Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-09-24

One day after dinner WIN TOOK stroll
among the nrs; q grave beatitude possessed
him from top to toe, and be kept smiling to
himself md tho lanscape as he went The
yiyer ran between the topping stones with
pretty winple. bird sang loudly In the
wood; tho hilltops looked immeasurably
high, and Is hc glanced at thcm from time to
time, seemed % contemplate his movements
with n bcneilcent but awful curiosity. His
way took him 10 the eminence which over
looked tho plair and there he sat down upon
stone, and fell into deep and pleasant
thought. Tho plain lay abroad with its
cities and silver river; everything was
asleep, except q great eddy OF birds which
kept rising and falling and going round and
round in tho blue air. He repeated Marjorys
name aloud, and the sound OF it gratified his
ear. He shut his eyes, and her image sp hng
up before him. quietly luminous and attend
ed with good thoughts The river might run
forever the birds fly higher and higher till
they touched the stars He saw it was empty
hustle after oil; for here, without stirring a
foot, waiting patiently in his own narrow
valley, he also had attained the better sun
light
The next day VIII made sort of declara-
ton acros,the dinner table, while the parsou
was filling his pipe.
"Miss Marjory,H no said, II never knew
any ono liked 50 well as you. am mostly
4 cold, unkindly sort OF man, not from want
OF heart, but out Of stTpngeness In my way
OF thinking; and people seem far away from
me It's as II there were circle round mo,
which kept every one out but you. can
hear the Others talking and laughing, but
you come quite close Maybe this u disa-
grceable to your he asked.
Mnriory made no answer.
Speak up GIRL sail the parson.
NAY, now returned Win, II wouldn't
prcss her, parson. feel tongue tied myself,
who am not ussd 10 y, and she's a woman,
and littlo more than u child, when all is said.
But for my part, as far as | can understand
what people mean by it, l fancy must DO
what they call Int love. l do not wish to be
held as committing myself, for l may DO
wrong, but that is how | believe things are
with me And II Miss Marjory should feel
any otherwise on her part, mayhap she would
be SO kind as shake her head
Mallory was silent, and gave no sigu that
she had heard.
allow is that, p9rsonf' asked VIII
"Tho girl must speak, replied the parsou,
laying DOVE his pipe "lleres our neiglbor
who says no loves you, Madge, Do you love
him, ay or nor
~ think do said Marjory, family
"Well, then, thHt's all that could bo
wishedn cried win, heartily. And he took
her hand across the table and held it a
moment in both OF his with great satisfaction.
''You must marry observed the parsOn,
replacing his Pipe in his mouth.
SIS TINT the right thing to DO, think your
demanded viii
III Is indispcnab,o.n said tbs paIson-
every well y repliei the wooer.
Two or three days passed away with great
delight 10 WIN, although bystnuder might
scarce have found 1t out da continued to
take his meals opposite Marjory, and to ta!a
with her and gaze upon her In her fathers
presence; but ho made no attempt to see her
alone nor in an other way changci his con
duct towards her from what it had been
since the beginning Perhaps the girl was
little disappointed, and pylaps not uniustiy;
and yet II Il had been enos III to lie always in
tho thoughts Of another person, sra 80 per
wade and alter his whole life, she night havc
bton thoroughly contontod For sho was
never out Of Wills mind fer an instant. He
sat over the stream and watched the dust Of
| tho eddy, and the poised fish and straining
weeds, he wandered out alone into the purple
oven, with ell tho hlaokbirds piping round
him in the wood; he rose carly in the morn
ing, end saw tho sky turn fromigray to gold,
and the light leap upon the hilltops; and all
the while he kept wondering if he had mover
seen such things before, or how it was that
they should look so different now. The
sound Of his own mill wheel, or OF the wind
among the trees, COMPOUNDED aud charmed
his heart The most enchanting thoughts
presented themselves unbidden In his mind
He was 80 happy that he could not sleep at
night, and 30 restless that no could hardly sit
still out OF her company. And yet it seemed
Us II he avoided her rather than sought her
out
Ono day, as he was coming home from a
ramblo, WIN found Mnrjory in tho garden
picking flowers and as he came up with her,
slackencd his pace and continued walking by
hor side.
"You like iiowcraf' he said.
'lndeod love tham dearly" she replied
"Do your
why, no. said he, "not 30 much. They
are very small affair, whon oil is done
can fancy people caring for them greatly
but not doing as you arc just now
''Howf she asked, pausing and looking "
at him.
"Plucking them said no "They aro
deal better Off where they are, aud look
doal prettier, II you 60 to that
81 wish TO have them for my own" sh
answered, "to carry them near my heart
and keep them in my room. They tempt IN
whom thoy grow here; they seem to say
Come ana do something with u.s. but once
have cut them and put them by, the charm
laid, and can look at them with quite a
easy hearth
"You wish to possess them" replied WI
Sin order to think no moro about them. II
bit Ike killing the goose with tho golde
eggs. It's bit like what ! wished to d
, when WINS boy. RccRuso l had fame
for looking out evor the plain l wished to 2
down there, whore couldn't lock olt over
any longer. Wal net that flno reasoning
: Dear, dear, q they only thought OF il, ali Il
i world would do like ne, and you would /
4 your flowers alone, Just as | stay mp here
tho mountains Suddenly BIO broke Q
/, rharp "By the Lordm be cried And VIII
/, che asked him what was wrong he turned u
!. question of and walked away Into the hcu
/. With rather humorous expression OF face
: Ho was silent at table, and after tue mig
|, had fallen and the stars had come out owe
/, head he walked up ard down 90. hours
Z the courtyard and garden with an unev
|, pace There was still ligh. in the wlnde
v Of Martory's room-one little oblons patch
!. orange In q world OF dark blue hills and !
/, yer starlight WINS mind ran a great 4,
I, ON tho window, but his thoughts were \
: xs,-.s Inxsc,. iila tt1hn,sa she x la har tf,r,