St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-17

Denver tomorrow morning. And ]
want TO talk with you.'
"You might talk if don't come over
the WALL" laughed Maude, but she
scrambled up on the low wall and
stood there.
He offered her his hands eagerly, but
she did not take them.
go away! I'll not come if have any
help.''
He stepped back and folded his arms.
ANY way you like. don't care what
you do, if you'll only come. Don't roll
down, though. as you did down the sand
bank" he added miSchlevOusly. She
jumped down flushing and laughing.
He took her hand and put it upon his
arm. At the touch they stopped laugh
ing, and walked on slowly together in
silence.
They say now that it was all arranged
between them during the next ten
minutes, when neither spoke word. as
they walked down through the pine
grove and the field of marguerites to
the place on the beach where they mad
parted in the morning.
81 am going back, said Maude; "Mrs.
Earle will wonder where am"
mo, you're not going back" said
Jack, until you tell me if there is any
chance for me. / can't waste the only
time have to see you."
Business is business, and this life is
railroad time table," retorted Maude.
''You do nothing but laugh at me" he
said, reproachfully.
'sDo YOU want me to blush with de-
light when you give me smile. and
'tremble with fear at your frown?' y
Cant you be serious with me for
moment? You were SeriOus-a little
this morning. Look at me again. Your
face is still lovely in the moonlight"
She stepped away from him and
walked slowly up the shore. He came
beside her.
.sYou see how it is" he said. II can't
let this chance slip away from me. L
must know if there is any hope for me.
| shouldn't have gone without knowing
if | had been obliged TO come to the
Earles unasked and beg to see you
alone"
'Maybe you think 1 made this
chance?"
s'No. indeed, but"
II had nothing to do with the invita-
ton TO dinner. Gertrude Earle wanted
me to see how superb you and Miss
Dumaresque are together. She said
everybody says that you are going to
marry Miss DumaresGue."
81 shall never marry any one but you.
/ never before wanted any woman Tor
my wife. You"
''You must not talk sou
II must speak now. You see how it
is. l am obliged to go away early in the
morning. am as sure that l love you
and want you for my wife as if | waited
a dozen years to tell you so. Tonight
is my only chance to tell you So"
"Aren't you coming down to the
beach to see the sun rise again to-mor-
row mornings
"You darling girl"
ooh, 1 am not coming. only Won
dered if you are"
"You are coming. Of course you will.
Promise me that you Will"
Indeed, I'll not. This is all too
romantic and ridiculous. You are try
ing to act like some one you've read
about in some novel,"
81 never read but two novels in my
life, and those when l was boy. Eve
no time to read novels. This isn't
romance. Jmean it; you know do"
''But it's so sudden, so ridiculouSly
hurried" urged Maude.
Pm sorry if / seem ridiculous to
you. If l could be here another month
| / could court your favor in formal
way. I'd be willing to serve for you
seven years to see you look at me again
| as you did an instant this morning. My
| darling girl, don't you realize that we
| are made for each other. We"
She escaped from his arm at once.
"Don't say such things TO me!'
They walked slowly onward little
apart.
1--WE must 90 back" She turned and
took his arm, and they went back to the
stile as quickly as they had come.
| half way up the magnolia path they
| met Gertrude Earle. Maude went up
| to the piazza with her without a word.
| Leyerington went along the drive and
| Joined Mr.. Earle, who was still strolling
about smoking.
When the dinner guests we're going,
| esque:
"Mr. Hitchcock and l are going to
drive down to the hotel with you, Kath-
crime"
There was no opportunity for thu
walk Miss DumareSque had expected
with Jack Leverington. Her heart was
| sore against Gertrude Earle for cutting
off talk which might have meant a
| good deal. Katherine did not sleep
| that night.
She sat by the window for long time
before she put away her dinner gown,
and in her dressing gown lay down upon
her sofa. more unhappy than she had
been for years.
She thought of her life as she lay
there; the miserable little western
home, the girlish ambition which had
| grown with her growth. the cheap the
atricaI company with which she had first
tried grand roles, the man who had
taught her, who had managed her work.
| whose wife she had been for few dreary,
| loveleSs years, the horrible months Of
| the divorce trial, her return to strength.
and courage and ambitiOn-then of
Elver North.
They had worked together for two
wears; successes had been the same.
She had loved him, and he had gone
without knowing it, without ever show
ing one sign of love for her. Valentine
had been telling her of North's sue
cesses in London.
"And now Jacks going" she thought
She did not imagine that she loved
Leverington, but she had hoped FOL
freer homage from him. Better men
than he had offered her marriage. She
had an idea that she might have &C
cepted Jack.
At day break she rose utterly wretch
ed, drew Oh long ain cloak and went
out of doors, down toward the water.
She was intensely unhappy; she wished
that she might go down under the
waves forever.
Valentine had told her that Elvel
North was to remain for another yeal
| in London.
| III.
AS Katharine, looking very pale and
worn after her sad night, walked slowly
down the beach road, she saw Maude
Gessley in a white serge gown through
| the field of margueriteS Mauda die