Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-31
/ TEMPTATION.

/. The morning OF Au - - ,,o,+,5
p W h h,s arrived on business connected
w \. i , practice at hotel in a wet
r BIZ ' M ppirbt before awoke suddenly
i'Nn ~ a,ioa Al having been abruptly |
|d mi early, and after listeninga
va /. ,' tonnd that everything outside
'sns " ,,ss silent. Thinking he had
oo haturnel again on his side, a
~, .,,iroi paper then met his view 1t
sl.s,d to the pillow. surely II hau
here the night before.
nm and rubbed his eyes. He look
N. No was certainly awake, and
F. n. Nh n.,er was still there,
I .,sl,s Ms senses, be unfolded the
W" ~ words were traced upon II in
!, ss,naeristic and peculiar and ut
~. ss.s,yn to him. The young man
- onrneys toward the west may
N aisdom his footsteps backward
rs-tackward to the spot where
"a y, lsn the better part OF his soul"
! \ vas no signature,
e ,anr man rose and went to the
q twas still locked from the inside.
,rel 10 the windows. They were fas-
& .sarely. Nor did investigation on
Z apisds disclose the presence of fire
WI other means by which entrance
4 Sunng the night have been effected.
+ /, room all things were as they had
a M when the occupant had retired.
Il Young man dressed and repaired, with
Il A, 70 the Office. Nothing unusual
tripspired since the night before.
2,,hs then, the victim Of Authorization?
Tie strip OF paper with its curious
writing was there, a tangible reality.
IL better part Of his souln were not
4 IL terms 10 the young man. Thespot
rated In the mysterious communica-
a vas perfectly clear to his conscious
Il By whatever agency, natural or SUI
startl, this message had reached him,
. id not refer but to one circumstance,
!. ( had happened, what was happening
4 tast, al that place where, truly, he
+ Mt the better part-nay, the whole
) soall
might be the sport of some grizzly
K hal Joke He knew not. lie might
+ easy dupe. He cared not.
+ had explained nothing to himself OF
had occurred. But few hours later
IN hin At the railway station of the
taem town purchasing ticket for the
; met Mr.. Bhao Mira of India"
H read the invitation for the garden
~ at Wildwood Hall.
sapphire sky arched over sea and
~ and over the stretch of emerald
~ under the old, far branching elmB.
NE air theater had been erected for
day, and there scenes from Shake
i bad been played by u little group OF
trained actors, The twinkling jet of
ains showered with prismatic drops
ink and purple and the white ole.
elef guest, Bhao Mira, turned a
"a of his deep black eyes on the
'-ealkeS by his side, the young mis-,
. Wildwood, the daughter Of the
All the brilliant olearness of the
Z loitness Of the wandering breeZes,
rgme Of the flowers, seemed to him
ented in this slight, girlish presence,
r. with the poetry Of II summers,
's@ the incarnation of every lovely
Anature and art. The yellow sheat
IA On her dropping garden hat was
Y golden than her hair beneath it.
1aaq Mira, looking back ut the vista
sad SKY between the elm's branches,
" the azure Of both pale beside the
\ ght Of her eyes blue depth.
'ole they knew it they had wandered
non The crowded center of the fete,
nsa Ethelind lifted her glance TO his
~ ulnidly, with the rose leaf colof
sag INTO her cheek, the color thut
'aeie when she addressed him:
+ I. '0ia me that some time you would
& { y ne Of yourself-of how you hap
+ ~coale here, so far from your OWE
r..
"a nN ,ilent moment, and then h,
Auile sadly and the look of hi.
~. f''si'Mote. Yes, it is far" he said
!. I. 'lpsafed to be speaking almost u
n. - lew men Of my country, few
q ,ssa hlndoos, tome to your England
eNsi lot knowledge, but we-some o.
+. ~ Tue means Of acquiring by othei
s II 'ash insight into life that wisdom
w ", men Of the oceident seek vainl,
X ABOUT the earth. And yet we ais,
70 arr compelled by an inwart
Z wander forth amid new scenes
& ~, y that it may be given us some
5. 3p5ip others. Perhapsn-his voic
Five are sent forth to NEE
"a ~. maj experience, some grea
p'auon, at the ends of the world.
z .-ssp' They had reached d point O
.'s'efed garden path where It'll
K 1tuNnpd rocky promoutory. !
ueneh was about the terrace. BE
- natgr washed against the roe
Ethelind sank upon the bench
-, s. her hands in her lap; her breat
Young bosom. '''''''
n "a lneiiably happy. He was tellin
-s.ulhg of himself-he was lifting
n \. :. nv. sie veil that lung over that nv
Il, iiA'slehee which his new friend
II. pFosaie western world divine