The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-03
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o.. Ur short ul Hr.I|u. according fD tNn
p vrr'- mood. sent i.s VOICE Uut painting
or tr'iug % meet mm Hn begun to bllo
o. sound off DO and lu wish chat Our'.t,a
W u'l sometimes WlR upou tho subject
-la Dad told him how Young Aless8u-
df1 Soc0uuett, who won prize m the
DO terry, had wanted her, and how Joe
y cen. the peanut veuler had vaiuly i'm
Ri .cl on her love. and even of her cousin
Angelo, who had tried To- coax her TO for
gc, his yiusmp. Why had she forgotten
10 mention this strange boy who played
tha accurliou3
Pat seldom saw her alone now. except
ing when occasionally ON sunday after
moons he would take her with the chill
dran for @ ride up 10 the park. as had
been his habit for years, While the little
ones played under the oaks or braided
clover wreaths near, he would sit ut her
feet ON the guarled roots of the old trees
and tell her about his life at 1.-THE Dutch
mans and sometimes, thoughnot often,
he would speak of how he had missed her
out of his daily life.
lie avoided this as much rs possible,
however. 1t was so hard not TO be a little
tender when in his Irish heart was smol-
deling q fire that at the hghtest breath
would flare into a flame.
lie had promised himself and her to
wait until she should pass her eight
zenith year before allowing her 10 bind
herself by solemn promise
She knew that he loved her; that he
was working early and late, living with
people who were in touch with him only
in heir determination to make money,
and that it was all for her.
Sometimes growing weary of his 81
leuce she would invite declaration by
some naive question put in monosylla-
bles, as when she said one Sunday as
they rose to start home;
You like me yet, Wooua?"
Like we yeti Arrah musha, an whut
re We sayin, darlint2 Like We? Sure
love We from the crown av yer purity
little black head to the sole av yer two
feet, an all the way back, wud lap
overt An why dye ask me that
But instead Of answering him she only
col1red like rose and said:
I'm glad"
Aud Pat, lifting the children into the
car felt like kicking his wooden leg to
the winds and flying, but he only said
as he sat beside her.
"Begad an I'm glad ye're glad ma.
vourneen. Sure sorrow'n dim my day
whin we're sorry" And as he raised his
eye he saw sitting opposite young man
who smiled and tipped his hat to Car
lOtta-and under his arm he carried ar
accordion.
- he looked upon him Pat felt q
SILVER pass over him, for he thought he
had never seen "a youth so beautiful a.
he.
THAT'S Giuseppe Rubino," said Car.
lott :, looking into his eyes with the di.
rec ness of a child.
IS it, indade? Sure 1 tuck i'm for a
Wis IN Of Stint Joseph or wan av the
angels. An isn't he beauty
de sings pritty," replied the girl, a
she might have said, 1T is CROWN!
colo, =" or "Thc river is rising"
Pat regarded her with covert scrutin,
for q moment. Could it be possible tina
she lid not see that this tall brown boy
wit his soft red lips and white teeth
his ofty movement and languid grace
was creature Of rare and poeti,
beauty?
Had she, too, not seen the red deeper
beneath the olive of his cheek when hi
eye met hers? Had she not learned il
all the summer evenings what Pat hat
caught in twinkling-that the you'll
loved her with all the fresh ardor of
nature fashioned for romance?
II seemed not, for she remarked il
the anne even tone:
He comes ev'ry evenin pass the tim,
away. He plays nice"
If she had been saying she hated tn,
boy, it would not have kept Pats hear
from humping against his waistcoa
while his eyes rested on the beautiful
youth who was helping the girl he loved
to pass the time away" during his alb
sence.
'An whut does he do for Twin? Sur,
there's little money in the machine h,
carries wud all its putin an BLOWN"
Hes pore. He works TO OF Socola
He hates him too. He's savin up. Bime
by he's goin too start for itself"
IAN who told We all that, Lottie"
"He toll me-"
San where did we meet umg"
HE come to fetch my paw a not
from OF Socola. He says he seen me frs
in his sleep one night. He talks funny
don pay no 'tention."
1t was time to stop the car, but befor,
Pat could do so the young man pulled
the strap and was going out.
please to make you 'quainted wid
Mister Rubino, Mister Rooney" said
Carlotta as Giuseppe, smiling, JOINED
them, and the three, Carlotta in the mid
die, followed the children home.
If Pat appeared at disadvantage, nc
one was half so conscious of it as him
self as he hobbled beside the youthful
pair ON his wooden peg.
Ever since he had loved the girl he
had been keenly sensitive in regard &c
his lameness. Indeed he had even
once gone so far as to try to repair it by
wearing an artificial leg, but as Car
lOtta had shrunk away from it as some,
thing uncanny, declaring that it ''made
her think about dead people," he had
discarded it after a single experiment.
1t seemed but natural that Pat should
sit With the "Old folks" while Carlotta
and the youth joined the young group al
the other door tonight. 1t was quite
natural that Giuseppe should presently
be playing the accordion for the crowd
The same thing had happened before
manl time, and yet tonight Pat felt il
all a he had never done before.
"A fine look'n chap is this young mar
Rubino," he said presently to the sig
nora
She shrugged her shoulders.
And who is 'ey' he pursued.
Carlo sayce 'ees-a wan good steady
young man; bud me, know northern
'bouo who ees-a keep-a comp'ny weeth-a
Clot a." And the shoulders shrugged
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