San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-08

II thought So" returned Archer,
especially as the Thimble Islands are
much nearer geographically to New
York than to st. Louis"
Paul ignored this, sally except by a
tell-tale blush. He was truly getting
homesick for sight of Miss Lebour-
geois He had indeed not infrequent
letters from Frank-who was unlike
most men in that he considered corre-
spondence duty of friendship-but
they contained only atfew passing al
tusions to his sister. Brothers do not
always appreciate how much a word
here and there about sister may mean,
to friend. If they do appreciate it,.
they often wisely ignore it.
So Paul packed trunk, said good
bye to the Colonel, made farewell
call on the Colouers Presbyterian pur-
suer, the fair Miss Hyde, and hied him
to Washington. We do not propose to
follow his struggles and triumphs
there, except to note that he did I'M
usually good work. For this he was
largely indebted to the favorable i'm
preston he made, through some social
letters of introduction, on ex-Senato tor
Conkling and Vice-President Arthur.
He secured an exclusive" interview
with Mr.. Conkling, which brought
great advertising to the Orb. and made
him very solid with 'Cack." 1t resulted
in Mr.. ,Conkling's advice, in pitching
his moving tent in New York, so as to
be closer to the center of political ex-
element. Here he ran across Frank,
| who invited him to come up to the
island on Saturday and pass Sunday
there bathing, fishing, or doing, as
Frank said, what you damned
please" Paul did not need a second
invitation.
So the next Saturday noon found HIM
at the Grand Central station, ready to
take the Shore Line express. Frank
was to have met him there. Instead
him Mrs. Lebourgeois had come un-
| expectedly to New York, but directing
him to go ahead, adding that
mother and son would follow by the
evening train. Inclosed was an order
from the general superintendent to
the conductor to stop the express for
Paul at Stony Creek
So Paul was soon comforta bly, set
tied in the smoking compartment Of
the drawing-room car with a cigar and
his thoughts for company during the
ride of perhaps two hours and half
The train made only one stop
between New York and New Haven,
but Paurs thoughts did not make even
that stop. They travelled tightening,
like over the short but eventful Incl
dents of his acquaintance with his
young hostess. They started with the
unique meeting, when he had been
sent, so lluch against his will, to report
her ball dress; his expulsion from the
house of her mother; the maidenly note
of apology he had received, and
his Reconciliation; the dinner at her
home when he met the Count; the
strange confirmation that night Of
Arch6rs tale; the night of the ball and
the tragedy that followed; the parting
from her when she broke down and
fled from the room. What did that
emotion mean? Paul had often
pondered on it vaguely before, but
never with the same straightneos of
purpose with which he went over it
now, and turned it this way and that.
1t had always had for him the hazy as
ISOLATION of the dim outline of pos.
sible dream. He had never before
frankly acknowledged to himself that
he was in love with Miss Lebourgeois
She had while the Count lived, seemed
so entirely out of his life, so far
beyond his reach, that his feel
ing had been one of comradeship, so
far as much feeling is possible in the
case of a very pretty, very vivacious,
a very high-strung, very warm.
hearted girl. Now it came over him as !
a revelation that the emotion Miss Lee
bourgeois evidently felt at parting |,
from him might be something more !
than simply the after-effect of a great |
strain, in saying goodbye to one of the !
principal actors in an epoch-making
experience. Could it be that he had
made actually a personal impression
on romantic girl, favored by kindly
combination OF circumstances? Paul
hardly de red to trust to so uncertain
and iattering an Inference. And yet,
if the case had been that of some one
else, of some friend who had confided
it all to him, he should certainly have
encouraged that friend to hope.
Eyes, do love her. do, do" Paul
kept repeating to himself with a GER
tain pride that he had reached that
definite conclusion of manhood's chief
when manhood is once
awakened to the supreme
of sex 81 do love her, and