The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-07-26

-or aJ TIE impassioned weeping Of the
beautiful girl in his arms, and the wild
broken phrases she whispered as she
olung to him. Darling, darling" she
tobbed, chow did you know 1 loved
you? How did you know I prayed to
die the hour you went away? Oh, IA
ther, father, why are you not living to
give your Suzanne your blessing"
And so Philip married her quietly the
very day after her father was buried
that he might have the right to protect
her then and there. 1t seemed to him
that he was acting quite without his
volition; that he was in sort of hyp-
MOTTO state, carrying out suggestion"
perhaps of some other mind. Every
thing was unreal and strange to him,
but he believed he was doing manly
act, and if he could not hope for happi-
ness himself he was at least making
another happy.
Dick Dunning had gone away the
very day of the wedding-gone with
the look of wounded dog in his eyes,
and as he shook hands with Suzanne he
had said: "Girl, if you ever want a
friend, you know who to call on. I'd
die for you to save you trouble, and I'll
allus be your friend" Then he was
gone. "Need a friend?" the words
seemed so idle to Suzanne. How could
she ever need anything or anybody save
Philip? Was he not all? Friend, father,
mother, husband. Oh, how she loved
him-how she loved him! She was not
wise in her love, poor child. She did
not understand the windings of the hu
man heart. She did not know that such
love as hers needed to be curbed and
hidden. She thought she might always
show her whole heart to Philip, and
that he would but grow the fonder,
seeing all it's fathoms deep of love for
him, and had she been Mildred instead
of Suzanne that might have been. In
spite of all that cynics say to the con.
trary there are loves which possession
and confession cannot quench-mutual
loves which increase with time and
know no safety.
But Philip, loving Mildred still de.
spite the fact that he had made Suzanne
his wife, found the ardent, demonstra-
tive affection of the latter almost un.
supportable. 1t was early September
when the marriage took place. 1t was
the last week in October when Philip
and his wife set their faces cityward.
Not to New York at first, but to Boston
they proceeded, for Philip realized that
even with all her magnificent beauty
Suzanne must be properly clothed be-
fore he could present her to his New
York friends as his wife.
Once fashionably attired a great deal
of the difficulty of the first encounters
would be remedied. He had been care.
fully coaching her language all summer,
and if she did not strive to pass beyond
the portals of common platitudes he saw
no reason why he need blush for her,
since her beauty would win her half the
battle. Yet after he beheld her thorough
ly fitted out with all the requisites of a
fashionable costume, her beauty appeal
ed to him less than ever before. Down
ON the little Maine coast as she hauled
up her boat and leaped into it to row
out bareheaded and bring her father and
Dick in from the Black Minnie, she had
seemed grace itself, clad as she was in
her short serge skirt and sailor waist.
open at the throat. AS she posed for
him in all the difficult attitudes in
which he placed her he maryeled at
her lissomness. Yet now in the habili=
ments of fashion she seemed awkward
and heavy. She lacked the easy deport-
ment, the trained movements of the
woman Of the world. She was not a So
ciety woman, and she seemed out of
place in her garb. Judged by merely
physical standard, Mildred Montrose
did not possess one half of this girls
beauty, yes Suzanne would have ap-
pearod at a terrible disadvantage beside
her in a salon, and Philip realized more
and more the ordeal through which
the poor girl must pass as they ap-
preached the metropolis.
Suzanne meanwhile was utterly un-
conscious of all this. She was blissfully
happy. Her new clothes gave her the
delight which q child fees in new
apron. She believed herself quite fitted
now to enter the queens drawing room
if need be, and Philip, who saw her ever
and anon examining her gown, her
jacket or her gloves with eager. pleased