Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-03

Carer she retorted indirerently, swing
ing her vizor in her hand. For what?"
For me or for any hing!'
With GOODNESS that appalled, me she fin
fshed the verse she was humming. Then,
Your finger hurts. Therefore, you are
going to die"' she said with sneer. You
see the fire. and therefore you must be
burned. Why, you have the courage of
d hen, flea, mouse, You are not worth
the name of man
Il am man enough to be hanged"
answered miSerably.
"Hanged?' quoth she. quite cheerfully.
DO you think that any man was ever
harged for three guineas?''
-.Ay. Scores | said. And for less!"
Then they must have been cravens like
your. she retorted. perfectly well salts
ned with her answer. And spun their
own ropes. Come, silly, cheer up A
great many things may happen in a week.
And if that vixen is back under a week l
will eat herr
"A week won't make three guineas."
said dolefully.
No but a good heart will" she rejoined.
And not three. but thirty! Only" she
continued. looking askance at me. ''you
have not the spirit of a man. You are
just Tumbledown Dick as they say, and
as well-named ninepence.
1t seemed uncomfortable to me that she
could jest merrily and carry herself SO
gayly after such loss. and l stopped
short, in sudden hope and newborn ex-
pectation. and peered at her, striving to
read her thoughts Il don't believe you
have lost them | exclaimed at last.
Every groat. Dick. she answered curt
ly. yet still in the best of spirits Never
doubt that
ON which it was not wonderful that my
disappointment and her cheerfuinesS
agreed SO i'll that we came to bitter words,
and. beginning by calling enc another
thankless and clutch-penny, rose presently
to fool and jade, and eventually parted
on the latter at the garden fence, where
Dorinda, SO far from lingering as ON the
former night. fiounced from me in pas
sion, and left me without word OF re-
gret How miserably after that l stole IL
bed, and how wakefully l tossed in the
close garnet, l cannot nope TO convey 10
my readers. Suffice il that hundred
times | cursed the folly that had led me
10 ruin, a hundred times went hot AMI
cold at thought of the dock and the gal
lows; and yet, amid all, found in Dor1rdd
heartlessness the sharpest pam 1ei'
sure row, and told myself continually, that
she mad never loved me. Therefore-at the
time it seemed to follow deemed my Owl
love at an end, and cast her OF, and heap
ing the shdrpest Ieproaches on her Read
found my sweet couSoiatlon-Wher- itl
l wept miserably-in composing a last
dying speech and confession that should
soften at length that obdurate bosom and
break that unfeelins heart.
But with the Gay, ana the rlslhS 10 III
Ynineut terrors and an hourly fear OF de-
lection, came first regret, then sei-fe-
proach-iest i, TOO. should De somewhat III
fdult-then a revival OF passion, ldStiy,
frantic yearninS TO be reconcIled TO the
only person to whom l could speak freely,
or who knew the danger and strait in
which l stood. My heart melting like wa
ter at the thought. | was ready to do any
thing or say anything. to abase myself 10
any depth, TO regain her favor and have
her advice, and the absence of MIR. and Mrs
D.. and Mrs Harris cas!ness rendering il
matter of no difficulty to seek her. in
the course of the afternoon l took my
courage in my hands and went into tn.
next house. There l found only Mrs. Har-
The little slut has stepped out" she
said. looking I'D from the pot over which
she had been STOPPING. She asked leave
for half an hour and has been gone an
hour. But il is the way of the wenches all
the world over. Do you beware of them
MIR Prise she continued cycling me and
Laughing JOLLY
/ maze some trfling answer and re-
turning 10 my own domain with all the
Pargs of loneliness added TO those of ter
Tor, sat down in the dingy. dreary school
room ard abandoned myself to bitter fore
bodinSS- She aid not, she never could have
loved me- | knew 1t and felt it now Yet
must think of her, or go mad. | mus,
think of ner. OF the cart and cord: and
so. thencefOrth. l had only eyes for the
next garden and ears for her voice Tn.
boys and their chatterng and the neces-