The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
A PRETTY PAIR;
OR CALLED DOWN.


| IN his pockets, and a vexed froun
clouded his handsome face. while from
time to time heuttered an impatient ex-
clsmation. II was evident that something
had upset his mental equnbridm-but
what?
Well. as a matter OF fact. it was nothing
very new. 1t had happened before. and
would probably happen again: though he
registered a mental vow now-as he had
done on every similar occasion-that 1t
never. never. never should.
To state the case as it stood. he had
just discovered that he had grown tired
OF the girl whom but a little time ago he
had thought was the only woman in the
world for him. He had made the dscov-
cry so often before that it had lost the
charm Of novelty. and now aroused a
certain amount of resentment within his
/ breast-resentment against women in gen
| eral for being unable to produce woman in
/ particular fascinating enough to retain
| his rowing fancy. Why ON earth, he Won
1 dered, irritably. were all women made so
/ that they charmed you up to a certain
point and palled upon you afterward?
For Elaine Dering. the present disturber
1 of his peace was somewhat different from
lilt OAntI women MnQil ne uaN loved ana
Z left slim, fair-haired girl, with a pale
spirituelle face and rapt gray eyes, she
seemed being of different clay from the
ordinary fin de steele maiden. Simple,
child-like and unworldly, he felt it was
impossible to attribute TO her the thou
! sand and one small vanities jealOusies
| coquetries and caprices that go to make
up the sum Of the modern womans exis-
tence.
No. she was no modern coquette, no up
to-date fiirt. who could play man at his
own game and give as good she got.
She was innocent and trusting and he
/ wished TO heaven he had left her alone.
The hunter instinct was strong within
! him, and he was untring in his pursuit of
shy game So long as the object of his
desire eluded him, he threw his whole
heart and soul into the chase; but when
once uncertainty was merged into GER
/ tainty, and he knew that he had con-
quered in that very moment victory and
vanqushed alike lost their charms for
him. Like so many men, he cared only
for that which he thought he could not
have.
Until the previous evening he had never
| felt sure of Elaine. Up to that time she
had been shy and elusive and trfie cold,
and the state of her feelings toward him
| had been subject for speculation. But
| there was no longer need for speculation.
/ On the previous evening the mysterious
glamor Of the twilight hour, and the subtle
! fascination of her serene gray eyes, had
combined together to get the better of him.
In one moment he had awoke to the fact
! that he loved her madly, and desired her
above everything on earth, and in the
next to the fact that she loved him and
was to be obtained.
That was the climax, and now-after
the climax the reaction.
No wonder that Cyril looked moody and
uncomfortable as he wendell his way
toward the hawthorn tree that had been
the silent witness of so many meetings
! and partings.
He was first at the trysting place but
Elaine soon Joined him. and the moment
he saw her he became conscious of some
subtle change in her. He could not define
it, but he felt that it was there.
He threw his cigarette away and stroll
ed on by her side as usual but the situa-
ton had lost its piquancy, and he soon be-
gan to cast desperately about for some
means of getting out of 1t.
ITS month to-day" he said rather ir-
relevantly, since came to the Hail..
Elaine nodded her fair head.
| yes" she assented, "and it's a month
to-day since / came to the vicarage."
Il meant to stay fortnight when I
came" he hazarded, presently.
80 did l." returned Elaine. with a
shrug of her slender shoulders. ALIAS! for
the frailty of human resolutions" Dead
/ lock-
Been such jolly weather, don't you
know" said Cyril desperately and dis
jointedly. Country life not so bad, after
all. Thought L should hate it when ! left
town, but, what with tennis and boating
and fishing and-and one thing and an
other I-'wen, well. don't you know"
He broke off, f1oundering helplessly.
Elaine lifted her face little so that
the uncertain light fell full upon It.
1T thought should hate 1t, too, when /
left town." she answered in her cool, level
tones; but what with tennis and boat
ing and fishing and-and one thing and
another She also broke off at that
point and filed in the blank with little
sigh
Another deadlock.
He gave Elaine quick furtive glance
She looked very pretty in the soft twi-
light, more than pretty but her dreamy
beauty did not stir his pulses to-day as it
had done yesterday
But If Elaine looked even prettier than
usual she also looked graver, and the
uneasy frown darkened on Cyril's brow
He feared that she was one of the girls
who misunderstood him, and that she
would make a scene when he told her
he was going away
well, it has been pleasant month, any
way" he said at last. urged thereto by a
desperate feeling that he must say some
thing at all hazards.
Yes" Elaine assented, dreamily; very
pleasant"
Her serene, unconscious eyes gazed
straight before her into the hazy distance
with a rapt. PARKWAY expression. She was
all in white, and she looked like a tall,
sweet, Mary lily, with her slender, sway
ing form, her pure, pale face, in its frame
work of ruffied golden hair.
"And, like all pleasant things" Cyril
went on, in the same desperate way, sit
must come to an end, l suppose. All pleas
ant things come to an end, don't they?"
Elaine nodded gravely.
YES the copybooks say so, and, of
course, they are right.
"Of course they are right" echoed Cy-
| ril.
Elaine turned the calm light of her
gray eyes full on his face.
II suppose" she said, you mean you
are going away"
Cyril was somewhat taken aback; he
| had not expected her to jump at a con
clusion quite so quickly, but, all the same,
| he felt rather relieved.
YES" he answered, Il am going back
to town tomorrow. / did a good deal Of
thinking last night and I-.well. l came
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