The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-08
CARRIE CARELESS
Sheds Tears When Comparing Her
New L owe With the Old.

Sheds Tears When Comparing Her
New Love With the O!d.
CCopVri0htl
NEW YoRK, Jan. I've saw the crowd
half block away. It was smiling, jubi-
liant. excited. so, Kit" queried. do you
think it can mean skatiugl Hurrah, hur-
rahn
Don't believe that would cause such a
com motion, deare. More likely it's a
pretty pink print Of the Three Graces.' to
be given away with next Sundays
! Whirled, answered Kit, who can make
pointless remarks. But knew better, for
ain versed In the ways OF men, aud l
dragged her onward. Yes. the ball
was up! A great flaming red
disk aud underneath the words
"At Van Cortlandt Lake" which meant
skating at last And l would go, OF course.
1 would as soon skate as dance. Everybody
else who had leg to stand on would 90. too.
could see that quite plainly. All except
the fat old men who appeared softly remin-
iscent, as though they were trying to re-
member how long it was since they had
skate on, and the city bred girls like Kit.
| But Van Cortlandt Lake-that was not
nice. 1t is too near the tiresome town and
the railroad runs to the shore, bringing
| the city mob. No; l would go to Long
! Pond, near the town where was
born, and 1 would take Reggie Van, the
very incest man | know, with me. There
| the ice would be black and smooth and
! clear, and there were the fallen logs and
! the winding turns among the hemlocks
where / was So happy years ago How
! happy | should be again among the same
old scenesl OF course, could forget that |
am thoroughbred" now and the best
| fellow going" for few hours while Reggie
should make country love to me. Perhaps
| he would do it as my first little lover did,
on that very pond, when I was 10, and
he was three years older. That fat and
| freckled little lover-I shall never forget
| him, never! His face was round and red =,
| and be wore blue knit cap pulled over his
ears and forehead. But l thought him
perfect as he knelt before me putting
| on my skates, like a snub-nosed cherub
offering prayer. Then, when he had knelt
as long as he dared. we would whirl aud
whirl and draw nearer, as though guided
i by magnet, to one of the sheltered hooks
among the hemlocks How Tommie
flushed as he asked me IL | wouldn't rest a
minute while he frightened my skates And
| Tommie trembled, too; trembled all over,
but not with cold, for [ could almost feel
the warmth of bis hands as he held my foot
between them. Sometimes l pulled my
mittens off aud blew my fingers to show my
subject that he might sit beside me on my
throne. But w lie he was scrambling up
the shelving ice l would slip away and
taunt him, tho l was bitterly disappointed
that he should not have caught me and
! given me the furtive. frightened little dab
upon my cheek, which, by courtesy, was
called kiss. Later, when the boys built
blazing fires to light the ond and we're alb
sorbed in watching il, Tommle grew holder
and skated with his arm around my waist
III the little henIlock hollow. as for the last
time he unstrapped my runners, :" he used
] % asav I rfa21
| And he locked so very handsome in thu
IN onlight, where his freckle3 didn't show,
that always said Eyes" at once. Was it
! not quite right! We're we not to be mar
ried just as soon as he had gone to college,
| and studied law. aud earned $1,000
| o, Tommiel Tommiei | would choose
you this moment instead of Reggie ii
could.
But Reggie is ringing the bell now and
| you are lest, so he shall take me to our old
haunts.
"Ah, Reginald, glad to see you. Did the
messenger Ind you at your clubl I've been
waiting an hour and more by the fire
dreaming Of the gay time we'll have this
afternoon. Way out in the country-alone,
Wen go to skat 9 on black ice like children.
| Well what do you say"
! II say, are you going to cut the studio
| racket this afternoon, and how DO you ex-
rect fellow to be enthusiastic when he's
! just OUT OF bed after stag dinners But
alone with you, is t-h-o-t so" 'Shure,
| Mike" l answered laughingly and in duty
| hound. But that glance which Reggie,
| tho he is the incest of them all, can give in
common with other men, made me wish
| might walk away from him without smil.
ing. Yet nothing could make me lose my
afternoon so we hurried to the station
and caught our train. We dined at the
country inn, because Pm in disgrace
with my family at -Four Corners, and then
we trudged down the same old path from
| the school house to the pond. 1t was black
with skaters, and it made me laugh to zee
them. Yes. it hadn't changed a bit; the
boys bent their bodies at right angles to
their legs and tore across the ice waving
their arms and taking strokes about foot
long. The girls giggled, and slipped, and
said fright things for Reggie's benefit.
knew none of them, tho, and they refused
to become acquainted with a 'stuck up
city thing" 60 we skated alone. and
spike to none all the afternoon,
/ Poor Reggie he could not skate very
well, and thu boys laughed, and the
girls made hooking remarks. When he
tripped and fell and brought me down be-
side him, laughed, too. but he did not take
it at all well. think he swore softly under
| his breath. But We skated back and forth
long time, and Reggie was bored to death.
| When be fastened my skates his hands
chilled me through my thin boots. He
wanted TO be back in town; he could not
help showing that be could find nothing to
nav him for his trouble And so, because |
was not quite as delighted as had hoped to
be among the other skaters, and because bis
head ached and we we're both chilled
through. said would take him where we
could be alone and rest awhile.
Surely in the little nook where l used TO
be so happy l would be quite cOuteut again
"Stoop low" l cried, and held the bemlock
boughs aside and let them swing together
behind bin. "Um-fairish, !" be said. "Now.
we're out Of the sight of those Puritsn kids.
YOU must take a drop OF brandy with me.
| Carrie. it's so confoundedly cold, and Pm
so rocky to-day. Is this where we we're to
be alonel Did you bring me all these miles
for this, you little villain. It's not in it
with the conservatories in town where it's
warm and maddenlng waltz is outside,
where it's easy 10 show how much fellow
! cares, but here
"But here, here. was told by the only
| person who ever really cared, and / was