Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22

was imperturbable when rallied, and
Miss Varian, placid and taciturn In all
her love affairs, was equally SO IN this.
And the three months came to an end,
Fielding said to Miss Varian:
"Next week I shall sail to France.
You will wish me q pleasant voyage,
won't you?"
slow long will you be gomez" she
asked, lifting her eyes with friendly in
terest.
Impossible to tell. My plans are SO
indefinite that have come to say good
by. 1T may be for years, and it may
be forever" he answered, with slight
laugh. "In any case, | thank you for
the most enjoyable summer of my life.
I shall often look back to it with regret
that it was so short; and then the pity
of it is that these pleasant things are
never the same again"
"I don't require these elaborate COM
pliments of my departing friends" said
Miss Varian, with a metallic sound
foreign to her voice; "and don't agree
with you that it is a pity about the
uniqueness of our pleasant things. I
would rather say good-by than au revoir,
it means so much less-though I am
sorry you are going away" she
added, after a moment. 1--WE have had
very pleasant summer, haven't we? L
shall remember it until next summer, I
am sure"
"We are both heart-whole," said
Fielding to his friend. Had we wa
gered would have won."
His trip to Paris was shorter than he
had expected, and seven or eight months
found him at home again. But he did
not renew his friendship with Miss
the old way, and wondered if there was
anything in the expression of tho
speaking eyes Of hers that had made
him fancy sometimes, with pang Of
self-repyoach, that she had given him
gold for his base metal No; nonsense
She looked like that at every man who
had an hours conversation with her.
If her voice sometimes vibrated with
what in another woman would be be-
trayal of feeling, it was because she had
learned to modulate her lightest breath
for effect.
A note came to Fielding one day. He
opened it hurriedly. There was no FOR
NAL beginning. It ran as follows
"The physicians have given me ND. /
must see you before it is ali over. Come
at once, if you can. [ hope this is legi-
bic. am writing against orders. DORA
VARIAN.'
In half an hour he was by her bedside.
His professional experience, slight as it
was, told him there Was no hope.
"Dora, what has brought you to this ?"
he said, unable to conceal how shocked
he was
"You," she answered vehemently.
"You laid a deliberate, cruel plan for
your own amusement, and you may well
enjoy your work.
'Do not excite yourself" he said
gently, putting back with his cool hand
the heavy locks that fell over her fore
head.
ST am sane enough. I haven't been
delirious at all. wanted to tell you
that intend some day to make you SUI
fer as you have me- You know you took
all the flavor out of my life after you
went away. How flat and weary every
thing seemed. / took no pains to live;
what could I live for? My mother cares
more for my brother than for me. So
[ did what they called running down."
[ danced and firted harder than ever, to
forget you, and my heartache, and my
languid limbs; and when this illness
came, the doctors said I had no strength
to get WELL" She spoke in short rapid
sentences, but would not pause long
enough to give him a chance 30 stop
her or to answer. 81 have not the will
to get we'll" she added; "but I have the
will to do this; you shall love me yet. My
soul shall follow yours day and night
until it wins yours to love as completely
as you won mine. There will be way.
I shall find IT,"
Fielding Was overcome with grief and
remorse as she went on. He could not
find q word to say, until at last he STAN
mered:
"Dora, never thought did not be-
ieve that you--what can 7 say? Will
you forgive ne?"
son the day you say you love me,
solemn impressiveness that shook his
nerves in spite of his knowledge that
her words were utterly futile. The su-
perabundant life that had been enc of
her greatest charms was so soon TO be
quenched, and she spoke of what was
to happen between them after the great
final change had extinguished it.
"Why not now, Dora?" he implored,
taking her hand. How can there be
forgiveness if not now?"
'"Ehat remains with you," she said
family, "and CT shat day my soul will
know and tell you. I shall seess you
again with other eyes"
After that she refused to speak eth
er to him or to the others who came
back into she room they had left that
she might talk at her ease.
''phe end" murmured Fielding as he
stood beside her open grave with IN
covered head. eve are born and we
die, and that is the end"
Time passed as usual, Fielding
threw himself more and more passion
ately into his profession, and for so
young man was becoming celebrated
for his microscopic Investigations of
the ife-germ. he finally discovered