The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1899-08-18

love which would drive q man to betray
his heart or go mad.
"Can you not see how inevitable it ia
that l should care for your" went on
Lamont. ''It ia the inevitableness Of
that love which gives me courage to
speak of it,"
Miss Allvn's calm, fair face was turn
ed resolutely toward the dying sun, and
not sign of the inward indignation
which was consuming her was visible in
it's lovely repose.
81 know I am not worthy to ever
speak of this-I don't expect anything
1 don't hope" He stopped as if
waiting for her to speak but she kept
silence.
She could not think of anything quite
hard enough to say. Disgust at his pre-
sumption and vexstion that he had got
ten so far out of bounds were battling
within her. She had found him on her
advent into the Northwest Territories a
reckless boy, without ambition, sullen at
his ill-fortune, with time hanging heavy
upon his luckless hands and, as she as
sured herself, she had conceived it to be
her duty to take him up and ride with
him and scold him about his shortcom-
inGs, and urge him to do better, and, in
fact, to let him attend her singly
that he might continually profit by her
example and precept-and this was the
RESULT he was actually making love to
her and talking as IL she might have ex-
pected it and saying it was inevitable
She was exceedingly sorry now that he
had happened to be the only available
man for miles around, and that she had
felt the necessity not only Of reforming
wayward youth, but of amusing herself
in such an out-of-the-world place. She
wondered irritablY and for the several
hundredth time why her sister had mar
ried an Englishman and an army officer
and was content to live in forlorn little
hole where one had to pick up anybody
or die for lack of some one to talk to.
81 know l am mad to speak Of this"
Lamont was saying. ~ haven't any
thing to offer you save a heart that is
full of love for you. But you have Civ
en- me back life and hope and self.respect
and ambition, and these hands will make
fortune for you, and soon If you will
only trust me and wait for me-"
Really it was very tiresomel Here he
was stopping again and obviously wait
ing for some sort of response to his in
sane rapturings. She turned her lovely
eyes slowly from the west and let them
rest upon Lamont's tired face, and with
quick downward and upward flash Of
her lashes sbe said In her even, full tones :
"Don't-don't; you can't know how
it hurts me to hear you talk SOS il
you were reprobate and I had saved
you! Have 1 really helped you? L
would like to think so--you know how /
like you"
II don't want you to like me-" object
ed Lamont, duly. 49,
ITO like q person means great deal
with me-" She wasn't thinking much
busy trying to form some plan to get rid
of this troublesome boy and quickly.
Oh, il he would only go away and leave
her in peacel She would have liked to
send him to the uttermost parts of the
earth to get him cut OF her way. II she
could only get him back to the detach-
ment without any furthur explosion Of
his tiresome devotion. Heavens he was
talking again, and had frightened visibly
at the encouragement Of her last remark.
ST think" he was saying, and there
was an almost pitiful earnestness In his
voice, 81 think il could only make you
understand In the least how care for
you, that it would make you care for me.
But can no more do it than can Boot
jack here" and he smoothed his pony's
shaggy name with trembling hand,
"Even he could do something for you to
show his loye-he could take you on long
gallops and carry you across high rivers
and serve you faithfully In q thousand
ways. While T."
stAnd don't you do everything for me,
show me everythingp And haven't we
two more months In which TO ride about
20 our hearts content. and see more of
these wonderful things and be happy n
she added, after an instants pause, for
Miss Allyn, In her hurried resume OF the
situation, had bethought herself that.
after all, 1t would be wiser not to get rid
Of this useful young man 80 summarily.
IE would undoubtly be extremely moon
venient to have no one to do her thousand
and one errands, or to accompany her on
her numberless excursions. She did not