The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1898-03-02


merelfnlly, he made his way back 10
ward the liesh ana the mime. DOWN
the 1alio ferhdila' lohS 10" VI Peo-
PIE were coming " h'H ho bot H'aieI'
ne hlado OUT that they were the peoha
wrapped IN earpoil]r'' she Is Carrying
out tho dtad. 1hey shouted at nm, He-
/ cause IL Is deauly l" approach mo
'orpse' ana he tariied mo sue htfcet
which WAS quiet ana deserted, "lth the
not weather Grassland ieilaHe "lliost
choking It, u liz WrIi aish g 1t grew
moro familiar II hls t,laihhtu senses
until inaliN he yet In Il houSe-a ~inall,
flower thatehed easifa that Ee happened
To rem6 mbtr Nety Well Indeed. IL Was
deserted now aud Il lew iirds Is lt,er,t
about III TIE --2tee flower - aud
lemon trees. - otier IT, GOLD 10
heard 1t looked cool Ill tue y"i" and
tiny patio with Its fountain long ago
gone dry, and Hastings stumbled
through the shrub choked entrance and
sat down di2zily in the shady patio
His head was rapidly growing worse
burning, dizzy. with queer. binding
pains shooting about His eyes were
queer, too for he could zee all sorts of
things
Dolores taNorite perfume was still
hanging about tho patio everywhere
but Dolores WAS not thcre-she had left
the city the day he was married in Lon
don. Therefore Why WAS it that he
could SEQ her moving about i'll the patio
before him and in the empty rooms,
with the little green lorito perched ON
her shoulder aud the SUNSHINE lighting
up her blue black hair and the red rose
Ill il; She had always worn the deep
red roses in her dark hair after the first
time that he had noticed and admired
the udornment III his careless way. But
then Ill all ways she had tried to
please him. Not n good woman she had
been very unseltish-and she had loved
him. Perhaps, after all, IL he had mar
ried her instead Of coolly breaking to
her after their two years together the
fact OF the other woman III England
the sweet, pure girl, his wife--she
would have staid with him to the last
hursed him, held To him even in death
Well IT was over with-it didn mat
ter much anyway-the wife was pro.
vided for, and If he went under all
alone i'll this plague cursed town
hueno'
And then, very tired and stupid, his
head aching horribly, he stretched him
self ON the floor i'll the shade of the
lemon tree and dozod. In uneasy sleep
he passed off into Inconsistencies, as is
the way with the tito. In another hour
he was quietly raying. The birds flew
close aud chirpcd ut him curiously. \
few lizards, attracted by the warm sun
shine, crawlod up and hasked ON the
edge of the patio near him. The sun,
going down, blazcd furiously ON him
aud increased the fever heat. but there
was no ono else.
Just about shutdown. ms the sun : RAYS.
cooler now, fell athwart the patio and
the body of the dclirious man. some one.
heavily perfumedand inrustliup clothes
came through thu pnte and thc shrnb.
berry and stood in the doorway lnolinp
about her with n tl,rc, scornfn1 evnrps.
sion that SLOWLY faded AWAY ms She
unused. over there wns the fountain
of which they had been so proud II
was dry ami grass GROWN uow Tho
lemon bushes plaut,d Inv them with so
much tender care and pruped and low
inglv tended were now great roroh
trees. murun, Il and runrlN Fvcr tbe
big rosrbush that thpv had plaut,d so
that She could ALWAYS hnvo red ro.os
WAS wild and stroppliup Fvrrvth;n,
dead, gone, Dne Slow tear triclled
down her paibted check M She locked
about and Thought These Inn, muto
thinps-howers and the Iike-wnl stir
even "A na,ueless woman intn ,onorso
and sorrow and gwen agony somc,i,,ns
She Turned to po siYbiro b.,,,l,.
Bnt som, imnnls, moved b,r ULa.
wanted ~ po bacl tbroncb tha n.,,io -
the room that Ind beon bers 6nn Ioai,
nj II ,vonld nor hu,t a.. .h., ,,.,s -.
away that nigbt Ua ,yos o,,, % ,l,s
city so shn lad he,n ,ola =, -
dencia--with that Whit. ta.od ,,.',,,,,,,
his wife. Nohodv ,yonld INV, = - shn
made n fool If b,rS,lf a,d or;aa an1
went in thar room for "a 6ttla .nao.,
When ono has neon a f,nl a,,a ~,
ono's own hoart ona h,s =, go,
She very n,ar,v stm,tIad - 49,