Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-26
Eyes" said she.


''Open this iron thing"
A momentary feeling Of aversion
caused her to hesitate.
do you hear-do you mean to say
Rosalys." he began.
Mono. OF course I will!' She
opened the grille and he came up and
touched her hand lightly.
kissing not allowed, suppose" he
observed, with mock solemnity, Sin
view of the fact that you are to DO
married tomorrow
you know BETTER" she said. "Of
course I'm not going to commit bigamy!
The wedding is not to be-"
Have you explained it to him?"
"N-no-not yet. ] was just writing
it when
"Ha-you haven't. Good. Woman's
way. Shall give him friendly call
tomorrow morning?"
80 no, no-let me do it," she i'm
plored. II love him SO well, and it
will break his poor heart if it is not
done gently, O God--if l could only
die tonight, while he still believes in
me! lou don't know what affection
have felt for him. she continued, mis-
erably, not caring what jim thought.
"IIe has been my whole world And
he-he believes me to be SO good! He
has all the old-fashioned ideas of mar
riage that people of your fast sets
smile at. He knows nothing of any
kind of former acquaintance between
you and me. | ought not to have done
it--kept him in the dark tried not
to- But | was so fcarfully lonely!
And now I've lost him! If /
could only have got at that register in
that city church, how | would have
torn out the leaf" she added vehe-
mentlv. -
That's a pleasant remark to make
to a husband,'
"Wcll-that was my feeling: l may
as well be honest. didn't know you
were coming back any more; and you
yourself suggested that l might be
able to rcmarry"
You'd better do i'll shnn't tell.
And if anybody else did, the punish
mcnt is not heavy nowadays. The
judges are beginning to discountenance
nformers on previous marriages, if the
aew-assorted parties themselves are
satisfied to forget them"
Don't insult me SO. You've not for
gotten how to do that in all these
years.
There was II silence, in which she
with passive gloom regarded the famil-
lar scene before her. The inquisitivc
v.rnnI-TA,-p 5h1f
lodged at their case thereabouts, as if
knowing that their proprietor was a
gunless woman, all slept calmly, and
not n creature was conscious of the
presence of these two but n little
squirrel they had disturbed in beech
gear the shady wall. Durrant re-
manned gazing at her; then he spoke, in
a changed and richer voice:
"Rosalys!"
She looked vaguely at his face with
out answering.
GLOW pretty you look in this star
ligh:--much as you did when we used
20 meet here nine or ten years ago!"
"Ahl But"
The sentence was broken by his
uDEu w iuoNtiltib loTNdIu. 1lC sttLtu
her firmly in his arms, and kissed her
before she was aware.
"Dont-don't" she said, struggling.
"Why?"
81 don't like you'll don't like you!"
"What rot! Yes, you do! Come
damn you, dcar-put up your face as
you used to! Now, I'm not going off
in huff-l'm determined l won't; nor
shall you either! = Let me sit
down in your hall, or somewhere,
Rosalys. I've come q long way to-day,
and lin tired. And after eight years!"
II don't know what to say to it
there sno light downstairs! The serv-
ants may hear us, too-it is not so very
late"
1--WE can whisper And suppose they
do? They must know tomorrow"
She gasped sigh, and preceded him
in through the door; and the innocent
Al.