New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-30
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| holiot ,b.+ no corld be bappy with Miss Nunally
| Miss Nunally had such exquisite tact' she was so
| entertaining: so audacious yet not TOO audacious.
| And she loved him.
| II wos now late 10 be convinced that he should
simply have lived on without trying TO pulld up
| anythinn How could he know that the irst i'm
pulse OF one who has lost the best Is u try and
| put something else in its place. to pretend that
| soncthinr else is best. though knowing pitcously
all the time that it is not.
II will tell her. he now said aiouu
| lie fastened after Saome.
81 will tell her. he said eagerly when he had
reached her side.
"You will tell her."
Salomn said the words after him. She did not
| understand what he meant She hardly thought
| il necessary that she should understand There
was one fact that was very plain TO her'
Yes. will tell Portia." went on Moore quick
L. "SLc will know. She will remember that
| have loved Won ever since saw yoI. She Will
| 70 fuse 10 marry me- She does not know how
have been thinking of YOU always though l have
tried so hard TO forget. ! suppose she DeiieVes
| that have forgotten.
Salome made no response to these wor"'' one
had resumed her walk, going forward ih'eh'iy as
IL bor ono object were 10 reach the end of the
WOOD. she was tIlUhlHC ii'''
could be at home She wanted - be under the
roof with her mother Her mother had been right.
81 am going to explain TO Fortia, SalG Moore
again. "Saomc.r impetuously, wont you say
ANYTHING 10 me , Don't you care for M
lie realized, az soon as he had spoken those
words. that il was very weak 10 put sucn ques-
tions. But the sense of being dcfraudcd, cheated
cut Of happincss was so great in his mlnh That
he could not speak as he ought lie was cropping
confuscdly and madly after the love that no FELT
was his. but that he could not grasp and hold.
Still even in this confusion he was conscious OF
n dim sense that lie might he stronger, moro manly
"You need not ask me if | care for you,' said
Salomc She slackcncd her pace, turning toward
her companion Her face and attitude brought
hack 10 Moore those walks through the scrub
palmetto in Florida
"Ob. can't We be happy9' she suddenly cried
out why should it he wrong to be happy =
The entire uncNpcctcdncss OF this exclamation,
the sweetness OF il. came 10 Moore with an lnde1
scribable effect But wien he made swift move
mcnt toward her she put up her hands ana shranA
away from him.
81 must be very wicked sh" said brokeniy'
verv wicked indeed. oh, Mr. Moore. wish you
would go away. DO 20! l have been trying
all these months to he good. Yon SEQ | really
trlc0 ana now 'ndh iih'' wv VIZ
that have come where it is so wicked TO be
happy. and where everything is rigid and
upricht-oh, don't you see how must
have fallen To he able 70 send you
that note ? All at once I could not hold out any
longer But it isn't Of any usn. You are going
10 be Portals husband. Mr.. Moore, why do yon
STAY here? Haven't told you that wanted
you to go?'
MOORE shut his mouth tightly
ayes. YOU have told me- that" he said Pleas"
don't say it again. II won't make any difference
if YOU do ] shall stay with YOU every moment
that is left me. I tell you," h" crird ont again.
It's terrible thing you have Gone! You hav"
tramplcd our lives under your feet just for
within. You sent me away know all ahort yon
What if You had forged What if you had done
this thing or that? Were You not still yourself?
Still the woman love You thought | coudnt
be happy with you. You said Won were afraid
You were not upright. God! Didn't you know
loved you? Il that some ono coming?'
lie asked this last question in an angry TOM
as a figure turned into the road far ahead Of them
Salome tried TO look along the road Though
therc were no tears In her eyes the hot clond still
over them prevented her at first from seeing with
any distinctness But directly she recognized
Nelly Scudder, who was advancing rapidly. Then,
as Nelly saw the two in the road, She slaclcncd
her pace.
Moore felt that it was Impossible for him TO
meet any one now. And he perceived, with a
sense of intolcrablr injury, that Salomc was re-
lievcd at sight OF that person coming.
lie said something about seeing icr again, that
no mist sec her again, then he turned and hurried
away
Nelly Scuddcr came forward hcsitatingly. She
was alarmcf at sight of Salomcs face, but sh"
was intensely interested and alert She was sure
that hero was something romantic. She had
never been sure in her own mind as TO whether me
new assistant teacher had been disappointed. Nelly
thought she would give anything 20 know whether
that very handsome and stylish young man
was Salomc's beau. And had they been quarrel
ling?
But she could not ask.
"You look awfuly," she said ms slt came mp,
trvinp 70 mt on an expression that should give
no token of her having seen any one save Salomc
But she found she could not quite succeed in this,
20 she gave a short laugh and remarked that she
bopcd she had not frightened anybody away, and
she was going right along; and anybody that
thought she was going 10 stay and so mad run
away. might just as we'll come back.
Having spoken thus, Ncly's eyes sought Saomes
face again. and then she sprans forward crying
"You do look sick! Has that man been say
ing anything dsagrceablep / declare just hate
him.
Salomc had stood trying to recall her power TO
speak Now she sat down on the pine needles
She motioned to the girl to sit beside her.
Nelly flung herself down at her side and began |
to cry.
ooh. what's happencd?" she asked TREMENDOUSLY. |
Then she shook her fist in the air and repeated |
that she "hated him" In the bottom OF her |
heart was now the conviction that Salome had |
been disappointed, how nor why she could not
imagine It seemed impossible, too.
"IIl kill him. She said, in violent whisper.
I'll kill anybody that makes YOU look like that.