The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1895-08-30
Dawson Brothers & 60.

manned gazing at her; then ne spoke, IN
a changed and richer voice;
'Rosalysl"
She looked vaguely at his face with
out answering.
"How pretty you look in this star
light-much as you did when we used
to meet here nine or tenyears agog
"Ah! But"
The sentence was broken by his
abrupt movement forward. He seized
her firmly in his arms, and kissed her
before she was aware.
"Don't-dOntw she said, struggling.
"Why?"
Il don't like you'll don't like you!"
"What rot! Yes, you do Come
damp you, dear-put up your face as
you used to- Now, I'm not going off
in huff-Tm determined I won't; nor
shall you either! Let me sit
down in your hall, OF somewhere,
Rosalys! I've come a long way to-day,
and I'm 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"
I'VE can whisper. And suppose they
do? They must know tomorrow"
She gasped a sigh, and preceded him
in through the door; and the innocent
squirrel saw nothing more.
Three hours and q half later they re-
appeared. The lawn was as silent as
when they had left it, though the
sleep of things had weakened down to
a certain precarious slightness; and
round the corner Of the house a low
line of light showed the dawn.
"Now, good-by, dear" said her hus-
band, lightly. You'll let him know
at OncC?"
"Of course.
"And send to me directly after?"
"Yes."
And now for my walk across the
fields to the hotel These boots are
thin, but l know the old way well
enough. BY Jove, wonder what Ne
LAME"
"Who?"
''Oh-what Melanie will think,
was going to say. 1t slipped out. I
didn't mean to hurt your feelings at
all
'Melanie-who is she?"
"Well-she's a French lady. You
know, of course, Rosalys, that thought
you were perhaps dead-and-so this
lady passes as Mrs. Durrant."
ROsalys started,
in fact, found her in the east, and
took pity upon her-that's all. Though
if it had happened that you had not
been living now I have got back, I
should have married her at once, of
course
''Is-she, then, here with you at the
hotel9"
30 mol wouldn't bring her on here
till I knew how things were"
"Then where is she?"
81 left her at my rooms in London.
O, it viii be all right shall see her
safely back to Paris, and make little
provision for her. Nobody in England
knows anything of her existence"
"When-did you part from her?"
"Weu, of course, at breakfast time"
Rosalys bowed herself against the
doorway. "0-O-what have 1 done?
What a fool, what a weak fOol!" she
moaned. go away from me-go awayp
jim was almost distressed when he
saw the distortion of her agonized face.
''Now, why should you take on like
this! There's nothing in it. People do
these things. Living in a prim society
here you don't know how the world
goes on?
20, but to think it didn't occur to me
that the sort Of man"
Jim, though anxious. seemed to
awaken to something humorous in the
situation, and vented a momentary
chuekle. We'll, it is rather funny that
I should have let it out. But still
Don't make a deep wrong deeper by
cruel ievity.. Go away"
you'll be ia better mood to-mor-
row, mark me; and then III tell you
ali my history. Therein gone! Au
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