Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-11-27

even herself.
MY beloved. can't you see IL 7" he says,
with deep emotion.
Every well. then; I will marry you
some day. And-and to.morrow--it must
be tO.mOrrow--yo will let Roger know
! am engaged TO you? You quite under
standf
He docs, though he will not acknowl-
edge II even to himself.
"Dulcc, my own soui!' he says, broken.
"; and .knceling on the grass at her feet
ne lifts both her hands and presses them
passionatcly to his lips.
They arc 10 cold aud lifelcss that they
chill him to his very heart.
CHAPTER MI.
The dnys have grown shorter aud short
or. Daylight now II 10 be prixed, not
sportcd with. M In the gay and happy
summer. "'rhc inat,iiblc and noisclcss
foot OF Time" has carried us from Gold.
en- September" to blcakcst winter. and
Into that month which claims Christmas
for it, own.
At the Hall everything 10 very much the
same A. II was when last We saw II, II we
except the fact that Roger II absent. He
II abroad; 80 much abroad, indeed. that
nobody knows where he II. A week after
his departure he had written to Sir Chris.
TOPPER, and the week utter that again to
Mark Gore: but beyond these two mca.
ger attempts at correspondence no news
has been heard from him. Whether, ms
Mr.. Browne hns elegantly expressed II,
''he IL up the Nile, or up the Spout" Is u
matter OF speculation.
Sir Christopher II looking q little older,
q little graver. He In not NO testy as Of
yore, a change that Nils Dulcc's heart
with misRivings. That he has frcttcd
greatly over her broken engagement with
Roger (who n to the old baronct 40 near
~ his own son should have been, and
second only to Fabian In his aRcctions)
she well knows: she we'll knows, too. how
agnanlmously-to plcasc hcr.-hc has
tried 70 be civil TO stephen Cover. and
to welcome him with cOrdinlity rs his III.
turc nephew.
To-day is melancholy. cold. and bleak.
! The winds are signing. the earth II bare
and naked, no vestigc Of fresh and com.
ing life can yet be seen. Upon the gray
sands, far away, the white waves dash
| themselves. the sea birds shrek, and
'blasting keen and loud roll tho white
surges 10 tho sounding shore" Indoors
there In warmth and comfort.
Portin. passing by Dulcc's door. and
finding Il open. pauscs before Il. and fnnl.
". after some hesitation. she crosses the
| threshold. Dulcc. coming upstairs, pres.
emily, finds her sitting over the fire. In an
attitude that bctOkcns the very deepest
detection.
"You here, alone" she says, gnyIy,
stoop.ng over her In cnrcssing fashion.
"Naughty girl. You should have told me
you were going to honor me with your
| presence. and ! would have made my
room gay to receive you"
~ don't want you to make a stranger
Of me, ! like Your room as IL is" says
portia, with smile.
swell, don't sit crouching over the Dire;
II will spoil your cOmplcxiOn; come over
10 tho window, aud see what the Of ,rm
has done, and how lovely nature can look
even when robed In winters garb."
Por,in, rising, follows hcr To the win.
dow, but ~ she reaches II she sinks again
YEARLY into a lo,,nging.chair, with all
the air Of one whose limbs refuse obsti-
nately to support her.
A. both girls guxe out upon the chilly
landscape, white here and there with
snow that fell last night. Fabian, coming
from between the dnrk-green branches
Of nm ancient lnuristinus, with two red
settlers ut his heels, and a gun upon Ills
shoulder, passes beneath the window, go
Ing In the direction OF the home wood.
Leaning forward Dulce tnps lightly on
the pane, ana Fabian. hearing The quick
sound, stops short: ana ''fts his eyes "a
the window. As he sees Ills pretty sis
ter, he mods to her. ANA u bright smile
crceps ronnd MS ''ps' rendering ms ~,
ways handsome Iace actuaiIy pcautiful
Tor the moment
Only Tor moment; MS gaze wander
Ing instinctively, rails on fortia, standing
pale and calm beside her cousin. Their
eyes meet, ana a. u Dy magic the smile
dics' MS lips grow straight ana colo again.
and without another glance, he turns the
corner, ana IL rapidly out OF sight:
Dear FnD'ah-poor dar'ihs' says
Dulce, tenderly' VINO mas noticed only the
kindly smile vouchsafed Tor her' how
SAD nc always LOOKS Even MS smile u
more mourn ',, 'n"m .ne 'v%r. ~ o."s ~
Maat 'erui"'c p,.Ss LEE. , ' ov n m" p a",u
upT" W Wrh do aum iI ~" " a NV. v -"
.m' Wna. :" w. u.".'"'' ~" '"'' Wv
are NOT wen to.aay' - ,s. .,
aha puNe well = a'n any .o'. =.
oh' spenk'hs WIN some a'."eH.tS, Wv
were snyihs some,h'ns apou,L' ap'an'
10, h ,n,t 70 s m,urm o. nun hm, 'ns mos.