The Springdale news., 1890-02-07
"Not If you wish it otherwise.

'N marri ed at once?'
 "It shall be as soon as possible, returned the girl, thoughtfuIly and With something like sadness ir her tone. "l cannot forget that my grandfather has been very good to me, I do not want him to dle leaving that will. o, wish il could be burned up, and he not know it. l should be thankful Ii some unseen power would destroy it.''
 Julia"
 "It is true, Albert. l feel as l have said But let us say no more now. Let me think
 A little pause, and then she add ed, throwing her arms around her lovers neck:
 "Darling, l can think of only one thing that could make me mls- erable, or even unhappy, and that would be the withdrawing of your love. Give me that, and care not for all the world beside. She Il we not mutually labor and love to the end?"
 "Forever, dearest n'
 And he sealed the response with | kiss.
 By and by they arose to leave the arbor. It was approaching the hour when Albert must be ready for the railway train by which ho was to return 10 the city, and Ju- lla walked toward the station with hlm. At the polnt whore they were to seperate, they stopped, and Julia said, with constrained ear nestneSs:
 Albert, have not yet given up all hope of so exposing Christe- pher's real character to my grand father as to cause him to do justice. We can try yet little longer"
 And why should VIC labor ful, thcr? What are We to gain2 would rather take your dear hand with out dollar of your grandfather's B money"
 "3ye, Albert, 1 can believe that ; but-but-that is not all. 3
 Not all?"
 No"
 What other consideration is there2'
 II have told you that I dld not want my grandfather to dle with such an act of injustice attaching to his memory"
 But it is an injustice for which you or 1 care nothing"
 "Indecd, Albert: cannot say that, for 1 do care. 1 love my grandfather too well to willingly see him the dupe of a bad man.
 "But if he is bound to be q dupe. how can we help it?'
 We ought ought-to help it, If the thing is possible"
 And yet we are to.gain nothing thereby-nothing that we covet."
 "Nothlng that you can covet, Albert. '
 And yoa-is there something that you covetH'
 Not for myself-not for myself. There may be reasons for my ear nest desire that you know not of. :"
 "Reasons that l do not know? What other reasons can there bey'
 "Do not ask me, Albert. It IS nothing nothing of which l can speak. Hark. there is your train"
 For thJ first time in their inter- course Juaa had had a thought which she would keep secret. A strange, strange, thlng is love. It bears nothing willingly that can cast shadow. Intense love can magnify a mote into beam-a molehiIl into q ragged mountain. Albert Seymour felt a pain-a mis- giving. If Julia had truely given hlm her whole heart, why should she keep q secret from him? It did not strike him pleasantly. There was q iar-a dlscord.
 The train was laundering Tn the distance, but he had two or three minutes yet to spare.
 "Julia," he said, with just the slightest touch of authority Tn his tone. What is the secret you would keep from me?'
 "Secret?" repeated the girl, look ing up in surprise.
 "Ayc-ls 1t not so??"
 "Indeed, Albert, l would keep nothing from you-nothlng, noth ing, darling!"
 But you said their was some thing of winch you could not sneok