Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-09-22

| shadowy face, and felt tina. indeed
was not. but there was something ia
the expression Of the grayely sweet
mouth. which would not allow her to
81. eve over Esperance's early troubles
The passing Of train changed the
current Of their thoughts.
Tomorrow perhaps | shall have q
letter from Gaspard, said Esperancs
with a glad light in her eyes. II have
been counting the days, and if the
mail IS early, letter would get to
Rilchester on Sunday, and ] should
have # forwarded by tomorrow"
And with that they began TO talk
over Gaspards prospects In Ceylon
and Frances heard, for the first time
all the details Of his visit TO Ril-
chester
On the Monday afternoon Esperance
was quite well enough 10 enjoy
drive. and Frances took her In tho
pony-carriage along the shore; sh
was enchauted with the sea and wa
very DESTROYS to go on it at once.
81 am not sure what your doctor
would say 10 that" said Frances.
But In a week or two you VIII be
stronger, and then we might try.
and we will row 10 that little
island. Of which I can not say the
name" said Esperance, eagerly
like II so much. 1t looks 40 lonely, 1usl
broken of, as It were. from Anglesea.
It will be delightful to be really on
the sea. / shall know what the yoy-
age TO Ceylon will feel like-lt will be
good practice"
Frances smiled II was thinking
about your letter-shall we call at the
post-office and see if it has Gomez"
ooh, If we might" and Esperance
breathed more quickly as France
turned the ponies heads, and drove
up the village street She tried hard
TO believe that she did not expect any
thing. and waited, trembling with eX-
element. till Frances appeared at the
door Of the postolllce with a reassur-
ing face, aud yes 1t really was
letter in her hand.
1T has the Rilchester post-mark, "
she said, and Esperance let fall the
reins, snatched at It, and almost tore
the envelope to pieces In her hurry
To open It. within there was indeed
the precious Enclosure, a thin, blue on
yelope, directed in Gaspard's nourishy
copper-plate writing She df1 not
hurry any more-now that she was
secure Of the letter there was no
need and In truth her eyes were
blinded with tears it was pleasure
enough TO hold II fast, and to reflect
that one OF these messages would
come 10 her now each week
Frances drove home quickly, and
then In the quiet Of her own room
Esperance opened her letter.
1t was delightfully."- long and closely
written each day so fully described
that she seemed to be living through
everything with him, and her happi-
ness was all the greater because she
had net expected such details, for Gas
pard's letters from London had been
necessarily poor IN this respect, and
had generally been written In a strain
OF forced merriment In order to veil
from her his sufferings But this was
a really i1urnal-like description, writ
ten with delightful ease, while little
colloQuial expressions here and
there brought the tears to Esperance's
eyes All. moncCeur n you could
have seen this" or when you come
cherle, YOU will enjoy that"
She lived with him throughout the
voyage, learned TO know the laconic
captain, ana the graphically described
passengers, entered into the landing
at Colombo with it's hustle and con-
fusion and heat, laughed over Mr..
Seymour's jokes. aud the accounts OF
the shopping and BARGAINING in tn
town, then travelled with him TO-
Dickoya, and saw his future home i'm.
Mr. Seymour's bungalow. tried 10 UNI
derstand HE size of the estate given
10 her In an almost fabulous number
OF square kilometres, and sympa-
thized with Gaspard's difficulty in
learning Tamil And II. when AZ last
t. was ended, she came back TO the
present with something of q shock
mud was obliEe1 20 have a good cry
yrt Frances understood an perfectly
and instead OF adopting Coraelta's
plan OF pointing ont the extreme in
gratitude and faoUshuess Of such be-
havtur pcttej and earreSsed her I'm