Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-10-05
MISS LEAGUES BEHAVIOR.
Written for This Paper, by E. w. Hornung.
II.-Continuca.
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CHAPTER I~I.-Continued.
"Because-because it was here that
you"
.Ah! I remember! May one smoke
in it, Car: That ! forget"
."Of course you may" said Caroline,
hurt ut his asking.
Tt took him some moments to fill his
pipe and some more artfully to light
II: The performance claimed his I'M
divided attention. And Caroline
sive sun-hat. He was u handsome, sol
aierly fellow, with fine features, dark
eyes and n mustache. Sitting here in
tlannels. lighting his pipe. he suggest
ed any type rather than that of the
British curate. which he represented.
Yet he ~wasdecently grave, and in point
Of fact u sufficiently Jealous and ear
nest young priest. He was as ardent
and idealistic as ever about his work,
as Caroline had found out from the
most fluent talk they had yet had,
which had been on this subject. In
other directions he was less eloquent.
less enthusiastic than of old; and Caro-.
line was hurt ut more than his asking
leave to smoke and pretending to for
get that it was here he had proposed
to her.
II remember, added Caroline, after
a pause that broke tho point of the re-
mark, that you u.ed not to ask per-
mission to smoke, last time you were
here"
aAh. last time I was here"
Its ages ago, isn't it?" She pro-
duced O smile.
He mentioned the number of months,
which we know. His pipe was behav-
'As Il '1 hope It will never bo so long
again" exclaimed Caroline impuls-
lively.
He regarded her relectively from
the other end of the seat. There was
a look of pain in his eyes which she
saw and remembered. Then they
grew kind.
NV dear girl" said Pennvman, ha'f
in rebuke, half in regret, ayou know
exactly how it has bsen. The length
year when l took my holiday. l was
lost her. As long as l am up there T
don't see how we a meet oftener
than once q year: but then very likely
! shan't lie there another year: surely
| may begin now to hope for a living
And I..shall get one. you'll see: and
and it'll all come right in the end
He said it kindly, though not, per-
haps, in the voice of conviction. But
| Caroline was very much moved. She
slid to his side and caught his hands.
will it," she cried, peering strenu-
ously into his eyes. Will it,"
His face filled with pity and comras-
sion. "God grant it may" he hoarsely
whispered: and he kissed her forehead
once. Il will give my life to yol Caro-
line" She never for got how he said
this.
And the days of P%ennyman's visit
and on the surface. The interesting
pair we're u good deal togetner-en.
tirely together--yet not so much rs
had been anticipated: indeed. they
proved %singularly unobiectionahle
pair in this and similar respects; they
we're sensible to a degree. Noel more
over made himself extremely agreea-
bic to the younger girls-escorted
them round the countryside -plaved
sets with them-and sang charmingly
in the schoolroom. If they caught
him, sometimes, looking worried and
perpleXed-as more than once one or
the other of them did-the put it down
to the shortness of his holiday and the
uncertainty of his and Carolinc's
future. The anne applied to Caroline,
who was remarked in the schoolroom
to be getting rather glum. This was
odd, certainly, with Noel in the house:
but naturally she wished to be married:
and now that he was here to-day. and
Off practically tomorrow, most likely
for another year, the engagement
might we'll seem interminable. That
there could be any other ground fol
unhappiness never entered those pret-
ty, frivolous heads in the schoolroom
that there was something wrong some.
Understanding delicate and deep
and vital-they were inc apable of sus.
pecting. The two were continually to.
gether; that was enough for the girls.
If they We're not happy, it was their
W iault-they ought to be; the
youn. er Misses league had no svmpa.
thy with people who made themselves
unhappy. But the younger Misses
league were not keen observers. either
or toward the end of the week they
must have noticed in Caroline signs C1
too little sleep-which even the rector
observed, though he held his tongue
On the Sunday evening Pennyman
up for hours on Saturday, writing his
sermon, ard secretly glad to be aole 81
to seclude himself. While he wa.
busy, Miss league took the opportun-
ity Of visiting some of her people. who
of course knew perfectly we'll who wa
staying at the rectory. She does moi
seem to have struck her folk as being
particularly iubilant, Considering
And to those who asked her, as M
doubt they all did. when it vas to be
she appears 10 have answered, in 8
manner variously described-
II may never be married at all"
Certainly the engagement had
dragged On a very long tine.