The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-07-19

petition for forgivoness-that no was onl,
fibblng-and sunshine chased shadows from
our little heroine's eyes.
Then the child began plotting to get them
together--for Barbara felt young as she
was, that Dot would never voluntarily see
Scott again.
That afternoon, when all ''the worldn at
the hotel was taking its siesta Dot and
Barbara lay talking; the latter rafting
ahead and keeping wonderfully away from
the subject at heart, the former replying at
intervals and not hearing the twaddle NJ ALL
Suddenly Babara sprang up from Dots side,
seized her pen and paper, and scratch,
scratch, scratch filed the room for fully
ten minutes.
20, Dot, get up, pleathe; can't copy thith
at all-won't you juth write the name OF
thith thong for mer
Poor Dot wrote neatly and prettily in her
fine Italian hand these words in the center
OF a cream-tinted sheet of note paper;
"Come TO me, darling, or Idieln
"What sentimental songw said Dot the
obedient
"Yeth it ithin and Barbara grabbed the
paper and lay down by Dot until she was
sure her sister was lost in slumber; then
the small opossum was up and on like
flash TO Scott.
And hel He took the written words as
condemned man might take a message
straight from Heaven-he kissed Barbara
and the letter by TURNS, and the tears Of Joy
he could not restrain fell upon the note
paper and the yellow bangs indiscrimi-
nately.
"Dotth taking her the-ethtar,' ath papa
callth it. Now you wait till iuth before
thupper, and III thee that Dot it'll all ready
TO rethieve you-and you promith never TO
60 of again or THAN the door,
That evening the sunset was glorious
like Jewels from tho Orient hoped In
golden platter the little c'oudlets blushod
and famed, yellow and crimson AMI ruby
red.
Dot, dressed like the wrath ofsoms fash
ionable Undine, came out upon the balcony
to enjoy IL all--that is to enjoy 1t rs well rs
she could without her lost Hildebrandt She
looked until her eyes could no longer bear
the splendor, then turned her glance back
ward.
Suddenly she deserted figure that seemed
strangely, sweetly familiar, despite the blur
the sun had made before hes eyes. The fig
ure came nearer, the mists cleared from be-
fore her longing eyes, and Dot could not
tell for one intoxicating instant whether or
not she was in heaven when she saw Scott
RADIANT faced, smiling up into her very eyes !
He stood at last beneath her balcony.
Groups of people were standing by and for
this reason alone he did not follow the ire
sistable impulse that made him wish TO shout
aloud his greatlove for her, and his excessive
Joy at seeing her again. When she could no
longer gaze like a veritable Juliet, silently
down into his very eyes, and read the unut-
terable tenderness that filed their glorious
depths, when her Romeo vanished from her
sight and disappeared within the door be
meath her balcony, she dragged herself
heavily back into her room and fell into
white heap upon the floor.
But when consciousness came glimmering
back she lay limp and passive in Scotts
strong arms, heard Barbara's triumphant
cry: oh, Dotl oh, Thcott, arn't you happy
nowli and saw papa standing over him with
his handkerchief suspiciously near his eyes,
although he kept blowing his nose with
great zeal.
s.And my note never reached you, my
poor broken lilym
| mo, Scott, never"
And for the first time in her life BarbarI
had an inlxling of the mischief she had un
Willingly done; but she was very quie'
about it, and only "confetthed" after many
months.
Aud the roses rushed back pell-mell, tn,
sea grew greener and lovelier, the sand wa
| shining gold and the clouds wero roly poll
cupids chasing each other across the Wild
fields OF azure, and Scott was her own for
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