Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-12

chsir. He could smell tie p,riume {
, the 5.zzi1g couee, hesr tire hiss sad bub
ole OF tls silver tea-kettle.
, "Yoa will cot be gone long!" tn
. word, partly regre;fut. psItly reks.ucir 9
ecaoed il his orsid WITH her gentle INC
lstioRs.
HID she known al, she would hsv
. hidden him 60 SID never return. Tn
public disgrace Threatened by his itq1ls
tor Iss So nothing il prospect, wae
Sc: beside tie lofty sccrn CT one pu-,
!. proud woman WOO LIVED him.
HeNTaIEed blindly to the door, n0vi1
snd spec king s5 ne had sometime
dreamed OF dong in troubled Sleep. 0
the threshold he turned with gI.s.
stare at the lovely chatel.ine, and ii
lOvelier pictured counrspanca beyond h
the gill ne lad loved madiy sud st
:n1 the love for her as well
in the wesry weeks CT fsve
and iDsensi5i,ilv from which L
had awakened with his eyes on Made
!jne'5 face. Har lip cuFlet, her eyes wert
full OF SD disdsir, as he me- them. Has
she come back from t1e grove he hat
never visited to re2rosch hin win II.
wreck ne h.d made Of her young lie?
"Y0u sis have the psper IL TIE morn
i7e!" he s.iC, weakly, nti fingers EIn
oiOg with his musticho. ar would write
/! TO night, Gu! my hesi feels strange.
have had a trying day! very trying
dsy!"
In another minute sic heard the iron.
door close behind him.
Sac, toe, wss weary, bus 50 fer content
win her evanlGg's woJk t1ss she could
| afford &c rest. Sle shut the !e.yss oftae
Tabernacle, lcck=d them, end GREY toe
screen before the wiQdOE. As she did i,
Ghe SMILED little.
al shall get mp qlite GO 1fsc,ion for
you, my desr MHior, If you 90 me few
more good turns" che murm lred.
Consistent to hsr principle OF tekirg
nobody ito confidence, she carried essel
and portrait osCk 10 Rsx'G chamber, mak-
iDg two trips to do it. the tabernacle
WAS SssVy weight for Slight arps, but
she had brought it down, aad knew that
she could manage 1t. Ga the last Journey
she paid her stated mighty visit 10 the'
nursery, srd to GsrEld's room. The
yourgef children were sound asleep
They had her nerves sad conscience, sad
Numbered like ntgnt-goWned cherubs.
Gerald had made nc move toward stir
ring. Hi5 mother asard ain, ct her tsp
en- The pau,ls, push bis chair back bur
fiedly, and entered promptly TO fad him
tearlpg CT his coat. A nesp CT fcaoo.-,
exercises and lesson books WAS on ths,
table, AID from beneath them pesped tee
purple cover CT flshy novel. N
"Hy dear sor ~ exclaimed the du!cef.
voice. "Dn you h2sr the clock str k ,,
i3g zine? You mus! not s,u3y so lste
a Drsin as active as this" stfokirg his
torehead-"needs at lesst ten houss'
sleep when the owner is under twenty.
Go to bed-.here's blessed ooy Good
night" -
By snd by, when she was sure he woura
be asleep, she would steal in AMI purloibs,
the bad book, and he would not
tsre itqljre what hsd becche
of II, knowing who the thief
must be. Sle believed IN espionage
IS deVoutly as did Medsme Beck Of the
Rue F6ss cite il "V!let e." and made
surveillance do ire work OF maternal
precep.s il the management Of Ter CT !
spring.
After kissing her eldest hope sgain, and
more tenderly, she glided down the etsir-
cs e, hummiog IS she moved. her "sec-
ono best fAvorite-"
~ love To- year. week, q day
But, alas for the love that loves alway %
The raiu Increased in weight as the
evening advanced. Nov and then, she
raised her head from "John IuglesaEf,"
to erjoy F1o pa,.er ana rush CT the
showers thst waXed into food. TIE
touch LCf mysticism, the quaint, I'M
worldly eplrit OF the seven
.eenEh century Lovel, inter
7sted AMI eoothed her. II
vas like = diet OF wholesome brown
bread and fresh butter :f.er surieis Of
'ruit CAKE, for she had read good deal
1f trash lstel2, 10 the tetrinent OF her in
.elIe digestion;
The camel cCki puf3d end sighed aud
iickered in the CRATE; the amber curtains
shut her instEom disrespectful draughtsf3
Occasionally she let her book rass Gu heE|
knee, closed upon tsper inger that bored
wonderful opal defended oy diamonds. |
Behind her, the ilver-snd-grsy swallows |
'siled against the lesf-brown background |
hat might be sD Oak coppice in October. |
sac WAS thinking over Whist SEE had read |
and other things. Nothing, however,
hat cIouded her passive via6ge, or made |
the great eyes srythiDg but Iimpid. She |
Il J0yad he- own society too much to be |
onely in such luxurious solitude IS thia,
md tonight she had earned her modest |
{ creation. /
Eleven siivery Strokes from tie mantel
lock reminded her that she WAS losing |
Ter beauty sleep. Before the chime died |
way the door bell rang. The servants
sd locked shutters aEd outer doors ct
O:so, but Msggie presently ran downss
rom the third story ard knocked al thsl
library door. sfd
"Will you see anybody, menu & q
"Certsinly. II 1t is any one who hts
light to ask for me. 1t is probably
ate or telegram"
Nothing from without could touch her
cry nearly, her little ones bsing safely
olded 4u2der her roof. She bark
NED, therefore, with curiosity unmixed
1tiA ,snxiety, So she sheari g msn's voice J
nsask to the msi4Ft5 frs. sentence-i
ON the5s feesf1n, an isqulry-Essznat-.f;
ed oy tbs9ainfsiS. Ia Exclamation f1fs
wed the servsnt's reply. IL
"Are yea sure2" - r
eyes sir. Mrs. Lup.ol is By her5H iuE
lie library" az
"Ask if can spesk with her forsgf
0meut. M Hollis Lee!"
He bliEked confusedly when ushered
70 tie lighted room, the outer d.rzuegs
ling dense.
Il beg your pardon for this untlmaly
Ri" with rapid lock ebou. tie apert- 5
eut. "Bu. have been waiting for Two
'urs 81 Mr.. Phelps house, 10 see MIN on -:
lportsnt business, snd Mrs. Phelps
ought he might BE- here.
"He was for perhaps 9 ,lf sn hour. He
Is before o'clock-I supposed to 60
,me."
Maggie lolteriDg il the ball With the