Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-03-13

give you III thing nnss;; IN ~
neither you nor the world full unde
stands. 4 may seem q triider;; but, were i,
the woman q love Ia love me ii return.
no smile would be to me- so sweet % 4
hers, no presence half 80 dear. /"
Mol1ie had been watching the couple q
on the sands, going slowly back and
forth, back and forth in the moons
light now she lifted her sweet young
face and looked at him with q sort q
Wondering pity .g s:s
Do We ell wrong you, then r. She
asked gently. Have ron failed in
yor1r wooing Can you not win your
love z" Z .S,. b. .ss
His face flushed = little at her words,
and she, watching it, was struck By it's
strength and beauty. How did II
chance that she had never noticed it be-
fore? y. ss Vi % 81 & va
3ssss ss sI am not left the chance to VOC o. j
win her, !" he said slowly; "she is aIl-s
others promised wife" $sr 3i.s
H tAh, !" she said, pityingly,' and SID !.
gave him her hand in sweet, won1anly
sympathy, never for an instant conn eb-a
ing his words with herself. He lifted
tho small hand reverently to his lips.
and, drawing it TIN rough his arm, turned
toward the beach. AS lie did so he
found himself facing Ned Tremalna
and Laura Lovel, who were coming
in from the moonlight, and he noticed
that the young mans face was quits
white, while there was half scorn-
full smile on the lips Of the fair
belle of the seaside. But the two cou-
pies passed each other in silence, the one
going down to the stretch OF ghttering
sand, the other going in to the dancers.
A week later, and Mollie had just
como in from long hour, peaceful and
calm, spent with, Lee ina quiet nook
among the rocks that oyerhung tha
ocean. He had been reading to her
there some Of the sweetest poems given
to. the world by genius. Her heart had
thrilled as he read, and new, strange
feelings had stirred it. When ho closed
the book he had looked up and found
her eyes filled with tears. And now in her
own room she was asking herself how it
was that what she had but commenced
for the purpose of annoying Ned had IN
one brief week slain all her old resent
ment against Miss Lovel, and made her
thoughts turn constantly, not to Ned
Tremaine, who was her affianced hus-
band, but to Lee Stone, who was termed
the greatest male firt at the beach.
What was changing in her life? When
she now met Ned and Laura it did not
pain her as it used to. Was it because
handsomer face, a stronger and nobler
face than Ned's WIS constantly near,
ready to turn to her with devotion, rea-
dy to light if she smiled? E. !
A servant broke her ponderlngs by
bringing her two nessages--one bout
quet OF white flowers, with few feathery
sprays of fern among their whitenessf
and one crimson rose cleaning red irony
their center and in it was note from
Lee, asking her to go for drive with
him by moonlight; the other was few
angry lines from Ned, asking if she
remembered that she was betrothed I'd
him while she allowed every gossip al
the hotel to chatter of her Irritation
with Lee Stone.
II have been patient, waiting an op.
portunity Of speaking to you," he wrote,
"but you will not give me one, so !
write to ask yon if you wish our engage
ment broken, to all it would seem
So" ~
She trembled little as she read,
and her sweet face changed color; but
she went to her desk, drew from it ev-
cry letter he had ever sent her, formed
them and his ring in package and
wrote him the following note:
ut was I who was first taught pa
tience, while my existence was forgot
ten for one who was what you bade me
become-'a society character Why
should I fancy that you wished an in
terview with me of late? It is not 50
long since you could not spare mo-
nient for me from Miss Lowell. Do I
wish our. engagement broken? Per-
haps we both wish it, Ned; at least lei
us break it, since I so displease you. !
send you your letters and ring"
:. Then although choking sensation
was in her throat, she penned brief
note to Lee:
IT will be pleased to go with you;"
that was all; and in the starlight-the
moon rose late--she went with him Out
over the beach aud far along the coun'
try: .ys.. a. ii, .gyzsy ..ss.
Was it strange that he noticed she no
longer wore Ned's ring? Was it strange
that he told her of his love, and that
she listened silently, believing with q
strange futter at her heart? Was il
strange that when they drove back,
lingering beside the sobblng ocean,
another ring should deck her finger and
another bond should lie upon her life?
Well, two others walked upon the
strand, two whom the gossips called
lovers; and yet when it was told that
Mollie Annes was to place her happi-
ness in the keeping Of "tae firt of the
beach," one man who heard it turned
white as death and shrank from the
sight of the beautiful woman beside
him, although men called her fair, and
many said that she had won him from
/ his faith; yet Mollie was too happy to
regret, although she still sometimes
remembers. ~.
aS " Loves Young Dream. e
From the Philadelphia Call
George All, my dear boy, SO glad to seeyou
Ynn re,oernbnr the Last time we mat Won vera