Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-21

without being either selfish or unjust.

SOs e VnOuSduU t1tu0S no.
MY darling, we must love one au-
It to me to decide. and 1 have decided.
1t will be a pang in some ways-a risk
IN others-but it must be; it ought to
be-. Love Is best. Come"
Il would have lived" she cried
yes, would have lived. One has no
right to breakO ones heart and die till.
God chooses. But life with YOU, and
lie without you-oh, the differences"
Roderick clasped her in his arms,
n they wept together like little
children.
Once again Roderick wrote to his
mother, informing her that he had de-
iayed his marriage for three months,
hoping against hope that after all it
without q parents bles sing. but that,
whether or no, 1t must be. He al.
lowed her no possibility of believing
that he could change his mini.
While opposing, he eve deceived
her, for deceit is always cowardice, and
whatever he was, Roderick was no
coward.
1t was on one Sunday afternoon,
which they were spending with the
coed Reyniers at Chaumont. They
had climbed the hill through the long
Pine woods, and were now standing
watching that lovely view, the triple
chain of lakes, with its long line of
snowy Alps beyond. The air was mild
woods. 1T felt like the first day of
spring, which always comes, as it were.
with q message of promise to tnc
| young. Ay. and eve to those whose
youth is only q Iever-fulfilled renem-
byance.
"Silcnce," frederick said, as he took
in his tho hand that would DO his own
through life. II have finished all the
work had to do here. Now, when
shall we go home?'"
"HOme?:"
"Iour new home, andmine; the home
we are to share together"
Startled, she faltered out something
about waiting a little longer"
Il have waited. 1t is now nearly nino
months since the day at Berne, when
81 did lul see her passing by,
And yet / love her till Idie.'n
II would have been very fool
ish," said Silence, with q naive gravity;
unless you have followed up the ac-
quaintance, and come to know me
Well" Suddenly putting her two hands
In her lovcr's-"You do know mo,
faults and all, SO take me; and oh! Ee
good to me: l have only you"
And 1 you. You will be coed to me
ALSO" =
She smiled. Little use in talking,
but l think there will never come q
day when L would not cheeriully die, if
my dying could help you. My living
will, much more. So / meanto live"
And she looked up fondly, with all
her soul in her eyes, ut her young
bridegroom. Would she forty, fifty
years hence, see in the old mans face
that of this lover of her youth, the
face forgotten by all but her. God
knows. but it is good to believe SO.
The marriage was arranged, of
course. to be quite quiet. AN the
usual Swiss festivities, the soiree aux
bouquets before the wedding. and tho
ball after it, We're of necessity omitted.
Tho Reynier family alone were to "as-
girls implorca Silence would, for one
Jay only. put off her mourning and as
sumo proper bridal white. She as
sentcd, because my mother would
have liked it. She used often to talk
OF the day when she would dress me as
Il bride.
And she would be glad. so glad. if
she knew that you were taking care of
me, > said Silence, with Il blight smile,
though her tear, were dropping down.
"Also u little, that 1 Was taxing Il L of
you. She used to say it WAS my meter
always to take care of somebody.
Therefore,. adieu. my mother! You
will not forget mo. wherever YOU are;
nor L YOU"
She laid her cheek Oh the white
headstone in IL pa sion of sobs, then
suddenly checked them all, gave
her hand to her bridegroom, and suf-
fered him to lead her away home.
le did not see her again till next
morning, when Sophie, Marie and
Jeanne Reynicr led into the salon and
left be side him, shutting the door
upon them both. the whitest, loveliest
vision. More like an angel. than u
woman, he thought then, o ever
ceased to think, though he never saw
it but once in his life. On that wonder
full wet morning when the Delugo it,
self seemed to have come back upon
torrents all his old life. and begin the
new life with his wedding day.
Suddenly he stopped and kissed, not
her lips. but her hand. She looked
surprised for an instant. perhaps just q
little hurt. then perceived at once the
deep emotion, the tender reverence.
"Oh, my love, my love forever!
Thank God!' said she or rather
breathed than sail it. as she put both
arms round his neck and chung to his
bosom. She was1Dut Il oma after all.
Soon after Roderick led his bride,
both quite calm now and smiling, to
the two carriages waiting below. He
and she and the good Reyniers drove
through the soaking streets to the.
damp, empty church, where, strange
contrast to his sisters brilliant mar
riage, they two stood alone, with not
a creature of their w blood beside
them, and heard the old minister in
his unimpassioned voice addr IS them
rs mon cher frere ct ma chere srur,"
recommending them to observe "une
inviolable lidelite. une cntiere conti-
ance, ct n affection tou ours plus
profonde." Then, having answered tho
few questions of the Swiss marriage
liturgy. simple AMI Protestant, not UNI
like his native Presbyterian service,
the young bridegroom listened as if N
q dream to the final blessing.
"ttue Dieu, notre Pere en- Jesus
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