The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-25

protection, your helplessuess. which lefs
you dependent upon strangers, unable TO cons
tiaue your search for you father, 1 should
never have told you lovsi yoa"
He paused, the words seeming as # they
would not come, and the glrl broke in bur
riedy:
81 remember nothing, save that you did
ask me; and nave | not told you my heart
is Jus, the same as tbsnl Do you not UNDER
s,Andf Do you tllnk that now, because
AN grand and YOU are poor. that l am
changed fr M what VASE My father is
rich snd powerful, 81 You say, aud l am his
daughtec, out not less your little Nell The
great happiness which Is come e ME Is
nothing 10 M, If lose what you gave me,
when was poor, frisndless girl"
She pau ed, no doubt expecting him to
make at least some answer to her half
elled reply, but Nuen none came because
he hed none to give, sne put as de the timId-
lily which had before maize her speak falt-
erlhg y despite her earnesJneas, aud with a
something AZ her manner which was at once
/ the sweetest womanIy dignity and humility,
she wentOn:
Leo, 1 will not be afraid to speak. You
are TOO proud because you are poor a serv-
ant TO my father, and love aud tonor You
! more even than before, when you were SO
/ good aHd noble to me, but have no fear.
no pride. For your sake 1 Will put aside
even girls modes.y, l ask you will you
marry NE, Leor
| NotnI could have been more beautiful
than that appeal, the slight childish form
/ drawn up co It's fairy hight, the sweet face
lit up rs ny Ii holy glow, Tao big blue, blind
eyes seeming almost TO nave urd their
/ llght, Lor with sudden, quick step unlike
Ler usual f6lLerlng one the girl moved 10
her lovers side, hes little Wh iie hands go-
ing out TO rest upon his arm with an un-
spoken world OF beeeeching in their cling
Ing.
Poor Leo, be was like one utterly power
less to free himself, but with one las5 effort
to be true to wat ne mad laid down as hing
code Of honor, be replied: Nellie, | dare
nUt.n
But bis voice broke, and in the break
rose the girls siivery one again, but now
firm and sustained. but low and breathless.
80, don't you see how terrlLle it Is or
me, how l am bIusnIDg9 Ny cheeks are
burning, won't you-wout you hide them
for mel"
Her love must have told her the magic
there would be If no crayed hIm TO yleld,
aDd the love cunning almost won her her
hard earned victory.
Leo, bewitched, under spell as great as
any that any lover has ever mad cast upon
him, all but laid down his arms. de rose
up, his face rejecting the light in hers, his
| eyes greedlly drinking Ia the sweetness she
e.nuodied, ms arms vent out to snatch her
to the heart on W ich her brave appeal had
poured even yet greater lain than the love
1t so ralkly told.
Almost his hold was upon her, almost the
words OF alteration were on his lips, Neil.
my darling, net ali the powers of evil
should take me from you now" when be-
side the swee., fair girlish face rose up
another, the face Of the man no had died
by the hand which would Tut he ring uLon
Aer fuge., and bind her to murderer
20, no. Not tnAtl No. thai"
OAce III re the lover fell back, nay, shrank
| az before the blaze OF a scorching furnace.
lie Iei5 he could not clam the 1--we when
had been So saeelly offered to him. He in
deed dared not
In his own pain he for a moment forgot
hers.
81 cannot, will not, marry you,n he cried.
mo, not If you asked me, prayed me on
| your knees"
But for those last words, doubtless the
girl would have ad ed such application to
her plea. AS Il was, she stood with the
| Il Ssh OF gentle shame at her unwomanli-
ness . fading from her face, leaving it deadly
pale, her breath seeming to cease It's COM
iDg and going hsswoen uer lips.
For moment she stood thus, and then
! with a cry OF pain, as If iu mortal ago ".
she fell back 100, hid ng her face now her.
self not because If bushes but as if her
/ ueau c1ulu AOb De OOW6Q low enough In her
| despair.
You do MT love me-" she said at was
| only pity that made you say so falsely"
Leo aid not cry out III his pain, bat mer-
| cifuly the very effort it cost hlm to keep ir
! within his heart TOOK from him any power
to attempt reply, where none seemed pos
sible.
This Wa the worst OF all, 10 have her
! doubt his love, TO count him false in uffer-
| ing ner pity, when his heart wa, full TO
bursting with the strength of his great pas
! sion.
| Bnr what could be do, what could be cav 2
| What Sc to deny what she hal said and
| convince her Of the truth9 Would she in
her love recognize his reaso ling, that
! though he mGht have loved to have saved
| her, now there was no iced of saving, their
ways must be apartl
| Such IN Wedge IL was as much as he
! could do to fOrc5 upon himself, kno wing
his guilt, but with her, in her simplicity and
! innocence, would it no5 be different-the
truth, altogether too hard for her to rscog-
nlZe!
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