Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-11-01

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gone presently. Let us see the evening
star come out together on the last night
at sea-"
And l suppose he married her and
lived happily ever after" said Harrisse,
having carried his point and turning to
DR.. Johns.
mo. she wouldn't marry him, but
when he died he left her fortune, and
she left the profession"
And the Hamertons were of the May
flower stock"
do you know-can you guess, Lucille
can you guess who my love is?"
81 was never good at enigmas,"a little
indistinctly,
'Dr. Harrisse, do you remember when
you first met me?"
at seems to me that 1 have known you
always" he evaded.
81 thought that you remembered when
first saw you here"
Gould ever forget you, LucilleT
at seems So" smiling family. "But
have confession to make"
80 have l."
"You will believe that have deceived
you"
"If this be deception, let me be deceived
forever"
She smiled family.
Here DR.. Johns joined them again.
When they parted the next morning, he
said:
81 shall see you, if may, at the first
available moment in the week. If any
thing prevents, shall write"
Sitting down to dine the following day
with his bosom friend, he said:
"Tom, you know everything and every
body; can you tell me where l met .
Miss Lucille Lindsay"
"She was the person Captain Hamer-
ton wanted to marry. You remember
old Hamerton?"
"Yes."
Forty years her senior. He tempted
her with jewels as Faust tempted Mar
guerite with kindness and luxury, but
although she was only poor little circus
rider she wouldn't have him. When he
died, he left her half his big estates. l
heard she went abroad. She broke a
bone falling from her horse in the circus.
| suppose must have set it. Gone, ehl
Been on the ragged edge Of Irritation on
the voyage3 Fancy Harrisse marrying
a circus rider! How Beacon street would
howlr'
DR.. Harrisse was perhaps thankful
that his patients demanded his atten-
ton, and gave him no time to think or
visit at once, and that an important case
made it impossible, as he said to himself,
to do other than to postpone Miss Lind
say. One day he met DR.. Johns coming
away from her presence. He had an air
of suppressed excitement about him. 1t
was year since they had parted on the
Malta. "The fellow is almost hand
some," thought Harrisse, "and he is in
love with Lucille"
He acted upon his determination to
} call, but Miss Lindsay was engaged with
headache and begged DR.. Harrisse
would excuse her.
} The words sounded strangely to him;
he felt dazed and miserable and angry
with DR.. Johns, as if his visit had some
thing to do with it. All at once the fact
} that Lucille had begun life as a circus
} rider seemed trivial and of no impor.
tance compared with the greater fact
that he loved her. Let those laugh who
win.
He never remembered having been il
| such a hurry before in his life. Why
had he postponed happiness 80 longp II
? was late in the following day when h,
received Lucille's reply:
Your kind words-she wrote-have carried
me back to those halcyon days on the Malta
when believed myself as desperately in low,
as you believe yourself to be today. confessed
Q all this to DR.. Johns when he proposed to mi
/ yesterday morning, and he was willing TO alb
= solve me-
I DR.. Harrisse tossed the letter into tn,
crate and went out to his patients.
! 1t was perhaps half dozen years later
when looking over some old papers h
happened on the charred remnants O
. Lucille's letter, which his servant ha,
!, rescued from the fire and folded away
: He opened it curiously and fingered owe
y it fascinated.
/ confessed all to DR.. Johns when he propose
to me yesterday morning-it read-but II yo
] love me-poor DR.. Johnsl should like to pun
t ish you. should like to quote to you, "Ther
: must be nautch girls and circus riders perhaps
;, but we don't choose our wives and sweethear,
" from among them" and refuse your gift-but
l. love you. LUCILLE.
n At this date, however, Lucille had lon
been Mrs. DR.. Johns.-Texas Siftings.
Some Bygone Superstitions.