The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-04-26

pacing slowly along beside the wa
ters. Both knew who they we're,
for fow minutes before they bad
seen Ned Tremaine place that pale-
pink scarf about the shoulders OF
Miss Laura Lovel as he led her
across The terrace, too much en-
crossed in his task, IL would seem,
to notice Mollie or her companion.
oh, everybody flirts moro pr less
OF seaside hotel one has nothing
else to do, you know Mollie ans
weied Lee, with a little ripple Of
laughter, and he looked down ou
tue pretty face 10 which the moon
light was 30 tender. bis voice sink,
ing to almost a whisper as lie spoke
to her.
1t is cowardly pastime for man.
be said softly, aud for woman it is
cruel one
Again she laughed, while arrang~
ing the bracelet on her arm; q touch
of mockery was in the ripping voice.
And yon--is it pleasant to know
that you are cruel or cowardly 2
she questioned. One is tempted
to become personal when such re-
marks come from one Who is said TO
count his copquests with cruel pride
and to whom the world gives no
higher aim than to fuscinate---aud
remain careless. Am ] too plain ?
Forgive me p
u forgive ycu f,oely-as would
forgive you ali things, Miss Annes /;
but neither you nor the world fully
understand me. may seem trif-
Ter but. weie the woman l love to
love noe in return, no smile would be
to me SO sweet as hers, no presence
balf so duar.'
Mollie had been watching the
couple on the sands, going slowly
back and forth, back and forth in The
moonlight now she liftod her sweet
young face aud looked at him With 0
sort of wondering pily.
Y barn for VIM. II. " 0iI Itnuu-ll' ahc
asked Essssddya.y tEsssssdayl !, ,,aave--yoa failed in
your wooiug? Can you not win
where you love ?
His face flushed little at her
words, and she, watchdog it, was
struck by it's strength and beauty.
How did it chance that she had never
noticed before
Il am not left the chance to WOO
or win her, bo said sl.wly, she is
another's promised wife
All she said pityingly and she
gave him her hand in sweet, wo
mauly sympathy, never for an in
stant connecting his words with her
self. He lifted the small hand rev.
eren!ly to his lips, aud drawing il
through his arm, turned toward the
beach. AS he did SO he found him
self facing Ned Tremaine and Laura
Lovl, who we're coming in from the
moonlight, and he noticed 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 glitteriug
sand, the other going in to the dan
GERS.
| A week later, and Mollie had Just
come in from long hour, peaceful
and calm, spent with Lee in q quiet
nook among the rocks that overhnng
the ocean. lie had been reading to
her there some Of tho sweetest poems
given to the world by genius. Her
heart had thrilled as he read, aud
new, strange feeling 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 il
was that what she had com I'm need
but for the purpose Of annoying Ned
: had in one brief week slain all her
old resentment against Miss Lovel
and made her thoughts turn con-
stantly, not to Ned Tremaine, who
was her aflianced husband, but to
Lee Stone, who was termed the
greatest male airt at the beach
} What was changing in her life T.?
When she now met Ned aud Laura
) it did not pain her as it used. Was
it because handsomer face, a
stronger and noble 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
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