The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1894-06-09

marry me, anu is going 10 fnhrry OlC
Lord that is, great Daimio
who was potent in wealth and vener.
, able in years. IL was terrible scene.
Tradegar was nearly mad. His friend
watched him closely, took him home,
and remained with him hours till the
fit had worn itself out by it's own
efforts. There was the awful dread
of suicide"
"Ahv gasped Lady Sciva.
Eyes. Tradegar himself suspected
at last, and he swore solemnly by all
he held sacred that he would never
lay n finger on himself. Il am tired
Of life, he said: Il have bid adieu to
the world, but / promise you that.
Still look on me as dead Two days
after that he left England, and the
next heard Of him was paragraph
in the papers telling OF the slaughter
OF n handful of English by the Khan
du Khor.
His name was in the list OF dead.
1t seemed, too, that he might have
escaped, for his horse was better than
the rest and unwounded but he
stayed behind to pick up a wounded
comrade, and he was the first 10 be
speared by the savages. If he had
! lived he would have had the Victoria
Cross, but he died md then | un-
! derstood."
"What?"
"That he meant to be killed. He
would not take his own life, but he
threw himself in the way OF Death
and that is all
Lady Sciva had pulled at the lace
OF her fan until it was torn in several
places, but she seemed not TO be
aware OF this ruin.
When Merose had fnished-and it
was strange TO note how all the levity
had vanished from his voice and
manner-she turned TO him abruptly.
"Why did you tell me this horrible
thing?" she demanded with fierce in
tensity. "Do you mean to fix the
guilt OF his death Oh"
"On no one. Believe me. The
guilt if there is any, lies with the
dead-may he rest in peace now
For hold that no one human being
has right TO hang his life on the
favor OF another, and blame the other
when the support gives way-by
time, or natural change, Or"
How little you know" she i'm
terruptod passionately. " The sup
port did not give way"
Indeed" replied Melrose, with
slow deliberation. THE aged man
did not tell me ALL it would seem"
"IIc told you all he knew, perhaps,
but the girl told me"
"A curious proof Of telepathic
power" murmured Melrose, for the
girl, OF course, was in Japan"
"The man was very singular man"
continued Lady Sciva, passionate,
capricious, excitable, in some respects
almost like woman, in others almost
n perfect man-so the girl said. She
was young, you understand, and |
knew little about men. She fell in
love with him at first sight, and from
that moment she was entirely swayed |
by his influence-lived only in the |
thought OF him. | have said that he |
was capricious.
Zone evening he would dance half |
the night with her and the next |
morning would pass her in the street |
with an expressionless face ani II
distant movement OF the hat.
He would be with her several |
times in the day for awhile, and then
would not be seen for fortnight, |
perhaps. He would ask her il she |
would be at home at such an hour,
and when he came would talk to her
mother, or sister. or friend-any one
rather than her. Oh, the tortures
she went through! for she was in
love with him, you must remember.
"If she had not been so much in
love, she might have managed him
better, but she was like the foam on
the wave which is tossed and buff
feted between the sea and the storm,
until Mt last it is dashed on the
rocks. Then the old man-what did
you call him?"
"The Damio - which means
Lord. ,"
"The Daimiol" echoed Lady Sciva,
with quivering lips. The Daimio
was kind to her--always Kind; and
when Jack-I mean the man-was
unkind, she went to the Daimio, be-
cause she could trust him, and she
thought that no one could say n
word, as he was so old.
What | cannot understand, F" re-
piled Gordon Melrose, with n judicial
air, 'is, why, If she loved him, didn't
she accept him-the man | mean?"
why because he never asked
her"
Never asked her2 But he said
she had refused him"
'He never said word to which
she could give either refusal or con-
sent. He had told her again and
again, in voice and manner, and above |
all with his eyes, that he loved her;
but never said SO, and he never said
word that could be construed into n
proposal of marriage. Could she ac-
cept him before he had asked her?