Nevada County picayune., 1892-03-10

~ HcIsell, rs she stood at the win
dow of her room and clasped aud un
elasped the slim hands above he
bosom. For eight long years sh,
had not seen his face, but when las
She saw it-through mist of tear
as bitter as the brine of the sea-
was white with the pain of their part
ing.
If | could take you with me, IN,
love, my life - he had cried out, a
he held her in his arms, and she
with sobs rising in her throat, haC
coanseIed him to be patient-ha(
whispered that she would wait fo
him until he could come for her
that she would be true to him il
thought and word-that when ht
came he could find her there, all hi,
own, just as he had left her.
Ali, not as he left her would ROY
jameson find Nala Lee for long
and terrible illness had blanched her
cheeks and sunken them. The eight
years of waiting, Of separation, OF
loving thought for the absent one
had left their mark on the Cir
whose soft lips had shyly returned
the kiss of farewell SO long ago il
the cleaning.
She had stood long before her mir.
ror, scanning her altered face and
frail slight figure, before going te
the window to catch the first glimpse
of him; and she had turned away al
last with smile.
My heart Is Just the same" she
said to herself thrilling al over with
gladness, land my old bloom viii
come back to me when Roy is here
Oh, the long, long years But now
now they are behind me, and only
love is before; for he writes that he
is succeeding at last and will come
for his BRIDE
She colored from throat to brow
as the murmur passed her lips. Such
a glad soft glow stole over her deli
cate face that for a moment it was
as fair as it had been when Roy Jam
ison, looking on it, told himself that
no man had a sweeter beacon to light
/ him to sucsess.
Then she saw, in the amber ligh
of departing day, a shade of swiftly
moving darkness afar off, and knew
that in a very few moments her love
would be with her. And she turneC
from the window and ran like chil(
through the short corridor, and dow
the STAIRS and out to the little rose
wreathed yerandah,
There, where the branches climbed
and wreathed, he had hidden he
good-bye there should he receive
her greeting.
And she drew back to the shsdov
of the rose-bushes, every pulse II
her body beating in time to the feve
of her gladness.
She scarcely heard the light foot
falls Of her Young sister Ina; she die
not heed the pretty girlsh figure
that passed her and went down Tho
steps. She was listening, heart an'
ear. soul and sense, the hoof-beat'
that came nearer, nearer, and pauset
at last before the gate. She was lis
tening, with a thanksgiving to God
upon her lips, to the quick light stel
which would have made her hear
beat, she thought, should it pass by
the gate where she waited-heI
lovers step.
And when it paused below, sh'
leaned forward from her concealmen
to see wherefore.
All, was it because for 50 many
wears she had made OF creature al
idol. that such hlow was dealt hel
there-the woman full of love ant
and longing, who for years hae
vearned for sight of one face, sound
of one voice, touch of one hand!
The voice, the face, the hand'
were tn re: but the face, ahght with
love. was bent over lnoi the han'
held Ina's closely in its own th'
voice called Ina every tender and en-
dearing name'
son. hush" she beard her siste
say. in her merry glrhsh voice u OF
ore So dreadlully mistaken, Mr.
Jameson. am not Nala, but he
.Ittle sister. and Nala expects you