Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-10
the dazcd wonder. the rapturous ques,

int haHtu NhniitT, Nhe rdDtuIous lufs'
tiuning, of his.
Ii was his look more than his voice
that presently spoke in his worShipfuI
My darling" And then he was silent
for awhile, covering impulsively with
her dear hands his eyes, from which
the glad tears were yelling over. III
you were my wife now" he tentatively
muttcred after moment "If could
have you with me all day long" lie
broke off with little sigh, his GLANCE
ranging about the small, bare bed
room. But l could not ask it, sweet
heart; of course could not
"But il you do not ask il, don't know
how can say ycsTo it," Dorothy muir,
INJURED, dropping toward him in sweet
confusion until il needed hut the yield
ing of an inch to answer the pleading
of his eyes and lay her hot checks
| against his in soft carcssing.
Dorothy" Ii was all he could say.
hut all his doubt, his eager questioning,
his trcmulous joy, found expression IN
| the one word.
"Nou see" aud the girl drew back
from him a little, striving tn assume a
more matter-nf-fact air for the rNplana-
ton which ste could hardly yet put
| into coherent phrase n:ic-l made
| Ter come with me; could not com"
| alone. YOU know: and she hates the
west 50 much; il is 81 hard for her Ia
become rcconcilcd 10 my staying here
/ 81 hard for her to Understand that
must stay here to he happy" Harvey
! had not been lover if lac had not in
t,rrupted her with a murmur of new
| love words ard more kisses for the lit,
tie hands. And She feels il her duty
To say 81 much, went on Dorothy, " hen
she was sure of his calmrr attention
"Of course she means il for the best
she cannot understands; but II would he
| 50 much better il il were arranged 81
that she might go back east and leave
ne. And th-n-oh. don't you see
| dear??''- again the blushing face
bent To hide itself against his check
Il want Ia he with YOU! must"
And 81 there was quiet little wed.
ding in THAI bare hotel chamber one
|
IA ade bright with a wealth of the fair,
est flowers that Denver could contrib
tie, brighter still in Nrirs glad eye
| for the bride who came 10 his bedsid"
| II he we'd, the sweet radiance of her
happiness beyond clouding even sucl,
gloom as her relative, Miss Van Der
| lynde, wore for the occa"ion.
II was sore trial for that good lady
That a niece of hers. Van Derlynde or
her mothers side, should come to thin
rude mining camp to marry this com
mon miner-for no explanation could
make il clear to her that Harvey Neil
was anything olse-and that she should
we'd in this off-hand fashion, was i
shock to her aristocratic soul from
which she fc,t that she could never quite
recover. Had she been fully cogniZanr
Of such awful possibilities, sure II was
that she had never been brought Il
play the part of a chaprronc; but now
that she was here, pow crless to inter
. fere, she submitted herself to the mar
(; tyrdom of giving away the bride, Wit
h feeling-as she expressed it after
wards in pathetic accounts to all mem
bcrs of the family-as though she wer,
assisting at Dorothy's funeral, her man
per throughout wholly in keeping with
that idea.
And quite as Disappearing, thcugl
| from a very different standpoint. wa,
! Windy Gulch. when its first surprise
bad subsidized TO the plane of coherent
comment. Public opinion had under
gone chang" towards Harvey Neil
The time had been when even his best
friends would deprecate his attitude
toward the Miners union, 81 pregnant
Of trouble, regretting his independence
Of spirit, his obstinacy of temper; but
now no word was heard save in hi,
praise. The Grubstake disaster had
made him hero in their cyrs. The wa,
he had worked throughout that awful
day, as though with the strength o.
three, planning, directing everything
the way he had coolly faced the chances
of death by going down into the min,
alone. when of all those he would succoI
not one was bound TO him by tie oc Kin
not one but had been his enemy tn,
way he had afterward come to the re
lief of the families left in want by the
taking offo their bread-winners--: hes
things. for which enthusiasm grew
with every reiteration, suggesting {:
hundred other little happenings ~hici
the people were now glad TO reohll il
his favor. all augmented by the sympa
! 10.
Gus illness. had lifted him to point il
Popular favor well-nigh equivalent 4
canonization. 1t might have been diff
cult at just this time for any woman :,
rise to the camps ideal of what llsrve'
Neirs wife should be; and DoToth,
Meredith was regretful'y regarded =:
falling long way short of it.
Everybody was sure she could nst b,
half good enough for him, mainly be
cause she was her fathers daughter
the evil that the colonel had done nov
living after him in the merciless GOSSIP
of many tongues. But the camp, through
much buffeting of fate, had grown phil
osophical; and, although it could no
altogether approve, it was present.,
ready TO admit that possibly this nigh
he the best way to settle the trouble be
tween the mIres, while as 10 the rest
Mrs. Bowen hut summed up the genera
conclusion when she was inspired I,
ask: whats the odds, as long a
they're happy"
THE END.
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