Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1893-11-18

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NJ to crush back tho tears which
T''tld rise to her eyes IN spite OF her
eiiorts She had succeeded before
reaching the hail, and could answer
her sisters surprised questions quite
calmly l
MY dear Mary. she sail. laughing
gently. you forget our changed rela-
'ions. You must not expect him to
come as often as he used. We have
both come t. the conclusion that We
are quite different from what we had
thought each other. and We have mu-
tually agreed to see as little as possible
Of one another
But when she reached her own
room her self-control deserted her. and
she cast herself down on the LITTLE
couch and wept long AMI bitterly.
81 hate him!' she said to herself.
vindictlvely. II do, l hate him
No. | don t. | believe l do the very
opposite Oh. l ought to oe ashamed
OF myself to care for one 20 utterly
Indifferent TO met He didn't even
come in, and after all these years! He
shall never know that love him,
neverl However much | may suffer,
have enough pride Is hide it, He
stall think me as Indifferent as he is
himself.
Her mouth took hard look, very
foreign to its sweet lines, as she rose
and bathed her face, , anil through all
that evening she bore herself 80 brave
ly that no one guessed Of the bitter
ness and wounded pride she thus smil-
ingiy hid.
If Mrs Messenger hal been given to
abstruse reflections, she might have
asked herself how Jim and Nancy
could possibly avoid each other, ac-
cording to their compact, when he was
always coming to the Ness? For he
came every day. and at all hours of
the day, as he hal been wont to do
five years ago. There was one differ
once between this daily Intercourse and
that of the old times, and that rather
important one. Nancy lost all her
gentle brightness when speaking to
jim, and was coldly, distantly polite
| to him. He saw this and no doubt re-
sented it, but Nancy never guessed
that from his manner He did every
thing he could think of to please her,
but with No outward effect. Inwardlv
she knew that her love for him was
STRENGTHENING day bv day, and that no
power of hers could prevent it.
Jim was in a most trying position
He knew himself t. be deeply in love
with Nancy; his feeling for her had
never died, "a he had imagined; hut
with the knowledge of her as a sweet
nobl. woman came the knowledge tha.
! he had forfeited the right to tell of his
love. Her letters had been Of kind
~, - - hal wearleu when he had
.e.,tt be Il youth. But, anxious
nat us own letters should not be a.
uninterest ing to her as hers were tt
| him he had written in a boyish semi
frivolous strain, which he thought
would Lc pleasing to her, as natural Il
| 1erself. He could not understanc
now such a thoughtful intelligent girl
Is he knew her now to be, could have
written such shallow. characterless
ettcrs. He supposed that she had
not cared enough for him to write
.bout what she felt interested in.
Nancy grew colder and more con-
strained than ever III her manner
toward him. and though every day he
.clt more clearly that his lofe VA
hopeless, he found II more end ore
difficult to hide 1t from her. He svas
too proud and too manly to force hi'
owe on ner. believing. as he did that
,he disliked him and at last. after a
bitter struggle with himself. he deter
mined II return to India At once
He had never been to the Ness late
" without some valid reason, and TIN