The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1897-03-01


good a son you had been to your mother.
/ and about the burning Of that sermon
| When she told mo that. 's' loved YOU.
The lark high in the sky poured out his
| melody. and now the pigeons have begun
| to COO in the wood.
| And you. sir" said our Kate. briskly
tapping him on tho cheek. let me Pot you
| through your catechisTn. How did d0uce
| Free Kirk minister ever allow himself to
| fall in love with glailit Jacobite girl? An
swer me that. John Knox. When was Il?
| Tell me true"
THE first minute my eyes saw you in
Muirtown Station. began to love you then.
| Kate. and loved you more every day. and
! I shah love you till ] die and al
ways"
That IS very satisfactory. and means
1 you viii never marry again"-for Kate did
not care for heroics. and could be most pro-
/ voillnE. And how many did you love be
/ fore me? Such an innammable heart must
| often have been on fire.
NO woman ever touched my hear. TIL
I met you. I had resolved to be @ cell
bate"
oh did you7 How proud 7 ought 70 be
/ 20 have conquered such an invincible. No
! girl now. n your school days2 Look me
/ in the face. Had you never sneaking ten
derness? You had. I see. Now. tell me-
an about her"
1T was not 7 alone" and Carmichael
blushed very becomingiy. "A dozen OF Us
boys We're IN love, we thought. with
/ her. and tried to please her every way
we knew.
I'll she saw us at game. we did our
best. ana II she nodded 10 Us going home
from school il added an inch TO our stat
ure. ! was not allowed TO dance. but l
got her to sit out once with me. and
quite remember tho corner. Amn't hon
sst?"
..vou ora cbarrninr- And her name and
what like was this BELIEF"
Henrietta" (Kate shudderedl but we
/ called her Harry. C'Better" said kate)
''She had blue eyes and fair hair. and we
/ thought there never could have been So
Wonderful a goddess. Twelve OF US each
4 intended to win her when she grew up
and were were quite jealous OF one an
other.
And what happensd7 Who won the
/ price"
when we were fighting away st col
/ lego and in offices. and had no home TO
+ Offer "a wife. n rich man came in and car
. ried off Harry. ] dined with her last spring.
So. You see my heart was not broken
/ but She IS "a pretty as ever concluded
I Carrnichael. stoutly. only that was not
/ love"
and afterzrards?" persisted Kate.
For awhile he was silent and then re
/ took Rates hand and turned away his
/ head.
You wish to know everything. and
/ you have "a right. for II q woman marTies
/ n man 0s ought to come 30 her with clean
/ hands. as I do. thank GOD, for Ills Srtce
/ alone kept nae from falling
I Then Kate understood that he was not
spe1l>int- 81 any ordinary love affair. but
/ Of some darker saddcr experience and her
/ hand pressed his.
..She lived tn the same house. and | DO
1 not think that she was bad. but she tempt
N...HH TT
/ sed me. ana am "" 49,
/ other mon. hut the thought of my mother
/ ...,,a ~ mo ANA walked the
4 streets am night that Is all I ana
+ a puro man: there is no other secret 10
/ MS voice was broken with the agony
/ of the confession. and the pefsp-'a'-'"
was ou mis- forehead.
Won are % good man, and mean % De
worthy of YOU As they went back 70
the lodge the woods were run OF song.
+ and th,. general was so touched 10y the solt-
ness of Hates face that lac repented nm
/ self OF his fears.
rner and ii was over Lord Hay, whom ru-
NOR had associated with Kate, and "hom
/ Carmichael had met once or twice
Little better than a gameAeeper' 40
vou SAVE" and Kate turned indignant
IN as they were coming up the WoodltNd
IN .Ir Won mean that Lord Hay is a
t-,ad sportsman for big game or small On
foot or horseback. you do MIN no more
th9n 4ustice-you know what ne has zone
on thu moor. and have seen his tiger Sims
at Eilsp.udie castle
.r have no DOUBT that he can ldN." and
Carmichael allowed himself to - sarcas-
flea mistake FIN speaking 20 a WON a.
..Tf Won now mean continued Kate. Un-
needing. that Lord Hay is coarse or cruel
or vulgar or ignorant OF anything Csc un-
becoming gentleman. then beg 20 say
that you do not know what you are sayiug
and that you are doing an injustice 10 tAe
son OF my fathers friend
HE never struck me as man who knew
very much. hut perhaps I was lnIoI tUnate
IN nv subjects: I have not had the udvan-
tage Of noble birth ana the game laws"
VERY likely Lord Hay mas not read as
many books as you''-kate was now N 2
passion-"and does not know about SO
many things. bur one thing he knows which
you do not"
what is that. may I ask?'-wi,h labor
ed calmness, for Carmichael was ais1 pei
ting hot at what he considered an unnec-
essary eulogium on one VINO at least hac
been his rival.
Good Mariners" and Kate's accent VAS
incisive and bitter. "which ought 10 PRE-
vent any man attacking another behlnd his
back. Twice I remember Lord Tag men
tiouing your name. and on both occasions
with courtesy and respect Why should
you bear IN will 10 him
why should l speak of anyone, even my
Lord Niscount Hay, with freedom to my
betrotheI. and why should you defend him
with such temper"
Because he is. and II he allow It. ever
will be my friend. DO You understano2'
Perfectly. and perhaps you now regret
that no is not moro 10 You. If YOU SO desire
IT, Cod knows that / shall not be an obsta-
Gle"
You are insolent and-cruel: yoI had
better go home and think of what on have
said this day and Kate eft aim standins
where the path breaks out of the wood
His heat lasted till he came into the quiet
OF his study-where he had Hates likeness
on tho wall, taken as he saw her frs on
Muirtown platform-and Elspeth NacIad-
yen meeting him face 10 face n the village
said never a word TO him. but exchanged
confidence with Jamie Souta-.
"Maister Carmichael was at the lodge
this afternoon. an a boot lis been a
stormy coortin', as 1t ives boon1 tie be at