Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-02-16

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'Oh, Fred, why weIe you taken?
My darling my darllDgp
Here was q revelation! Theresa
loved mel So it was for my sake she j
had refused moro than one capital
oEer, aud had simply set her down |
as cold aud old-maidish! She was
dear little thing, anyway.
Kitty has since said that she, too,
was SO astonished. she did not know
what 10 say first; suddenly she re-
membered that perhaps ! could hear
all that was going on, aud, il so, may
be l would at last appreciate Theresa
as she deserved, so she would not,
just now, undeceive her. Then again,
if she told Theresa that it was not a
cadaver to whom she was telling her
love, the poor girl would be too much
mortified to ever look US in the face;
hy-and-by, if Otto was correct in his
opinion about my condition, it would
be easy to tell her that l had been re-
stored, but not to let her know that |
had never been given up by my own
family.
Theresa confirmed Kitty in this
intention by rising and pressing a
long, warm kiss on my stony lips, and
then Fastening from the room.
In the intervals OF consciousness
which came to me had leisure to
mediate upon the two girls. | blam
ed myself for being hard-hearted be-
cause l could not feel the sorrow at
Lina's loss which it seemed to me that
I ought to experience; and Theresa's
bright eyes and sweet mouth would
rise before my mental vision IN a most
unaccustomed way. l really felt quite
grateful to Kitty for what | was sure
was little artifce on her part to
convince me how little Lima had
actually cared for me. although her
scheme had succeeded beyond her
widest hopes.
A few hours convinced all my
physicians that the Angel of Death
had not yet been sent for me, and,
though l was Ill for several weeks, l
was at last restored to my usual
health. In the days of my GONZALES
cence Theresa frequently came to read
or sing to me, and my eyes now be-
ing open to her virtues. found my
self getting seriously in love with her.
j One day | surprised her by saying:
"By-the-way, Theresa, when is my
old sweetheart, Feroline Palmer, go
, ing to De nIarriedT
why, hasn't Kitty told you? Her
engagement to Harold Carter was
broken off in less than a fortnight; it
turned out he was already married,
though separated from his wife, and
her father made such talk about it
that Harold disappeared
And left Lima in the lurch, eh?
Well: she got her pay for jilting me
much sooner than | fancied she would
t Why do you look SO surprired? Did
. you believe the story she told Kitty
!, There was not word of truth in it.
I. 'But you had your own ring on
g and the box where you kept her let.
3 ters was unlocked and empty, Kitty
3 said: she looked into things to see i
she was misjudging Ferollne in dis.
+ believing what she had said.'
oh, Lima was cute; she took hel
$ letters and changed the rings wher
= she was left alone with her so-callec
dead lover l replied, incautiously.
J. oh, Fred, you must not be 81
r unjust, so bitter! Probably tina
t blow on your head made you forge
8 what had happened that morning, she
is free now, and Theresa gave fain
e sigh, and | saw the corners of he
Q mouth droop.
!? Yes, she's free, and likely to re-
It main so; she can't play her game TO
IS ever. She is a cold d-hearted, mercen
e arv firtI
70 Theresa thought my words were in
r duced by wounded pride, so she trie'
It to console me.
r. 'Ferollne has been to inquire TO
: you ever SO many times, and tot
o Kitty that | thought she ought t
i bring her up to see YOU
II No, no' thought l; Kitty know
Il better; she knows by my silence abou
y her that have lost my interest i
8 her.
% These were my thoughts, but as
N said not word, Theresa continued:
She sent you those lovely rose
II which you have been admiring.'
i Did she?' l exclaimed, eagerly
t. Please hand them to me-
J. Theresa did so, fully expecting
7e see me press them to my lips, and nc
9, at all anticipating that I would tax
le and fling them into the bright fiji
l. which glowed in the CRATE before M
y why, Fledp she cried, IN amaze
ment.
it There goes her gift, and there goe
at my fancy for her, if there was any {
t. it left, that is. That blow on my thic
skull, Tressie, convinced my dull il
h. tellect that l had Been mistakin
W pinchbeck for gold What fool
was to have looked at Lima when yo
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