Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-22

The young man leaned suddenly
toward her. Kathleen" he said 'sstay
with me always. Come with me over
the water where I am going, I want
you-need you-ean't you love me
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The girl looked up at him with the
wondering look of a child. "Love
you?" she said, ''of course; are you
not my brother?''
"No. don't want a sisters love.
want wife's."
The bright color that had been in
the girls face until now died suddenly
out; startled look came into the
brown eyes looking up at him. "Ch.
Robert, l can't, l can'tf'
He started more at her voice than
her words, and asked, quickly; why
can't you?"
For moment she seemed struggling
with herself. then, with despairing
face, She cried: Il don't know; !
can't remember"
A few weeks later they were max
ing call Oil soil1e friends OF Robert S
| Oh Il ncighboring island. An open
| piano stood near where Kathleen was
seated, and as they were to 90, she
, went to it and struck few notes.
The others turned in surprise; they
! did not know she played; but. without
needing them, she seated herself, and,
| after a few uncertain touches, her
fingers few lightly over the keys,
bringing out such melody as its owner
had never known how to awaken.
Robert and his friends stood amazed
as one after another the selections fol-
lowed each other in rapid succession.
Suddenly the girl paused, bowed her
head on her hands and sobbed aloud.
After a few moments Robert went
up 10 her. "Come, Kathleen" he
said, gently, "let us go home, now. "
She looked up at him as though she
had never seen him before. ''Home?'
she said, "who are you?' then the
strange look went ont of her face, she
put out her hand, with light laugh:
Is Yes, Robert, I'm ready she said.
Something like Il week after this a
stranger came across the big rock and
, made his way to the side door of the
old NARROW House. A young man
with clear-cut features and an unmis-
takably well-bred air, there was an
eager look in the stcel-blue eyes, and
q suppressed excitement in his man.
ner when he asked the gray-haircd
woman ut the door if she was Mrs.
NARROW. He introduced himself by a
card on which was the name Everett
Moulton. Then he entered and made
known his call.
Kathleen came into the next room
while he was speaking. She heard the
voice and paused, 4 troubled look
coming into her face, then she went
nearer and stood in the doorway. The
young man turned and saw her as she
started toward him with new light
breaking into her face. Everett"
she said, softly, ''have you come for
me?n
Eyes, Kathleen
And Mrs NARROW, with tears in her
eyes, went out and left them alone.
Ere long the story became known.
A little more than year back Kath
leen Bray, the daughter of man of
supposed wealth, found herself upon
his death left penniless and alone. She
ceptcd for the summer the position of
pianist at a popular hotel, where she
met Everett Mou,ton. The acquaint-
ancc grew into something more than
friendship, but the Moultons were
proud family and would not hear to
the only sons marrying a poor girl
like Kathleen. She was treated coldly,
unfcclingly by them, till her sensitive
nature was stung almost beyond en-
durance, and late one afternoon, hard
ly thinking or caring where she went,
she entered a boat moored near the
shore and rowed it aimlessly up the
river; the storm came on, and weary,
bewildercd, i'll, she found her way at
length to the old NARROW homestead.
The boat was found down the river
afterward with light wrap in it rec
ognized as hers. The Moultons thought
she had taken herself discreetly away,
and Everett mourned her as lost, until
a friend wrote to him of hearing music
strangely like what Kathleen had
played on one of the Boothbay Islands.
He had made inquiries which resulted
in Everett S calling on the Marlows.
With Kathleen he went to Chip
munk Island, and on the scene of her
happiness and misery the meaning of
it all came back to her and was never
lost again.
That fall, when Robert NARROW sailed
from Boston harbor, Kathleen and her
husband came down to the wharf to
see him off. He found little to say as
he graspcd their hands in his farewell,
but Kathleen, glancing up with a kind
ly smile, said: However long you
may be away, be sure we shall not for
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