Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-06-01

return no smile would be 90 me 20
sweet as hers no presence hall 60
dear"
MOIlie had been watching the couple
on the sands gong slowly back ana
forth, back and forth in the moon
light; now she lifted her sweet young
lace and looked at him with a sort g
wondering pity.
''DO We all wrong you, them" she
asked, gently. ''Have you failed ~
your WOOing? Can you not win where
you lover"
HIS face flushed a little at her words
and she, watching il, was struck BY
its strength and beauty. How did g
chance that she had never noticed e
befOre2
''I am not left the chance to WOO OK
win her." he said slowly; 'shs is an
others promised wife"
"Ahs she said, pityingly; and sEG
gave hlm her hand IN a sweet, woman
! ly sympathy, never for an instant
connecting his words with herself he
/ lifted the small hand reverenJly to
his lips and drawing it through his
arm turned towards the beach. AZ
/ he did so he found himself facing Ned
/ Tremaine and Laura LOvel, who were
+ coming in from the moonlight, and he
! noticed that the young mans face
/ was quite white, while there was g
/ hall SCOrntuI smile on the 1ps OF the
! lair belle of the seaside. But the two
! couples passed each other in silence
! the one going down to the stretch os
! the glittering sand the other going
! into the dancers.
A week later. and Mollie had juss
! come IN from long hour, peaceful
and calm, spent with Lee in a quisS
/ nook among the rocks that OVerhung
the ocean. He had been reading 70
her there some of the sweetest poems
! given to the world by genius. Her
heart had thrilled as he rsGd, and nSVFs
strange feelings had stirred it. When
| heClOsed the book hehad looked up and
found her eyes filled with tears, And
now In her own room she was ssking
herself how 1t was that what she had
commenced 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 cOnstantly,not to Ned TremRines
who was her affianCed husband but
/ to Lee Stone, who was termed the
greatest hirt at the beach. What was
/ changing In her lifee When she now
| met Ned and Laura it did not pain
her as it used. Was it because g
handsomer face, a stronger and nObleE
lace 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 8
bouquet OF white flowers with q few
feathery sprays Of fern among their
! Whlteness ana one crimson rose gleau1-
ing red from their centre, and in it was
q note from Lee asking her to 60 for g
drive with him by moonlight; the 9TH
or was few angry lines from Ned
asking If she remembered that she
was bethrothed to him while she al
lowed every gossip at the hotel to
chatter OF her Irritation with Lee
Stone.
81 have been patient, waiting
an opportunity of speaking to
yOu," he wrote, ''but you will not
give me one, so I write to ask If you
wish our engagement broken; TO eli
it would seem So"
She trenibled a little as she rssds
and her sweet face changed color; but
she went to her desk, drew frOmrtt
every letter he had ever sent her,
formed them and his ring in a pack
age, and wrote him the following note:
It was who was first taught patienes
while my existence was forgotten for one
who was what you bade me bscoms-''a
society character" Why should / fancy
that you wish an interview with me Of
] Allv5t ~ - uO1 80 Tong BluC1 you GOsAAl
not spare moment for me from Miss Lo-
vel. Do 1 wish our engagement brOken1
Perhaps we both wish 1t Ned at least LEE
US break it, since 1 so displeaso you I
send you your letters and ring.
Then, although a choking sensation
, was in her throat, she penned a brief
note to Lee:
''I shall be pleased to 20 with you,
that was all; and in the starlight
) the moon rose laUe-she went with
him out over the beach and far along
, the country.
| Was it strange that be noticed she
no longer wore Ned g ring? Was Il
3 strange that he told her Of his love,
2 and that she listened silently, beliav-
! ingly, with a strange hutter at her
) heart? Was it strange that when
they drove back, lingering beside the
3 sobbing ocean, another ring should
3 deck her finger and another bond
, should lie upon her lifel Well two
! others walked upon the strand, two
! whom the gOssips called lovers; and
yet when it was told that Moliie An
8 mes Was to place her happiness in the
8 keeping Of the ''dirt of the beach, ions
man who heard it turned as white 6
. death and shrank from the sight a
= the bsGutiful woman beside him. e.
though men called her fair, and many
had said she had won him from h{E
p faith; yet Noble was too happy TO -.
!. gret, although she sometimes rsmsna-
? bOE8.