Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-08-16

So twenty years crept away. Dolly
had remained in her aunts home,
helping with the children at first, ind
afterward working. down town; for
her aunts daughters needed every
thing, now that they were grown up,
and Dolly was used to looking out for
herself.
And now the waiting was over at
last, and she would be Roberts wife.
She would rather have waited for this
than to have been queen long ago.
1t seemed to her that the very
leaves knew and trembled MS she did,
with joy; and the stars twinkled
down between them as If they, too,
knew all about it,
The town clock struck ten and Patty
and Ben came in from the reading
club They always fingered little
at the gate, us the manner of lovers
is, you know
Dolly smiled as tho soft murmur of
their voices came to her. She Won
dered if the poor young things would
ever be as happy as she was then!
And then. as they walked slowly
up the path, words began to grow out
of the soft murmur.
BOD Brent mas struck H. 'ney say
BOP remarked III ms 'elegan0 way anu
rneey rePilcu mlournluliy
lyl Poor faithful, loving Dollyw
"Sorry? Why isn't she in it?
thought they were-"
"Why, Ben" Patty broke in, with
tears IN her niue puoyisu voice. can
you see that poi'y Is only 1aaea'
'nluule-ageu wolnun now, wiii,e NOD
cru Is IN ms prihe-Uhe .hahusoineso
nun llu, IN eoWh' Anu maven you no
tieed now ne aainires hltVy' ~ wts
Vu wei enough Wiieh ne couion
marry' out now
buU the words were inoistincO agaln'
Doiiy hearo no more
She hau risen from the naIiInock
anu was sVlnuihg' Wnloe anu sun, IN
ele glare Oh tne electrlc llgn~ ne
s'arS were iiioching ner no" aooVe oile
ioWer ligne unu tne oretAes Wers
Whispering Vi 'ne o"enVy years V,'"U
n'u roiled over her' carrying her
ireshheSs "Wny'
Ben saw hcr there when ne came
down to the gate and bowed with
CHEEKY, Good night Miss Dolly and
went whistling his newest favorite
Gown the street
Then Dolly crept up to her room.
And | would have let him do it! I
never would have thought of the
change. Oh the shame, the humilia-
ton of it! To think that l, faded
middle-aged woman, would have
held him to the promise made to
n fair young girl twenty long years
ago! He was too true and noble
to let me know, too tender to hurt
me. If only ! had seen! 1t is all so
different with women, but l never
thought OF 1t before. 1t would not
matter to me now changed Robert
might be; I'd love him only the more,
if he needed more. But he is grandly
handsome and-and he must have a
young, pretty wife. 1t is best, l see
that-best for Robert and for her and
for me; for l couldn't bear to have
him sorry or-or ashamed"
She loosed her dress at the throat
and pressed her hands against her
temples.
ne muslin be ashamed OF ms
wne' DEAR ialtninl hooert' lie must
be happy now that the world is
brighter for him can bear it-for
nm
ana then she wrote letIer' and
"nen IL WIS nnlsneo, sne hneiG ny mgr
peosiaei ana tne stars twlnNlea IN
anu inc breeze lanne,' her paie' CAIN
race taaeof oh' tne beauty OF II
Us she kheit mere giving up an she
nelu GEAR "ha1 are olhples ana al
iresh prettiness compared 10 beauty
NE mat You only ge' inc soul
aIter shese are gone
In the morning before any OF the