Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-09-20

and fed ON the roses of life. whose
part was the husksr'
yes. I knew il. or / could not have
come. she replied as she moved away
from him. going about the room, and
pausiug at the curtainless window
place where the moonlight lay upon
her pale and impassiOned.
Don't make il so hard for me, he
exclaimed. An hour ago II was the
darkness of despair. / was going 10
bury myself i'm that ranch with its
drove of cattle. the one thing LETT me.
MS if 10 were q grave. Now l shall go
oUt i'm that new life, radiant with this
happy knowledge and my hope. And
even FL should never prosper enough
To come for YOU" he said after a mo-
meut taking o step toward her IF
Won should weary i'm the long waiting
and give some other man the love
have won-weu. I could bear IL, per
haps remembering and living again
I'm this nights joy.
Some other mani" she exclaimed,
mclasping his arms and looking for
The hat and jacket that had been
thrown aside. Il am going with you,
Jack. If YOU can live summer and
winter I'm "a tent i'm Texas, l can. too.
2 have The fit clothes i'm that parcel
/ have my jewels here. They were
my mothers. and are mine. and l have
the right % take them. and their price
will hinder my being a burden.
A burden, Oh Felicia, If l might
If I dared -
Won win have to-" said Felicia.
calmly. THE Church OF Blessing IS
around the corner. and the rector Is
my friend Jack. YOU made me pro
pose 10 YOU. 7 shouldn't think you
I would make me ask YOU 20 marry me.
THE train leaves az midnlght' he
/ said. There is but scant time-oh.
I nav darling if You should repent
/ OH YOU must, YOU Will.
Never" said Felicia And then lip
/ -o Iip and heart 20 heart they fingered
one moment before they went OUT To-
geJher ..-.
II was q wear afterward that Felicia
sat one night i'm the refulgent moon
/ light i'm the high prairie after day
| of heat. tempered by the great Gulf
/ breeze blowing over 800 miles OF flow
/ crs.
"Are You sorry 1 cameo" she said.
Are you2
DO Won know it seems TO me pre-
/ ciselv as If we were living ON an out
/ skirt of the Holy Land with fiocks and
herds. and the fig and the pomegran-
ate and the tender grape giving q good
smel2" she said.
Precisely. And the focks and
herds are prospecting so that we snail
have 10 take counsel of the prophet
Wasn't it Isaiah thar said: Enlarge the
place of thy tent. and let them stretch
forth the curtains of thy haDiJation;
spare not. lensthen thy cords.
strengthen thy stakes| Colonel Up
shur lived I'M a tent over yonder tor q
dozen years But we may build our
house next year / fancy.
with roses lying on the low roof
and @ night blooming cereus Chamber
ing across the gallery, like some OF the
houses fin the old Spanish town there
I don't know bur 1 like this better
th0ugh the lovely freedom OF IL. on,
we never lived before.
Are YOU sure YOU never regret2' he
asked Regret, Well. confess ]
sho0I3 like 10 have heard Bah read
ont our marriage notice az breakfast
and Bah So bitter the day before for
fear of il, But regret those days OF
bitterness and idleness and gossip, the
confirming clothes and cramping life
I-I miss my father, she said, and
her lip Cuivered.
But her husbands arm clasped her.
and the pressure of his own lips -qui-
oted the sob.
"But even" she said presently. 'if
De never forgives us, or comes TO see
us. and If poor Bah should never come
down here and learn what II is TO live,
/ I shall De sure. my dear, LIT love is
| host IL nuisvine Churior-JOurnal.