St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-29

Instead of treating Harry with the sisterly
frankness and freedom which had hereto
fore characterized their intercourse, she be-
came as shy as a woodthrush.
Harry was rueful enough at the change.
Susy seemed to him the beau ideal of every
thing that was good and lovely, and he
feared that he had offended her irrevocably.
Had he been better skilled in the workings
of a woman's heart he might have drawn a
different inference from her resolute avoid
ance of his society.
Time fed away on rapid wings, and al
last brought the day of Harry's departure.
He no longer wore the pale listless look
which had characterized him when he first
came; but was as rudy and strengthening
as the veriest country lad in the neighbor-
hood; and he looked handsomer than ever
when he sought Susy to bid her goodbye.
He found her in the rustic summer-house,
which was her favorite resortwhen she wished
either to read or write or to be alone with her
| thoughts.
There was slight flush about her eyes,
which showed that tears had been making an
nnwonted visit to them.
But she forced bright smile as she saw
| Harry.
He put out his hand, and with the parting
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fingers, said:
Goodbye, Cousin Susy, and try to for
give for the offense which has made me such
| a tabooed sinner in your eyes of late.
''Please look upon it as a jest which shall
not again be referred to. For if l have one
| wish dominant above all others in my mind,
it is that L may live pleasantly in your re-
| membrance.''
81 shall never do anything but think kind
ly of you, Cousin Harry said Susy.
Had Harry been sufficiently master Of his
own emotions to study Susy's face, he would
have notice that suspicious culver threat
ened the continuance of the forced smile
upon her lips, and that tears were just ready
to overflow their fringed boundaries.
But with this cold formal goodbye he ex-
pectcd to leave her. So he turned and walk
ed away.
When the gate changed to, and Susy felt
| sure that he had gone, she had no longer
need for self-possession, and she threw her
self forward, and covered here face with her
hands, moaning:
ooh, Harry, 1 cannot bear it! I have
treated you SO dreadfully, and am sure
shall never, never set eyes upon your face
again. l shall never, never see you. You
will think of me only to hate me. Oh dear,
oh dear?'
Thus she ran on, unheeding what was
passing about her. The gate had been re-
opened, and Harry was fastening back;
but she took no notice, so absorbed was
she in sorrow and self-reprOach
''Susy, crying!" came from his lips in
surprised accents.
Then, with a sudden joyful light in his
eyes, he sprang forward and exclaimed:
care you sorry that | am going away!
was too great a coward to say what l felt,
Susy, but have come back to risk it. l
cannot think of my future unless you share
it. viii you promise to be my little wife!
l love you so dearly that it must be you don't
hate me as you have made believe.'
"Hate you! Oh, Harry" sobbed Susy; and
then and there the happy lover possessed
himself of both principal and interest of the
debt he claimed from Susy.
How many kisses he took we dare not say.
But Susy made no resistance, for was it not
just claim?