The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-02-27
!kely arm in arm with HAydon.

"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 i feel
as II something we're going to hap
penl But suppose" she added. "that
Il 10 only because don't deserve
himi He 10 90 great and good
and fine and noble snd"-And then,
with her hands clasped above her
head, she was OF oil alone by herself,
swimming down the room in . waltz
to the tune OF her own carolins.
And suddenly Q strong arm had stol-
one Of hers, and Hayden Roth, who
had been shown in by the butler, was
waltzing down the room with her.
Then all at once she sprang after
something that rolled away, and cried
in . piercing voice: "Oh, Margaret
my ringl my ring It Is broken-it has
come o6-thc stone Is gone! Oh, what
am to do! Oh, it was his mother's!"
she cried forgetting all about Haydon's
presence. HE said it was sacred. l
mustn't tell him, he will think I took
no care OF it. And / was dancingl"
And she was moving everything 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.
~ won't have the child suffer so for
tho few hundred dollars another stone
would cost" And she came down and
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.
y y
Rose descended dressed for the OPP
era when her lover came that night.
There was time only for Gordon to
note singular agitation and a height
ened color about her, while she wept
and laughed at the music in q half
hysterical way and trembled as he
handed her up the steps at last.
"Oh," she said, nesting a moment
in his embrace as they parted in the
dim dining-room, nothing could ever
let you leave of loving me?"
"No power in all the universe" he
answered her.
~ 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, "we
can tell the whole story tomorrow,
| the boats, the women thronging the
shore; theyoung girls and children, and
Rose with them, were building bon
| fire on the cliffs. Dimly could be dis
cerned on distant reef the dark out
| line OF huge steamship that had
struck the reef with tremendous force,
had broken in two, and with a fright
| full 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,
seeming to soar into midair, and then
throw them all together in "a mass up
on the shore.
It was more than an hour that the
auld wives of the place worked on the
unconscious 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
ran through his frame and he opened
his clouded eyes and murmured some
thing huskily and fell into deep
sleep.
It was an hour or more afterward
that he awoke. The others had all
gone, dismissed by her. Rose sat at
his feet, distinct against the sapphire
vault OF the moon-lighted sky, seen
through the uncurtained window, and
only low CLEAN OF the fire now and
then falling across her.
"Rose is dead, them" he said. "And
you are some mockine spirit in her
form. Oh, you cannot deceive me,
though you comb the curl out OF the
yellow hair, though you put nuns
cloth on that supple shape, for you
wear my ring upon your finger, and
she never looked so until broke her
heart"
| GU aTe Udlkllik III youi oieVp,
she said, bending forward and taking
his burning hands. "This is Rose
Your Rose. All the rest is nothing
now"
He gazed at her steadfastly a mo.
ment, the cloud clearing from his eye
the oppression from his brain. "Noth
ing!" he cried, nothing" the words
: coming in quick gasps. 81 WAS com
, ing back to find you. Out in the des
erts had seen my foolishness. hat
said: She is mine! She was always
: minel She loved me! May the thing b.
accursed that parted us--ring o.
dance or childish freak or maddene(
; temper. l will never ask her. Sh'
+ shall never tell me-"
"Oh, there is nothing to tell!' cried
! Rose.
. He held out his arms to her, "W
. have lost ten years." he murmured
4 ave have the rest Of the threescor 9
: Nothing shall part us now. oh, Rose
Nothing shall part usl" she repeat
ed 'The years have burned out IN.
Q folly and your fury. Hark! A new on
n is beginning and our new life with it.
r ut is our wedding peal" he said
Q And then her lovers arms were abou
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