Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-12-04

the air. y red NapOr rolled across the
sky, broken in places and giving glimpses
of deeper murkiness beyond. Fog horns
beloved from the river. Freight trains
like dingy serpents crawled past the
western boundary of the college campus
and went kissing into the fog. He paused
irresolute for II moment after the gate
changed behind him, then crossed the
street and entered the college grounds.
An unquiet spirit possessed him as he
strobe along the familiar paths He was
only 4 trespasser in this place where
hitherto he had roamed mt will, but
whether he was seen or not was of little
consequence. He had escaped from his
quiet room into the wet, massy darkness
to question himself. The vapor that
CARRIED every tree in ghostly robes, the
light sweep of the wind passing his ear
like woman's sigh, the peace here and
the reminders of life on the river and
market places beyond were ali old and
dear to him. They had helped him be-
fore.
1t was not of his rejected play he was
thinking. Somehow the keenness OF the
sting left by failure had subsidized. In
fancy he saw woman's face-Virginia' S
L MN,
sometimes the eyes hidden as with n
veil, sometimes the sweet, proud mouth
He was filled with this new feeling
that in the twinkling of an eye had
rushed over him. Was it love? Love.
Oh, the ecstasy ringing in the soft VOW
els as he murmured them in tender
semitone!
Hitherto he had written of love, had
believed that he understood it. But to-
night in every fiber he felt the illimita-
BILE, untranslatable difference. He had
been like blind man dwelling on the
beauty of the light he had never seen-a
stay at home describing the marvels of
lands never journeyed through. His
heart Sad been sleeping while in his
writings he had prated of passion.
But this sweeping forgetfulness of self
even in 4 bitterly critical moment; this
reaching ont to and flooding immersion
in the personality of another; this mad
nyss that shook him, trailing its seduc-
! i've sweetness over his soul and making
him light headed; this insistent burning
i'll his blood; this yearning newly born
his was love.
He flung himself into Il rcstful position
against tree and looked over ut the win
lows where ut times Nirginia's shadow
toUchcd the shade. His face had grown
n,:g.,ard; Ills eyes We're alight. Oh, he
! loved her! Ii seemed now he had always
loved her.
To tell her-Oh, TO tell her" was his
'Ilut!eFeu cry Ci' II N"u something
10 oHer worth her takihS-not my peg
gar portion not the aslies OF my dreams
lrSlili,'- GEAR lender sweet NClcea'
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1he serenity CT his tair, untelnpte'
years sank from sight and he seemed Z
look down an Illuminated dep.h INTO IN
very heart OF life. Love ana dcath wer
there; agony and sin; JOY, derlslon, temp
tatien, despair; the curse of the suicide
the laughter OF young glrls, the sorrow
, that cries IN the night. 1t was all so ter
rlbIy clear. 1t racied linn. lnundate
him, knitted Itself 10 MN.
One after another faces arose, youn
and old; hands seemed outstretched. Ii
heard words that contained the glory an
fire Of diamonds, SO real they We're, 5
trcnthant. Oh, if he could but writ
them as they thronged into his mind
he could tell the wonderful story tina
uufOlded itself before him like scro
upon the darkneSs-IniSht not some stan
and listen:
He shivered and looked around, emers
ing from his waking dream As from
trance. and almost startled TO find hin
self alone
What was this marvellous change? H
seemed on the threshold of secret, IL
door open to his hand. He was as OF
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