The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-05-03
PART lat THE NORTH.

"Ask herself, who never weaves rid
dies and who is not run away with by |
legends" And Miss Van der Huysen
laughed innocently, her bright face
glowing in strange contrast to its mask,
so lately put off
But you did mean her once, when
you spoke of Elaine" he insisted, awk-
wardly. "And if be Launcelot-"
Then can you never be - Trist-
RAM" she finished for him, with another
little laugh. But you must go, else
Aunt Tab will be scolding us both; SO,
au revoir!'
And you will not eYplain?'
Nothing explains nothing" she an
swered, lightly. "Why, were | crafty
as Vivien, there be strange secrets still
beyond the spell of woven PAGES and Of
waving hands And besides - she
paused an instant, looking at him with
innocent eyes-"even Vivien never spake
word to lower the Lily Maid before the
godlike king-or LauncelOt!"
And with pretty but decided gesture
Miss Van der Huysen turned away, and
the Creole, with puzzled face, moved
rapidly toward the house once more.
"Vivienw repeated the woman aloud.
Her face was turned toward the distant
mountains, which she did not see, for
again the darker glow crept into the
brown eyes. "Vivien! What, after all,
was she? A woman!"
But when Edith Van der Huysen en-
tered Bennie's room a few moments
later and remarked casually that she had
been for little turn in the garden she
had the same quiet smile in those eyes
with which she had left it.
Not so the bride to be- Her cheeks
were hot and flushed, her eyelids heavy
with recent weeping The pride and
womanhood, the moderated strength of
Che sex which makes them martyrs if
need be, break down all the more help
lessly after strongest occasion for their
excl else.
On leaving Dale Everett the girl ran
, to her room, locked the door and threw
hersef prone upon the sofa, the fail
round arms clasping the hard, gold EN-
broidered cushion against her face. For
getting the flight Of time, the ceremony
to come, she abandoned herself to a gusl
of grief, remorse and self contempt tina
shook hor as a strong ague.
r But youth is elastic, and few grief
kill. Gradually the sobs came less fire
quently, then ceased, and the girl la,
quite motioniess while. What thought
y crowded one another out of place in he
- mind, in all those unnoted minutes. sh
herself could not have told. But at las
she rose iistlessly, pushed The damp hal
away from her face in weary, daze
manner, and showing strangely little o
the pale but quiet features of the menti
storm that had passed over her. Turf
ing to her dainty dressing table, sl1
rested her chin upon her hands and lool
cd steadily at her reflected face as if
4 question whatever resolve the strugg
had brought forth. Then she quiet
opened her writing desk and took frol
drawer two photographs, a note dust
with dried flowers, much mon
grained class card, and the inevitab
7 button and loop of blue ribbon, ev
v trophied with the victims and the victo
y alike of the summer tits "around Flirt
ton" Listlessly turning them over,
faded rosebud fell from an envelop
breaking from the stem and scatteri1
-. dead leaves and dust upon the desk.
w strange smile twisted the girls lips
she slowly picked them up. droppil
Ope.
81 have made my own fate" she ga
aloud, as if to the superscription
= Adriens bold, free hand. ''Havi
ID, made it, | will meet it like as true
woman as l may. In IA few hours l sh
be wife. These are the toys of chi
nj hood; they are mine no more. Only
ed future is mine-no past. Among the
mo they have killed that"
Still moving quietly, with no cloud
wo her face, without even a sigh, Benz
INV Standish piled the papers and the flow
ver in the empty hearth, touched a match
Al; them, and calmly watched while tt
Va curled into gray ash, blackening rs
,od cooled.
''' Then she turned to the desk aga
-. chose tiny sheet Of paper, and wrot
,''i1 almost automatically -these words:
nor .-,.
yer you out ti' o,'jin forced into ~
rage without love; will right the wrong
,os- done othcrs-and herself! On your honor
a., memberl Adrien must never know the love
jos him that forces these last words ever to be sig
ove BENNIE STANDS
al Folding the sheet several times
slipped it in the smallest envelope ;
rom sealed it with steady fingers. Then, 5
use. holding it in her hands, she knelt by
~ it bedside and bowed her head in sill
prayer. Long she knelt; and the 5
passing westward on his way to nis
leo. looked into the window near and t