The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1898-09-03

trous SILK trailing behind herits cost
folds, jewels cleaning in her hair an
on the marble purity of her neck an
arms, She reads IN his glance his prou
content as standing by his side she RI
coiyes the guests he has summoned i
Iher honor.
/ The weeks which follow estabis.
her claim To- helledom. The daughte
OF Col, Smithers lfor suSh is her new
found fathers name) at any tim,
would attract attention, but with he
/ beauty and grace all bow beneath tn,
| scepter she Yields as though she haC
held IL all her life. But to the many
suitors who sue for her fair hand she
gives to one and all a gentle, firm re-
fusal. Always when alone there comes
before her mental vision the picture Of
a gallant ship with sails unfurled rid
ing the crest-topped waves, its brave,
young commander looking with
straiuiug eyes toward the land, where
lie al his dearest hopes, and words of
love from other men fall deaf on ears
which have listened 10 those uttered
by his lips. Her father too happy to
keep the child he has so long lost all
his own, asks no questions as 10 why
she does not care to leave him, but day
by day strives TO show by some ne
proof Of love his immeasuruble cc.-
tent.
So the year slips by, and the month
Belle is 10 spend with her foster pa
rents has returned. Al, so gladly her
eye falls on the familiar landscape she
once spurned, and the cottage which
then seemed the narrow scope to her
horizon now rises before her with such
beauty that IT briugs,tears TO her eyes
and q glad rush of Joy TO her heart.
)utward4y, it is no longer Belle who
las come home 10 them, who lies
'lasped TO their hearts. The graceful
'ouug form is clad in garments which |
veil suit their weareri skill and art |
rave given the picture q setting more !
worthy its beauty, but the heart with |
n is all unchanged This they realize |
s. u'ingling her tears with theirs, she
uestions Of this and that, and in her
Id way peers here and there, while
heir eyes follow every movement as II
ONE princess had stepped across their
lreshuld. But the question nearest
er heart she utters not. Has his
lIP come nome Inns tre1nples on
.r Ups pU1 she cares not speak II. lie
''I come 70 welcome her II he Is here.
u, me glao news she learns at last
lthou5 seeking. The ship in port has
"uen Wen, ana her young captain
,rnea fresh -aureIs on his voyage.
F. me morrow she VIII see him with
us sWee, thought she seeks at last {
e "eo MLereon nave rested so often J
r NhtiglsL ImDs, and. closes her eyes +
cream o.. h.m. with his image stiII
peTmost in her mind She wakens in
e morning. VIII he think me
d, gee" d. she wonders as ne makes her
.sn 'oilet5e' wearing the color he e
5 so 'Ilel tod her be liked best, but
? sun Whlch has risen in such glory f
IS again the ribbons She has so Y
reIully selected are again folded and ~
away out he Ior whom they were y
IN mas not come
80 passes away a heavy week, and L,
o-d captain and his wife look with 81
AietF on the pale cheek they at first OF
'ught so blooming, and hold anxious fe
-nsulla uons as TO whether city dis m
4lIoh mas agreed with their sweet III
"a rose IL IS no longer with pleas 10
she walks slowly down 10 the ~
Us ana stands with busy thought -
MN VINO has proved so faithless, dL
IN, as though coujured up, he Sc
lds before her, The bright color
$ her cheek, spite OF her effort at
ward caImness as he speaks.
ms IS an unexpected surprise, "
$ 9mItherS' l hardly hoped to find
mere,
Use you would not have come. in
" presence requires no apology. 35
lily to forget old friends" If
forget. Would to God could for th'
ne interrupted her 20
year ago l left bright. lovely ul6
who promised on my return to be deI
" ne or X long months no word ira
ned me, but l came home with Fir
u Iull OF hope to find her not dead, IL,
true, but dead 10 me-changed
Id name. Had some magician ~ :, Il
.a his hand, no greater transfer hu
on could have been wrought. Do the
MOCK me Miss Smithers. I have SOU
10y suffered enough, and raising in
lat he turned to go, but stopped, the
5ted by her voice. 1t was very son
but every word fell clear and dis ~
upon his ear. a..
our promised wife is waiting me
sue said. is IL for her to tell sou
hat she has grown weary, for her tigu
lie that her probation may end? 1.2