Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-08

the sky has grown gray. See, the mists
are creeping up the cliff, ana they are
gray, too.
ut is nature mourning the event which
is coming to pass with as
He moved again. uncomfortably. All
this was so much in the nature OF what
he had planned to say himself He felt
curious sensation OF having passed
through all this aeon before, and re-
scented It all vaguely
What event can come TO pass with
us? Nothing can come to us Tonight
but from ourselves We are alone. Tn
world has folded us together"
AS though to disprove his statement.
two men, two blatant tourists, passed be-
hind them. talking OF cathedrals and
table d'hotes. Clifford leaned back in
his seat with protest against the UNI
seemliness OF events.
but from ourselves" Her voice was
soft, and there was tone OF complacent
pity in it, either for herself or for him.
which was disturbing.
1--WE have watched the sun set for
many evenings; we have felt the cool Of
the air off the sea; we have sat here
while the earth fell asleep and the stars
crept out into the sky for their vigil
Why should there be sorrow for us to-
night?" 1t was not at all what he had
meant to have said but it seemed forced
from him by the course shs had taken.
'"They must be so tired" she said
dreamily.
"Who?" he asked, wonderingly.
1.-THE stars, coming out at night and
looking down at the same earth always"
"They are constant" he asserted,
gloomiy.
ayes, but so tedious. Don't you think
that constancy always is tedous?'
mo"
Il think # argues a small mind. You
see any one can love one thing for al
ways-it becomes a habit and there is no
merit in it,"
Lover
Eyes. 1 suppose the stars love the
earth or they wouldn't spend their time
watching it, would they?"
II think you are wandering from your
original position"
Il am not so sure that I am. We We're
talking about sorrow and grayness. Cliff
ford. do you know that we must part to-
night?"
"Part?" he said. starting rather too
dramatically. She had taken the ball
bodily away from him, and there was
Of the broken-hearted lover. IT had ar
tistic possibilities, though. he reflected.
Eyes, part. 1t IS very sad. but we shall
each have n pleasant memory TO look
back upon"
1T will be a painful one for me-"
perhaps so, but il will be quiet, com
Portable, tender sort OF pain, which will
be almost pleasant. We have been all In
all to each other FOR three weeks, which
is very long time"
1T has passed like moment OF sun
shine"
THAT shows how pleasant II has been.
Really, when one comes 10 think of II,
three weeks pleasure is more than we
could reasonably have expected in this
world"
"You have never felt for me what
have felt for you"
Eyes. l think l have. II Is rather diff
| ncult to determine. because we have no
standard OF comparison"
"And that Is why you dressed In gray"
at was a compliment TO your artistic
appreciation OF the fitness OF things"
"A foretone OF my lifeY"
Eyes. The trimmings are OF soft pink."
They got up and strolled IN silence to-
| ward the lights OF the town. The muir
muir Of many voices came TO them on the
air. Some bats were flying heavily, and
the band was still playing in the distance.
"Iet US part here" che said
Eyes, IL il better so. Hero we are
alons-before us IS the world. / shall go
into the world leaving my soul here
among the mists"
ut is great pity. but II is fate" she
said. with a keen delight in the romance
CT the parting.
"Good-by." he said. and they parted. A
little later he lit cigar and laughed.