San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-12-20

MILLMAN STREET LOOKED GLOOMIER
THAN EVER AS HE TURNED INTO 1T.
you not, Leander?"
"Oh, / suppose do" he said; ,,"well
enough"
"Well enough to abandon this gross
can separate us?"
answered.
But yesternight and you confessed
that you were yielding-that ere long l
should prevail"
$50 | am" he said: "but it will take
me some time to yield thoroughly. You
wouldn't believe how slow yield; why,
l haven't hardly begun yeti"
"And how long a time will pass be-
fore you are fully prepared"
I'm afraid | can't say, not exactly.
1t may be a month"; or it might only be
a week; or, again. it may be a year. I'm
so dependent upon the weather. SO, if
you re in any kind of a hurry, couldn't
advise you, as an honest man, to wait
for me"
II will not wait a year" she said
tiercely; you mock me with such
words. | tell you again that my for
bearance will last but little longer,
More of this laggard love and l will
shame you before your fellOw-men as an
migrate and "a bastard. | will; by my
zone, / will?"
Nov, ma'am. you're allowing your
self to get excited. said Leander, sooth-
ingly. II wouldn't talk about it no
more this evening: we shall do no good.
| can't arrange to 90 with you just yet,
and there's an end of it. "
"You will find that that is not the
end of it, clOd-witted slave that you
are"
Now, don't call nameS-its beneath
you"
"Ay. indeed. for are not you beneath
me? But for very shame | will not
abandon what is justly mine; nor shall
you, willy and persuasive hair-dresser
though you be, withstand my sovereign
will with impunity!"
so say you, num-" said Leander,
with "a touch of his native impcrti-
hence.
"As say, shall act; but no nore of
this or you will anger me before the
time. Let me depart"
lin not hindering you" he said: but
she did not remain long enough to re-
sent his words. He sat down with
groan. "Whatever will become of mel"
he soliloquized dismaIly. "She gets
more pressing every evening. and she's
been taken to threatening dreadful of
late. If the Count and that Braddle
ever come back now it won't be to take
her osf my hands; it'll more likely be to
have my life for letting them into such
trap. They'll think it was some trick
of mine, shouldn't wonder. And to-
morrow's Sunday. and I've got to dine
with aunt and meet Matilda and her
ma. \ pretty state of mind I'm in for
going out to dinner after the awful
week I've had of it. But there'll he
some comfort in seeing my darling
Tillie again: she amt statue, bless
herr"
AS for you. mum. he said to the I'M
conscious statue. as he rose and pain
fully toiled upstairs with it. I'm going
to lock YOU up in your old quarters,
where you can't get out and do mischief.
] do think I'm entitled to have my Sun
day quiet"
lie slept long and late that Sunday
morning: for he had been SO preOccu-
pied for the last few days to make any
arrangements for attending chapel with
his Matilda, and he was in sore need o
repOSe besides. SO he rose lust in time
to swallow his coffee and arrav himself
carefully for his aunts early dinner,
leaving his two Sunday papers, the
theatrical and the general organs. I'M
read on the table.
1t was foggy. dull day wand Millman
street. never a cheerful thOroughfare,
looked gloomier than ever as he turned
into it. BY one of those dingy fronts
held Matilda. a circumstance which ir-
radiated the entire district for him.
He had scarcely time to knock before
the door was opened by Matilda in per-
son. She looked more charming than
ever in a neat dark dress with a little
white collar and cuffs. Her hair was
| arranged in a new fashion, being band
ed by a neat braided tress across the
crown, and her gray eyes, usually
serene and cold, were bright and eager.
The hair-dresser felt his heart swell
with love at the sight of her What Il
lucky man he was. after all, to have
such girl as this to care for him-if
| he could keep her-ah. if he could only
keep her!
Il told your aunt was going to open
| the door to you" she said. 81 wanted
| oh. Leander, you've not brought it,
| after ALL"
Meaning what, Title, my darling?"
| said Leander.
"Oh. You know-my cloak"
He had had so much to think about
that he had really forgotten the cloak
| of late.
"Wen, no, I've not brought that-Het
the cloak Title" he said. SLOWLY.
| 20 be Continued.