Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-09-20

w Sc ny li,VlM poor. lou nre
%&cNNTSGi3A somebody; I am no
-sElti(:ss,f ii}},,sssas body. But tho time
T-S-i'-sa' -->-'-,'s''z>1F may come when the
promise will bo worth something, and
L will keep it"
An hour before this speech was
made, Frnnk Millnrd had saved Paul
Holbrook's sister from watcry grave,
md brought her snfe in his strong
arms to very spot upon the bench Mt
Newport where tho two men now stood
together.
There never were two men so utterly
unlike ns Paul lIolbroo1 and Frank
Willard. The first hard working
professional man, who had struggled
for such little success rs Fate Ind
mctod out to him. unnidcd save by his
own hands and brain Tho other n
man who had fortune for his friend
from his lirth who neither tciled nor
spun; who was II man of society; II
member of clubs; and ono with whom
women always Iel in love. From that
day they were friends. And so it came
to pass TINT, walking down Fifth ave.
nue. ono day arm in arm, they met
Rose Lewis, TINT Frank introduced
her to Paul. that thu, y turned and
walked n block with her, and that, II
few evenings afterwnrd, Frank took
Paul TO call upon her.
She was beautiful. But that tells
You nothing about the woman-.-ihc
frank, sweet, womanly woman with
whom Paul fell in lovo before lie had
known her month. Wrapped up in
his profession, engrossed by strug-
giles for broad and butter, which, while
they seldom prevent IL man from do.
ing great things, always unfit him for
society, Paul had known few women.
Hd had no experience by which to
guide himself, or by which to measure
his own feelings. For whilo ho did
not guess that he was i'll love, and SO
was drawn nearer and nearer to the
whirlpool, until, when tho truth Mt
last dnwncd upon him, there was no
retreat. 1t was ont of the question
that she should like HIM. II was i'm
possible for him now to cease to love
her---to he happy without her. That
she could care Tor him never entered
his mind that she did, would havo
been an absurdity too preposterous to
dream of.
But it was true, nevertheless. Rose
enid, eff he cares 30 little for me, |
will mako very suro that he does not
guess caro- one whit for him." Paul
said, "Sho shall never laugh at me,
though she does not love me. She
shall respect me, and never guess her
power, whatever pain feel" And SO
they met and parted, day after day I;
and no ono guessed that anything
troubled the heircss but Frank Willard ;
and only two, the same Frank Willard
and Pauls sister Ruth, saw how pale
Paul grew. Poor Ruth who in her
terror asked Frank Willard ono DAY,
II he thought that Paul were i'll.
Gle is SO unlike himself" she said.
81 nm frightened, Mr.. Millnrd."
And Frank had said, az think that
your brother cannot DO very i'll. Ii
anything troubles him that will pass
away"
"But do you know of anything that
cnn trouble Paul?" asked Ruth. And
Frank Ind answered, "Pcrhaps guess
Mt something, but 1 am not certain"
They wero together good deal,
Frank Willard and Ruth. 1t Ind
entered PauPs head Mt times, that this
fellow liked his sister very we'll; oil
late, that it Was possible that he loved
Der. But Ruth, at seventeen, seemed
child to him.
AS she had said, ho worked very
hard, but toll could not Danish the
"haunted thought" of his life. II
grew stronger instead of finding. Al
last he resolved to try what charm
there might DO in absence; to leave
the city; forbidding himself to meet
tho woman he hopelessly adored; ant
nvniling himself of tn offer which
promised to be stepping stone to hi.
professional success, put barrier o.
miles of lind and water between him
self and Rose Lewis.
AT the Same time Rose, scornine
herself for the infatuation which sh,
could not control, had also resolved tt
leave place where every day bore il
its arms possibility of meeting tn,
man who, with indifference. in hi
mien and GOODNESS in his speech, still
haunted her presence 30 persistently
and following an example already Sc
by most OF her fashionable friends, gt
to Europe. The A's were going, ant
the BIS. She should have pleasan
company on the voyages, so she sale
to Frank Willard. On the same even
ing Holbrook spoke of his departur
to South America.
'1ts good offer," he said. '
shall make money, AMI get on. o
course it's hard to leave Ruth alone