Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-26

was Of Europe and great painters, and
the old masters, All his future pros
poets. he began to glow again with the
old hopes-to dream Of the great pict-
ures he would pliay. But he did not
carry out his rcsolU N of telling his
father that he woui 10 in for business
in order that e might remain near
Bessie, but h sat down and wrote
the girl a letter-a long, tender letter
telling he that wherever he should go
her imag, would go with him, and ask
ing her to be his wife n day, and
giving - his address in Paris, where
he wclld go first, begging her TO write
soon.
And until | get your answer shall
know no peace" he wrote; Though |
hope you do not care for Silas Haw-
kins."
And he drew a little daisy in the cor
ner, and told her that he had kissed
it, and begged her to put her lips to il
also.
Ii was a foolish boys foolish letter.
if you will; but he felt very rear heav
Ell when lie wrote it. Just as lie had
sealed it his Aunt Penelope popped
into the room. Perhaps she had peePed
in before.
Il am going to post my letters, she
said. shall l take any for your
Aunt Penelope had beamed so sweet
" upon Bessie that the boy had per
suaded himself that she secretly sym
pathized with his love affair. Now she
gave him a little arch look, and he
returned a grateful glance, and as she
opened her reticule dropped his mis-
sive into its NAV and heard the crisp
snap with which it swallowed it up
without a misciying
Miss Penclooe loved her nephew
truly. and when she burned the letter
in the kitchen range she said TO her
self:
Il know what is for the poor boys
good far better than he knows himself.
That girl is no mate for him, and I've
no doubt she will be much happier
with Silas Hawkins
You see. she had read the letter
before she consigned it TO the flames.
Shortly after Ned Egbert left Am.
erica in company with Mr.. Brush, and
through the winter evenings Bessie SAT
painting daisies and thinking Of Ned,
but no word came TO her.
On Sundays Silas Hawkins came and
made himself as agreeable as possible,
! but Ned had no reason TO be Jealous
of him, for when he offered his hand
and heart and a prospective grocery
business Bessie gently but decisively
! declined them.
Z She began 10 think that the younl
man had forgotten her. but she knew
{ that she should never forget him
Meanwhile he, with all the novelty o.
Paris occupying his mind. with hi
studies, with all Europe before him
still remembered. Nothing could maxi
him forget-not modern art, nor thu
! old masters, nor the bright eyes tina
often beamed upon him. In time h
0 came 70 believe that the love had al
been on his side, but he should neveI
find any one like Bessie, he said TO him
self, in all the world.
When he came home a full ledgeC
8 painter, and opened a studio and had
receptions and was spoken Of favOrabl!
Z by the critics he had not forgotten her
His life had not been without romano,
nor had he escaped adventure. He ha,
met ONE 50 beautiful that Bessi,
could in no wise compare with them
but when he thought Of the womal
who should a day share his tiresid.
and be the mother Of his children, non,
of these rare beauties arose before him
but instead a simple American face
honest eyes that knew no arts Of 90
quetry -Bessie's face, Bessie's eyes
none other.
At least he thought he must see he
once again he must Danish his illusion
If it was one; he must know wha
Bessie lad become; and he went up 4
Prattsville very shortly and found tn
Beck homestead where il had been
No Becks were there, however. Mn
btth ldl Ebiit ~ hNt Will "a lldliAt
son somewhere west" \ e ma
had the store; he barely remembers
81 Hawkins. who had married and sc
up in New York" Five years seeme'
TO have changed everything complete
", and Ned returned TO his studio cor
WINGED chat il was Bessie whom Haw
kins had married.
He mentioned his visit to nobody.
sense Of blight and disappointment La
upon him for some days-a feeling tina
he had lost life's best good. Then h
shut the doors of the past behind hin
and began life in earnest. And nO'
Aunt Penelope, still at the helm an
active rs ever, began TO steer his bar
toward the happy isles Of matrimony.
II is quite the thing nowadays fc
aesthetic heiresses 70 marry Fashionable
young artists. For an elegant heire'
of this sort Aunt Penelope kept shar