The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-06-29

on occasions The day arrived however
when the gods seemed To turn away from
their concerns and everything went sud
denly askew. An evil spirit came upon
the scenes-a wealthy evil spirit, old and
in love (it was preposterous Din love with
sylvia and Sylvia fell under power Of his
spell, for she met her lover one day with
a pale little face and said: Temple, |
must marry him. There are my sisters
you know, aud the boys: The mother
insists. We are so much poorer than /
knew. and she says that you and / might
wait forever
sylvia" he answered, "this is simply
nonsense / refuse to take you seriously"
s'But. dear, we cannot marry, can we?"
what could we do on five hundred a
.eari"
well" she answered. with sudden
merry look in her blue eyes. 1--WE might
love on that you know"
Precisely, love In cottage, ETC.
Even In quite nice little house, ~
"You can't possibly propose"
Certainly not. don't. That's exactly
the question. We cannot love one another
in a nice little house on five hundred q
year, therefore 1 must marry some one
else and live inla palace without love on
q millionv'
Temple Lewis opened his eyes In amaze
ment "Ahl" he said after a considerable
pause, ''you are all alike, you women.
Money. money. you'd sell your souls for
II tried to sell it for lovel'' she said.
sS sssRS wiss s smseut t.s Auffsn fsmns '.a dd s
know In the least what she meant
Women are always illogical when discuss
Ing any serious matter. He therefore
strobe with manly strides up and down the
room and frowned and bit his lip. Then
at last he came to n staDdstill and said
with really noble calm: lyon mean to
marry this millionaireY"
The sight of his beautiful, strong face,
pale with suppressed indignation-just
indignation-made the tears creep into her
eyea What do you suggest, them" she
said.
look of dismay. What should suggest" ?"
''I don't know" she answered. and the
tears went back whence they come.
Sylvia was engaged to the millionaire
and Temple Lewis was miserable. HE Is
60" he reiterated over and over
again to himself, and set his teeth. "Who
would have thought that Sylvia"
Meanwhile Sylvia looked wistfully at
her lover when she met him, so that he
who was old caught the look one day and
knew that the little girl he was to marry
would sacrifice all his millions for that
.Iackanapes oven now If What was
that ifY A month passed and hs watched !;
this evil spirit watched. peered into their
souls; broke his own heart to see tho
clearer through the cleft into theirs.
Sylvia loved the Jackanapes-the Jacka. !sc
napes loved Sylvia--and money was the
"if'-not with Sylvia even, only with the
,jackanapeH One morning the million
afro came TO Sylvia, and he said;
my little girl / have been dreaming
o. old men are wont to dream, a very,
pretty, golden dream. Well, that's over.
Whilst was asleep, dreaming. the little
and suffering, just that my dream might
be golden. That sort Of nonsense wouldn' &
do, would 1T Now listen; Jackonapes has
got post
''JAckanapesf"
~ beg your pardon-Mr. Temple Lewis
"a very good post--a thousand year to
start With. And now you can marry and
Marry and be happy What do you
Just that little girl. That is how 1
love you. Good-bye 1t was the prettiest
dream In the world, my dream - He
stopped down and kissed both her hands,
and she leaned suddenly forward and
looked into his eyes. "You gave him that
post !" she said. but helonly smiled sadly
Temple Lewis found her next day sit
ting In the great big drawing room alone
her hands idle In her lap and q wondrous
look I'm her blue eyes. He felt suddenly
shy and could hardly stammer out bis
satisfaction with her, with himself, with
the world In general.
"Oh Sylviap' he said. ''you are not GO
ina to marry that man after all, and now
NOW i have sucn splendid posJ."
"You will be wanting wife, suppose,
In such position"
"Wby, yes, Sylvia; / should think so.
They expect one TO be married, you know, "
He sat by her side and took her hand in
his. There followed little silence then
he continued "Sylvia, now we will he
married ut once, won't weY You do really
love me? You did all the time, didn't
you? Now that you have sent him
away"
''Tcmple" she said, looking eddy up at
him, Il did love you-Dut don't now. l
don't love you at all. love him.
Loved you Why, no; (; I never loved you
What am / saying? We aid not know
what the word meant. o it was a mean
sort Of substitute. ours-but now | know
what o poor thing this love you. who
are young, offer to us Temple. / had
read In books. In so many books about
love. and ! always said to myself: There
Is no such thing. These are poets fancies
No one IN the world loves like that.
And heard people saw: She loves him
be is in love with her, and l thought
suppose they love as Temple and l love,
and / began To see what an honor you
were conferring on me, for all the young
men and every one else seemed 20 think u
poor girl was privileged whom young
men condescendeu to notice"
''Sylvia, what are you sayingy"
"Ol You loved me In your way. no
doubt, but not so much as you loved
your clubs your luxuries. your very
smart clothes. your shooting was low
down In the list of your pleasure Some
thing must be foresworn. and ! was the
ono You founu the easiest 10 do without"
She looked up ut him with no malice In
her look and laughed; then added
"Someone else determined TO do without
me too ~
Some one elsei DO YOU mean that
that scoundrel threw yous''
Hush His motif was different. you
esc--I have asked him to come back.
Temple, the books did not Iie-the poets
fsncics we're not only fancies. All when
some OF you are as old rs he you may
have learned To be as great hearted and.
perhaps. II you try very hard, as delight
fuj, !" she added demurely.
IL don't understand anything you say.