Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-07-11

when Chris came aud was shown
INTO the drawing room. Mother and
Milly were thcre mother had nou-
talgia aud Milly had a cold; and
though It was a warm day the fro
was lit and thcy werc sitting over it,
and would not have the window
open. When J came down found
thorn Ill .horc, and mother was tell
ing Chris about her neuralgia. IIc
looked flushed just thcn. not like u
person who could not live long, 10
me. aud so bright and rcsolutc. 1
liked his face very much; but ! saw
that the drawing room was giving
him n dreadful headache aud no
wonder. So ! ran down stairs and
made tho tea.
Chris and | were friends directly.
! don't know how It was. Tor | very
seldom make friends, and all tho
young men who come TO the house
go straight TO Nilly like iron fling
TO magnet. But Il was different
with Chris, b1cago the dEwiup
room made his head ache, just az 1t
did mino; and whom we know each
other bcttcr wo found that we liked
Che same things and people though
he knew fur moro than / did, and
never grew bitter against any one,
like me. He had such n fearless,
friendly way with tho world aud
yet there were only very few pco.
pie he altogether trusted and relied
on; and was one Of thcm. know
he trusted mo completely, orhcwould
never have told me about Pauline
Partly, indeed, | guessed IL. For
we fell into u way Of going walks TO.
gether on Sunday afternoons, when
Chris had some spare time and /
made e, and | found out that no
liked this particular road-thc road
running west northwest II WIS such
a stupid road. Firt IL led through %
long street Of those miserable, thin,
gray houses that look like grave.
stones standing upright, and then
came streets full 81 public houses
and wrctched little sweet shops with
halfpcnny ices and tobacconists and
"boots moudcd while you wait. "
Then there was n dismal triangular
Bit Of common, with a fcnCc ON one
side all over ploclrds. and then u rcd
brick Primitive chapel aud more 10.
spectacle houscs-till at last came
real fields You could not call IL
country where there were always
cabbage leaves and bits Of broken
pots and clothes hung out 10 dry.
But generally at this stage we turned
back.
] soon concluded that II was the
way 10 Chris old home, but Igucsscd
moro than that. For people do not
always like TO walk In tho direction
OF n particular place only because
they have lived most of their life
there. There must bc something or
some ono thero now that they like 20
fancy themselves nearer; and by
and bye, when Chris saw that
guessed, he toll mo the whole.
There was very little Of it, Us he said
chcerily.
II was just ms thought Tho girl
he loved had lived there, was liy.
ing there still, and her namo wa1
Pauline. She was rich, ho said, aud
very beautiful He told mo what
sho was like, and could not help
knowing that | should have loved
her, that any one must have done.
And Chris had lost everything at
once-monoy and health and hope.
1T wouldn't have mattcrcd about
the money" said Chris in his quaint
way. u would have asked her Ia
wait for mo and worked my way up.
It would have been n very good
thing. But you can't ask girl u
wait for you when you find you have
only one lung"
He laughed rather Iucfully, and
laughed, too, though something
caught my breath.
Did tho doctor give no hopcr
asked
IF I had gono abroad at once
said Chris, but couldn't do that
So l thought, as there might be- Q
year on two, might as well 10 some
thing for my living, And this turned
up"
Did she, "Isaid tentatively, "lmov
20" liked her"
-hris flushed n little and looked
away, but not before | had seen
sudden light IN his Dyes.
~ mover told hcr,n ne answered
simply. "Thcy say-womon know.
And she-did you--was she,
mean, were YOU
His flush deepencd
1T was too early in the day h,
said II sometimes thought-if /
had gone ON but It didn't go ON.
have prayed about it. Not very en-
Enthusiastically, porhaps-but 1t is
good prayer. And there's anothr
fellow in the running a remarkably
good fellow. think it will no al
right"
J / did not answer. il seemed al
wrong TO me, He had told me tn,
story ON one Of our Saturday after
noon walks, and when 1t was cnde,
we still walked ou-wost northwest
! II seemed az IL wo wcro walking ul
and ON 10 place whore our road
would divide forever, and then
knew what q blanl; there would b
for one OF us.