The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-01-06

Xou need not BE- weary, for am
willing to bear your bprdenss and
you ere heartsick because am going
away you have e in yoll power to stay
me with word Say that you win
marry me "a q month ard ] VIII stay
her until you are willing to let me 60.
Phoebe DONNIE"
Her head was bent low nows and
the tears would not be stayed
@0bea, you know 4 love You, but 1
caiinot think IL Is right 10 bring o you
only frstting and tolls Tor the care of
my father IS toll and 8 trouble.
though would willingly bear It ali
If 4 could keep yen here near me.
i.Yon can keep me here, and with /
You. Why, what were my love worth i
II # would not help you in your toi I
and Be glad 70 share your eares2 Do /
yon think that being a man. Z aaefe No 4
feelings but those that are sslfsh2 Il
ten you Phoebe Donne, I ana willing
Ia work for you help yous love you,
4 in all ways that man can.
Fl know II, but there are trials thar
sour love; and q maus patience fails I
before the MANY trials Of another mans
i whims and then there comes the feel 4
ing that love has imposed On him bur
dens he has no rightito bears and So
he broods and grows colds and his love
dies; and could not live if I lost your
love
/ The man stood silent. He was think
ia9 of her words and of her acts. She
l5yed him and was wiling to lose thar
love 10 that she should not bring him
care and toll. And ne? Why, he was
about leaving her simply because she
would not marry him when be thought
she should. Well, he was willing to
take her, care and work included, if
she would come, and was not that
nough2 No; Tor he forgot that hehad
aoWn only mpatienoe when she had
tried to reason with him, and was this
the way th show her that he could bear
The strain sick mans faheies would
entail?
She had forgotten this, but oh. he was
50 willing Is take her with it al, and
he loved her So. tobe put on when
his heart was crying for her love and
the power to cali her wife. Then he
conquered bis hot words and said. ore
quietly
Phoebe. I may have been wrong and
j hastY Ia saying what have and in
E starting away from Hardstone bnt the
+ place one 81 kill & men with
r tor Hnich he gers no pass ana ta 81
e have to put ais baek how Ear A
1 the future he knows not, is very hard.
t See am willing to stay here, knowing
B too, that in the west I can have g home
a and comforts I cannot get here for
{ twice the toll If you win marry me
I am willing to take all it win bring,
a of sorrow and i'll, so that you are my
d wife. Is there more that a man can
g do?n
There is no more, and do not ask
IS you to do more; but viii your love be 50
& strong that it can see me bestow care
q and attention on another, when sol
h may desire my seryices2 That IS the
Il point, 0bed, regarding which have
.e hesitated. Oh, Il I only knew?'
.e smile, calm and restfBl, stole over hei
II face.
AS she paused, a breath of sea ali
a came wandering up from the low lyinG
beach and seemed to inger about thu
4, solitary tree Then the bird that hat
D.
il forth in a low song, that sounded likf
y voice Of hope and promise.
WouId you be willing to stay here
y to put away the golden promise Of thr
Il west, and bide the faneies Of an in
,d valid for fhis9" And she held ont he
"a toil-marked hand.
q He looked at her and then his eye
II went wandering over the red hills &
* where, afar off, mountains eoveret
n with green rose like q wall against th
"A sky And he thought: rs the snQil
and love Of this woman. with toll an
NJ poverty, worth the promise Of peac
~ and rest, without it, in the distance hit
by those mountains2 ~
Is Then his soul called his eyes bac
e to her face, and he knew her love wa
III better even with poverty to share j
I than the richest promise that lay b'
: yond the mountains. So be took he
u hand and said;
~ sThis IS all to me, and, unless il ca
- 60 with me freely, 7 win stay with
81 here
~ Was it fancy2 1T seemed that to bot
NJ of them low voice whispered. +It
~ wen But around them was The gla1
lAAA
of the sun, ard the red, glaring LAM
and even the bird was still; get e
- word had been spoken, end, though
was only whisper Ii gave the
strength.
M He stopped and picked up bis site
~ ana bundle, and together they wails
on toward her home Etwas a small e
standing "a the shadow Of Hill A fe
IN vines and bushes grew about if am
,sr with aieSiy green, stroTe 20 relic
the ameneaE 81 the seems.
.ob Ia the doorway, reclining ia
~ rough-built easychair, sat an old 81
feeble man. As BE saw them approat
- be uttered g peevish wish for them
hurry.
IA She turned and looked at her loYe
sor TIE took her hand and, standing befo
,ie the sick man, said.
ave .AFr Donne 7 have asked your daug
~. fer to be my wife think that it is
.rt nF power to elp you both to rest a
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