Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-02-15
HEARTS DESIRES.

"Couldn'. you walt for moF' asked tho
boy eagerly
"wait for youl What an absurd idca,'
laughed the girl. "why, you nro only 10.
II will be- ten years NJ least before you ARE
Ablo TO marry, and In ten years shall bo
quito old. You see. continued tho glrl
sngcly, 81 am old enough TO be- married
now, and that Is whore tho difference
comes In. And l am golpR to be present.
ed and 20 topArtios and wear lovely frooks
Il do hate those shabby old thinPs-and
then shall marry somebody rich and great
and live In tho world. I'm 80 tired uf this
little poky place, with nothing but les.
sons and Sunday school children and rhou.
matte old wumcn"-whon suddenly look
ing down NJ the golden haired lad stretch.
ed ON thoturf at hor fcct-"only, Of course.
shall miss you, Herbert"
THAT Is all very well for you but wha,
II 90 become Of moi | want 20 marry for
love, and how can n you 20 and marry
somebody clsci' said tho boy plaintlyely.
at Is quite easy, " answered tho girl a,
she pluokcd stem Of Towering grass, thcn
grAvely counted, "'Thls year. next year.
some time, never, this year; think Of
that You must, Of course. fall In love
with somebody who isn't married. You
can't really be- In love with mo, | think,
because you arc so young. and am not
In love with you. arm almost the only
girl you know, and you arc used to mo.
We are like brother and sister, but that
Isn't love"
How do you knowi" asked the boy
jealousy. Are you in lovei Old Tomp-
kins Il the only man about here"
Don't be cross. Old Tompkinsl A
bald head, speotaolea and perpetual sniff.
iie. No, Herbert, I'm not In love with q
man ut all. I'm In love with life and
wealth and power. II you'd always worn
hidoous old frooks that didn't III and had
boon kept at home all your life with stupid
goyernessos, because Il Is no good spend.
ing money ON n girl until IL will pay from
tho marrying point Of view, you would
know what I feel like. But you have
your ambitions too. You want 10 DO ~
great poet you want all the world TO SEQ
tho rocks and woods and the oyerchanging
soa as you see them, and TO hear the sky.
lark and the nightingale as you hear them.
Isn't that enough for your
mo, l want all that and more too. oh,
Meg, can't you see that you have boon tho
Inspiration OF all my poetry, that II IL for
you I've written tho songs the birds sing
TO mo and painted the pictures our eyes
have seen togetheri This beautiful place
will be all empty and droar whom you arc
gone. Must you goi Stay here as we
have been until get some money, II you
go l cannot come after you, and what am
70 DO heref'
The girls face grew troubled and her
eyes wandered far out 20 sea, whore q
white sail had Just appeared above tho
horizon
who does sho say she isi'
shes tho widow Of Lord Hhrdworth
Hc was fabulously rloh and hold some
position in the last cabinet, but he was
an awful sklntllnt and not exactly what
ho should have been In other respects
He's been dead about two years. Splendid
woman, isn't shsf But she looks as though
she had not found life all beer and skit.
ties. I"
II believe 1 know something OF her then
Wasn't she Sir John HAughton's only
daughtori'
YES, and an unoommonly pretty girl
Directly she came out sho carried OF the
prize OF the scason-at least 80 my mother
said, and she was pretty sure TO know tho
quality Of the goods upon tho market, DO.
cause my second sister came out that same
spring.
Look, she's speaking TO that curious
looking little man with the rcd hair who
turned up at table d'hote yesterday. He
looks like musician or an artist Dear
mo how she has frightened up What
Will you bet he isn't an old lover She
doesn't look more than 20, with that prot
~ blush and the smile, and 10 think Of
their being thrown away on that withered
specimen Of humanity. Thoy are strollinR
into the pine wood. II that isn't tho last
chapter Of u romance In real life, III ven.
ture 10 eat my hat must ind out who