Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-06-01

far up between the house roofs, the
Gagged bird. the flowers. the gem.
And oh, they haze been so good IL
me! Keep me from hating also RaIpt
and his mother. as IL they were M
Jailers," she prayed.
But. OH. for the white walls os the
little town: oh. for the dear old home
oh. and alas. 70. Jose-dear, lost Jose
Past memories rushed back as they
sometimes do. She could not bear
them. She must go OF into such ali
as was TO be found In the sitting city.
in order to breathe.
In her black lace dress and iarga
nlumed hat. q red rose in her bosom
she walked swiftly onward II WA
almost as though she fled from 81 me
accusing phantom. She had Just real
lied that In a week she should marry
marry another. nst Jose.
To be sure, be was dead. but was she
sure that up there In heaven tley
might not know all about those they
lQyed and hft heres Perhaps jose
awaited her there. not knowing that
she was false 20 him.
She walked more swiftly. finding II
hard not 10 moan or sc-eaui.
Il should not hare promised myself
TO mr. kind friends son she thought
Yet how could / seem so uagratefuI:r
She half decided 20 go back ard tel
them that she would not. could not hs
any mans wife, since Jose was gone.
She paused before a shop window
and seemed TO stare at the stuffs dis
played there-satius AMI yelvets OF
lovely tints, laces. ribbons long, stream
Inc fringes. rich with gold or jet.
But she saw nothing bur the whit
walls OF her lost home. the blue sky OF
Mexico. the rich, dark face OF Jose
with eyes like stars.
Suddenlra man paused near her. She
did not notice him. He came closer.
he touched her arm with his hand. and
brought her 10 q sense of where she
was and what she was doing with .
start and shiver.
Pardon" he was saving. II must be
mistaken; but the resemblance was
obliged TO ask-you arc 50 like a friend
OF mine that"
Jacinta lifted her eyes to the speak.
er's face and uttered a err.
Jose! jose she screamed rs IL pos
sible that after al you are not de2dg
-~Jacintha-ir Is Iacintbar" he cried.
He caught her hand and pressed IL te
his nps-then his face grew grave.
Il never saw v0u dressed lie this
he said II could not believe my eyes
you are SC fine"
HIS eyes asked 4 question from which
his iipe refraiasd.
The heart Is the same underneath
the satin- Jose, she whispered. IT
beats for yoa alone"
They walked on arm In arm. He liz
his picturesque costume. she In hal
fashionable dress. Peoule stared al
them; they did not know II.
Sne told him her story: be told hei
how hs had gone away upon q httls
journey. the night OF the earthGuake
and returning. had found the place .
wreck and bis mother dead under the
stones or their home. They had told
him that q kind lady had taken Jacia
tina away, but they could not rernem
| Der the lady's name. or whittier she
went. He had. afterward, been TOLD
that Jacintha had died also.
How wretched he bad been, But
lately. some n had appeared whc
knew that the Lady lived in New York
and believed that Jacintha had not died
so he had come TO this great city rc
| search for her. He had found her.
Are We TO part again. Jacintha - he
| asked.
Never she answered "Oh. how
good God has been To me. Jose"
That night q boy brought q little
note 10 those who walked anxiously al
the hotel for Jacintha. These were the
words it contained:
You hare been 80 kind. so good tc
me. mr. soul rhanks ron | shah pray
for you ever 1ay. But nv lose Ifvp<
and he has found me-he is my be
| trothed. When ron read this | shall be
| his wife. / love him. Mr.. Ralph could
| not care for a wife whose heart belong
| ell to another. AGieu. may God bless
you Your u~ngrltsful
-"Jacintha."
Ralph grievei for a while. but he
long ago found a lovely wht
| did not think her home q gilded cage
| who gave him all her heart As foi
Iacintha. she dwells with Jose In theii
| little white adobe house under the blus
| sky Of Mexico. and thanks heaven fol-
| har hanninp~s.