The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-01-07
LOVE WAS THE BEST.

Dusk Ind come in the drawing room,
but the lamps were not yet lighted, and
the young women in the picturesque hats
clustered around the littlo tea table as
closely as their huge sleeves and illimitable
skirts allowed.
They had discussed the reigning tenor.
touched delicately on the last scandal and
were now busy with Jack Rodney's name
and money. A decision of the court had
given his inheritance to another heir, and
then he had gone into Wall street and been
caught Oh the wrong side of the market
81 can't picture it." said Sally Little.
john balancing her little gold spoon.
"what will become of him? The spoiled
darlingl Why, he will have to go to
work.
"Workr' said Julia Montressor. with
those aristocratic handsf What sort OF
work? Why, what will he dor"
1.-The only thing he can do-stop liv-
ing"
/ "Oh, Bab How horrid of you'll Jack
] Rodney, the dear, splendid fellow Has
any one seen himf l wonder what he is
doing now" said Sally.
walking on his uppers, don't they call
it" said Bah.
Every one else was letting viii de Luys
reap what he sowed, but Jack made good
all the misappropriation-is that the
next term? And If it was jacks yacht
that went cruising UP the Mediterranean
and had princes on board for guests it was
his steamer that took those children from
Seven alleys down the harbor every after
noon all the hot summer
Where is Jack? Does any one know
said sally.
Going to Texas, rancbing He has
cleared up everything and starts at once,
some one said He'd like it if it were play,
the poor fellowr'
"Oh, it is really getting darkr' ex-
claimed Arabella. 1--WE must be going
Why, Felicia, how white you are! 1 should
think you were ready to faint yourself.
1.-THE sudden light" murmured Felicia
1t was while the last dinner guests that
night were still saying tender nothings to
Bah that II slender shape slipped swiftly
down the steps and passed along in the
shadow of the houses like herself. Felicia
shrank behind her veil from every passer
by. A half hours rapid walk, and she ran
up some steps to make sure of the number,
rang the doorbell, said something explain
atory to the man who answered it, passed
in and followed him to the door up one
flight Of the broad low stairway there.
A man sat there with his head bowed
upon his rms as they lay along the table
in an attitude of utter detection. He did
not look up when the door opened and
closed. But the girl crossed the room
quickly, and standing behind him stopped
with her arm laid across his shoulder
Il am not Il dream, jack" she said,
bending lower, her soft, cold chee!, touch
ing lin. Il am Felicia. ~
For one moment there were silence and
rapture here. And then the transfer men
came for the luggage.
"And this parcel, too" said Felicia.
"Feliciar' he exclaimed.
"This parcel, y she repeated. "You know
, 1 cannot go back alter coming here" she
said when they were alone again. Il have
burned my ships behind me.
: "Do you mean it," he exclaimed joy
ously And then his tone fell. II thought
, oh, yes, certainly. l must take you home
before my train leaves p"
"You will take me home? My home is
with you, Jack. ~
| you don't know what you say" he
answered her. "Oh, no. [ cannot accept
the sacrificed the eager CLEAN of his eyes
belying his words.
Jack" she murmured, "the sacrifice
, in my coming here unaskcd!"
Don't make it so hard for mcr'he ex-
claimed. "An hour ago it was the DARK
} ness of despair. l was going to bury my
, self in the ranch, ms If it were IL grave.
Now l shall go out in that new life, radi-
ant with the happy knowledge and my
hope. And even if should never prosper
5 enough to come for you, he said after u
, moment, taking step toward her, IF you
should weary in the long waiting and give
some other man the love have won-well,
, l could bear it, perhaps, remembering and
, living AMIN i'm this nights inv ~
, 'Some other manr' she exclaimed, un.
clasping his arms and looking for the hat
y and jacket that had been thrown aside. 81
D am going with you, Jack. If you can live
S summer and winter in a tent in Texas
can too. l have the fit clothes in that par
eel / have my jewels here. They were
my mothers and are mine, and have the
J. right to take them, and their price will
0 hinder my being burden"
n 1t was year after that Felicia sat ont
night in the refulgent moonlight of tn,
high prairie after a day of heat tempered
o by the high gulf breeze over 300 miles o
S flowers.
, care you sorry came?" she said.
"Are you?''
. "Do you know, 1t seems to me precisely
a as If we were living on an outskirt Of thu
O Holy Land, with hocks and herds, ard til,
fig and ponegranate and the tender grap'
giving good smellY" she said.
o Are you sure you never regret?' HI
o asked
O Regret! Well, confess / should lik
to have heard Bah read out our marriage
" notice at breakfast-and Bah so bitter TIN
$ day before for fear Of it! But regret thos
S days of littleness and idleness and gossip
a the combining clothes and cramping life
= 'I-I-miss my father, she said, ant
y her lip quivered.
i "But even," she said presently, 'if h
o never forgives us or comes to see us, and |
n poor Bah should never come down here ant
learn what it is to live, l shall be sure
my dear, that love is best. "-Louisvill
IS Courier journal.
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