Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23
curtain falls to hide the gaudy scenery
and rest the tired players.

curtain TAILS 10 niue the gauuy scenery
and rest the tired players.
1t was a glad summer day In late
June. Far up In little wooded spot
on the side of the mountain sat man
and a girl. They had met at. the
little inn below a month previously,
and he loved her with all the ardor OF
youth, and the strong heart Of man
who knows he has found an ideal
woman. From the first he had never
looked in surprise at her when she
spoke her thoughts. He had been so
careful not to hurt her sensitive mind
He had gently put aside her perplexing
ideas with a practical suggestion, and
had not laughed at her childish
speeches. Day after day she became
merrier and more contented, aid when
at last he could still his heart no long
er, he told her Of his love. and she
knew that she might give her life into
the keeping of Wynne Lawrence, and
never fear that he would misunder-
stand and wound her tender heart.
A week Of glad days had passed. and
then they had met May and her hus-
band, and Star received her own little
speech from her friends lips. This
June day party from the village were
bent on climbing the mountain. OBJ
stinately refusing to 60 farther, these
two fingered half way UP the ascent
30 ho nf ho RI
grew fainter and fainter.
The girl looked away to the south,
her beautiful eyes glowing with a
strange, new light. A little troubled
expression Swallowed them for a mo-
ment, and the keen eyes of the lover
saw 1t.
"Star, you know that I love you.
Surely you cannot doubt it,"
Sne glanced at the strong, loving
face and answered TREMENDOUSLY: "No,
don't understand it at all; but 1 do not
doubt you. I could not do that, be-
cause l love you. 1t seems as though
l had been wandering all these years
and had, at last, found rest. Wynne,
dare be so happy" He did not an
swer in words. There is yet a more
expressive way.
1t was long after when merry laugh
floated down to tell them that the
others were returning.
THAT is Mays voice." said Star.
"She and my father were the only
ones who cared for me-"
Her eyes grew questioning. what ia
it, sweetheart" he asked, tenderly.
Il was thinking" she said, as they
went to meet the returning tourists,
that though many hearts break be-
cause of loving too mucn, one might
almost break from loving too little"
The man turned and took her in his
arms.
do you mind my thinking?" she
asked in childish tone.
81 love your thoughts" he answered,
gravely.
More than me?" she asked, saucily.
"They are you," he replied. land you
must always give them to me, for, with
you, they are mine"
lHSy oioWly lOllOWeu lue OIucIo
down the trail; so slowly, indeed. that
the stars came out before they arrived
at the inn.
"They are telling me to hurry" said
the girl.
"Who?" asked Wynne.
my sisters up there-the other star
eyes"
"They are jealous" he said; that is
why"
II used to envy them" she murmur-
ed, "and now they are envying me"
and she laughed little, soft, contented
laugh.
"Wynne, do you think there are none
in heaven but the good?"
Eyes, Star-eyes. Why such ques-
tion?" he asked, wondering If she was
nearer the skies than those other stars.
II wondered if / had been good"
she said in the old, childish way. II
know it now"