The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-06-18
KATE's LOVERS.
Is that your last word, Kate?"

You have no love to give me?"
Glow many times must you ask me?'
E "But it seems that I have looked into
your eyes, and that they have given
the different answer than your tongue.
Deny it or not, Kate, your eyes have
looked into mine and told me that I
mad small place in your heart. I
nave seen it, say what you may, and
though your voice was silent, your
eyes, my bonny Kate, have whispered
soft promises that caused my temples
to throb and the blood to rush to my
head, until seemed half mad with
JOY" s..
She, a stalwart English lass, brown as
a berry, as handsome an example Of a
workingwoman as ever lived, laughed.
but 1t sounded like a deathknen to the
man who stood before her, with face
adame with passion. He was tall
specimen Of the Anglo-Saxon type of
miner, with arms like a blacksmith
and the legs and thighs Of an athlete.
Kate was the daughter of the captain
of the mine, and came from the same
part OF England to America when the
mining industry here was almost in it's
infancy; when there was no over pro-
ducuon OF any ore, and fortunes were
more easily made than now. For some
ume Geoffry had been sutton for her
hand, and Kate had played fast and
loose until at times the demon of jeal-
ously ragged so furiously that he was
almost beside himself. To see his
Kate upright as sapling- whose
every movement was the majesty Of
motion-with the figure Of a woman
and the heart and caprices of a maid;
with the soft eyes of a deer and the
tongue Of shrewJto see Kate, the en-
bodiment of noble physical develop
ment, in the arms of another at the
dance, with no word for him, was tor
ture, keen and exquisite. And then
when he approached her, the angry
flush upon his face, there was 'balm
in Gilead' in the soft glance she shot
at him and he forgot his resentment
in the contemplation of her face. And
now at the twilight time they two stood
just without the door of her fathers
cottage. The sun was going down in
a haze like that seen on the ocean.
1t was not golden sunset, though so
near it's resting-place, but a sun of sill
yer, bright and shining, in harmony
with the snow-covered surface of the
earth and the grey sky. Above the
hills the shaft houses were sharply de-
fined against the sky, and in the dis
lance the forests those noble Michigan
forests like dark fringe
around the pallid landscape. The man
drew nearer to the woman,
H(59n VOL 6nnu Kafo hot 1,o1,. o,-oe,
have told me you might care for me ?"
"Pshaw! A woman's eyes, Geoffry?
They may say many things they do not
mean"
You mean you have been playing
with me?'
"Oh, do not say so.''
"Kate. take care!'
"Of what?"
you are playing with fire, lass. My
love must have its way-you must be
mine" ".f rf
"Must? Indeed! You have a pleas
ant way Of winning a woman. Surely
I may love whom choose"
Yes; and you love that Norwegian.
at the dance saw how you looked at
him-how you encouraged him, while
stood aside with the rage in my heart
to kill you both. Before that scoundrel
came between us tWO-'
"You forget yourself to defame a
man behind his back. It is cowardly-
If he were here"
''You defend him. You love him?''
Defiantly: "And if it were true?'
He grasped her arm with a CIV.
1T cannot be, Kate. You must love
no one but myself. You belong to me,
lass, and T.
'Let go my arn,.''
II will not"
"Cowardr'
Perhaps"
IT shall hate you.''
1T is as well since you do not love
me-"
"At last understand you. I despise
you now that I know you. Let 20 of
my arm"
mo"
1T is the part Of a man to exert
brute strength over woman. I believe
you are coward enough to strike a
woman
'What!"
He released her arm and stood be-
fore her, pale as death. One hand he
passed nervously through his hair, while
his features worked convulsively. She,
with figure erect, and blazing ewes.
confronted him.
IF that is your last word, good-by,'
he said. "Ten your Norwegian to look
out or will kill him.
Perhaps he is a better man than
you.'
Don't drive me too hard with your
tongue"
Next time you think to win sweet
heart learn how to treat her"
Kate something Expresses me.
Something is going to happen on the
morrow. Should you care if I met
my death in the mine?'
She laughed heartily.
"FIot at all''
Without word he turned and walked
hastily away. She watched his figure
vanish in the light Of the silver moon.
'Fool!' she said. HAS he not vet
learned that no man on earth may drive
z me?" s.--
Then she went into the Louise and
stood thoughfully near the window
where were many flowers. She heard
step behind her and began to hum
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