The Lafayette gazette., 1893-12-30

81 half doubted its reality. was
thinking of what a lucky fellow was
| to get you, my angel"
Clarence kissed her. Some poe1
speaks of the rushing together of two
souls to lovers lips and meeting there
| In kiss. Thisn bard has received fiat.
| tering Endorsement from Thousand
pairs OF young lovers. How the kiss
OF love thrills the blood of youth! How
| 1t condenses all the sweetness of a life
| time into one ecstatic moment! Other
hours may well afford to be dull since
their nectar IL compressed into the low
ers' kiss. Let the pendulum of time
swing slowly when young lovers meet
poetry of melted glances, In the elo-
qucnt pressing of hands.
The train pass ed o familiar street
whose long line of glirhmerlng lights
stretched as far as the sight could
reachaR Rfording q passing glimpse of a
| massive church, black and gloomy look
ing, towering into the night.
10 the two young people who saw it
from the window of the passing train it
would always be a dear spot.
Doesn't it look deserted, no,v?" she
cried. II wonder If they took all the
pretty decora tions away?'
{. The train had proceeded haltingly at
| first. but now as it neared the suburbs
| 1t was dancing along at q fair speed. 1t
| shot past side streets. running off into
the dark; the gloom here and there Vas
illuminated by the red lights of saloons
and billiard halls. Sleepy looking po-
licemen and watchmen stood at the
corners.
1t did not once occur to the happy
young couple in the sleeper that the
world was pursuing its daily round.
just as if they had not been married at
all. To them, everything seemed to
have caught the spirit of the happiness
they were experiencing. The lights
blushed with a sympathetic glow; tho
train rumbled along musically. Even
the passengers m ust feel that this was
an extraordinary occasion. And the
world outside that was reeling past the
windows; here bristling with number
less lights, and there running off into
hopeless blackness and gloom, seemed
full of new beauty.
Are you very happy. Mabel9'' he
asked.
Very. she said. land pre you quite
sure that you arc as happy as if it had
been Laura Deane instead of me?''
He laughed. 81 never asked her to
accept the honor" he said. ''I'erhaps
she would not have appreciated it if
had AS it is. am more than satis-
fed
'Did you think she looked pretty to-
night?'' Mabel asked; Il suspected that
she felt q pang of jealousy as she stood
beside me. Wouldn't both of you havo
been glad if she had been in my pl ace?'
she added tcasingly.
II do not suppose such thoughts are
keeping her awake" Clarence said,
''but do fear that poor Jimmie Frank
Inns slumbers are badly disturbed to-
night. CHIP
DO you think SOP am sorry if it
troubles him. only hope that he is
quite as happy as am"
II used to think you had a tender
~ L nyvaiO he
have been jealousy in me-
Il never cared for anyone but you,'
she replied. II didn't care a snap for a
single one Of the gentlemen who paid
me attention. You were the only one,
The lights of the city had vanished
behind. The train was roaring along
through the night. The gloomy world
lay asleep; the locomotive dashed along
like n great, restless monster on some
momentous er-and. The semapllorc
signal and the operators light at u
wayside station flashed by the window.
With his arm about her, Clarence
drew her head to his shoulder. To
have her all his own for the rest of his
life was joy enough for him. Uncon-
sciously, his mind ran ahead into the
future; he saw themselves living hap
PLY together, loving each other none
the less after the passage of years Ma
turity had added syveeter charms to
her. Through all the years to como she
would listen for his football coming
home and would meet him at the door
with a smile and kiss. His wife! His |
pulses throbbed delightfully."- at tho
thought
Neither spoke. He was filled with |
blissful reverfes. She, tired and |
weary, was resting her head confiding- |
ly upon his shoulder. No words were |
needed to give utterance to their happi- |
ness. 1t was enough to know that |
they were each others and that they |
were together.
Only the 1nonotonous murmur of the |
train broke the silence. The passen-
gers had sought relief from weariness
in slumbers and the only light that
burned in the car was that hidden be-
meath the pink shade.
Rousing himself from the delightful |
train of thought into which he had
fallen, he stopped to kiss her. The
brown head was dropped SO low upon
his arm that the face was quite hidden
from his gaze. She was perfectly still.
Very tendcrly he lifted her head until
her eyes looked straight into his. A
silvery tear glistened upon her lashcs.
The look she turned upon him was one
he could not understand. They gazed
at each other for an instant.
then his eyes dropped to her folded
hands. While he was thinking of the
future, she had slipped his watch from
- ,s,