The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-07

koOkcu EOuuu, lcoriuS iuefVSlVo cySS,
but seeing none. she allowed him to
embrace her. my own--at last my
own. How well you understood me in
those old days. And yet it was all
without q word-almost withou. a
sign" She bowed her head before she
had escaped from his arms. "Now l
am happy man."
ut is he that has done it for YOU"
Sam not thankfulp'
"How can be thankful rs / ought?
Think of the gratitude that owe him
think of all the love! What man has
loved as he has done? Who has brought
himself SO to abandon to another the
reward he had thought it worth his
while to wish for? You must not count
the value of the thing"
..But do"
"But the price he had set upon it! I
was tc be the comfort of his life to
come. And it would have been so, had
he not seen and had he not believed.
Because another has loved, he has Civ
en- up that which he has loved him
self"
/ 1T was not for my sake"
s.But it was for m ne. You had come
first, and had won my poor heart. 1t
was not worth the winning 10 either of
you"
at was for me to Judge Of that"
"Just so. But you do not know his
heart. How prone he is to hold by that
which he knows he has mads his owp.
l was his own"
"You told him the truth when he
came to you"
Il was his own." said Mary, firmly.
Had he babe me never to see you,
again, should never have seen YOU.
Had he not gone after you himself, you
would never have come back"
Il do not know how that might be-"
cit would have been to no good. Having
consented to take everything from his
hands, L could never have been untrue
to him. l tell you that l should as GER
tainly have become his wife rs that girl
will become the wife of that young
clergyman. Of course l was unhap-
py."
"Were YOU. dear?"
''Yes; l was very unhappy. When
you flashed upon me there at Croker's
Hall, | knew at once all the Joy that
mad fallen within my reach. You were
there, and you had come for me. All
the way from Kimberley, Just for me to
smile upon you! Did you not?'
.'lndeed l did"
when you had found yops da-
monds, you thought of me--was t not
so?"
"Of you only"
You fatterer! You dear, bonny
lover. You whom had always loved
and prayed for, when knew not where
you were! You who had not left me to be
| like Mariana, but had hurried home ut
once for me when your mans work was
done doing Just what 4 CURL would
think that man should do for her
sake. But it had been all destroyed by
the necessity of the case. l take no
blame to myself"
4" No; none.
Looking back at it all, Twas right.
He had chosen to want me, and had q
right TO me. l had taken his gifts,
given with full hand. And where
were you. my own one? Had a right
to think that you were thinking of
me?'
g. was thinking of YOU"
LES, UcCssusC YOU nave tltIueu ouI
to be one in a hundreds: but | was not
to have known that. Then he asked
me, and l thought it best that be
should know the truth ard take his
choice. He did take his choice before
he knew the truth-that you were SO
far on your way to seek my hand
81 was that very moment almost
within reach of it."
II But still it had become his. He
did not toss it from him then as thing
! that was valueless. With the truest,
noblest observance, he made me under
stand how much it might be to him,
and then surrendered it without word
of ill humor, because he told himself
that, in truth, my heart was within
your keeping. If you will keep it well,
you must find place for his Also" 1t
was thus that Mary Lawrie suffered the
spooning that was inflicted upon her
by John Gordon.
The most important part of our mar
rative still remains. When the day
came, the Reverend Montagu Blake was
duly married to Miss Catherine For
roster in Winchester Cathedral, by the
Very Reverend the Dean, assisted by
the Young lady's father; and it is pleas
ant to think that on that occasion the
! two clergymen behaved to each other
with extreme civility. Mr.. Blake at
once took his wife over to the Isle of
Wight, and came back at the end of a
month to enjoy the hospitality of Mr..
Hall. And with them came that lady's
maid, of whose promotion to higher
sphere in lie we shall expect soon to-
hear. Then came & period of thorough
enjoyment for MIR. Blake in superintend-
ing the work of MIR. Nexface.
What a pity it is that the house
should ever be iinished?" sad the bride
to Augusta Hall, because as things are
now, Montagu is Supremacy happy; he
will never be so happy again.
UNLESS when the baby comes,' said
Augusta.
Il don't think he'll care bit about
the baby said the bride.
The writer, however, is of different
opinion. as he is inclined to think that
the Reverend Nlcntagu Blake will
be pattern for all fathers. One word
more we must add of Mr.. Whittlcstaf'
and his future life and one word of
Mrs. Baggett. Mr.. Whittlestaff did not
/ leave Cookers Hall. When October
had come round, he was present at
Mary's marriage, and certainly did not
carry himself then with any show OF
outward Joy. He was moody and silent,
and, as some said, almost uncourteous
to John Gordon. But before Mary went
down to the train, in preparation OF her
! long wedding-tour. he took her lid To