The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-09

each OF these is tender You may not have OBJ
served it, but savage is tender its own young
as a boy is to a favorite puppy-the same boy that
will torture kitten out of existence thought then
l say, of the rat drowning in a half-fled cask of
water and lifting his gaze of the vessel as he
grew more and more desperate, and l flung myself
on my back and floating thus fixed my eyes upon
the face Of the moon.
The moon is well enough in her way however
you may look at her. but her appearance u.s. to say
the least OF It, peculiar to a floating his back
In the center Of stone tank with dead wall of
some fifteen twenty feet rising squarely on every
side of him (the young smiled bitterly as he said
this, and shuddered twice before he went on
n'uslngly. The last time had the planet with
any emotion she the wane. Mary was with
me. had brought her out here one morning to look
at the view from the top CT reservoir She said
little OF the scene but talked of old childish
love saw that its fresh features Incorporating
themselves with tender memories of the past and
was content.
There was a rich golden haze upon the landscape
and as my spirits amid the voluptuous atmo-
sphere, she pointed the waning planet discernble
like faint cash in the welkin and wondered how
long it would be before the leaves would fall
Strange girl did she mean to rebuke my joyous mood
as II we had no right to be happy while nature with
eflng In her pomp and the sicky moon wasting in
the blaze OF noontde there to remind of the
gone forever They will all renew themselves dear
Mary, said [ encOuragingly and there is one that
VIII ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature
through all seasons if thou wilt but be true to one
OF US and remain as now a child Of nature
"A tear sprang into her eye and then searching
her pocket for her case she remembered an en-
gagement to be present at Mrs Lawson's opening of
fall bonnets at o'clock
And yet, dear, wild wayward Mary l thought
OF her now! You have probably outived sort Of
thing, sir; but l. looking at the moon as 1 foated
there upturned to her yellow light thought of the
loved being whose tears l knew would flow when she
heard OF my singular fate, at once grotesque yet
melancholy to aWfulness.
How anxious she will be too lest the coroner
snail have discovered any of her in my pocket
i felt chilly as this last reflection crossed my
nd, partly at thought OF the coroner partly at The,
ldea OF Mary being unwilngly compelled to wear
mourning Tor me- in of such disclosure of our
engagement. 1t is provoking thing for girl or
nineteen to have to go into mourning for deceased
loFer' at the beginning too of her second winter LII
the metropolis.
ne water though, with my motionless position
must have had something to do with nv cbiIlines~
see sir, you think that tell my story with great
leVlty; but indeed should grow delirious did ven
lure 70 hold steadily to the awfulness of my feeY-
lngs the greater part of that night think indeed
must nave been most of the time hystericaI with
Aloi' 1or the vibrating emotions have recapitulau-
Ell old pass through my brain even as have detailed
them.
But as now became calm in thought 1 sum-
mcned UP again some resolution of action
VIII begin at that corner said l. and swim
Iounu the whole Enclosure. IL will swim slowly and
again feel the sides of the tank with my feet If die
l must let me perish at beast from well-directed
'nough exhausting effort; not ITO sink from mere
mootess WEAKNESS in sustaining myself until the
morning shall bring relief, a "a
The sides of the place seemed to grow higher as