Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-02

would have fed, knowing that seeds sown
in such silences may live to bloom upon a
bitter day, and shed their fruit into the
waters of desolation. But Geofrey was not
wise-who would have been? He still stood
and gazed till the sight stamped itself so
deeply on the tablets of his heart that
through all the years to come no heats OF
passion, no frosts OF doubt and no sense OF
loss could ever dull its memory.
The silent sun shone on, the silent woman
slept, and in silence the watcher gazed.
And as he looked great fear, prescience
of evil that should come, entered into him
and took possession OF him. A cloud with
out crossed the ray Of sunlight and turned
it. 1t wavered, for second 1t rested on his
breast, flashed back to hers, then went out;
and as it flashed and died he seemed to
know that hencefortb, for lie till death, aY!
and beyond, bis fate and that sleeping
woman's were one fate. 1t was but mo-
mentary knowledge; the fear shook him and
was gone almost before he understood its
foolishness. But it had been with him, and
in after days he remembered it.
Just then she woke, opening her gray
eyes. Their dreamy glance fell upon him,
looking through him and beyond him,
rather than at him. Then she raised her
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arms toward him, spoke aloud:
$50 you have come back to me at last,
she said. CT knew that you would come,
and 1 have waited"
He made no answer; he did not know
what to say; indeed, he began to think that
he must be dreaming himself. For little
while she still looked at him in the same
absent manner, then suddenly started up,
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"Why, Mr.. Bingham" she said, ''is it
really you? What was it that 1 said? Oh,
pray forgive me, whatever it was. have
been asleep, dreaming such curious dream,
and talking in my Sleep"
"Do not alarm yourself, Miss Granger"
he answered, recovering himself with jerk;
''you did not say anything dreadful, only
that you were glad to see me. What were
you dreaming about?" She looked at him
doubtfully; perhaps his words did not ring
quite true.
"1 think that had better tell you, as 1
have said SO much" she answered. "Be-
sides, it was very curious dream, and if 1
believed in dreams it would rather frihhten
me, only fortunately do not. Sit down and
l will tell it to you before forget it. 1t is
not very long"
be took the chair to which she pointed,
and she began, speaking in the voice of one
yet laden with thememories of sleep.
II dreamed that I stood in space. Far to
my right was great globe of light, and to
my left was another globe, and knew that
the globes were named Life and Death.
From the globe on the right to the globe on
the left, and back again, golden shuttle,
in which two flaming eyes were set, was shot
continually, and knew also that this was
the shuttle of Destiny, weaving the web of
Fate. Presently the shuttle few, leaving be-
hind it long silver thread, and the eyes in
the shuttle we're such as your eyes. Again
the shuttle sped through space, and this
time its ewes were like my eyes, and the
thread it left behind it was twisted from a
womah's hair. Half way between the globes
of life and death my thread OF life was
broken, but the shuttle few on and van
ished. For moment the thread hung in
air, then wind rose and blew it, so that 1t
hoated away like a spiders web, till it
struck upon your silver thread Of life
and began to twist round and round
it. As it twisted 1t grew larger and