The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-12

ucait out 10 ourselves! such irony as was
Ill my voice was for myself"
And why for yoursefs" he asked uui-
city, his eyes full of interest He was cut
ting the end of n fresh cigar. WAS it, Che
was about to strike match, but paused
suddenly because you had thought the
same thing?"
She looked for n moment rs though she
would read him through and through; as
though, in spite of all their candor, there
was some lingering uncer.ainty as to his
perfect raightforwar,lncss; then, as il
satisfied, she said mt last: YES, but with
difference. / have no doubt which mem
DRY it will be. You will not wish 20 be
again on the plains of Nindobar"
and YOU" he said musingly, you
will not wish me here?" There was M
vanity in the question. He was wondering
how little we can be sure of what we shall
feel tomorrow from what we feel today.
Besides he knew that wise woman il
wiser than II wise man.
81 really don't think shall care particu.
larly. Probably. if we met again here.
there would be some jar to our comr;ide.
ship-I may call it that, SUPPOSE"
Which is equivalent to saying that
goodby in most cases, and always in cases
such rs ours is a little tragical. because
we can never meet quite the same again"
She bowed her head, but did not reply
Presently she glanced up at him kindly.
What would you give to have the past
back before you were disillusionized? Be
fore you had-trouble?"
81 do not want it back. l am not really
disillusionized. think that we should
not take our own personE experience and
make it II law unto the world believe
in the world in spite-of trouble You
might have said trouble with u woman-i
Should not have minded -
He was smoking now, and the clouds
twisted about his face so that only his
eyes looked through earnestly.
"A woman always makes laws from her
personal experience. She has not the
faculty of generalization-I fancy that's
the word to use" This was her reply
She rose now with n little shaking mo-
ton, one hand ut her belt, and rested
shoulder against pillar of the veranda.
He rose also at once, and said, touching
her hand respectfully with his finger tips.
We may be sorry one day that we did not
believe in ourselves more"
"Oh, no." she said, turning and smilinr
Mt him, Il think not. You will be in Eng.
land hard at work; here hard Mt living
our interests will lie far apart. am GER
tain about it all. We might have been
what my cousin calls 'trusty pals'-no
more"
II wish to God felt sure of that, Nellie
Ashforth"
She held out her hand to him. at believe
you are honest in this. expect both of us
have played hide and seek with sentiment
in our time, but it would he useless for us
to masquerade with each other; we are OF
the world, very worldly"
quite useless-hcre comes your cousin,
Now for the actors game. hope l don't
look MS disturbed as feel"
"You look perfectly cool, and I know
do What mn art this living isl Tia,
cousin of mine comes about the boar hunt
tomorrow. can see it in his eye"
shall you join us:"
"Of course. l can handle n rifle rs well
ms any of YOU. Besides it is your last day
here"
WHO can tell what tomorrow may
bring forth?" he said
She smiled strangely and then greeted
her cousin.
The next day the boar hunt occurred
They rode several miles to little lake
and n scrub of brigalow, and dismountinp
soon had exciting sport. Miss Ashforth
was capital shot, and was, without loss
oil any womanliness, Il thorough sports.
man. Today, however, there was some.
thing on her mind, and she was not ~,
alert and successful us usual. Sherman
more SO because he saw that her cousins.
believing she was quite well able to taxi,
care OF herself, allowed her to her own re.
sources Presently, however, following nm
animal, he left her n short distance be.
hind On the edge of Il little billabong she
came upon Il trucucnt looking boar It.
turned on her, but she fired and it. fell
Seeing another ahead she pushed on
quickly to secure it too. AS she went she
half cooked her rifle. Had her mind been
absolutely intent on the sport, she had full
cooked it. All ut once she heard the thud
of feet behind her. She turned swiftly
and saw the boar she had shot bearing
upon her, its long yellow tusks standing
up Ike daygcrs. sweeping thrust from
one OF them leaves little chance of life.
She dropped upon knee, swung her
rifle to her shoulder and pulled the trigger.
The rifle would not go oil. For an instant
she did not understand what was the
trouble. But, with singular presence of
mind, she never lowered her rifle or took
her eyes from the beast, but remained i'm.
movable. 1t was all n matter of seconds
Evidently cowed. the animal, when within
few feet of her, swerved to the right then
made as though to come down on her
again. But meanwhile she had discovered
her mistake and cooked her rifle. She
swiftly trained il on the boar and fired. |;
was hit, Tut did not fall, and came on.
Then another shot rang out from behind
her, and Ike hoar fell so near her that il.
tusk cau-;ht her dress
Tom Sherman had saved her
She was very white when she faced him.
She could not speak. That night she spoke.
however, very gratefully and almost ten.
derby.
To something that he said gently to her
then about memory, she replied. .relI
me now rs candidly as if to your own soul.
did you feel ut the critical moment that
life would be horrible and empty without
me?"