New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-02-03
kelly arm IN arm with ssHaydon

likely arm IN arm with Hayden
Roth RS
He is coming to take us to the
opera tonight, Cousin Margaret, she
said. coming into the drawing-room
after luncheon. .Oh, how happy /
am | am so happy that / feel
as It something were going to hap
pen. But I suppose :, she added, that
1T is: only because 1 don't deserve
him. He is SO great and good
and fine and noble and And then,
with her hands clasped above her
swimming down the room in a waltz
to the tune of her own caroling.
And suddenly a strong arm had stol-
en- around her, a hand had grasped
one Of hers, and Hayden Roth, who
had been shown in by the butler, was
Waiting down the room with her.
Then all at once she sprang after
something that rolled away, and cried
ina piercing voice: "Oh, Margaret!
my ring! my ring. 1t is broken-it has
come oF-the stone is gone. Oh, what
am Itodo! Oh, it was his mother's!"
shecried forgetting all about Haydon's
presence. He said it was sacred. [
mustn t tell him, he will think l took
no care OF it. And I was danclngv
And she was moving every thing search.
Ing in vain for the stone and the brok-
en- fragment OF the fragile setting with
it.
It's Of no use thought Margaret.
II wont have the child suffer so for
the few hundred dollars another stone
IL, !
handed the broken ring to Hayden
Roth, asking him to leave it at the
jewelers. and have it repaired and the
stone replaced at any price before the
next noon.
X
Rose descended dressed for the op-
era when her lover came that night.
There was time only for Gordon to
note a singular agitation and a. height
ened color about her, while she wept
and laughed at the music in half
hysterical way and trembled as he
handed her up the steps at last.
ooh, she said, Nesting a moment
in his embrace as they parted in the
dim dining-room, nothing could ever
let you leave off loving me?"
"No power in all the universe" he
answered her.
II shall have to tell him tomor-
row. said Rose, tearfully after ne
had gone
ooh, tomorrow we may find it,"
said Cousin Margaret. "and afford to
laugh about the whole thing"
A half hour afterward as her maid
was taking down the great coils of
hair something bright as any star
was seen to hang fixed IN the meshes.
1t was the diamond that her rapid
turn OF hand and wrist had torn away
from it's slight stem OF gold after it
had caught in the hair.
Eyes" said Cousin Margaret, eve
can tell the whole story tomorrow,
the boats, the women thronging the
shore; the young girls and children, and
Rose with them, were building a bon
fire ON the cliffs. Dimly could be dis
cerned on distant reef the dark out
line OF q huge steamship that had
struck the reef with tremendous force,
had broken in two, and with a fright
ful rapidity was settling to her fate
With ropes about them the fishers
waded and swan out; thrown back
breathless, once again venturing; at |
length one awful screaming billow,
to soar INTO midair, and then |
throw them all together in a mass up
Oh the shore.
1t was more than an hour that the |
auld wives OF the place worked on the |
being whom the sea had |
cast up, and whom they had taken into !
the nearest cottage-the cottage where
Rose dwelt. At length a long SILVER
'an through his frame and he opened
his clouded eyes and murmured some
thing huskily and fell into a deep
sleep.
1t was an hour Or more afterward |
hat he awoke. The others had all
zone, dismissed by her. Rose sat at
lis feet, distinct against the sapphire
vault Of the moon-hghted sky, seen
through the nncurtained window, and
only a low q cam Of the fire now and
1hen falling across her.
Crosse is dead, then" he said. "And |
you are some mocking spirit in her
orm. Oh, y7u cannot deceive me,
though you comb the curl out of the
yellow hair, though. you put nuns
;loth on that supple shape, for you
wear my ring upon your finger, and
she never looked 50 until / broke her
leartn'
"You are talking in your Sleep"
she SAID, bending forward and taking
his burning hands. '"This is Rose.
Your Rose. All the rest is nothing
low."
He gazed at her steadfastly mo-
ment, the cloud clearing from his eye,
the oppression from his brain. ''Noth-
ng!' he cried, nothing the words
coming in quick gasps. II was com
ing back to find you. Out in the des-
erts [ had seen my foolishness. had
said: She is mine! She was ALWAYS
mine! She loved me! May the thing be
accursed that parted us-ring or
dance or childish freak or maddened |
temper. | will never ask her. She
shall meyer tell me-
"Oh, there is nothing to tell'' cried
Rose.
He held out his arms to her, eve
have lost ten years. he murmllred. |