Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-06-08

old father, and your silver-haired, stately
mother, how could they bear for one of their
sons to marry an Irish peasant girif
you have nothing to learn from the high
est lady in the land, my darling, he said
fondly; and younger sons are not expected
to marry heiresses.'
"But she shook her head resoutely.
And this is how you lightly fling away
mans happiness for lief
"A few days pain now to save you years
Of regret in the future
THE young man looked at the girl per-
picked. Where could she have learned such
Sentimentsl Where had she gained the
strength to express them SO freelys He then
said slowly and solernnly, as if taking an
oath: Look yonder, Kittyi That is the even
ing star. So surely as it will shine in the
heavens five, ten or twenty years. as surely
will my love remain unchanged for you Bid
me come back when you will, Kitty, and IL
have breath in my body and strength 70 do
it, / will come
"'Come back in ten years, Kinlock win
be true to you and wait till then. viii try
and improve myself-make myself more
worthy of your love.
Keep as you are, Kitty--remain IN
changed, said the young man jealousy, lest
| when | come again shall not see in you the
last look took away with me, my life, my
loyer he murinured passionatcly; and kissing
her sweet brow and mouth. folding her in one
last embrace, lie sighed and left her.
"She turned to 60 into the cottage A
| large downy moth which had been humping
against the little window sailed in before her,
circled thrice round the candle, and flew into
its alluIing brightness. The candle l!ckered
and went out; the moth dropped down with
thud upon the table, dead. Kitty, with
| eyes blinded by tears and with shaking hands,
relit, though somewhat tardily, the light.
Kitty, my girl, said the old man. point
! ing significantly TO the singed insect, don't
be as foolish as that silly thing Its eyes
were dazzled, and it had no strength to resict
! the fatal fascination
Father, said the girl, STOPPING dow II and
kissing his gray locks, 'you may trust mes
Here Aunt Bell stopped.
is it Interestingly Shall go on!'
"Oh, do. Did he come back.' said he
! niece.
"Well, the years passed on and the girl
was joked and leased and had many offery
Of marriage; but she was firm and would
listen 10 none. AT last the young fellows
grew weary of their fiuitless attempts at
iove-Inaking and the greater part left her
alone. A few, more unlind, would ask
when she expected her young gentleman
home, and tauLt ted her in cutting speeches
and insinuations.
mine years went by, and then there came
the battle of Waterloo, when officers and
men went down in hundreds together. StiJ
no word from kinloch, and kitty's heart,
which had never failed in its lightness,
nor her step in its speed, now sank and fall
tered for the first time. Early in the next
year-in fact Oh New Years night--the off
GERS gave ball, and every young girl and
young man for miles around was invited.
Girls were in great demand and went down
to my aunts house especially for that night
| was anxious to see Kitty myself and to find
out how the years had passed over her head.
"Iou think, perhaps 70 was rather old TO
be called a girl-do you kittyl Well, |
.ot almost the same as | did when | was lG
and quite ready to enjoy a dance or flirta-
ton, | can assure you. Kate Daly--tbat
was her name-went 20 help the ladies' UNI
shawl themselves and 10 be ready with needle
and thread when an unhappy danisel with
torn skirt or flounce should require her as
sistance.
"She was then %, and the young girlish
beauty had developed into the most lovely Of
women. Only when her face was at rest,
and you caught the suspicion OF an anxious
heart upon it, would you have guessed her
age. She wore a pale tea-rose tinted gown,
with ruflles of lace OF her own making at the
neck and sleeves. 1t was wild and stormy
night without, just such "a one As this but i:
only served to enhance the brightness and
animation Of the scene within. The dancing
of the hgh-heeled shoes and the silvery
laughter rose higher than the wall of the
wind, and the tinkling wine-cups drowned
all sound of rain.
suddenly there was hull; We stopped in
our dances; a chill blast seemed to have en-
tered the room; we turned and saw silent,
darl; figure standing in the doorway. He
was tall and handsome but his large black
cloak, carefully slung over his shoulder, was
dripping with the rain and making large
pools on the floor. His legs, booted and
spugred We're mud up to the hips. Just at
that moment the clock struck IL, and the
year 1916 was broken. Some of the more OK
citable girls screamed and ran behind their
partners. Was it an appartionf Was il
AN i'll omen for the coming year.
- seem to brighten you, good people.
Does nobody know mes'
kitty at that moment was bringing N
jug of iced claret at another door. She heard
the voice and turned round, trembling, with
wild cry, 'kinloch, kinloch, l knew
you would come backr And amid crash
OF breaking glaSs-fCr she let the vessel slip
from her hands-she bounded to his side, and
then disappeared in the folds Of his great
cioakn
How splendid, Aunt Belll' said her niece,
drawing deep breath; but if she married
him then do not see why she should not !
have done 81 before"
"Ah, but she WAS a wise girl, little one; she
knew it would test his constancy and prove
if be really loved her. a young mans love
at y taS She knew very wclD, would not he
his choice at 81
"W hat became Of them. aunt!'
"Oh, they married, and Travelled about
good deal and finally both died out in India
within Il few months OF each other. There
was one son, and | believe he is in the army
also. Come. Kitty, shall go 10 bed and not
wait up any longer for your father"
"rhero is a new lieutenant coming in Mr..
PeIry's place said her niece as she babe her
gooi night
"The young men are not what they used 10
be, sighed the DID lady. "Some little whip
per snapper, III be bound with feet that
would 90 in your slippers, Good night,
chldiep
Kitty went slowly downstairs and pondered
over in her mind the story OF the beautiful |
Kate DAILY and the faithful kinloch. She |
went to the window and undid the shutter.
She pictured TO herself the young man conf
Ing to the window and scratching his name
on the glass, and then taking the girls hand
in his own, slowly guiding it just below.
She leart in the deep shadow OF the win |
iow-Seat and strove to realize each scene in
the little drama. There, under that very !
door, stood the black robci figure they had |
all shrank away from in the midst of their
mirth. What! Was she dreamingf What
stood there NJ that very moments
figure darker than the gloom OK the |
room. The rain poured in eools outside, and
the wind wlist,cd and moaned round the
corners Of the house. The figure came lit |
tie further into the room. She saw, 10y the
misty hight, he was a tall man. with a dark |
cloak over bis shoulders, booted and spurresi, |
with mud up to his hips
She felt as il the whole scene was to be /
played again before her very eyes; but she
looked in vain for the pretty girls and ladies |
in their pulled sleeves ami short waists, their |
flowing curls and high-heelei shoes. Kitty. |
where was shei And here she blushed TO her /
self in the darkness.
There was Kitty, but not the one.
The man came up to the window, evil
IDENTIFY thinking no one was in the room.
The girl shrank hack a. the wet cloak |