Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-10-12
SATURDAY READING!
Money Sometimes is a Stronger
Solicitor than Love.
THE ONLY LOVE A WOMAN GRAVES.
A Case that Afterward FayOrs the Re
fused Admirer, Who Mprries One
Who Loved Him Only.
THE ONLY LOVE A WOMAN GRAVES

Clyde Harris stood looking down
on the lovely face o. the girl before
him, his dark eyes burnin'.
It was "A fair, ,elicately-cut, per
fectly-t;nted face, with great violet
eyes looking innocently out from
it's beauty, and a mass of silken sun
ny hair piled high above its low,
white brow; and for months he had
followed it.
There she stood, cold and fair
with even pulses and untroubled
heart SHE who had allow, him to
love her unchidder. unwarned; she
who but Il moment before had told
him that she would never be any
thing to H. n--that she was the be
trolhed wife OF bra'nlcss, nnoncycd
youth, who had Ganelcd in hei
train for some time.
Within, some one WAS singing.
On the vt II autumn air the words
stole out to Clyde, and made h Lip
curl bitterly:
"Man's love = Ike the restless waves,
Eve: ut .''se and fhlli
The only love woman Graves
IL must be All In all.
Ask me no moe u reg e
You need not care to know;
A womans heart can neer forget;
Bid me geod-by. and go!"
"The only love II woman Graves -
All, but the fairest woman he had
ever seen was throwinga Il mans true
love out of her life that she light
take In it, place the glitter Of dia-
monds and the sheen Of costly raj
ment!
"You have not cared for me at all,
them" he asked at last.
And the violet eyes lifted to his
reproachfully.
"I like you better than anybody
else" she sad, sweetly. "'ndeed,
am very sorry you are poor, Clyde. "
With II tightening of the heart, he
turned away, rs her bet 'othed came
out and claimed her. And 80 they
parted-they who had played at
love till one of them was wounded,
Inez Lake went In to the "yht
and music of her hostess pallors;
rI,,In II,rri, u,ant J,un IA. N,rn "A .
da steps and throu III Che moon'it
night To his home, the re,'rain of the
song he had heard following him
ike a mockipy voice:
"You do no. love mc-no
Eid me good-bv, and go;
A womaus heart cannot forget;
Bid me good-by ana so!
"a mans he1ft stall"' he vowed,
going In at The door of his home,
and Gro '"py the pretty hali TO the
parlor. al will FORGET lnez Lake
or rememb>f her only . | saw her
tc.nigh, 90 alse, cold, mercenary."
II wrS yet early. His mo,her aad
her plo.e ie-the girl she lad t.,ke /
To her he ri aud home lolY wears
beforS had not - re totnelr rooms,
Hrs mo,her H. la warli ~ hand
as he entered and smiled.
elaine has E.llen asleep" she
said SO, .ly. 1--WE viii not wake her
yet, poor child! How love v she IS,
Clyde, aud how chan ed 10y hec late
illness"
Elaine Gonz les lay b elk IN II
large chair, sleeping. Her olive ace
rested aGaiast the da~k velNe,; the
lashes lay, black a pi1ht, against
her checks.
Her face looked like u freshly
opened ma ,nolia blossom rs he stood
looking down upon IL, and he
thought how well Il contrc Sted, In
its datk yet de'icat be..u,', with
that blonde face OF Inez Lake.
Suddenly the girls black ewes un-
closed. She smiled up at him-a
smile that flashed sunlight over her
whole lace.
~ was dreaming" she said mer-
rily-"a pleasant dream, Clyde; for
you were In danger, and ! saved
you. But you arr quiz pale, What
Is IT."
She sprung nom the chair aud
laid her hand on his arm. lie took
I In his own as he answered her,
III have been dreaming, too" he
aid. trying to smile, ''and my drean
yas much Ike yopu, only lhs dan