev are harmless enough he
answered, laughing In his genial way.
Leslie! seli-contalned manner VIII win
over every impulsive American heart
there. Ana McBhea IS thoroughly COM
paniOnable; nOthingOt the prig about him,
I assure YOU"
When do you leave the city!'
by the fast mail this evening. Why
not come along with us, Maxi"
"ferhaps u could De arranged" l an
sWeTed, slowly. 'Pll do my best, old fell
low; and, if it's possible, I'll meet you on
the jersey side at six. I'll have to leave
you now. VIII McRhea 90 on with you,
or viii he stop in New York? Goes on,
does hei Well, We'll make a jolly par
ty."
had come to New York to effect a
factors and one of my Georgia clients.
The business was pretty nearly settled;
nothing remained but the signing of sew
eral documents, and had delayed this last
little business according to the lazy
manner in which much of my work was
done.
By six that afternoon my business was
fully settled my ticket bought, and all
the many little things which add to a
travellers comfort carefully attended to,
and I was sitting in the parlOr coach of a
S0uthern-bOund train mentally condemn
ing nv friend, Robert Conway, for the
prOverbial unreliability which character
iZed him.
"Weu, here YOU are" he exclaimed,
jumping aboard as the train moved slowly
of. Just wait till find a place for my
bags. There now! Col. McRhea, let me
make you acquainted with George Max
Well Esq. OA ArtOl4id an Olu lTltUu Ol
ours. as have already told YOU; and also,
once upOn "A time. away back i'm the dark
ages, my wife's tutor
1T is most pleasant to meet some one
Of the Rysfoth band before my arrival
there" McR6ea said. extending his hand
and sDpakinr ia a voice whose sweetness
and cordiaIity were inexpressibly win
ming.
just here let me remark that | had
never before, nor have 1 since, heard a
voice anything like this one. Rich, full,
and wOndrouslv musical. il would have
been altogether womanish but for a GER
tain element Of strength which dwelt
somewhere in it, though where | have
never been able exactly to define-a
voice suggestive Of weak lungs, had not
the MANS muscular frame--the unusual
height and the grand breadth of chest
routed such thoughts.
II must confess to a feeling of strange
ness. as uncomfortablea as it is new. which
increases os annroach Rvsfotb :, no
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