The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-06-12
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graphed me from home, and there's no
help for it. Unjust go tomorrow morn
ing"
He signs as he says it, and pulls
gloomily at his moustocho, Watching
the girl before him. Is she turning
pale, or is it the moonlight OF her dark,
uncovered hair which touches her young
face so tenderly, and makes her look
quite white?
You might say a word or two, you
know" he says at last, rather inpatient
ly; you might eve say you were a lit
tie sorry to see me 60"
Then the young girl lifts her head d
trife proudly, and looks straight into
his moody eyes.
SHOULD II" she asks, slowly. "Iou
are going, and YOU have not said it.
Why should l. whom you are leaving
~here-Yhom you will forget in a fort
night?"
I'll never forget you" he says, a
shade more gloomily then before; and
then he suddenly puts out his hands
and takes both of hers, drawing her
towards him impetuously. I'LL never
forget vou," he says again. GLOW can
1 when love YOU SO? l will come
back, Monte. just as soon as / can.
Will you be true to me? will you think
of me while | 1T away ? will yOu-will
you marry me when | return? ?"
The girl does not shrink from him;
she lets him hold her hands, and smiles
a little as he speaks.
But you can't marry me, You know"
she says, slowly. You're to wed Miss
LeOnora Leestone."
II wish you wouldn'tsay such things"
he says, irritatedly. 81 have never even
seen Miss LeestOne. l wouldn't marry
her TOTO save my life! I'll come back
in a month. Will YOU marry me then,
Monte? If you really love me, you will
say yes"
But I am poor and obscure. I can
bring you only my love, Harry; Miss
LeestOne -"
ooh, bother Miss Leestone!" the
young man exclaims, drawing his COM
panion toward him. That's all my
mothers affairs, not mine. I'm not
going to sacrifice my happiness to
please my mother and the mother of
Miss Leestone, am I? If they want to
make bargains, let them make them for
themselves. So you'll marry me, my
pet?"
She looks up at him earnestly, affec-
tionateiy, her slips her hand in his.
"Ill promise to answer that question
when you ask it of me-if you do-in
a month from this" she says, slowly.
IF you love me truly" her voice
falters a little you do love me Har-
ry?"
"My darling!' is all he swers
But he holds her to him closely, and
lays his lips on her forehead.
"Then obey me in this" she says.
softly, lifting an arm and laying it about
his heck. $50 to your mother and say
nothing to her of me. She expects a
visit from this girl, whom she intends
you to marry. Wait till you see her
before you say you will not-before you
bind yourself to me-"
eff that's the way you are going to
talk" he commences.
But she lays her hand lightly on his
lips.
"See her, at least" she says. earn
estiy. ''She may be a fair, sweet girl,
who will win your love from me. You
may find her more worthy than you
think. If you love her, Harry
I'll not. How can j? l love your
~ ~knowk-nowl But you may not
when you see her. Then, let me say
this, dear. If you love her best. and
wishto forget me, / will not blame you,
Harry. / will not have asingle feproach
for you, il you never come again to me
here
H1f I don't come, you can pray for me,
knowing that I have died." he says,
solemnly "for you will see me in q
month, If / am living
So they talked foranother hour, there
in the moonlighted garden, hard by the
old farmhouse in which this Youth
Harry Bland--had spent his summer,
where he had fousd the old couple and
their beautiful, graceful, dainty niece,
with whom he had fallen desperately,
passionately in love.
But for her presence, he would have
turned his back on the solitude in a
week-solitude he had sought because
the young girl who, although he had
newer seen her since har .sss
q perfect horror to him-his mothers
choice Of d wife for him-the heiress,
Miss Leonora Lecstone.
Well, it is arranged at last, and, In
the moonlight, there is q close embrace,
q kiss or two. aquiver on the girls red
lips. q pallor on the young mans fine
face, and the goodeby Is said.
He goes early in the morning, and
she il not down to see him off, but
waves q trembling hand to him from her
suindnu ne he snrinrz into the linht