Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-21

y true or not ! don't know what il
was.n
'Do you honestly mean ,hatyv
"How silly You are, Nathan. OF course
| honestly mean it.''
"All right. Then listen 70 me.~
letta suspended her needle In mld.air
aud lifted her eyes attentiyely upon
Nahan's face.
'fetta," said Nahan, ''Isidor SLIDER
sent for me this morning to give him a
dancing lesson. After / had given il to
him he said he wanted another tomorrow,
and another the next day. That made me
curious. | wondered what he was so par
ticular about his dancing for. SO asked
MIN whether he was going 10 wedding.
NO, said he, Tm not going to we'd
ding. But I'm going TO take Yetta Kasch
to Ada Posnanski's birthday party. And
when he had said that, as II that wasn't
enough, he--he grinned at me In way
that-that made me thirst for his blood
concluded Nahan, lapsing Into profes-
sional Technology.
81 hope you didn't hurt him. said
Yetta, maliclously, for in point OF Drawn,
Nahan was by far lsidor's inferior. THAT
would have been too bad.n
No" answered Nahan, guilelessly. al
spared him. But what want 10 know is,
is it truea Are YOU going with him to
Ada Posnanski's partyf"
"Why, OF course Why notfm Yetta
replied
"You--are actually going with Isl
dor Silber-to Ada Posnanski's party?n
repeated Nahan, nodding his head incred.
ulously and laying an accent upon each
word. "That's all want to know
pause. Yetta stitched Nahan stood
still and stared at her.
"At last, Yetta, he began.
eyes, Nahan," she rejolned
"letta, say say you won't go with
him."
"Why should say that2n
-because-because it will breal
my heart to have you go with him, Say
you won't.n
81 can't-say won't. Ihave promised
Break your PROMISE
ooh, Ndhan"
"Then You still mean to 30 with himp
eyes"
"Then you care more for him than yo'
do for me?"
81 did not say that
"But You wouldrather make me utter
ly miserable than cause him trlhing dis
appointment"
81 would rather not break my promise
Besides, the party--it will be so nice,n
"The long aud short of IL il, you dom
love me-"
'Have ever said that did love you?
tYou have never said that you didn'i
But there's no need 10 say that now. Ac
lions speak louder than words"
Yetta held her peace. Nahan held hi
for time and gazed ruefully at her. The
he broke out, "Oh, Yetta, how can 20
make me suffer so? Haven't loved 20
long and dearly? Is my love TO cour
for nothlng-even pity-from your SEE
Yetta, IL it were anybody but Isidor 81
! Der | shouldn't mind But--but 20
know that he and I--you know that W
are enemies. You know that TO hay
! YOU go out with him Will be torture
| me 1t would be so easy Tor you
snare me that unhappiness-- mi
), who wouldn't hurt a hair OF yot
l head, Yetta. When man loves
woman with all his heart 1t seems
s though she ought to want to make 1t
: easy for him as she can. The love Use
u is pain enough; Ike an everiastli
u gnawing hunger here, 1etta' --placli
/ his hand over his heart-''and 1t becom
lust like hot flame when think OF "
going out with Isadore Silber, and wal
ing arm in arm with him, and dancn
d with him-danclng the very step that
. taught him, too. But you--you DOL
81 care. You don't care a penny for J
le suffering. You're hard.hearted n
% cruel, in spite of your gentle looks y
Il IL wish had never seen you"
81 Nahan's impetuUsity had carried h
- too far. II he had wound up nome
y earlier probably this story would neN
y, have had to be told. Yetta showed sig
VI of softcning as Nahan described
= woes; and il he had had the good sen
Nv TO stop there all might have gone W
" with him. But the instant he resort
" to recrimination the tenderness lac
Va from Yetta's eyes; and, when finally
q. ayowed his regret at ever having sc
~ ~ her, it was completely superseded by
re- dignation, ,,,,,,
~ III Nathan saw his mistake at once, and
ha tempted to retrieve.
,ne uNo-I didn't mean that, Yetta, " he
~ in, quickly. 81 only meant" But
ll9 faitered. HDon't look ike that, Yeti
n he cried, "as Thoughts though you
~ frozen hard against me-"
~. 'If YOU wish that you had never :
AM me.n said Yetta, with frigid dignity
ue NAV suggest that you have u IN y
,el, power never to see me again"
rse ssWhat good would that dor" gIoa
vet Nathan. ats too late now. | cant
over caring for you'll couldn't, no ma
els Il / should be separated from you ie
'nrn thousand years" ;,
'ol s at would do me some GOOD,
'ru- Yetta's lev reply 81 can't say th''t
1ng low being called upon by agentleman
ool is sorry that he ever made my acqu'
ssa an ance.n 50, a,,r,t =
nm that"
'rm' "But you said IT,"
ana oob. ] was excited. l didn't know
ny ~ was saving. No; the happiest hou
", have ever known have had to thank
w. Tor dearest little Yetta. Sometlnl
mn have been almost too happy -wheD
'iiiu' would look al me and sings -
rAo Habin, mocht ich nit dir, . mein Gs
: IL steT ziehenr All, how my heart use
), 20 thrill But shall never be happy
" ~ more--unless you say you wont q
+, H. that marty with Isidor SLIDER
!. "a " ssC1h dear, complained Yetta.
80 -