The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-11-13

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terent pe0ple estimate our chm
10 Helen own intimate friendSy
relAtionsS abe seemed q gay, miscHiSi
Gus, lovlble girl, whose unohad OR0SI
veal accounted for her want III 06fl
ness, but to Mr.. Jones her Sayety -,
been conspicuous by it, absence. WhS0
he had offended her by his all1ton %.
BUTTERFLIES, how could he fancy int
he would at her stately head Into t6S:
cap, feeling angered and wound0d ~
his Just attack? She had, q had NV
been brought up on commentator, but
this self-satisfed young man always
seemed to get her at q disad vantaee;
she had begun to wish to please him,
and she fancied she had fAiled.s the
fancy irritated her q little. She would
have liked to Impress him By her
beauty, her dignity, her calmnesp. hoe
good breeding, but he did not seem q
notice her advantages. The sun had
sunk beneath mass Of gloomy clouds,
which We're gathering in heavy groups
over the now dingy Ky and cast
abroad black shadows on the hills:
the air had grown heavy, but wa
stirred by warm, rising wind When
our travellers reached the New Cut to
which Mr.. Jones had alludedl ana
came In sight Of the sea, its h0rison
was dim with fog, and the waves muir.
INJURED listlessly and softly !. " n
Mr.. Jones had warned Helen that
she would require q steady nerve and
strong head IL she was to enjoy the
View, and he was right, for the road
on which she found herself was hewed
out OF the hillside. It was ledge
cut on the side Of q mighty cliff witch
lowered perpendicularly overhead on
the left hand, and on the right de
scended q sheer prccipice q thousand
feet into the sea.
Down below in the bay the siumber.
Gus waves rippled lazily over |sunken
rocks and gently laved the followed
crags, lulled by storm and wind. The
sea-breeze was idly whispering, as II
the blast Of storm and fury was un.
known. The sea-wave was triflinR
with her cold lover, the rock, -ds IL she
could never again, spurred by the
gusts Of love and despair, break into
passionate and desperate longing. De-
!usive calm; for, soon urging and lash.
ing her misery to madness, she shall
shatter her glorious billows| into
thousand fragments as she BEATS her.
SELF to death against his impehetrable
heart. 1-a N :, -
The width of the road upon
WHICH the Dog cart was
sIaveismg was broad enough
70 admn OF two Carriages driving
q = low wooden palfng had
been roughly extemp0rized on the ex.
tleMe verge OF the precipice, but this
every mere ana there had Erumbld
away and disappeared, leavinf no har.5
rler, however rrall, between the hav.
erser Of that giddy pass and an On.
palling death.
For the first few minutes of the
crossing Helen tried to admire the
view.
'sHow beautiful" she murmureti be.
low her breath, struggling DIR those
steady nerves with the pOss{ss.on Of
which she had been credit4d. sOh.5
Mr.. jones'" with a sudden collapse al
courage, please be careful!'
At her words he refined In the horse.
Don't you like It? Shall I've turn
back? can turn in q mOmenk -
Turn! Her head reeled at Ehe VERY
thought. ma :
..Oh, no; 60 on. I like III. I'm not
afraid. You keep close to tile. side,
won't you2'
'.You are quite sure that ybu would
not rather go back? can take you
home the other way, you KNOW"
mo, no; SO on. shall get used to
1t In q moment. It is only Just at FIRST
and those sea gulls flying out below
US make me dizzy, and the hea wrig.
Cling like a wrinkled walnut, such
long, long way below"
Don't look straight down; look right
out across the bay. There ds dozen
fishing smacks sailing down, with
those tawny sails set which You I'D.
mire."
ooh, lovely" she said. .Hbw long Il
this-this new cut?'
He was walking the horse very slow.
~, and the cart was huggiIg the cliff
"a quarter of mile" he lansw .led.
"If we. went more quickly It would
sooner be over"
Eyes, but would rather lgo slowly,
Il You don't mind"
"When we round that corner" point.
ing to distant curve Of the Eli1 which
concealed any further sight Of the
road, 1--WE soon turn inland and get
into lane with twenty solid feet of
bank on either side.'
I'VE shall get there in ten minutes?n
interrogatively.
(To be continued
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