Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-08-15

love you and / want you for M
wife, won't you come?'
Dorothy dares not look up int
the face so eloquent with longing
so she droops her head and answers
mo, no, that time has gone forever
% Wayne, why did you come tc
disturb my quiet companionshir
with my books. can never be
your wife"
He points to "Sartor Resartus.' y
'Do you gain peace and happiness
from pessimlstic Carlyle? Is it he
who teaches you to live an ideal Wis
ionary life, when real duties and q
husbands devotion await you? Do
you not remember his own love
madness described here, when he
went up and down upon the earth q
desolate wanderer seeking Elusive
peace?"
Here piping voice breaks in,
"I'm about as hungry as they make
them and wish we'd go to lunch
con together; sides 1 want to talk
to to the girl some more. like her,
and I'm going to tell Donald about
her."
But Dorothy is gone.
That evening Wayne Palmerson
looks into the parlors, where hop
is in progress.
He espys Dorothy in cream white,
with great bunch of Jacqueminot
roses in her corsage, listening to the
bug professors description of some
of his discoveries with her face alight
with interest. At this instant a cur
ious feeling takes possession Of the
man looking through the window;
he is conscious af o desire to adurn
the bug professors neck with one of
his pet snakes and leave it to do its
duty.
Meantime, cousin Amy, a bewitch-
ing spectacle in masses of white
tulle, has paused in her mad career,
near the window, and is watching
lim with laughing eyes.
"Banquo at the feast" she cries
yaily at last, land quite gloomy |
to take away Macbeth's
appetite. Why, sir, in this forlcrn
pot where the masculine element of
ociety is so absurdly small, are you
lot doing your duty?"
Wayne pulls himself together.
Because l was sure l was too late
o have the honor of your charming
elf for a partner, Miss Amy" he
eplies to that young lady, whom he
las known since she emerged from
ihafores.
And Dorothy is presently edited
nd distracted from her lesson on
ugs, by the vision of Amy and
Wayne waltzing as they only can
yaltZ. She receives a wicked glance
'om radiant Amy, who is happy as
he complacently fancies the other
ir s. emerald envy at this spectacle.
he whole thing suddenly pals up
II Dorothy, and with the briefest
'ord of excuse, she leaves the pro-
,ssor, who gazes regretfully after
is appreciative listener, and seeks
er own room. 4
There she finds Ruskin, Carlyle
nd Emerson regarding her from a
lelf with mute sympathy, but she {
ill have none of them 1t is appar- ,
ut, but passes them by without a
lance, kneels by the window and :
les yes strong.minded Dorothy |
les in the weakest and most femi-
Inc way possible.
How long she sits there she never
nows, but by and by her head
-oops over on the window sill and
lie falls asleep and dreams that she
ears Donald's sneering laugh at
rls, Of her champion Roy's defence
her as the one exception to girls, O
general; finally of being borne off q
trough burning forests and over
ery bridges by Roy's father, and of !,
stopping at peoples Il
ties and banging away on their Il
'Ors to tell them the world is on n
e, as a piece of gossip. y
When she at last awakens, the :.
ON is full Of smoke, and she hears II
voice that she can never forget, 81
ling, Dorothy come, the house
on fire v'
She opens her door half bewil-
red, not at all certain she is not
II dreaming, aud finds Wayne
Ith Roy in his arms, rolled in
ankets aud solemnly regarding Il
n from them like small, newly =
me-to-life-mummy. I"
"Come this way Dodo," saws W
ayne taking her hand in his, and o
ey run TO the stairway, but il is .
D late, the stairs are blazing. The
Ills are filled with panic-stricken
EN- and women.
II remember long ladder at a
ck window, Wayne" says Doro-
y, and they run la that direction;
$, there is the ladder and he takes
Dy down and returns To the little
oman bravely waiting without
y, AS he guides her carefully l.
'wn she whispers:
~ loved you all the time, Wayne"
ID he feels n rush of gladness
rough his heart rs he answers,
Ny darling
When they are down the ladder
Drothy, for the first time In her life,
Ints away, but not till she hears
c fire companies come Gathering