The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-01

NV SOidg IhOukl YOU dllcCO 10 SHiNcIS
and you must hear what / have come
all this distance to say. Will your"
She shrugged her shoulders, leaned
against q tree, and looked out towards
the sunset west.
"Do you remember our evenings
long ago?" | asked as our eyes turned
toward the sinking sur. ""Those were
pleasant days"
eyes"
"And now, after so long an absence,
/ am standing here with you again.
Why did you not write to me, Bell?"
She sent a shower o. blosso pms to the
ground, and said:
"Don't know-been busy"
"You would not write, but haveyou
ever thought of me?"
"6ometimes-when / have had moth
ing better to do"
"Ah, Bell, be serious, and listen to
me-" | exclaimed; 81 want to tell you
how stupid | was threeyears ago"
"There is no need" she said, with
a sarcastic smile. II hope you are
wiser now.,'
"And do you quite forgive me for
wounding you, as / must have
done?"
ooh, dear, yes!"
~ ought to have asked forgiveness
long ago. was but a boy then, and
little knew what l was throwing
away" ...
"And you think you know now"
she said, looking me straight in the
eyes with an indescribable glance.
My heart beat fast; the blood flew
tony temples. Did she love me after
all? l caught her hand in mine, and
murmured:
"Oh, Bell, my darling, non can
know better!"
"WeII, what do you think it was?"
"The noblest, purest and fondest
heart that ever beat in woman's
breast" | answered eagerly. ""The
truest and tenderest love"
| stopped, amazed, for the blue
eyes grew dim with tears, and q deep
flush covered her neck and cheek and
bosom.
"Stop, thcn!" she said hurriedly.
"You have said enough already to
humble me TO the very dust. 1t
might have been all that when you
first knew me, but it is not now; and
because you have touched n of the
old Chords spare you. You, at least,
shall never have it to say that
Bell Gordon has triled with your
happiness. meant that you should,
but you have brought back my better
nature. Now go, and leave me, Will
lam, and believe me, it will be better
for you to meet me no MORE"
"What do you mean, Bell?."
She laughed bitterly.
go ask anyone if l am all you said
anyone who knows me well, and see
what they will say. They call me a
flirt, q coquette, as we'll as q heartless
creatures woman of the world. And
it is all true. If anyone is idiotic
enough to give me his heart only
know how to break it. But you are
the friend of my early years." she
said, laying her hand on my shoulder,
"and for the sake of-of-no matter
what, / give you fair warning"
81 tell you that love YOU" / said.
II ask you to be my wife"
cit is too late" she replied, Gryly;
1--WE are not children to play at this
game any longer. Go, and forget me;
it is your better way. | amto be mar.
ried soon. There is the pledge!"
She flashed a diamond ring in my
eyes, which she wore upon the third
finger of her left hand.
She is still the wife of the wealthy
man she married, and queen OF fash
ion. She has one son, who bears my
name, and my eldest daughter is called
J Bell. never hear from her-I shall
never see her in this world again; but
l often sit and think about her, as ]
have done to-day. Others have loved
me o fondly, and made me hap
pier, yet the golden glory of my "irst
love" fingers about her head, and ]
cannot, and | would not if / could,
forget her. There may be many more
beautiful and better far, but to my
LIES end there will be none SO fair to
me. Farewell, sweet dream OF my
youth, farewell!