The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-23

you are thinking Off -
''viiow could | think about that :
Why will you notunderstand, klnlochh
Your proud old father and your silver
haired, stately mother, how could they
bear for one OF their chs SC marry An
Irish peasant girly
.ssYou have nothing to learn from
the highest lady in the land, my dar-
ling, he said, fondly and Younger sons
Are not expected to marry helresses,
But she shook her head resolutely.
And is this how Won lightly hing
away a mans happiness for hfe|
"a few days pain now, to save you
years of regret in the future .,L =.
"The Young man looked at the girl
perplexed. Where could she have
learnt such sentiments ?-where had
she gained the strength to express them
so freely?
"He then said slowly and solemnly,
as if taking an oath: Look, yonder'
Kitty! That is the evening star. 80
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 if I have breath in my body and
strength to do it, | will come
"'Come back in ten years, klnloch.
I will be true to YOU and wait till then.
I will try and improve myself-make
myself more worthy of your love-
"Keep as You are, Kitty-remain I'M
changed, said the young man, Jealous
", lest when / come again | shall not
see in You the last look [ took away
with me, nay life, my love! he muir
INJURED p~assionately; and kissing her
sweet brow and mouth, folding her In
one last embrace, he sighed and left
her.
"She turned to go 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 up into its alluring
brightness. The candle hickered and
went out; the moth dropped down with
a thud upon the table, dead. :
kitty, with eyes blinded by tears and
with shaking hands, reiit, though some+
what tardily, the light.
kitty, my girl said the old man,
pointing significantly to the singed in
sect, don't be as foolish as that silly
thing. Its eyes we're dazzled, and it
had no strength to resist the fatal fas-
cination.'
Gather said the oirl, STOPPING down
and kissing his gray locks, you may,
trust me-"
Here aunt Bell stopped.
"Is it Interesting! Shall / go on?"
"Oh, do! Did he come back? 2" said
her neice.
well, the years passed on, and the
girl was joked and teased, and had many
offers of marriage but she was firm and
would listen to none.
cat last the young fellows grew weary
, of their fruitless attempts at 1oye-mak-
ing and the greater part left her alo ae.
"A few, more unkind, would ask wlerl
she expected her young gentleman home,
and tainted her in cutting speeches
and insinuations.
"Nine years went by, and then there
came the battle of Waterloo, when Of
fcers and men went down in hundreds
together.
"StsiiIIli no word from Kinloch, and
| Kitty's heart, which had never failed in
! its hghtness, nor her step in its speed,
now sank and faltered for the first time.
Early in the next year-in fact, on
New Years night-the officers gave a
ball, and every girl aud young man for
miles around was invited.
"Girls were in great demand, and
went down tony aunt's house especially
for that night.
81 was anxious to see Kitty myself,
and to find out how the years had passed
oyer her head.
"You think, perhaps, twenty-six was
rather old to be callad a girl-do you,
Kitty?
well I felt almost the same as / did
when I was sixteen, and quite as ready
to enjoy a dance or Irritation / can as
sure you.
@Kate DaIy-that was her name
went to help the ladies unshawl them
selves, and to be ready with needle and
thread when an unhappy damsel
with torn skirt or hounce shouldlrequire
her assistance.
"She was then twenty .eighs, ard 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 pale te~a-rose-tinted gown,
with rufles of lace of her own making
at the neck and sleeves.
.It was a wild and stormynight with
out, inst such q one as this. but it onl,
served to enchance the brightness ans
animation Of the scene Within
sThe dancing of the high-heeled shoes
and the silvery laughter rose highel
than the wall of the wind and the tink