Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-10-24

for you, out you were nDL oorn lor me.
We must end this engagement. must
end it, or despise myself. do end it.
break it. You are free. Therel"
She tore herself away from him and
attempted to rush out Of the room.
"Chanetl Chanetl" he called, spring
ing after her and selling her in his arms.
ut must not pc 80. You are the noplest
woman on earth. I worship you. can
not lose YOU"
"Oh, don't" implored Janet, looking
ND at him in despair, for he was taxing
her almost beyond her strength. After q
moment. raRying all the power Of her
soul, she added: See here, Ernst! let us
speak the truth. Do you love me better
than you love any one else?"
How could he have the seeming cruelty
to answer her 'No?" lie did what most
gentle hearted men would have done-he
told her a plying. self sacrificing false
hood. He said, II do"
See was too clear sighted to be deceived,
and too high souled to accept an unwill-
ing heart. Dill r.
tinued, drawing from her pocket o little
Testament that never quilted her. put
YOUR uduu upOl ~ hllu lulu, oClEiliS MO
fingers, she clasped them around the book.
than any other"
"You trife me into q corner, replied
the artist piteously. "Well, l swear. l
swear that l resbect unit atmire you more
than other human peing. Is it not
enoughT'
"Do you love Nellie"
"She is so like he stammered.
"Well she will soon be in love with
you," said Janet, with q last supreme
effort. Take her. Make her happy"
She had been leaning away from him.
She now turned, with the revulsion Of q
billow, threw her arms around his neck,
covered his face with kisses and tears,
and then once more leaned back from him
to look at him.
THAT is the end Of all between us, she
said, in q hoarse, deep voice, totally un-
like her usual u%tterance. "Henceforward
1 shall do my duty, and you must help me
do it. One thing-never tell Nellie this:
it would darken her happiness. And now
-good-by."
She dragged herself away from him, ran
down stairs, end locked herself In her
room.
"Mein Gott!" murmured Ernst, left to
himself. II shall lose q heart worth den
tousaud of mine. But it is peter. She
Is wiser. Icould not lofe her. should
end by making her unhappy as now-und
moro 80. She is wise for US poth."
The next day, to the establishment and
ANNOYANCE of Nellie Fisher, but by the
positive dictation of Janet Holcum, the
two women removed from their lodgings
to O cheap boarding house. There was,
however, one good thingahout the change:
the boarding house had a parlor where
Mr.. Hartmann could be received with q
sense of spotless propriety; and, what
was delightful, he always had to be re.
ceived by Miss Fisher, the elder cousin
excusing herself OF p~retense Of business,
illness, etc. One can easily see that all
this had to end in a second troth plight,
and that the parties to it could not be
other than Ernst and Nellie. It was
peter" youth must have youth; love
must have love. In these bargains mere
respect and gratitude are not q fair ex-
change for the unreasoning, instructive,
potent impulse Of the heart.
Almost the first use that Nellie made Of
her betrothal was to run down to Ernst's
studio; entirely, she declared, to look at
the new picture; but mainly, no doubt, to
look at the artist. She, too, like Janet
before her, observed O change in the per-
sonages of the little drama. She had
never known that her likeness had been
obliterated, and she did not discover it
now, for it had been restored in all it's
beauty. But in the face of one of the
principal female figures, q face which,
though not absolutely handsome, was
sublime with an expression of noble and
tender resignation-in this face, which
looked ND to heaven as if it had descended
from thither, Nellie recognized the coun.
tenance of Janet Holcum.
"Whyl you have got In Cousin Jennie,
too" exclaimed the delighted girl. "Oh,
you creature! you have made her finer
than me-"
II wanted to tightly the painting"
said Ernst, simply, with the bortrait of
the pest woman in the world"
isn't she!" replied Nellie, pressing her
face gratefully against his shoulder. 81
am SO glad you do her. justice. lowe
everything to her. Oh! wouldn't cause
her o grief for the world"
The picture having been sold to Moi
neat for the large SUI of $3.50, it was de-
cided that E-nst's prospects of success
werc good enough to justify marriage,
and Janet ruled that Nellie must 20 home
for that purpose to the residence of an
old aunt in Connecticut. 49,
The girl having departed, Janet felt
able to have one interview with Hartmann,
not with the object of indulging in any
weak reproaches or b~emoanings, but to
bid him d last farewell. She was going
to Ceylon, she informed him, as English
teacher in one of the schools of The
American Board of Foreign Missions.