Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-22
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THERE WE'RE DAYS WHEN TREY BOTH
WE'RE BITTER At HEART

WtltE UT tB At HEART
mcnt, looking steadily at her, and said
before"
She drew bucl, as though she had been
struck. Good God1' she cried, why
did hc not she paused
why cid he not marry you mmselif'
he replied You must ask him that
yourself ~ YOU do not know
And yet You married me, knowing
that she gnsped
"1hou. would have married YOU
knowing @ thousand times Tint"
She covered but presently advanced
To him You have sinurd as much as
J." She said; do You dare 10 pay the
pcnaltyy
DO dare ride with YOU" lac said,
TO the elm aud beyOndI'
Ills lips framed reply, but mo- sound
}ut we win wait ill tomorrow" he
said abscutly.
why not todayf" she painfully
we viii wait tin tomorrow" he
urged, and his eyes followed a horscman
ON the hill.
why not while we have courageY
she persisted, as though the suspense
hurt her.
But lac win wait I'LL tomorrow.
Alice girl, he again repeated
VERY well, she answered, with the
indifference of despair
But he leaned against the door and
watched the horseman descending INTO
the valley.
STRING things may chance before
/ tomorrow he said tu himself. ana he
mechanically lighted another cigar, She
| idled with her fan,
He did not leave the house that after
noon. lie kept his post from the vernu-
da watching the valley lie was facing
an event which be- knew was coming
with nm iron kind OF calmncss IL was
| full Of the element of chance aud hr had
| been taking chances all his life With
| the chances of fortune he had won; with
| the chances of love and happiness he had
| lost When he saw the horsemun ON The
mountain side he hnd an Intense c0nyic-
! lion that II WIS Cayey, though he could
| not, at the distance. be- absolutely sure;
! aud he knew thnt Cnylcy would not be
| near his home without a purpose. Be
! sides. Cayley said he would come. lie
| had said Is too with q half banter, half
( threat llOughtOu was man Ok cX-
! traordnary strength OF mind, OF unusu-
nj fairness lie had had too many cX-
| periencps back aud forth n the world
10 be- afflicted with illness OF mind
He had never looked for AN immensura-
! bile amount Of happiness out
of life, but he thought that love
and marriage would give him the
nearest possible approach to perfect CON.
tent, But he had lost AZ first he had
taken Il with dreadful bitterness; now
lac regarded IL With o quite, mimpns-
stoned despair. He viewed his Wife,
himself, Cnyley as an impartial Judge
| would view the extraordinary claims of
three desperate ltigupts. He thought it
all over as he sat there smoking When
the servants came TO him 10 ask him
questions or his men Venmrcd upon
matters of business, he answered. them
directly, decisively, and went on think
ing Ills wife had come 10 take coffee
with him az the usual hour OF the after
noon, There was no especial strain OF
manner nor of speech. The voices We're
| a little lower; the tones a little more de-
clded; their eyes did not meet, that was
all Whom coffee was over the wife re-
tired 10 her room, still Houghton smoked
on, AZ lOngth he saw the hursemnu
entering into the grove palms before the
door lie rose deliberately from his seat
and walked down the pathway to meet
the visitor. lie reached him before he
was well through the gate Good day
% you, Houghton, the hurseman said
you see, we meet again.
Yes, ! see, was the reply, and be
shot scrntnizing glance at him.
And also see that you are not
oyopoyed at the meetng' responded
Oayiey.
"rherc's no reason why should b.
glad on proud Of IT,
Aud yet and yet -old friends yor
know" said the other
y did not know that our acQuaintauc,
could be houorcd By the name of friend
ship, However, definitions differ Why
have you come n
You remember, Houghfon, certain
morning nve years ago. You We're on
your way TO get married. we mot. Mar
riRRe is a beautiful thing, iionghtou
when everything Is right aud square an,
there's love; both sides Well everythint
was right and square with you aud IN,
woman You were going o. marry, hui
there was no love, both Sides"
While they had heen mlkmg thus
Honghton had, Of purpose, le,l his coni
panion FAR into the shade 90 Tho palms
He now wheeled upon Cayley. folded hi,
arlus, tightly aeross his hras, ana said
stefnly II warn yop 90 SPEAK with les,
acid Hn your tongue for Eve rnt liYel
Fmopg peopie WHO either 'aj gAe rlSh