The Lamar register., 1893-01-28
r. ri who spends my salary on her

waking, never shall wake. When
| am under the ground fire will run
through my very ashes if she comes
near. Only that she will never know
she will never care"
"Well, now, Surrey, tell you what.
As your friend, advise you to call
in your little loves and let this charm
| er CO."
Surrey shook his head.
"You might as well advise the flow
| ers not to grow where the sun shines"
| he said.
Akron waited few minutes $50
home and dress" said he then. II
| have always said that il saw a fel-
lew committing suicide shouldn't be
tie one to hinder him. She is to be
at Mrs. Farleigh- Farleieh's tonight.
Cotillon at 1. Aleck Palgrave has
hurt his foot. am on such terms
there that Lean take you in his place.
God forgive me! know am helping
to ruin you"
Il am ruined now" said Scott,
wringing Akron's hand, and in the
moment feeling that he was lifted from
| despair to Joy.
| Could it be that presently, when
some hours had fled like fash, this
radiant creature was in his arms, with
/ her breath as sweet as wild-rose
| breaths; that, however timidly and
reverently he clasped her waist, that
at his touch sudden flush had swept
up that cheek unused to color; that
those gauzy robes of hers swirled
around him? Heaven knows that in
conference he was uttering as 10 the
cruel fate that had kept him at his
desk; as to the eternity that existed
between Saturday and Thursday; as
| to the wretch he was.
| The wretch he wasl Did he accuse
| himself OF dark, Manfred-like sin?
Was there an element of the ro-
mantle, the mysterious, about him?
Perhaps that was not the finishing
touch; all the poor lad meant was
that in his position, and with his mar
row income, he had no right to think
| somehow-such fools girls archie
went over to the unknown in her
Imagination, and was magniied in the
mist of that region OF space. It served
the purpose, at any rate, OF making
her think about him more in the "a
tervals OF meeting him, and she met
him everywhere: for wherever she was
| to be, there. with Akron's help, he
achieved invitations, watched for her
coming with a glitter in his eye, and
| il she did not come, went away early,
feeling life desert. But it did not
take many waltzes with him,
many strolls through thegreen-houses,
many sherwets in half-curtained cor
ners, for Rosamond to see that Scott
| Surrey was no hero OF dark romance,
but an honest, wholesome lad, fit to
be the high ideal OF the most innocent
girl alive. And Just as she had dis
cerned the truth Scott Surrey had
made up his mind to disappear out OF
her horizon. even il it cost him his
life. .-y--sN~s.,--
They had been dancing together; he
had seen her cheek fling out the ban
ner of pale, sweet bloom with which
now it always saluted his coming, and
she had given him her order of
| dances" to write his name where he
would; and later, in an interval OF the
wild, delicious waltzes, she had said,
when he asked her to walk with him,
I'VE will go where it is cooler" aud
led the way up from the ballroom to
the large, dim library, it being the
| house of a relative where she was IA
| miliar. n NH eN
! "Ah." she said, "this is cool and
restful; and she drew off her gloves,
and, throwing herself into an arm
chair, motioned him to another.
He took, instead, tabouret at her
feet. How beautiful she was there,
in the half-light of the long, dusky
room. with all her rosy, silken mus
Inns flowing round her, and the gar
land OF gray-green poppy-leaves she
wore. Was this the unapproachable
goddess OF that morning in the church.
her shining eyes beaming on him now,
her smiling lips L
A shiver ran through him as he sat
there, his elbows on his knees, his
head between his hands, while he COW
cred her with his forgetful gaze; while
far of and faint the dance-music came
in gusts whose sweetness was lost in
melancholy.
why do you look at me so?" she
asked, suddenly, with halffrighten-
ed foreboding.
Because, said he, 81 never SHALL look
at you any more. Because l have
been fool, a madman, and have Just
come to my senses, and am going to
leave you before it is too late-ior
you. meant is too late for me al
ready. 1t was too late for me when l
first laid my eyes upon you, and my
whole heart became yours"
Il don't know what you mean she
cried. "Why must you leave me,
them"
To-day" he said, your step-fath-
er came to my office, and told me that
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