Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-12-21
Ami thn hrntnl passion in the man's

the cllH-Lut AtN'Nf
nresses a fierce kiss upon her lips.
A wild shrek bursts from Laura.
sob. Ben, have mercy
aGood.by, my lass" he says
boarsely ,sWe'll die together"
And. pressing her face against his
breast, he springs over the clih,
lown-down To the stream below. :,
Godfrey Duston hears that iearial
cry. and, looking up, sees the dark
figures as they plunge downward;
With two strokes of the paddle
his canoe is near to where they went
down.
Hc knows now that he loves this
GIRL who has been SO innocently
Rappy with him-loyes her with the
trnest sweetest love OF his life,
At last I.aura's dusky head mp
pears above the waves.
Her great. startled eyes meet the
white lace Of her lover as he bends
toward her, and directly he hits her
into the canoe beside him.
She is trembling in every limb; but
he keeps his arm about her and
watches for Herder.
He does not comeup,
When they find his body .nter on
down the stream, they see u ragged
cut across the temple, where he must
have struck on the rocks at the loot
Of the cliff. else that savage clasp
nbout I.auras form would never
have been loOsened, and she must
have persisted also.
Duston tukes her home 10 her
father, and received his husky thanks
in silence, then goes away To his tent.
He wishes 10 be- alone Tor IA little
while to think.
But he comes back 20 the little,
brown cabin in the afternoon, and
goes straight 10 Abel Cheney.
DO YOU think that you could
spare Laura To me, MIR. Cheney" he
asks.
The old man looks at him sharply
from under his shaggy bFows.
"What dye mean, young man."
THAT | love her, and want her for
my wife "
Abel Cheney looks him over with u
smile. Dnston looks thorough
| aristocrat.
Laura don't know nothing about
your fine world MIR. Duston She's
| Just a little wild fawn-petty enough
7 in the woods, but not III To be shut
nm in n GRAND housa
&" May | ask herr" insists the young
man.
"Wal. low can't prevent it, I"
answers old Abel, dryly.
So Duston strides away 10 tho
woods, and finds Laura walking idly
to and fro,
She looks NJ him with shy, startled
eyes, very like the wild fawn which
the old man has called her.
Laura dear, used TO think ms.
self n pretty goodsort Of fellow un.
Ill ! knew you; but now, knowing
how pure, aud sweet, and innocent
your life has been, feel that am
not good enough Tor you.
Yet love you. and want you for
my wife. | loved another woman
once, Laura. but she deceived aud
| Tilted me, and grew 10 believe ali
women were like her until | ca me here,
and now, dear, love you bctter than
ever loved her. viii you have me,
Laurn?p
He is smiling now, but his fnce Il
very pale ms he holds out two strong
white hands TO her.
Laura thinks she must be In n
dream; she can frame no words for
an answer.
Timidly she placed her hands In
his, Wishing they did not look so
brown.
She is seized with sudden. wild
longing to be perfect Tor tho sake OF
her princcIy lover.
When Godfrey Duston brings his
brown.faced vile home with him there
Is fine excitement.
But she Is 40 pretty, so original.
and, withal, takes 80 readily TO her
husbands mode Of living, that sha
is soon very popular.
Old Abel Cheney never visits his
daughters elegant home.
lie says he would miss the trees
and water, and that he is too old to
learn new why's.
But Laura often visits him.
lie has n housekeeper, and the lit.
tie brown cabin has many IuxurIea
which u never knew before. Family
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