Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-06

| ready she was thinking OF the consequence,
to Geofrey, not of those to herself
Beatrice" said Geoffrey, I'VE are in ,
desperate position. Do you wish to face il
and come away with me, lar away, to the
other side OF the world?"
mo, no." she answered vehemeutly, "it
would be your ruin to abandon the career
that is before you. What part Of the world
could you 60 to where you would not be
known? Besides, there is your wife to
think Of All, God, your wife-what would
she say of me? You belong to her-you have
no right to desert her. And there is Effie,
too. No, Geoffrey, no; have been wicked
enough to learn to love you-oh, as you were
never loved before-if it is wicked to do
what one cannot help, but I am not bad
enough for this. Walk quicker, Geofrey;
We shall be late and they will suspect some-
thing"
Poor Beatrice, the pangs of conscience were
finding her out.
ave are in dreadful position" again
he said. "Oh, dearest, ] have been to
blame. / should never have come back
here. 1t is my fault, and though 1 never
thought of this, 1 did my best to please
you"
"And thank you for it." she answered
''Do not deceive yourself, Geoffrey. What
ever happens, oh promise me never for one
moment to believe that reproacned or
blamed you. Why should blame you be-
cause you won my hearth Let me sooner
blame the sea on which we hoated. the
beach where we walked, the house in which
we lived, and the destiny that brought us
together. l am proud and glad to love you,
dear, but am not SO selfish as to wish to
ruin you; Geoffrey-I had rather die
Don't talk so, he said, 81 cannot bear
it. What are we to 40? Am 1 to 60 away
and see you no more? How can we live SO,
Beatrice?''
Eyes, Geofrey, she answered, heavily,
taking him by the hand and gazing up into
his face; You are to go away and see me no
more, not ior years and years. This is what
we have brought upon ourselves, it is the
price that we must pay for this hour which
is gone. You are to 60 away tomorrow,
that we may be put out of temptation, and
you must come back no more. Sometimes
l shall write to you, and sometimes perhaps
you will write to me. till the thing becomes
a burden; then you can stop. And whether
you forget me or not-and, oh, Geoffrey, 1
do not think you will-you will know that
shall never forget you, whom 1 saved from
the sea-to love me-"
There was something so sweet and so in
fiinitelv tender about her words, instinct as
they were with natural womanly passion,
that Geoffrey bent at heart beneath their
weight as a fir bends beneath the gentle,
gathering snow. What was he to do, how
could he leave her? and yet she was right.
He must go. and 70 quickly, lest his
strength might fail him, and hand in hand
they should pass bourne from which there
is no return.
Heaven help US, Beatrice" he said. SCI
will go tomorrow morning, and, If can, I
will keep away"
'You must keep away. 1 will not see you
any more. 1 will not bring trouble on you,
Godfrey"
You talk of bringing trouble on me" he
said; you say nothing of yourself, and yet
man, even a man with eyes on him like |
myself, is better fitted to weather such a |
storm. If it ruined me, how much more |
would it ruin you?"
They were at the gate of the vicarage |
now, and the wind rushed so strongly |
through the frs that she needed to put her |
lips quite close to his ear to make her words
heard.
Stop, one minute, - she said, f'perhaps
you do not quite understand. When a |
woman does what have done it is because
she loves with all her lie and heart and
soul, because all these are part of her love-
For myself, no longer care anything-I
have no self away from you; am no longer
of myself or in my own keeping. 1 am of
YOU and in yours. For myself and my own
fate or name 1 think no more; with nv ewes
open and of nv own free will 1 have given
to YOU, and am glad and happy
to give it. But for you l still do care, and
ii took any step, or allowed you to take
any that could bring sorrow on you, should
never forgive myself. That is why we must
part, Geoffrey. And now let us go in; there
n / l
wish to bid me goodby, a last goodby, dear
Geoffrey, will meet you tomorrow morn
ng on the beach,"
'I shall leave at half-past eight" he said
''Then we will meet at T." Beatrice said,
md led the way into the house.
Elizabeth and Mr.. Granger were already
Ieated at supper. They supped at 9on Sum
lay nights: it was just half-past.
"Dear me, }" said the old gentleman, 1--WE
,egan to think that you two must have been
'ut canoeing and got yourselves drowned in
rood earnest this time. What have you been
loing?"
1--WE have had long walk" answered
Ieoffrey; II did not know that it was so
ate.''
"One wants to be pleased with ones COM
,any TO walk far on such night as this"
,ut in Elizabeth maliciously.
"And so we were-at least was," Geof-
rev answered with perfect truth, "and the
light is not so bad as you might think, at
east under the lee of the cliiis. 1t will be
vorse by and byp'
Then they sat down and made desperate
how of eating supper. Elizabeth, the keen
yed, noticed that Geoffrev's hand was shak-
ng. Now what, she wondered, would make
he hand of a strong man shake like leaf?
Deep emotion might do it, and Elizabeth
hought that she detected other signs of
motion in them both beside that of Geof-
rey's shaking hand. The plot was working
veil, but could it be Brought to a climax?
)h, if he would only throw prudence to the
yinds and run away with Beatrice. so that
he might be rid of her, and free to fight for
Ter own hand.
Shortly after supper both Elizabeth and
Beatrice went to bed, leaving their father
nth Geoffrev.
"well," said Mr.. Granger, "did you get
word with Beatrice? 1t was very kind of
ou to 90 that long tramp on purpose.
iracious, how it blows! We shall have the
ouse down presently. lightning, too, 1
eclare."
"Yes," answered Geoffrev, "I did,
"And 1 hope you told her that there was
10 need for her to give up hope of him yet
1 MIR. Davies 1 mean?"
'Yes, 1 told her that-that is, if the
reater includes the less" he added to him
eli.
And how did she take it?"
Every badly" said Geoffrey; "she
eemed to think that 1 had no right to in
erfere." |
Indeed, that is strange. But il doesn't ,
mean anything. She's grateful enough to ,
ou at heart, depend upon it, she is. only !
he did not like to say SO. Dear me, how it
lows; we shall have a night of it, regular ,
ale, declare. So YOU are going away to-