New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-28

ceiving an intangible blow.
If she had not been 80 hard and go prompt. he
would have said something, he knew not what.
! As 1t was. he could not at first speak word.
He knew lie ought to walk away. But he could
not quite bring himself 20 go Immediately. He
kept on by her side. lie was aware Of pitiably
weak and unmanly inclination. which in a woman
might have led to tears. But tears did not come
to him. There was a sense as if he would sud
denly take 10 bleeding inwardly; as il life
worthless so intense and hopeless was the quick
devastation that to him OF course. in
his own eyes he the only youth in the world
who had ever really suffered because of woman.
He had not supposed that he had any reason
for hoping, but now he knew that he must have
hoped. and strongly.
Really he must not keep on by her side in this
way. He must be making himself very disagree
able. and she was almost running away from
him.
I'm sorry 1 have annoyed you," he began.
e But I'm you kind enough to forgive
me- / won't stay here. / will go away i'm
mediately. Perhaps you'll shake hands with
me. and here slight pause. and you IL for
get so soon that / need not be afraid that |
have made you unhappy in the least You'll
shake hands with me, won't you Z"
He was not fully conscious of what he was
saying His consciousness was filled with the
fact that she did not love him. and that he was
At this second appeal that she should give
him her hand in goodbye, Katharine stopped
her walk. She turned toward him, not giving
him, her hand, however, and not even looking
at him.
"Mr. LANDAU" she began quickly, q" l said
it did not make the least difference whether you
were engaged or not" She paused, she breathed
deeply She casped her hands before her. Then
her speech dashed impetuously on, as if what
she wished to say were thing which controlled
her. rather than that she controlled it.
Il did not mean that did not love you
Llandaff's face flashed out. She shrank further
away from him.
went on Il wanted to tell you. Perhaps
ought not. | don't know ] find there are so
many things l don't know. Now. goodbye MIR.
This time she extended her hand But he did
not take IT, =. lie did not even zen see h It, snoo
ing above whisper, not goodbye now-now,
whcn-oh, Miss North. -
Here the mans voice entirely failed him. The
revulsion from misery to such happiness was too
great. He made step nearer her. but she Kept
Llandans lips, but he could not speak one of
Life is very bewdering,"' went Katha-
rine, keeping her eyes lowered 1t seems now
as if | ought not TO have told you; as if-but
! am SO ignorant, Mr.. LANDAU. and have sui-
feIed so much that sometimes I'm afraid Her. aon
raised her eyes for instant TO his face, and
her steady voice faltered She continued: You
suffer. And l love you. wanted to tell You
SOL wanted TO comfort you. | feel MS If
had the sapability to suffer enough for both
really, it must be goodbye
LANDAU had a frantic sense that he was in
nightmare from which he could not waken, or
that he was struggling fruitlessly against the
inevitable.
But this sense was mercifully tempered by that
cxQ}ilte confession she had made him ne
thought no other woman in the world would
have made that confession just she had done.
He stood there before her almost trembling with
the excess of his JOY and his dread
Not goodbye" he said with some imperious-
ness "Of all times In lives this is not
the time to say, goodbye" .,.,,
She seemed able to look at him now with an
approach to steady calmness. ,
aOf all times. this is the time she returned,
"and now let us say it, You said you were gong
away" ,,
Il said that before 1 knew that-before you told
The man stopped suddenly, feeling too keenly for
speech the inehabe sweetness OF what she Aad
But can't go nov You have o made it i'm n
possible. DO You think 1t is in mortal man 70
leave such happiness behind him ? ,,., ,.,s.
She turned away with gesture wnicn r s'aoG
watching her In moment she paused In her
hurried walk. looked back. and said
Mr.. LANDAU. you may think me strange
w wGh" yo N Viii " you 1U ask my Aunt Kate
She went on along the beach and away from the
direction of Cap'n Marbles
There was upon him a maddening sense OF the IN.
tolerable And yet it is an ineXorabie law uat
often in this life even the intoieraole must DE
The Young man turned and went back TO the
house The sun shining in full glory now
Even the puddes in the ground under where Mrs
Llandaff's hammock hung in fair weather rejected
back this brilliance.
When he had mounted the steps that led from
the beach Llandaff paused and tried TO recover
little seif-command. II was at once thc Iioso
happy and the most miserable moment of his life
But happiness more and more over,oae msery, .,o.,
What insuperable obstacle c0uId there D. peV"ec'i
him and Katharine North ? .
Since she loved him it absurdly impossible
that there should be anything In such case case as
thist he nothing nsuprable, nothlhS uia' NO
But he was impatient. He fingered on the bluff
seeing that figure on the beach growing smaller d.
il went farther and farther away .,,
" How the sunlight streams over every tn idn
said Mrs. Llandan's voice from the otler slue vi
''s | want to see you' said LANDAU, not taking
his eyes from the woman on the beach
TO see me you must look at me-, was thc re-
Come out here" brusauely; 4" can't have those
Marbles any where within half mile.
Mrs LANDAU did not wait she s'eppeu uowIl
and took his arm, gancing keeny in his face as she
uic Oh. dear!' she groaned, Pm afraid shan
have any more rest on this shore. what arc you
s0iWI lie waited until he had conducted her to the
beach below. Then he nnceremoniousiy d1opPeu
her hand from MS arm CT. ia .loro
Miss North told me to ask YOU. She SAID there
were some things she could not talk about WIN
me She said she loved me, but that we must say
GOOD i've Now what does she mean? what no
Zion ZION has she taken about some duty that ought to
senarafe us? Because, Mrs. LANDAU, let me tell
You that / most assuredly don't mean to be sepa-
Mrs Llandan's mind again shrank from any,
thing dsasreeablc, but she tried to brace herself
II don't know whether you will call it notion
or not" she answered, sharply, but the ruin Is
that Katharine is already married IN way A..
'"T The Young man was silent for so long that Mrs
f,naa h loofed at him. though she had resolved not