Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-08

torrent aud in this temple Of nature
gave tho word TO each other that may
never be gainsald.
"Deur Anne" he said, FOR he was a
serious man. not given to iinc speech,
on this rock We plight opr troth. Here.
with no human Witnesses, but thous.
and eyes to see IA, We promise 70 love
each other always"
'on this rock she echoed, as she
chung to him
"Ou this ruck.n he wont on III the
evil time should come when love has
grown cold ani bitterness has come into
| its place, we must meet TO break the
ties IN the presence Of the same witnesses
which have seen rs seal them this
day
son this rock" she whispered. cling
ing closer, as he bent aud kissed her.
Then they passed under the vines and
through the low hanging branches into
The open grounds, away from the brink OF
the great chasm. aud rtrulled back To
their hotel with the newly made music
In their hearts and its softer notes mur-
mufing in the words they spoke,
Three months later, when the leaves
were crimson and gold Ia all the forests
aud the air was touched With the CRATE
tul crispness of the first irosts, these
two became one, ia the old church where
Annes mother had been married aud
where Anne had been christcnel aud Il
seemed as Il no cloud could ever shadow
the blue Of lhoir sky,
But the clouds will came, and TO some
they show no riffs through which the
sun may slime, and TO these, ere the
yonr had gone. the clouds came.
For three wears more they thickened,
and then the owl time came when they
thought Il was not possible for them to
live thu life their married lite was, and
they resolved to sundcr the lie which
bound them,
WHY they had grown apart In the
dreadful fashion neither could say.
She Inns been frivolous, as most young
women are whose lives are passed IN
plenty. and he had gr0wn cold and hard
as men do who devote themselves 10
their ambitions.
lilo had not thought enough Of her, mud
she had thought too much of herself.
| With thans a premise there can he hut
one conclusion, and that conclusion they
had reached
And moro In sorrow than In anger for
each Of thcm but with that calm cold
moss which nothing can melt.
| "You remember Annie" he aNid 70 her
gently, when they had ended the confer
cnco which was to finish their dream oil
! love and hope, I'VE promised each olhet'
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