Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-04-01

II f0< y you freely--as would for
give you 4 things, Miss Anres; but
neither nor the world fully under
stand "a / may seem trifier; but,
werc th4 fomdn I love to love me in
return smile would DO to me SO
sweet ~ GrS, no presence half so DEAR"
Molli M been watching the couple
on the N ds, going slowly back and
forth n > moonlight; now she lifted
her sw0e toung face and looked at him
with q n of Wondering pity.
@Do I'LL wrong you, then?" she
asked, g&tly. ."Have you failed in
your woo /? Can you not win where
His fat lushed little at her words,
and she fchihg 1t, was struck by its
strengN d bsanty. How did il
ciianco tisat she had never noticed
either before?
II am not left the chance to WOO or
win her. he said, slowly; "she is an
others promised wife"
"Ah," she said, pityingly; and she
gave him her hand in sweet. woman
ly sympathy, never for an instant con-
Meeting his words with herself. He
lifted the small hand reverently to his
lips, and, drawing it through his arm,
turned toward the beach. As he did
SO he found himself facing Ned Tre-
maine and Laura Lovel, who we're COM
ing in from the moonlight, and he no.
ticed that the young mans face was
quite white, while there was half
scornful smile on the lips of the fair
belle Of the seaside. But the two
couples passed each other in silence.
the one going down to the stretch Of
glIttering sand, the other going in to the
dancers.
A week later, and Mollie had just
come in from long Lour, peaceful and
calm, spent with Lee in q quiet nook
among the rocks that overhung the
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 he 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 COM
menced for the purpose OF annoying
Ned had in one brief week slain all her
old resentment against Miss Lovel and
made her thoughts turn constantly. not
to Ned Tremaine, who was her affianced
husband, but to Lee Stone, who was
termed the greatest male fiirt on tho
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, q
stronger and nobler face than Ned's
was constantly near, ready to turn to
her with devotion, ready to light if she
smiled?
A servant broke her ponderings by
bringing her two messages--one bou-
quet Of white flowers, with few feath-
cry sprays of fern among their white
ness, and one crimson rose cleaning
red from their center; and in it was o
note from Lee, asking her to go for q
drive with him by moonlight; the other
was few angry lines from Ned, asking
if she remembered that she was be-
trothed to him while she allowed every
gossip at 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 you if you wish our en-
gagement 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 every
letter he had ever sent her, formed
them and his ring in a pacaage and
wrote him the following note
1t was ! who was first taught pa
tience, while my existence was forgotten
for one who was what You bade me be-
come "a society character Why
should / fancy that you wished an in
terview with me of late? 1t is not so
long since you could not spare mo-
ment for me from Miss Love. Do I
wish our engagement broken2 Per-
haps we both wish it. Ned; at least let
us break it, since ! 50 displeasc you. I
send you your letters and ring"
Then, although choking sensation
was in her throat, she penned brief
note to Lee:
II 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 and far along the coun.
try.
Was 1t strange that he noticed she
NO longer wore Neds ring? Was it
strange that he told her OF his love.
and that she listened silently, believ-
ingly, with strange futter at her
hearth Was it strang that when they
drove back, lingering beside the sob
bing 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
happiness in the keeping OF "the firt
Of the beach" one man who heard il
turned white ns death and shrank from
the sight OF the beautiful woman beside
him. although men called her fair, and
many said she had won him from his
faith; yet Mollie was too happy to re-
gret. although she still sometimes re-
members Philadelphia Call.
Why The English GO 10 the Seash0re
In Winter.
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