The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-02-08
( HAPPIER VIII.

Next day | attended to my duties mt
the bank, went 10 my lodging. packed up
ali my effects aud returned to Wexham BY
la'e afternoon train. The 'bas was
waiting outside the station. | had my
luggage placed on it aud set off 10 walk TO
Glendale House.
1t was between six and seven O'clock
a cold November evening-the fog so
dense you could not see three yards
ahead but the road was familiar to me
and | walked along in buoyant spirits,
cheered by the thought that every step
took me nearer to the charming girl whose
image was now never absent from my
M nd. How many ages instead OF hours
1t seemed since We hal said Good night"
How would she greet me? There was no
dull sameness atout this Incompatible
creature. Time could not wither, nor
custom stale her Infinite Variety And
again | thought of her as my ideal Cleo
p&tra,
l walked faster and faster. and began
singing low 10 myself onthe solitary road
the first song size had ever sung to me:
Should he urTad III own tilat lie prevail,
And 81 : he sWe tly IT the nigh ingal2;
Say thai he froEn, Ill say his looks | view
As morning roses newly tipped with dew
As morning roses tipped
Mr.. Dudley" exclaimed an almost
Ire lthtesS voice beside me.
| ceased singing and stood still
Please walk on SLOWLY; | wish TO speak
with you.
1t was Edna Lynton.
| offered her my arm, but she declined.
~Mav | ask You something somethin
that 1 wish yer, much to know
OF course you may.
And You will not think it mere idle
curiosity on my part? You viii not mis-
judge
L will answer to the best of my ability
any question you may put As to imput-
ing to You IN unworthy motive, [ think
Won should know me little better than
10 fear that"
How long have YOU known Miss Har-
greave. Mr.. Dudley"
An, low ii was coming! | must take
care. George particularly wished thnt
Edna should MOI lie told cur secret, and
somehow | felt it would he extremely
awkward to tell he myself.
Since last Saturday week. ! believe
my acquaintance with her began the same
day as your own This question, at any
rate was etsil, replied TO
lint he Is !oar IoGsin:'
No"
">he is lot I, late to you.~
Not in the cry least, Has some one
toll you so:"
Yes. Bat I have begun to doubt it or
would not have come here to meet vou
row. I came TO tell Won tLat-ou Satur-
daN-i entered the sitt.ng-rcom TO bring
som thing | had forgotten, and saw
saw-you understands?
What do you mean: Why do you
speak Of this? l asked. making an insane
attempt to laugh.
Because what / saw should not have
been unless"
Edna
Don't. Please don't make it more diff
ticult for me oh, the pain of 1.-THE
pain of it. / was about to ay-when YOU
stopped-that what | saw should not
have Teen uHltsS-uuless there Is more
between you and Miss Hargreave than"
l kept silence. For some seconds we
walked OF thus. I was IN false position
] could not defend myself witho t con-
feSsn the truth. and that must not DO
Please answer me. at length size
pleaded. DO you wish to marry herr
-Yog are right-as YOU always are. 1t
should not have been unless"
~Bnt Won viii not ask her vet? You
would not-could not-he so rash, 4
few days acquaintance only. She is so
beautiful. | can imagine . man admir-
ing her immensely. But YOU must take
time 20 make quite sure you love her and
she is -wcrthy OF your love. Promise
You viii take tlme-only promise You
will take time
And this from Edna LINTON. who, six
years before. had coldlv. heartlesslv.
after encouraging my love. refused it,
Women are Indeed strange beings, whom