Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-30
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE FORT WORTH FRIDAY NOVEMBER 80

we're upon his lips, dozen replies were
ready upon hers. But they were never
uttered, for the next moment her eyes
half closed, she leaned forward and fell
into kiss.
She was the first to recover, holding
his face in her hands, turned towards the
moonlight, her own in passionate shsd-
ow, "Listen," she said qnickly. "They
think came here to look for something 1
] left in my desk. They thought 1t high
fun TO come with ue-these two. 1 did
come to look for someth;ng-not in my
desk, but yours"
"Was 1t this?" he whispered, taking
the myrtle tro m his breast She seized i.
with light cry, putting it first to her
lips and then to his. Then clasping his
face again between her soft palms, she
turned 1t to the window and ssid: 'iLook
8. them and not at me-"
He did so-seeirg the two figures
slowly walking in the trail. And holding
her there firmly sgsinst his breast, 1t
seemed blasphemy to ask the lestion
thst had been upon his lips.
"That's not SILL" she murmured, NOV
ing his fsce backwards and forwards to
her lips as II 1t were something to which
she was giving breath. "When we came
to the woods l felt that you would be
here"
"And feeling that, you brought him?"
said Ford, drawing back.
"Why not2" she replied irdolently.
Given II he had seen you, could have
managed to have you walk home with
me-"
"But do you think it's quite fairP
Would he like ii?"
"Would he like it?" she echoed lszlly.
"Cressy," said the young man earn
estly, gazing into her Swallowed fsce.
'fHave you given him any right to objsct2
Do you understand me?"
She stopped IS ii thinking. "Do you
want me to Call him in?" she ssid quietly,
but without the lesst trsce Of sfchuess
or coquetrY. "Wculd you rather he
were here-or shall we go out row and
meet him? III say you just csme SIS 1
was going out"
What should he i1y2 "Cressy," he
asked almost cursly. ado you love me?"
Il seems such ridiculous thing to ask
holding her thus in his arms, Il it were
true; 1t seemed such villsiEous question
il it were not,
"I think rived you when you frat
came" ehe said slowly. SIT must have
been that that made NE engage myself TO
him." she added simply. "I knew 81
loved you ana thought only Of you when
[ IVES sway. l came back because l
loved you. loved you the day you came
to see msw-even when ! thought you
came to tell her o! Masters, and TO esy
thss you couldn't take me back"
"But you don't ask me il love your"
"But you do-you couldn't help 1t
now" she said confidently.
What could he do but reply ss illogic- |
ally with closer embrace, slseit slight |
tremor IS II cold wind had blown ACROSS |
the open window, passed ever him. She |
may have felt is, toe, for che presently |
said, "Kiss me, aud let me 60"
"But we must have longer talk, dzr>
Observation-Disclosures are not wait |
ing"
"Do you know the far barn near the
boundary" she asked.
eyes"
~ used to take your books there,
afternoons to-:o-be with you," she
whispered, sand Paw gave orders that
no one was to como nigh it while was
there. Come tomorrow just before
SHUTDOWN"
A long embrace followed, In which all
that they had not said seemed, to them
st least, to become articulate on their
tremulous and cl!ngiDg lips. Then they
separated, be unlocking the door softly
to give her egress thst way. She caught
up book from desk in passing, and
then clipped Ike rosy shaft II the
coming dawn scross the fading moon
light, and moment after her slow voice,
without tremo. of excitement, was
heard calling to her companions.