Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

black
And red the light in your window pane;
When will we come away,
When will yc come away;
I'll wrap We round and keep ", warm,
For muuy u secret we've to TIL.
Ana nc'er a sound will hinder MS
Down in yon hiid"n dtH,
Mrcnie,
Down in you hidden dell
o see the moon Is sailing on
Through hrrcy clouds across the skies,
But iarer far the light that KIN Nv,
The lovc-ight in your eyes,
Meenic,
The lovc-light in your eyes.
o haste and haste; the night is sweet.
But swcctcr far what would hear;
And L have secret to teil I" yo"'
A whisper in your ear.
But here was bitter cold winter night,
and Mecue would have to come through
the snow; and dark as pitch 1t was-he
would have To guess at the love-light in
her eyes, 50 cruelty dense was the black
ness all around.
Then his quick ear detected a faint
sound in the distance--a hushed football
on the snow: and that came nearer and
nearer. lie went out to the middle of the
road.
"Is that you, Meenie?"
The answer was whisper
"Ronaldr'
And like ghost she came to him
through the dark; but indeed this was no
ghost at all that he caught to him and
that chung to him, for if her cheeks were
cold her breath warm about his face, and
her lips were warm, and her ungloved
hands that were round his neck were
warm, and all the furry wrappings that
she wore could not quite conceal the JOY
full beating of her heart.
ooh -Ronald-you nearly killed
] !, 4 In frif n n fr
dreadful had happened-that you had
come back without any warning-and
/ now you say instead that it good news
oh, let it be good news, Ronald-let 1T be
good news-f you only knew how have
been thinking and thinking-and crying
sometimes through the long days and the
long nights-let it he good news that you
have brought with you, Ronald
"Well lass (but this was said after
some little time; for he had other things
| to say to her with which we have no con-
Germ here, sit may be good news; but
it's pretty much guess work; and maybe
/ I'm building up something on my own
conceit that will have sudden fall, and
serve, me right, And then even at the
But, Ronald, you said it was good
news" And then she altered her tone.
"Ah, but ! don't care! | don't care az
ALL when you are here. 1t is only when
you are away that my heart is like leaS~
all the long day. and at night lie and
think thar everything is against us-and
such Il long time to wait-and perhaps my
people finding out. But what isit, Ronald,
you had to tell me-"
Well. now. Mccnie-' said he.
" But that is not my name-to you, !"
said she, for indeed she scarce knew what
she said, and WAS all trembling and eX-
cited and Clinging to hlm-there, in the
dark. amid the wild waste of the snow.
Love Meenic and Rose Meeuie, all in
one" said he, land I'll tell you now
what maybe les before us. Maybe, it is,
and that only; think this unexpected
coming to see you may nave put me off
my head a bit; but it's all a mistake well,
we are no worse off than we were before.
And this is what it is. now; do you re-
member my telling you that Mir. Hodson
had often been talking OF buring an es-
tate i'll the Highlands; Well, he has just
been looking at One-it over there on the
/, Ross-shire coast-and it's that has
brought us here to the Highlands just
now, for he would have me come and look
at it along with him And what would
you think If he made me the factor or 1t?
Well, maybe I'm daft to think of such a
thing; but he has been talking and talk
: ing in a way can not understand unless
some plan of that kind is in mis- head; ay,
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