Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-06-12

'.No, it seemed the thing to do. On,
can but actin the present. And event
a man could know certainly that dealt
would keep their love for them. ant
life would lose it. he could hardly brine
himself to say: Then let death come.
1t takes Apollo to give death when hi
is asked for the best gift. But yet
what chance for two lovers to have
died ogether Son'
She drew a rather deeper breath anl
made no spoken answer.
Down at the far horizon the late moor
was rising, vague and cloudy. A ghost
ly light, bringing in its wake mysteri
Gus shadows, spread slowly as the moor
drowsily lifted herself and dropped the
mists from her shoulders. The man.
looking down, in this clearer light. Il
the water, started and said: 1T is com
ing up much faster''
She stopped and looked. Then theil
eyes, lifting. sought each other Both
faces were pale in the moonlight. On
both sat the human shrinking from thi:
upward crawling fate. Yet it wa;
something to see each other.
''How long is it to morning. she
asked.
He drew out his watch. but there
came a cloud across the moon and they
had to wait.
at is just past twelve" said he.
Perhaps they will come out by
moonlight
Perhaps" said he. But neither oil
them had any trust in the hope.
He had seen in the moment when
they looked at each other that she was
indeed younger than his first SUPPOSE
ton, though hardly SO young as his sec
ond. She might be five-and twenty. 1t
was not the face of a girl. She had re-
turned to her former position, and now,
leaning back against the chimney, lift
ed up her face to the sky. Her eyes
we're CLOSED and her lips drawn in.
There was hut time TO look once before
the lips curved again into smile and
the eyes opened to calm gaze.
The man sitting by he: heard the
changing and deepening tone of the
water as it came up and up.
''You are too young for this" said
he, abruptly.
His voice had changed and deepened
likcthe tone of the water. ;
''No, no." she answered, after mo-
ment. "Don't trouble about me-
Il do trouble about you. It's horri-
BILE! horrible!'
She again kept silence for a. little
space; then she said: "When ] heard
You say-that in the boat, and get up
to say felt, suddenly, as ii it was 4
cruel thing not to stay with you. too
as well as to save them.''
She had been Obliged to speak the
last words loudly; for the wind rose
suddenly and fiercely, and the shock of
the watefstroke noisily on the walls.
And as she ceased came a terrible
crash; the whole building creaked and
swayed; there were heavy sp!ashes in
the water, and water spoutcd over
them as they caught and clung to each
Cher. Long hair was blown before his
face. They held each other fast, pant
ing and trembling. She freed hand
and drew aside her hair. There was a
sound of water, running, trickling and
dropping. The calm moon, pun suing
her .leisurely pathway, passed out from
Behind a cloud, and showed them that
the platform at the other end of the
house had given way, and the stack of
chimneys opposite had fallen.
If it had been these" said she.
They crouched nearer together, each
still holding to the other. The fear in
each mind now was the fear of being
of losing all human compan-
Tho s.,
rising, as it seemed, with malignant,
hungry JOY.
1T can't be long now," said the man
No. said she.
There were few more life long mo-
ments in which they sat silent, breath
ing hard. The wild gust of winl abat-
ed; the moon found a wide, open arch
way among the clouds; the face of the
waters grew by comparison still again
"And sO,'' said he, sit was for me
you staid, end even at the end can't
20 away in peace without pulling down
some one else. And you, who staid,
are a stranger, aud we shall die here
together, strangers. Oh, the irony of
his world All nv life l have been
solitary and deserted. 1t has been my
fault; and now lite is over. It's all 100
ate, and there's no time
She remained silent, and the lnonoto-
nous pulse of the water throbbed be-
ow.
"Do we? Well the depths, perhaps,
If each other, but not the shadows. If
we were to be saved we should feel like
friends till we came to land, and then
you would 90 your way and | mine;
md if we were to meet once a week
or twelve-month we should speak to
each other at first, and then we should
lod and smile. and by and by we
should pass and take no notice. No.
what knowledge or friendship we have
loes not belong to this life!'
"You believe, then, in another?"
ct is hardly that l believe in another
ife, so much as that l can't believe in
leath. We could not be capable of SO
much, and DESTROYS of SO much, and
nothing come. We have not half
enough. feel so much, much more.
70, l am not afraid. There's more"
He in his turn was silent. Perhaps
he forebore. out of pity, to put forth a
word against her hope; perhaps, in his
oul, too, like hope, which he had |
AIKEN to be long dead began to stir
md murmur. y
The moon had put on, minute by
minute, a fuller glory; it was illumin-
NC an arch Of clouds. and. beyond the |
rich 1ays neasufeless,s liquid, lucid
epths. She looked and pointed up
yard. The full glow shone on her
ace. He saw in her dark eyes slow |
netfable softening; in all the lines of
Ter features breathed q spirit of ex-
ltant reception.
The open doorway of infnity," said
re, fitting to this radiance its apt poetic .