San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-17

and sweet manner that infatuated him.
He assured himself that it would.
1t seemed to DIR. Harrisse about this
time that DR.. Johns was always joining
them, that he had a weakness himself
for Miss Lindsay, and Harrisse smiled,
thinking how futile it was.
"You remember Captain Hamerton"
asked DR.. Johns on one of these ocCa-
sions, when the talk had somehow drift
ed upon love and marriage.
"Oh, certainly" said Harrisse, wish
ing Captain Hamerton and DR.. Johns
were in the Red sea, figuratively speak
ing. "[ remember him-an ancient mar
liner or somebody, eh:"
"Well, you know, he fell in love with
a circus rider. Fact. And he 60 if a
day. Real love affair.""
"Oh, WELL" said DR.. Harrisse, "there
must be nautch girls and circus riders
perhaps, but we don't choose our wives
and sweethearts from among them"
II think must go below" said Lucille,
"the sun is withering."
Naturally enough Lucille was tired of
the surgeons "reminiscences. Naturally
she felt no interest in the vulgar loves of
circus riders and old beaux.
You will miss the sunset" he said
aside, OBTAINING her. CDR. Johns will be
gone presently. Let us see the evening
star come cut together on the last night
at sea-"
"And I suppose he married her and
lived happily ever after" said Harrisse,
having carried his point and turning to
DR.. Johns.
mo, she wouldn't marry him, but
when he died he left her fortune, and
she left the profession"
''And the Hamertons were of the May
flower stock"
do you know-can you guess, Lucille
can you guess who my love Isl"
Il was never good at enigmas, little
indistinctly,
Or. Harrisse, do you remember when
you first met me-?
1T seems to me that have known you
always" he evaded.
81 thought that you remembered when
/ first saw you here"
Gould ever forget you, Lucille?"
at seems So" smiling family. But
/ have confession to make"
$50 have l."
'You will believe that have deceived
you"
IF this be deception, let me be deceived
forever"
She smiled family.
Here DR.. Johns joined them again.
When they parted the next morning, he
said:
81 shall see you, if l may, at the first
available moment in the week. If any
thing prevents, l shall write"
Sitting down to dine the following day
with his bosom friend, he said:
Tom, you know everything and every
body; can you tell me where l met a
Miss Lucille Lindsay"
''She was the person Captain Hamer-
ton wanted to marry. You remember
old Hamerton?"
YES"
Forty years her senior. Hetempted
her with jewels as Faust tempted Mar
guerite with kindness and luxury, but
although she was only poor little circus
rider she wouldn't have him. When he
died, lie left her half his big estates. |
heard she went abroad. She broke
bone falling from her horse in the circus.
l suppose | must have set it. Gone, Ell!
Been on the ragged edge of Irritation on
the voyage? Fancy Harrisse marrying
a circus rider! How Beacon street would
how'll"
DR.. Harrisse was perhaps thankful
that his patients demanded his atten-
ton, and gave him no time to think or
visit at once, and that an important case
made it impossible, as he said to himself,
to do other than to postpone Miss Lind
say. One day he met DR.. Johns coming
away from her presence. He had an air
of suppressed excitement about him. 1t
was year since they had parted on the
Malta. THE fellow is almost hand
some," thought Harrisse, "and he is in
love with Lucille"
He acted upon his determination to
call, but Miss Lindsay was engaged with
headache and begged DR.. Harrisse
would excuse her.
The words sounded strangely to him;
he felt dazed and miserable and angry
with DR.. Johns, as if his visit had some
thing to do with it. All at once the fact
that Lucille had begun life as a circus
rider seemed trivial and of no impor-
lance compared with the greater fact
that he loved her. Let those laugh who
win.
He never remembered having been in
such hurry before in his life. Why
had he postponed happiness SO long? 1t
was late in the following day when he
received Lucille's reply:
Your kind words-she wrote-have carried