The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-12

I everything SiiS paw
Dot was thinking, thinking, thinking
one day as they sat down TO rest after q
long tramp, in the shadow of a gigantic
bowlder, when she was suddenly as.
sniled by:
Look, Dot, there comth a boat
Wonder whoth in it? thaw two men,
anyhow, and they're coming thrait
thith way. theel"
Coming this way! | shall go on,
Barbara, you may follow when you have
watched the boat come in," and she left
the child standing beside the great rock,
her big brown eyes fast fixed upon the
incoming shallop.
Nearer and nearer, and the little
painted shell, riding like some fairy ship
over the now placid waters, came swiftly
landward. When the ksel grated in the
sand barbara, with eyes like stars, ran
excitedly down to the shores edge, and
in a most undignifed fashion caught the
coat tails of one of the now landed gen
tlemen with the cry Of 80, Thcott-
Thcott.'
Barbara! Barbara! God bless you
Where did you spring fromf'
From that fock," which information
somewhat startled him as he looked at
the huge bowlder, at least twenty feet
high.
''Oh, not from the thummit, Thcott!'
with a burst Of laughter. Doth juthl
gone up to the hotel-oh, Thcott. let ms
whithper thomething to you!" ana
SCOTS ears were made happy by just
five little words that rushed up into hi;
brain like some strange, Intoxicating
melody: Doth dying for you, Thcottp
"How do you know, Chickie:" hug
ging her close in his gladness.
Cant thee? But YOU muthn't lei
her know you're here-not all at wDntl
Doth very weak
is she, indeed I'm very sorry. III
have told her-she'll like Dot and he
looked down into two big brown wells,
whose liquid treasures were OVERLOOKING
and running to waste all over the little
linen frOck; and oh! such a look, fan
down under their trimming surfaces
a ipPh VI OltidEti 'p4l@bfb'' anu ipbiH I
nant sorrow-a look that made Scott
gather her up into his strong arms and
kiss the tears away with n meek petition
for forgiveness--that he was only fiibbine
and sunshine chased shadow from oul
little heroine's eyes.
Then the child began plotting to get
them together-for Barbara felt, young
as she was, that Dot would never volun.
tarily see Scott again.
That afternoon, when all 'the world
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 re-
at intervals and not hearing the
twaddle at all. Suddenly Barbara sprane
up from Dots side, seized her pen and
paper, and scratch, scratch. scratch fllco
the room for fully ten minutes.
ooh, Dot, get up, plealhe; | can't
thith at all-woH't you juth write
the name of thith thong for me?'
Poor Dot wrote neatly and PRETTY in
her fine Italian hand, these words in the
center of a cream tinted sheet Of note
paper;
"Come to me, darling, or dic!'
"What a sentimental songi' said Dot,
the obcdient.
"Yeth it it'll" and Barbara grabbed
the paper and lay down by Dot until she
was sure her sister was lost in slumber;
hen the small opossum was up and of
ike a flash TO Scott.
And he? He took the written words
rs a condemned man might take a mes.
age straight from heaven-he kissed
Barbara and the letter by turns, and the
ears of JOY he could not restrain fell !
ipon the note paper and the yellow bangs
Unfortunately,
DOT it'll taking her 'the-ethtar, ath
,apa callth it. Cow you wait till juth !
thupper, and I'll thee that Dot
all ready to rethieve you-and you
'romith never to 20 off again or THAN
he door"
That evening the sunset was glorious; ,
Ike jewels from the Orient heaped in a
platter the little cloudlets bIushed
nd famed, yellow and crimson and
uby red. A
Dot, dressed like the wrath Of some
ashionaole Undine, came out upon the I
to enjoy ii all-that is, to enjoy
as well as she could without her lost
Iildbrandt. She looked until her eyes
ould no longer bear the splendor. then e
lrned her glance backward.
Suddenly she deserted u figure that
eemed strangely, sweetlv familiar.
the blur the sun had made before II
or eyes. The figure came nearer, the
lists cleared from before her longing
yes, and Dot could not tell for one in s
,Xicating instant whether or not she
as IN heaven when she saw Scott,
idiant faced, smiling uP into her very q
res! -.
He stood at last beneath her balcony. 1
roups of people were standing by. and
" this reason alone he did not follow
le irresistible impulse that made him :
ish to shout aloud his great love for her
nd his excessive JOY at seeing her again.
hen she could 10 longer gaze like a
Juliet, silently down into his A
eyes and read the unutterable ten
that fills their glorious depths, n
hen her Romeo vanished from her sight K
I'd disappeared within the door be- j.
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