The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16

" INV PA Ma ~ ~~A@ ~
slight ttoueh. SShhc stood Up as simply
as q child.
"Wha was it that Orlando said about
his lady's stature?"
"'Jnst as high as my heart, she
barely breathed the words, yet with ex-
duisite tenderness, inclining her head
with a movement ~unspeakably sweet
and shy, until her cheek bent just
above his throbbmg heart, yet quite
apart from him.
But before her hair was stirred by
the sigh from his dropping lips. she
sprang back like a creature at bay, her
brow knit in a frown, her eyes blazing
indignation and reproach.
"How dare you +" she cried. what
a pitiful pretext! How ingenious!
How full of couragel"
What wonder that the fair Irishman
blushed for his W poor ruse to bring
her near him for a moment! Was this
acting? Had she only affected just now
to discover his motive? Was his order
answered by wild rapture in her own
undisciplened heart? Or was she like
some fair saint, far above the compre-
hension of earthly passions? Could
she have used ignorantly the dangerous
.phraseology of evil, as child might play
unwittingly with engines of destruction
each innocently vain of its fancied
knowledge?
Come inp Miss Soulsby's sweet
voice followed a knock at the door.
Mr.. Lambs associate came into the
room.
"Ledyard telegraphs that the line is
open now, and a party is starting out.
You have not a moment to spare. No
one knows how long we may be shut In
here, once the spring thaws set in"
And so, before the curious scrutiny
of this observer, they closed the day
and babe each other but a formal adieu.
SCENE H..
Mr.. Edward Lamb brought to its
close q letter, sitting in the reading.
room of a hotel in the city at the west
ern sea-gate. Sunday influences had
delayed its completion he had but just
come to the end of his transcontinental
trip; o certain sense of freedom and
citation was still new enough to intoxi-
cate him, heart and brain; he could not
put out of his mind his sensation, when,
crossing the bay from the train, he first
caught sight of the city looming ahead
like some mighty monster In bronze.
And an acquaintance he had made had
r~estained him for o time.
He was but just putting pen o paper
when he was gFeeted by a fellow journ-
alist, who presently introduced Mr..
Lamb to a man sitting near; a man whose
name stands historic IN the records
of the State, whose position and great
wealth might have commanded the
younger mans attention. Beyond these,
his interest had been won by the mellow
wisdom and gentle shrewdness of this
quite, kindly potentate, who, as per the
Pacific journalists dictum, owned half
a county"
Even now, despite the vital interest
of the lines he was writing, Mr.. Lamb
found his mind and his eyes straying to-
ward his neighbor. The fine small head,
venerable with its scant white hair and
Sowing gray beard, was in relief against
the wall, that threw up all its whole
some freshness and calm heneveolanee.
Mr.. Lamb found a sort of fascination in
this contemplation, and divided his at
tention pretty equally between the gen
tleman and the letter.
As he folded the sheet, he lifted his
eyes toward the general staircase; com
ing down the floor above was the woman
he was addressing.
Self-possessed, and eaisly poised, she
came toward him with the old free step
and the old impenetrable challenge on
the brow and lip-a little warmer of
tint a little brighter of eye than when
they parted. It was only when she had
come very close to him that he noticed
the exceeding richness Of her attire.
gmorn with the same careless grace -
the old-time flannel.
"She does not become fna raimentl ]"
his thought exulted, "and yet would
seem endimanchee In cloth of gold"
She paused beside his chair, and look
ed straight into his kindling, deep blue
eyes with her own unwavering gaze.
"To think / meet you herel" he said;
II was sending you a letter to Eel Parai-
so-see! Take tread it now! Inco-
herant as it is, it will speak as my lips
cannot
He put the paper into her reluctant
hand.
II would better not read it, / think"
she said, gently; let me explain
firstr-
Read" he said, almost fercely, and
she read slowly down the pagex
IL was a year since / had heard one
word OF you (the letter ran, with that
abrnbt beginning which signifies abso-
lutte a~bsorption) when Ledyard, writing,
mentioned casually that in passing
through Eel Paraiso he had met D
there. The next day I started West