The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-11-09

enough for me without this show on
your part of your desire to get rid Of
NO."
"There's woman gratitude for you, :"
was his growing reply. Il offer to take
all her responsibilities on my own
shoulders and make it right with-with
her sister and all that, and she calls it
desire to get rid of her. Well, have your
own way" he cried out, storming down
the hall I'm done with it for one."
The young man, whose attitude of re.
serve, mixed with n strange and linger-
ing tenderness for this girl whom he
evidently loved, without fully UNDER
standing her, was every minute win
ming more and more of my admiration.
had meanwhile raised her trembling
hand to his lips in what was, as we all
could see, a last farewell.
In another ONE he was walking
by us, giving me as he passed a low
bow that for all its grace did not sue
coed in hiding from me the deep and
heartfelt disappointment with which he
quilted this house. AS his figure passed
through the door, hiding for one mo.
lIltIU thS SullShlllt, L ltlU All pDpltSSlpll
such as has not often visited my healthy
nature, and when it passed and disap-
peared something like the good spirit of
the place seemed to go with it, leaving
behind doubt, gloom and a morbid ap-
prehension of that something which had
in Lucetta's eyes rendered his dismissal
a necessity.
where's Saracen? l declare I'm
nothing but a fool without that dog. "
shouted William. "If he has to be tied
up another day. But even he has
some sense of shame in his breast, for
at Lucetta's reproachful William |"
he dropped his head sheepishly OH his
breast and strobe out, muttering some
words | was fain to accept rs an apology.
l had expected to encounter a wreck
in Lucetta. As this episode in her life
closed she turned toward me. Blu | did
not yet know this girl whose frailty
seemed to lie mostly in her physique.
Though she was suffering far more than
her defense of me to her brother would
seem to denote, there was "A spirit in her
approach and a steady look in her dark
eye which assured me that 1 could not
calculate upon any loss in Lucetta's
keenness i'll case we came to an issue
over the mystery that was eating into
the happiness as well as the honor of
this household. And this in a measure
was gratifying to me. 1 should hate to
take advantage of her despair to discover
a secret she would have been able to
keep in her better moments.
81 am glad to see you," were her I'M
expected words. 1.-The gentleman who
has just gone out was a lover of mine
at least he once professed to care for me
very much, and l should nave been glad
to have married him, but there were
reasons which | once thought were very
good why this seemed anything but ex-
pedient, and so l sent him away. Today
he came without warning to ask mt to
go away with him now, after the hasti-
est of ceremonies, to South America,
where a splendid prospect has suddenly
opened for him. You see, don't you,
that l could not do that; that it would
be the height of selfishness in me to
leave Loreen-to leave William
"Who seems only too anxious to be
left, l put in as her voice trailed off in
the first evidence of embarrassment she
had shown since she first faced Inc.
"William is a difficult man to under
stand" was her firm but quiet retort.
"From his talk you would judge him to
be morose if not positively unkind, but
in action She did not tell me how
he was in action. Perhaps her truthful
ness got the better of her, or perhaps she
saw it would be hard work to prejudice
me now in his favor.
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