Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-09
A STORY OF TWO HALL0W
EYES.
BY MINERVA K. EoS0.

Man knows not Iove-such love az woman
feels,
Ia him Il is a vast devouriug flame
ResIstes- fed m its own strength consumed.
Iu WOmau's heart 1t enters step by step,
Concealed, disOwned, until its gentler ray
Breathes forth a light, ilumining her world. ."
"Yes, this is Hallow E'enl And |
suppose many giddy girls will try their
fortunes tonight. 1t doesn't seem so
very long ago, since | tried mine, and
looking over my shoulder in the
mirror, saw Ralph Summers smiling
upon me, with the loveliRht in his
eyes
But that was fifteen years ago, and
aud Ralph Is happily married, and I
well, ! suppose l am very old for l am
thirty two"
May Reynolds smoothed back her
soft, brown hair, and looked into the
mirror opposite. She was still very
fair 10 look upon, and MIR. Ralph
Summers would have found in the
May Of to-day. a higher type of
beauty than the May of fifteen years
ago possessed. There is now a look of
unutterable longing in her eyes, and
tonight she seems rest'e ess and sad. A
very close observer would often find
her so, in the quiet of her own home;
but to the outside world she is the ret
iceut and dignihed Miss Reynolds
though known as a friend to every
child IN the town ard a sympat etic
benefactor to the unfortunate.
She Is now repiner, but into her
busy life often comes the sweet mem
ories of long ago. when size was happy
and secure IN the love OF Ralph Sum
mers.
She is sitting not in seeming idle
ness-s very unusual thing for her
and in her hands is picture of
a boyish face, and her eyes light mp as
she gazes making her very beautiful.
Suddenly she drops the picture, and
clasps her hands in a very agony of
sorrow crying softly
"Ohl why did [ let him go from out
my life? Why did 1 let my pride
conquer my aching heart? God meant
us for each other, yet l drove him
from me by my folly. l wonder If
he is ever unhappy? Oh! L would not
have him to be as miserable as l am
for all the world"
Let us go back in our story fifteen
years. Ralph Summers and May Rey-
nolds met while she was attending
boarding "She came, she saw,
she conquered" might be said of May,
Tor Ralph Summes loved her from the
first moment of their meeting. And
she returned his love. They we're
very happy until May one day, "Just
to tease Ralph" hirted with one of
young men of the town.
Ralph demonstrated and May, chilled
and hurt at his words, though she
knew she deserved them, threw her
head proudly back and replied:
"Io whCm are You speaking, Mr..
Summer's2 / am a Reynolds, If you
please, Sir, and l shall not listen to
You another minute! Go! ] shall never
look upOn your face againl"
Then he left her, and all the worlds
sunshine seemed to 60 with MIN; yet
she said never a word.
Ralph wrote a little note full OF peni-
tence, which May kissed and cried
over, ard carried next her heart until
1t was worn in tatters-but sho did not
answer it, and would not speak to him
when they met,
She fully intended to ask his forgive
ness ''sOmeday," little thinking that
that "someday" was buried under fu
ture years, aud that, ere it should
dawn. she would suffer as she had
never dreamed it possible for human
soul to suffer and yet live on.
May received a telegram one day.
shortly after her quarrel with Ralph,
summoDlng her home to the bedside of
her dying mother. Tn her hurried
Preparations for her leave-taking and
Ler anxiety for her mother, sic found
no time for a farewell note to Ralph
Aiter she reached home she ha her
hands and heart full to over hoviGg.
On! the agony of her heart when
sue laid her loved mother to rest in
the quiet city Of the dead.
your voice to whispers, would have died,
For the deep quiets axe;
iouT tread the sOftcst moss has sought,
n eucn stiffness not 10 break"
Again May took up the cares and
autles OF the hcur. She felt that her
Ether needed her III his sore afflictioD,
ana that she needed him. Often she
.uought OF Ralph, and regretted hav-
ing uttered the proud, cruel words
1uat uroye him from her. After many
months OF sad heartaches and tears
tol she now had a double burden to
she tuly decided to write to
Ha5p3 and ask his forgiveness.
Petore her mothers death it seemed
~ May, sometimes, as II she could not
oeaf The heartache caused by her es-
JIan8ement with Ralph; but after her
Ieaf mother was gone she felt a heavier
Neat al tache that weil-nigh crushed her.
her father noticed her sad face, and
SiS SGS now thin she was growing, bat he
tiu not know Of her love and sorrow
iot Ralph Summers.
AT last, May went to her room with a
pAie lace, fully determined to write
Suu ask Ralph's forgiveness.
he will come to me, L know he
VIII! she whispers to her heart, 81
tool" -iA ""'' iii'iii -'i ~
me October sunshine rested upon
el! tningl Golden and scarlet flow
"s 'led with each other in brightness.