The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-11

thia, saying that her heart must be of
stone when she sent the man that loved
her on such an errand. l looked at Gym
thia, just to see what she would say, and
her eyes We're flashing like lightning, and
her lips We're set as if they were carved
in stone IF VIII Tregarthen is a-coward,
he is no match for mev she said. But l
called back-'I am no coward Cynthia,
and shall claim you for my own when l
come back" And / plunged into the waves.
There have been folk in Polwhele. sir,
who were mad and wicked enough to say
that Cynthia wanted to get rid of me
when she sent me on this errand-if so l
may call it-of hers For no one expected
that l should come back alive.
And it was a tough job. I was able only
TO save one man after all The others were
mostly swept off the decks and rigging
before I reached the wreck: but this one
man had managed to hold on. and l
brought him to the shore more dead than
alive. And the great shout that was sent
up by the people on the coast as they saw
me coming i'm on the top of a breaker, with
that half-dorwned man upon my Shout
ders-for it was the only way of getting
him safe TO land-reached me even through
the roar of the tempest, and rings in my
ears stll-will ring there, l fancy till
die.
For when my burden lay high and dry
upon the beach, 1t was not at me that Gym
thia looked 1t was at this strangers face
La foreign, olive-skinned face, with jet
black hair falling over the forehead, and
the lips drawn back in a sort of CHASTITY
grin from the white teeth. He was insensi-
BILE only, but Cynthia thought that he was
dead ! noticed that he had a bandage on
one arm. 1t must have been tightly drawn
or the wafer would have washed il away.
"Luisr' she cried. ooh, Luis Luis!"
And then she fell down in a faint be-
side him, and the rumor went round from
to .r1,.a 1a1
| risked his life TO save Cynthia's lover
| from the sea
Well, that wasn't quite true, as she care
| fully explained to me next day. Luis Oil
viera had been an old friend of hers in
jamaica; she had played with him when
| she was a child; and it was the shock of
recognizing his face that had caused her
| to faint upon the sand OF course, /
! quite saw the reasonableness of this, and
| only begged her to put it out of her mind,
and to remember that I claimed her as
my own, and begged her to name the day
| for our marriage.
She put it off. She said she had not
meant to promise anything. and that she
was too young to marry; but she said it
so gently and sweetly that I promised to
say no more about it for three months TO
come.
Ii was January then. But before three
months were over l knew that my chance
was gone. When the breezes blew soft
| from the sea, and the flowers were spring
ing up here in the green graveyard, il was
plain enough that Luis Oliviera was the
man of Cynthias choice and that VIII
! Tregarthen was forgotten.
I'm fair to confess that I did not like
the man. He had a furtive way with him.
a queer, sinister kind of look out of his
jet-black eyes, and a scowl on his fore
head which didn't go with my ideas of
an honest man. Sometimes il seemed 10
/ ~ Ill.
| him. She watched him in a half-fascinat-
ed way when he was not looking; then
when he glanced at her she did not blush
but turned ntue pale. and looked away
l could hardly believe that she really cared
| for him.
1 remember now, about that time. they
came up 10 the church together, and found
me sitting here on the wall of the grave,
yard, which was always my favorite seat
when | wanted to think a matter out [
| had come there to think out the relations
! between Cynthia and Oiviera But when
/ saw them coming I got up ana strolled
| about among the graVestones, as if l was
just on the point of going away
| Cynthia saw me-sne had a quick we.
Don't GO win Tregarthen," she said
| Il have heard that you know more about
this old church than any other man in
Polwhele except the clergyman. Do let
us go inside"
l humored her although Oliver las we
called HIM sneered; ana pushed open the
heavy church door, and asked her and her
lover to step in.
Not L, thank you" Oliver replied I'm
not a church lover.
He halted on the threshold. therefore
and afterward walked round the church
yard. while l showed Cynthia the points
that l thought would interest her most.
We came at last TO the little window
shattered but not yet blocked up-and |
explained TO her its former use and pur-
pose To my surprise she turned deadly
white and drew back with a look Of hor-
Tor and disgust
"Lepersl But you have no lepers in Eng
land, surely"
They We're before our time; IL is an old
story" I fastened to assure her. "In an
cient days there were leper houses I'm
different parts of England and I have
heard of leper windows in churches besides
ours. Why DO you look so startled Gym
THAI?
Because" she said hastily, It have
| seen and heard more OF lepers than you