Daily Republican., 1885-10-05
A PERILOUs FLIsrAriOH.
BY ALICE DALI.

voice called from the sitting room sofa
whore Mrs. Condy day after day re-
clined- patient and incurable In
valid.
Handsome Kate pinned q bunch oil
pinks in the slender corsage of her
Chartreuse green walking suit, douned
her little gold gauze capote, drew on
her gloves, and then turned rather I'M
willingly toward the adjoining room.
Well, mamma ?" she said, as she
bent and lightly kissed the thin cheek
of the parent, whose anxiety she assum
cd not to understand.
"Don't flirt with Paul Olney, my
dear" the mother said. earnestly and
almost entreatingly.
with little cir of finely exag gerated
Indignation :" sver did anything 80
In my life."
But you encourage his attentions,
Katy, and to trltie with him may be
productive of something unpleasant
he has neither very equab 10 nor a for
giving nature, l should judge" Mrs.
Condy said.
But cannot be rude to him Just
because he happens to admire me-
hAJe repl,eu I'M apparently.
You need not allow him to fancy
you have any preferences for him, and
you ought not to permit attentions
which might displeass Dick" the
mother persisted rebukingly.
" But Dick Is not here" the girl in
differently commented, as she took up
her belaced and beribboned parasol
and m oved toward the door.
" He will be here before many DAYS
have passed, and you will have trouble
II you are not CAREFUL" was the warn.
ing uttered reproachfully IA tho girl
tripped carefully dow the steps of the
pleasant village mansion.
And sum Gent unto the day is the
evil thereof" Kate laughed gayly as
she glanced for q second back ward.
" But girl must have somebody 10
escor her to pic mics and places" she
said to her uneasy conscience as she
walked slowly down the village street.
" And II Dick chooses to be jealous and
jispleased he can be-that IL all do
nun just because / happen to be Gu
gone away he ought To have stayed at
me about himself"
Her excusatory cogitations were in
terrupted by the sound of an equipage
coming rapidly up the street, and
which slackened speed suddenly beside
her.
When ascertained you were gone
from home, | came after you," Paul
Olney smiled as he checked his two
nettlesome horses and sprung eagerly
from the carriage. 1--WE had prom isei
ourselves drive some day, you know.
and to-day is too perfect not to be &C.
joyed," he added as she heeitated.
For an instant she thought OF her
mothers warnings, and her own mis-
givings of her betrothed husband, and
and Of the trne heart she might grieve
and ALLEVIATE; but the day was &c
temptingly perfect. drive through the
cool green country roads would be &C
delicious, and besides. how could sht
decline now pleasure which they had
so amicably discu' sed only yesterday
And 80 she permitted herself to bt
assisted to a seat he sprung 70 hi,
place beside her, and the next instan'
they were bowling down the villag,
street and so into the dreamy summer
country beyond.
And, oh, TO go on like this forever
to the other end of the world" Kat
merrily quoted, rs they passed through
drowsy groves and broad fields al
crimson and gold with ripening whea
and clover, and &c on and on until Their
was q CLINT of blue sea between tn
purple ridges OF the low-lying hills.
Would you he content 10 go OIL
W It'll me, Kate, fore YER TO the end o
our lives" he abruptly asked, will
an entire change of voice and manner
and with his dark passionate eyes tixe'
a most imperiously upon her.
Please doh't jest, Paul. You fright
on me when you look like that, sal,
she, shrinking before the almost fierc
intensity of his gazs.
"Jesting !" he repeated In tba
strangely altered voice. " Do men ,jes
when life or death depends upon VIVA
is given or denied ? And that Is wha
your love is to me. Kate. And Ii
prettily coined evasion will satisfy IN
NOW intend to have the truth-th
complete and absolute tuuth-and b.
fore yond.r sun goes down, Kate"
"You ara uukind," Kate said de,
perately, under her breath, her lip
like ashes, her whole frame trembling
g. You are unlike yourself, and do NJ
understand you at all"
You have allowed me to love vol
Kate; you have seemed to care for IN I,
he resumed with augmented veh'
mence 8" believed In your soft glance
and your alluring smiles which SCENE
SO true and tender-I believed yo
without art or guile. And not thre
hours ago was assured of your b,
trothal to D other. Is that the trutl
Kate?" he demanded, his eyes atlam'
his white teeth showing sternly set b.
meath his black mustache.
She had bo need to answer. She fe
that her conscious face spoke tf
truly tor her, and she ventured not
word.
"You deny nothing-you cannot,
he said presently, with a look yet MOI
fierce, and with u passion which ha
become a menace, and simultaneous
be tsrnsd his horses into an unfr,
lquented road leading TO the SEQ, not
lmile away.
"Oh," where are you going 2" Kat
Igasped in mortal terror, as he lftt
mia driving whip and struck
Istinging blow across the launches {
his mettlesome horses.
am going with you, my beloved
TO the end of the world," he said wit
janother wild laugh, az he tightened h
lclasp about her waist.
, "Oh, Heaven-oh, Dick !" she moai
led, almost unconaciously.
AT the mention of that pame-tt
name of her betrothed husband-h
features became livid and as Ka
uoted his convulsed brows and the vi
natural glare of his unsteady eyes, 81
realized that she was in the power OF
} man no longer sant-thab Paul Olns
was mad. and that his frenzy meaI