The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-11-22

Wv al dS6A EOuplt are apt 10
have certain associations with places
and things. Dicks big dog-certain1y
a noble animal-was indelibly associ-
ated, for instance, with a certain aft
ernoon walk, and that walk, again,
with certain private and personal mat
tiers between the two. Tommy, uncon-
s~ciously, had done his worst.
Mr.. Farqubar's dog, of course, is far
prettier, DEAR" Isabel answered, brave
~; but she felt a burning flush mount
ing to her cheeks, and hoped. agoniz-
ingly, hat Dick didn't remember as
clearly as she did. Men were Sc tickle
that perhaps they forgot. As for her.
she never could forget. She wasn't
sure she wanted to, now that she saw
Dick again. She believed in him; she
knew he was good and true and all that,
and she knew they would have been
happy together. She never should care
for anybody else. She never, never
would have broken the engagement by
herself. She wasn't ashamed Of hay
ing loved him. though she was very,
very angry with him still, and never
wanted to speak to him or see aim.
She supposed she would never GET over
it, for here, at this moment. though she
had not seen him for six months. she
felt worse pang than at their parting.
She was even glad that she had seen
him, that she was sitting near him.
though after this half hour she wcuId
never see him again. But this was all
to speak, to raise a finger, to let him
see any trace Of relenting from her
firm attitude, would be impossible and
u~nwoInanly. Her life was broken in
pieces and it was his fauit-and she
loved him still. Well, it was a WON
ans fatei
Poor sabel's eyes filed up with tears
here, as she contemplated the tiger rid
ing on his bicycle, and reflected that the
show u be nearly over. Tommy,
meanwhile, having been disappointed
in her reception of his remarks. pratt
tied on awhile to Dick, and finding him
also strangely unresponsive, subsidized
into silent admiration of the acrcbatic
l~ioness.
Dick pulled away at his mustache as
was his wont when in deep thought.
LIS AA1AAG- AOOs haS Gd(A uBUAA HC alter
noon walks. She was just the sweetest
girl in the world; he couldn't get away
from that. He had met all the prettiest
girls in San Francisco, and tried his
best to fall in love with some Of them.
and couldn't rouse himself to care six
pence for the prettiest. A girl ought to
realize, when she threw a man over that
way, that she ruined his life. He never
could love anybody else-and he didn't
want tot Here he had been trying to
forget all about her, and now every
smallest part of the old oyermastering
feeling had come back as he sat near
her and looked at her pretty h~alf-avert-
ed face and graceful figure. She had the
prettiest foot in the world. He would
be almost willing tohave it set upon his
neckl But no; that wasn't manly-it
wasn't right to yield. 1t was her fault.
and he couldn't submit to it-but he
loved her just the same. And now that
that COMPOUNDED lion in a velvet robe
was driving a team of tigers round the
ring, he supposed the show was about
over-and he could go back to San Fran
cisco and she would go back to New
York, and they would never see each
other again.
The animals trotted nimbly cut Of the
ring; the iron doors closed upon then;
the crowd ros hurriedly to go forth il
search of more shows. Dick felt that
~politeness at least required a farewell
bow; and as Isabel seemed bent upon
freeing her dress from some projection
IN the bench. and did not turn, he hesi-
tated before stepping out iutothe aisle.
Tommy scufned past him, and Isabel re-
luctantly left her pretense of absorP-
tion and followed. In three seconds
these two who loved each other better
than anything else upon earth, and
who were no more fools than the ordi-
nary, would have parted forever. Moth
ing could have induced either of them to
forego their evident stand on the right
of things-nothing-except q rail o.
the floor, which caught the edge Of
Isabel's shoe. tripped her violently. and
threw her, in an entirely helpless and
unidentified way, full into Dicks arms.
No resolution can De blamed for Civ
ing way under a surprise like that. It
was all very well for them to sit apart
and argue the matter to themselves and
come to ~irrevocable conclusions. But
when a man finds the one woman in the
world whom he loves flung close into
his arms by fate, and when a woman
feels herself in the embrace of the only
man she ever has loved or can love, ir-
revocability becomes but q name. 1t
was all over with the resolutions in a
fash. Every feeling of anger and de-
termination that had tormented the
two hearts in that wretched half hour
crystalized at the shock into love, ir-
resistible and overwhelming. The mat
ter was settled then and there. without
4 word. The amount of tenderness in
Dicks tonch, and the entire yielding of
Isabei's figure, said more than a volume
of explanations. And when, after 8
lapse Of n second or two more. perhaps.
than was quite necessary, she regained
her equilibrium, they would have stood
there as in an ecstatic dream ifTcmmv
had not broken the charmed silence by
an imperious demand to be taken to see
the Street in Cairo at once.-Leslie's
Weekly.