San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-16

lis name; the blood slowly left her cheek;
her eyelids dropped sadly; toughtful
creases came in her forehead under the
shining fringe of curls. A vague pang
of jealousy shot through his breast.
miss Chenier," he murmured, when
| sat upon the wall of the old chateau at
Provence, as the sweet shades of twilight
gathered round me. | often heard your
voice as if you were calling me back.
Did you ever want to see me while was
gomez"
She looked up quickly, wholly coming
back from painful recollections, but her
eyes fell before his troubled. burning
gaze.
y have loved you from the first" he
added passionately. land | must tell you
so. YOU
Hush, sir, hush-you must not-lcan
not listen-please!'
She put forth her hand as if to thrust
him far away from her, but the tender
quaver of her voice doubled his ecstasy.
You have already heard, he exclaim-
ed vehemently; what more could | say?
| love you and that is all. 1t means
everything worth living for
He was a powerful advocate. She
looked helplessly at him, a binding mist
filling her eyes. He took her hand and
leaned toward her. She started and
stared past him. Frank Ellis stood in
the doorway opening upon the veranda.
She almost leaped to her feet. The
banjo fell ON the floor with a esonan
clang. Julian turned and met the
southerner's concentrated stare with
rose and made a movement toward
greeting him cordially; but Ellis loftily
ignored him. Rosalie offered her hand,
and saidi
1--WE have been speaking of you, or
Mr.. Julian has. Will you sit down here
we have found it delightfully."- airy and
cool"
Julian picked up the banjo with one
hand, offering Ellis the other. He had
not noticed the latter's attempt to avoid
him. The hand was not taken, how
ever, and with a quick sense of resent
ment it was withdrawn. Ellis did not
sit down. He stood as if enveloped in a
dark frown, his eyes gloomily question
ing Rosalie's face. He seemed to be re-
pressing a great rush of anger or some
other wicked emotion. His face was a
lawless, almost reckless one for the mo-
ment. A mood of the mountain life
was upon him. Rosalie felt rather than
saw this, for she had merely glanced at
his face. In her WI mind all the
strange dark thoughts of the past few
weeks had leaped up anew.
Julian looked back and forth, from
the man to the girl and from her to him,
a weight gathering in his bosom. AS a
lawyer he had been a keen student of
human nature and of human faces. He
WAS conscious Of the existence of a COM
mon thought between these two; it
greatly irritated him. He was not pre-
pared for such an interruption. Then,
too, Ellis bearing was intolerable; it
was evidently meant to be insulting.
Such a situation could not last long.
Ellis rallied and said to Rosalie:
Your uncle, Mr.. Roosevelt-shall !
probably find him at his Officer
Yes. | believe he and Mr.. Largely
are there; but won't you sit down with
us awhile?" she responded, with an effort
to be bright and cheerful.
NO, | will come back, perhaps" he
said. He flashed a glance at Julian, and
bowling low before Resale in the old
southern way, walked through the hall
and out of the house. The true impress.
sion of this short interview is hard to
give in words. In ROsalie's mind it had
a significance which she did not like to
consider. She had read in the face of
Ellis some dark resolve which might end
in another deed of revenge. She turned
to Julian, pale and trembling, and laid
her hand upon his arm, then hesitated a
moment. Finally:
promise to ask me no questions and |
will tell you something, she quavering-
ly murmured.
"Of course | promise" he promptly
replied. a presentiment Of evil falling
duskily into his mind.
You must watch Mr.. Ellis: he is a
very, very dangerous man." she added,
her voice falling into a whisper, which
thrilled HIM strangely.
"Oh, that will be all right, | shall not
trouble him." said Julian, in a great
hurry to return to the point where Ellis
had interrupted him. you must tell
me now if you love me, Rosalie-Miss
Chenier. The whole JOY of my life de.
ponds on lido not refuse me-answer
me, tell me now"
Il cannot think now-I do not know
what u say to YOU" she exclaimed.
Let me go, please-let me be all alone
for awhile. You must not talk to me
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