The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-09

pletely driven all thoughts of Dick 5
coming departure from my mind. but
thav now return with force. He
shall have chance" | declare to my
self, and ponder a little while the others
ale stepped in fish-worship.
s.Dick," / exclain, authoritativelv,
s'you must 90 home at once. instead Of
lettering about here. dripping like a
Newfoundland dog. Ethel and viii
WALL back with you. y
Catching Dicks eye, I see that he
understands me. '.Come along he
says.
Ethel takes my arm on the side re-
mote from Dick. She is remarkably
silent, and shows a tendency to blush
about nothing. fearing poss bly, that her
aux ETY. about Dicks dangerous es-
capade just now may have betrayed
her. Dick, feeling that he is now, as
he would himself phrase it, in for it, =
maintains a no less impenetrable
dumbness. Never have two such leaden
companions fallen to my lot before or
since
1t is relief that the beauty of the
winding moorland path, stretching away
behing us, compeis me to stop and take
out my sketch book. base
"rll stay with you,' says Ethel,
nervously. aa - So
'What, and leave poor old Dick to
jog home alone?' ~
3 'sEh?' says Dick, looking at me with
7comical terror. '.Don'5 let me drag
her with me if she wants to stay.''5
Nonsense; go away, Ethel. Leans
have you fdgeting about me while /
am drawing = 8Ef a.s Yg
Their .assinuous good nature in pre-
pairing my water-color box and block
for action knows no bounds; neither
fulsome hints nor cross requests will in
duce them to depart. At length, when
l am busy with my first wash, and re-
fuse with sulky steadfastness to answer
any more questions, or to offer any
further pretext for their moving hand
or foot on my behalf, they stroll shyly
off together. EthePs eyes on the
ground, Dicks on the distant horizon.
Grazing round upon my camp stool,
I watch them down the long slope of
brakefern and heather, straining my
eyes as they grow indist.nct after cross
ing the stream, and finally disappear,
to leave me none the wiser for all my
gazing. ''s'- -
Anxiety prevents my sitting still for
ten minutes together. My sketch is a
curiosity "a phenomenal specimen Of
the kind of daub producible by the con-
vulsive dashes of a hand totally unas-
sisted by mind, which is too agitated
to do its duty.
My eyes yearn to pierce the small
knoll behind which the twain have dis
appeared. Are those two heads any
nearer to each other than when l saw
them last? Ai13
For years we have looked upon Dick
as a brother: tomorrow night, when he
has departed, many tears will be shed
which he will know nothing of. His
going to India. too, is a mere freak, a
decision reversible, ! really believe, by
a single word from Ethel. Again, Dick
is his own master, unhampered by that
lack of gold which quenches the hopes
Of so many young fellows. Well, l
have done my best, and, now they have
had clear hour with their fate in their
own hands, may as well collect my
paraphernalia and follow them.
AS pace homeward and gaze over
the swelling hills, the sun setting 'be-
You'd their utmost purple rim, ''saddens
me- Solitude and the gloom of even
tide, melancholy as a long drawn sigh
of nature, settle upon my soul; by the
time have reached the last bridge to
be crossed, the castles [ have built con-
Germ ng Dick and Ethel have crumbled
one by one. ~ t''
I Suddenly ] stumble upon them among
the rocks, and my hopes rush to the
surface once more; the glow of happi-
ness upon these two faces admits of but
one explanation. @
'You old brick" begins Dick, clasp
ing my two hands with fervor which
/ trust he will never repeat. s'If it
hadn't been for you, / should never
have done it" fa
Sand Lucy adds Ethel in a thrilling
voice, with her arms round my neck.
''yoa're a dear old thing; if it hadn't
tOSCd AOL Vic SellluOA dAl
in after it, he never would have - :,
''Done this" interpolates Dick, kiss
ing her again and again, with a cool
indifference to my presence which
bathes her face in crimson. ''But we
haven the courage to go in without
you, he adds. when he has quite done
his whispers in her ear. .f .sea.
& "You II have to, though. Master
Dick. | reply. dashing onward and
into the midst of the astonished group
in the inn parlor Hs|
''It's twenty pounds ten ounces"
shouts Bella, by way of greeting.
Come outside, girls" exclaim
sbreathlessly, land I Il show you some
thing worth a hundred salmon"
AS we emerge from the door the soft
twilight shows us the prettiest picture
we have ever looked upon; and the
happiness which underlies the shyness
of the one face and the sparkle and tri-
umph of the other wakes an answering
chord in our hearts as we murmur:
welcome, brother. ',-L0ndon Soctetu.