Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-10-03

uIsl lew DdrTeu NOIuS III which Er.
nest Deyereux told his love; which
was at that time just as cold and
scant itself as they We're, though she
Z did not know it, and he would not
have owned ii even to himself. In
that tiny creek, now slowly filling with
! the tide, she had reked up, one early
! morning, dainty drab satin shoe that
had cleared up Il mystery in tie past
and opened a sealed door in her own
heart. even as she held it In her hand
aud looked at 1t.
Poor Lefty was changed now--how
could she but be--fr0m the happy.
merry hearted gill that she was when
size first walked there; changed by
sorrow and WEAKNESS, and vain long
ing, int, mere shadow of her former
self. AS she stood there. thinking Of
The past and Of the present, the large
tears welled up in her eyes, and fell
gllsteninG down through her netted
fingers. The past might have been TO
different, The present might have been
so bright. IL 0nly--the grit Of pebbles
near her caused Lefty to look up sud-
denly, and DR. Leonard was standing
within a yard of her.
He was almost as much astonlshed
as herself. for he had come in sight
Of her suddenly as he turned ON 10
the shore out the tiny pass that tled
down to it AT that part. For a second
or two he seemed scarcely to recog-
nze her; then he came forward, his
grave face an alight. aud took her
hand and held It. while lie asked after
herself, and then. with a downward
glance at her black dress, after her
father
Her heart had throbbed wildly at
sight Of him. She had put herfiee
hand to her side ana held il there 70
keep down the stormy throbs Of her
heart before she could manage To
speak When she did, 1t was in
voice so low, In such broken. faltering
words, that the doctor could only
catch ut their meaning which he soon
did, assisted not q little by the deep
which she wore and the
sad, weary, panied look on her face
tAnd you are still in the old house?"
he said
ayes she replied; still living in
the same house; but it is little of
home to me now"
The doctor walked with Lefty as far
as the gate o. her own house, and
there left her with a few parting
words that would be his last in case
he got through the business that had
brought him to Kenmore. as soon as
he hoped to do that day If possible.
he would then be leaving Kenmore
that night; If not, on the following
one so lie told her; and If he stayed
SO long, he would call and bid her
again.
Lefty heard him like one in
dream, gave her hand passiyely into
his, and bent her head when he raised
his hat and turned from her, and
then, still pale ana trembling, she
went indoors, and In the quiet of her
own room broke the spell that was
upon her by stormy burst of tears
ooh. 1t Is too much, too much!'' she
cried out, sharply, in her singing pain:
and | can not bear it. | can moi bear
II!
Meanwhile DIR. Leonard, sitting in
he rectory parlor, was hearing from
Mrs. Wilson the story of Letty's life.
rom the New Years eve on which he
lad last quilted Kenmore, and with
INT seeing her too, and that was tr0ub-
ing him not little now, as he sat
here. 1t was, taken all Ia ALL sad
tory, and there were tears in the kind
ady's eyes as she told it, and in her
who sat listening, though
le had heard it all before Not so her
ther listeners; they were bright and
lear, with altogether a new light in
hem, as though he was rather pleased
han not to hear Of poor Letty's mis-
Mrs. Wilson was not usually Cos
ID; today she rather surprised her
by entering into the most .
minute details Of I4etty's history
ONE that would have been better left
ntold, he thought.
All the little world Of Kenmore had !
nown of Letty's engagement to ;
,rneSt DevereuX, and had agreed in
llling him scoundrel for breaking :
he engagement when The change
anne. Mrs Wilson alone knew that I
he break had come not from him, i
Mt from Lefty herself, and SO she
Did DIR. Lennapd confidentlally. n
Lefty told him. she said, "truth- /;
nlly and honestly, as not many girls
1 her position would have ventured {
+ cared to do, that she did not love
i'm as she would like to love her huS- {
and, and that she would rather not {
Q his wife lie was very much cut !
p about ii, rs far as l can UNDER {
and, Cor though there's no doubt he l
as marrying her for her money, 9
lere is quite as little but that he t
ii !