Evening journal., 1892-07-25

ner Ti-Rhada smiled ner sweetest, and was
40 much more gracious than ever that he /
lost his head entirely.
The weeks which followed were full Of |
blind, unreasoning JOY. Nota thought did
they give either to the past or TO the future.
The present was all Sufficient.
When fall came, and the tea fields no
longer trooped with brown skinned folk,
and there was a sharp chill in the hill air
Mainwaring got a letter from his parents.
The intelligence which it conveyed filled
him with dismay
He was commanded to start for home at
once. so he would be there by Christmas
time, and he was notified that he would be
expected TO marry his fiancee Immediately
upon his arrival He was threatened with
disinhertance II he ventured TO deviate
from this course in the slightest degree.
No mention was made in the letter OF
either Ti-Rhada or Fritch, but that the
latter had told the Mainwarings every.
thing in his ken about the little Nepalese
it was plainly to be seen.
Manwaring was furious The washed
out blonde splendors OF Blanche no longer
attracted him. Ti-Rhada was the only wo
man in the world for whom he cared. But
/ he must have money Ti-Rhada and
| poverty was combination which failed 10
ooniure him with lasting spells. IL he
could have money in the degree Of abund
ance essential 70 his tastes only by leading
Blanche 20 the altar. why, TO the altar
Blanche should be led.
But he would not give up Ti-Rhadal
As tactfully as he could he told the girl
his position. dilating emphaticnlly upon
the hopeless helplessness poverty would
plunge them both into, There was but one
thing to do he assured her, he must 20
home, marry Blanche, tolerate her for a
few weeks, till he could get his money
affairs in good condition, and then fly back
to Darjeerling and his hearts darling once
more
Would Ti-Rhada trust him so muchf
Long and steadily she looked into his
eyes, till she seemed to have searched out
his every secret hope and fear.
ayes, | will trust YOU" she finally said.
"You may 20 and-and do as you say. You
love me You will come back TO me-"
with every oath Of constancy a frenzied
lover can think Of he swore to keep faith
with her
Cold and pnssionless with the pain Of IL,
all as the bronze she looked like, was III
Rhada the day he left her, aud when the
train had borne him away she sank into q
little pulseless heap and neither moved moi
spoke for hours
March was to have found him back II
the Hfmalayas again, but he did not come
Nor did April bring him, nor May
Once among people Of his own kind, LITTLE
by little he began wondering II he had no
made mistake in falling in love with tn
coarse little Nepalese tea gatherer. In th
course Of two months he WAS sure OF IL.
He had been u fool.
OF course he would not 10 back. Tn
, girl will soon forget him for some NOR
, conveniently adjacent lover 1t was th
fashion Of her race. Perhaps she had foi
gotten him already It was silly Of him
have felt conscience stricken after all
do you know, dear, that 1 am really b.
y ginning to doubt the justice Of my first in
pressions and believe that you truly d
!. love meY" said his wife several weeks afts
: their marriage II should be the happiei
= of women, for have married the rarest {
treasures, a modest man-almost a sh
q man."
: In June they went over on the Continel
~ to a little fishing village on the coast
Norway. This spot was now very dear
j., them, for it was the scene Of their FIR
meeting
n One afternoon, when the sun made q
~ air almost sultry, Blanche drowsed of al
~ fell asleep in her hammock. her husbal
81 sitting beside her.
- He soon wearied Of smoking, found rea
y ing bore and settled himself back in !
as chair for a nap.
ri When he was nearly asleep there car
y the pressure OF n cold hand upon his bro
IN Awakening with a start he found hims'
- face to face with Ti-Rbada.
~ She moved silently down the law
,o beckoning him to follow.
~ Terrified beyond power Of resistance,
in obeyed.
~ In the midst Of little clump Of trees s
ho stopped aud faced him, fixing her gre
~ ~ dark eyes upon his with long and sear'
- ing scrutiny, the same as she had done
10 day he left her.
~ ~ After a time a shaking sob like NOR
4; convulsion, was wrenched from her boso
~. and the rich bronze darkness forsook
~ skin and left it gray and ashen.
- 81 see--I understand - she said quiet
~, you are all lIers. Nothing within you
on mine any more, nor his neither"
"HisY
=. ~ speak Of the little dead babe, ly
~ alone under the tea plants IN the Darie
ling fields"
mo- Mainwaring groaned, but could not mo
- Nor could he even raise defensive NJ
~ though he saw what her clenched hand h
's 'a. when it flashed upward into the air
.r .n fore it fell with shifting force upon
bosom.
md He felt the sudden sharp pain, saw
so crimson answer his life blood made 70
,,,t knife, lurched. caught himself and
80 ~ backward upon the turf; but not an ar
I'll lpan ulate sound did he utter, not even wheI
ne ne watched her turn from him and x
swiftly noiselessly toward the sleep
~ Blanche-Lew Vanderpoole in New
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