San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-10

sell plainly In the position or ner lover,
she could as plainly, she thought, have
let her manner reject him; she could
have resolved TO leave his house, and he
could not have compelled her to pro-
long the sweet and bitter life to which
now he did compel her. But, treating
her as he did, he made her almost help
less. How could she assume to under
stand him when it was only at rare mo-
ments that he permitted her to under
stand?-how could she profess to take
alarm at what-if she did make such
profeSSion-it might seem like the most
uncalled-for prudery to be alarmed at?
She made one earnest effort to 90
home, and it failed utterly, for all the
house Joined in a protest against her
going.
go now - before Christmas and
with Tommy Coulson not much more
than out of bed yeti" they exclaimed to
her.
But | have been here more than a
month";" she said.
And are you tired of us in amonth?"
Gabrielle asked. "Or do you think we
are tired of you?"
And then she could not answer that,
so as to advance her own argument
and the dispute ceased, leaving her un-
happy and i'll at ease; for she knew that
she ought to go,-she passionately de-
sired to go, and yet how could she doit,
or how at the bottom of her heart could
she be sorry that they made her stay?
GU have been speaking to my sis
ter about going away from us; why do
you want to go?" Mr.. Dunstan said to
her abruptly that same day.
Because | have been here so long,
she answered quickly, with the color
for he was looking at her-coming to
her face.
We'll - and don't you like being
here?" he asked.
You know like it,
Il can't think why you should want
to go then"
1T does not follow. because l am hap.
Ply here, or even because you are willing
to keep me, that l should be right in
staying"
Doesn't it? 1t seems to me to fol-
low"
8! had never meant to remain over
Christmas"
'Then mean it now. Make up your
mind to stay over Christmas. STAY over
the new year-stay till you have got
tired of u.s."
She shook her head at this. '.No, mol"
she said.
Wellesley till the new year at least.
/ can't spare you before that"-laugh-
ing. II shall be able to spare you ill
enough even then. Come now-that is
settled, he said.
And then what could she say? 1t was
really true that she could not have re-
turned yet to Mrs. Coulson's, and in the
face of their opposition how could she
leave their house and go to other lodg-
ings?
But yet, though she was obliged to
stay, she tried hard to do what she knew
was right,-she tried hard, for time at
least, TO keep Guy Dunstan from loving
her. She said TO herself feeling much
as If she was breaking her heart as she
said it'll must make excuses for not
going to him: | must find more work of
other kinds to do. so that | shall not
have time to go; and then he will think
that I do not care to be with him." and
for alittle while she tried to do this;
and one day she went out when he
wanted her, and on a second day she
had engaged herself to help Aunt Susan
at the time he called her in her store
room, and on third she was sewing
forsGabrielle, and showed in tone and
manner an unwillingnesS to leave her
work. But on this third occasion Mr..
DunStan grew FESTIVE, and refused to
look upon Gabrielle's sewing as any
valid impediment in the way of his ap-
preparation of her time.
Wont Gabrielle's furbelows wait? l
want you particularly for half an hour"
he said almost impatiently: and then
she had not the courage to refuse him,
and she put her sewing down, and went
with him.
He really had work to give her occa-
sionally that he wanted to have done,
and it happened that he was in genuine
need of her to-day"
II have been hunting all the morning
for letter." he said, land | cannot
find it. Unless it has got put into some
wrong envelope cannot conceive what
has become of it. 1t is from that man
Gillott-you know his hand, don't you?
wish you would go carefully over all
these loose letters, and see If 1t can
possibly be amongst them"
She began to search through the open
drawer that he made over to her. The
missing letter had fallen over the back
of it, and she could not find it for long
time. She had turned over the whole
pile of letters, and examined them one
by one before she bethought her of
moving the drawer out of its place, and
at last discovered it.
Here it is! 1t had fallen behind"
she exclaimed gladly then.
"Fallen behind there? What bore
of thingl That comes of these draw
ers being constantly too full" he said.
"Yes-that is the very letter. Thank
you; 1 am very glad you have recover
ed it."
ct am very Glad too