The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-02

There will never be the girl made that
would not scorn YOU"
had borne good deal pretty patiently,
but this was over the mark.
that" said l. "What have l done but to
be good to You. or try to? And here is
my repayment! Oh, is it too rnuch?"
She kept looking at me with hateful
| smile. Coward" said she.
1.-THE word in your throat and IN your
father's" cried. II have dared him this
day already in your interest. / will dare
him again, the nasty polecat; little l care
which of US should falll Come" said l.,
shack to the house with us; let US be done
with it, let me be done with the whole
Hieland crew of you! You will see what
| you will think when arm dead"
She shook her head at me with that same
| smile l could have struck her for.
''Oh, smile awayr' I cried. II have
| seen your bonny father smile on the wrong
side this day. Not that l mean he was
| afraid, of course added hastily, "but
he preferred the other way Of ii"
"What is this 2" she asked
when l offered to chaw with him"
said l.
"You offered to chaw upon James
| More2" she cried.
| "And l did So" said I. land found him
backward enough, or how would We be
| here?''
| There is meaning upon this" said
she. What is it you are meaning?"
| "He was to make you take me,' l re-
| piled. land would not have it. said
you should be free. and must speak with
| you alone; little | supposed 1t would be
such speaking. And what if l refuse p
says he. Then it must come to the throat
cutting. says |. for will no more have a
husband forced on that young lady than
what | would have q wife forced upon my
4 oil
| friends words; bonnily have been paid
for them! Now you have refused me of
! your own clear tree will, and there lives
no father in the Highlands, or out of
them. that can force on this marriage.
| will see that your wishes are respected:
| will make the same my business. as
| have all the way through. But | think
| you might have that decencv AS TO affect
some gratitude. Deed, and thought YOU
knew me better! have not behaved
! quite well TO you. but that was weakness.
And to think me coward, and such a
coward as that. Oh. my lass. there was a
stab for the last of il.
"Davie. how wouid | guess?" she cried.
"Oh, this is a dreadful business. Me and
mine, she gave kind Of wretched cry
At the word-"me and mine are not fit to
| speak TO you. Oh I could he kneeiing
| down to you in the street. l could he
kissing your hands for your forgiveness ~
Il will keep the kisses | have got from
| you already" cried |. II will keep the
| ones wanted and that were something
worth. will not he kissed in penitence -
w hat can You be thinking OF this mis-
erahle girl ," says she.
| What am trying to tell you all this
while, said |. that you had best leave
me alone. when you can make no more
! unhappy II You tried, AMI turn your at
! tentlon 10 James More, your father wiz n
! Whom - a. ~, hay
| wind"
| 'oh. that ] must be going out into the
world alone with such a man !'' she cried
and seemed 20 catch herself in with great
effort. But trouble yourself no more for
! that. said she. He does not know what
pay me dear for this day of 1t: dear, dear
/ viii he pay"
She turned and began 10 go home and
10 accompany her. At which she
stopped.
/ Wiii be going alone. she said II; is
alone / must be seeing him.
Some little while | agsd shout the
streets, and told myself was the worst
used lad IN Christendom. Anger choked
| ME: II was sil very We'll for IN 10 breathe
| deep; II seemed there Was not air snourh
about Leyden 10 support me, and | thought
| would have burst ike man at the hot
tom oil the sea STOPPED and laughed At
|
| sether. laughing out loud. so that a mas.
senger looked at NE. which brought me IN
! myself
| We'll" thought. Il have been a pull
ana ninny and a soft Tommy long
| enough. Time II was done Here Is :
| good lesson 10 have nothing to do with
tina, accursed sex that Vas the ruin of the
man III the beginning and W II he to the
| end. God knows | was happy enough be-
fore / ever saw her: God knows can be
happy enough again when have seen the
| last OF her.
| That seemed 10 me the chief affair; to
ses them 20. dwelled upon the idea
| hereely, snd presently slipped on in kind
| OF niaseve!ence 10 consider how very
| poorly they were like to fare when DAVE
BaiioUr Vas no longer by ~ be their milk