Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1900-05-24

up into his eyes as lie held her against
his breast.
MY darling. TO me you are more
beautiful than all the women in the
world. dearer to me than everything it
holds If you were in -, | would go
after you to find you there. If you
were dead. though my body moved,
my soul would be under the ground
with you. All life as | pass 1t with
you in my arms will be perfect to me.
1t will pass-pass like a ray Of sun
shine"
EN- thought how beautiful and grand
his face was as she looked up into it.
She raised her hand gently and put it
on his forehead.
You are so silent, so cold. my EN-"
he cried "Have you nothing to say
TO me?"
A little shade of wonder filed her
eyes.
Il will do everything you tell me-"
she said.
/ What else could she say? Her idea
of love was only service.
Then. my own precious one, prom
ise never to kiss that fellow again. l
cannot bear that you should love any
4 one but me. You must not | will not
have it. If every relative l had in the
world were to die tomorrow, l would
be quite happy If l still only had you.
! My darling, my love. why are you so
{ cold? Promise me not to love him
any more. II you asked me to do any
thing for you, would do 1t, though 1t
| cost my lifev'
EN- put her hand very gravely round
his neck
81 will never kiss him." she said.
sand will try not TO love any one else.
But do not know if will be able"
ooh, my darling, | think of you all
night, all day. | think Of nothing else,
love, nothing else" he said, folding his
arms about her.
EN- was a little conscience stricken.
Even that morning she had found time
to remember that In six months her
cousin would come back from school,
and she had thought to remind Waldo
of the lozenges for his cough, even
! when she saw Gregory coming.
Il do not know how it is" she said
humbly, nesting to him, but | cannot
love you so much rs you love me. Per
haps it Is because | am only woman,
but l do love you as much as can"
Now the Kaflir maids were coming
from the hEts. He kissed her again,
eyes and mouth and hands. and left
her.
Tant' Sannie was we'll satisfied when
told of the betrothment. She herself
contemplated marriage within the year
with one or other of her numerous
"vrijers," and she suggested that the
weddings might take place together.
EN- set to work busily to prepare her
own household linen and wedding gar
ments. Gregory was with her daily,
almost hourly, and the six months
which elapsed before Lyndalrs return
passed, as he felicitously phrased it,
'llke a summer night, when you are
| dreaming of some one you love"
Late one evening Gregory sat by his
little love, turning the handle of her
machine as she drew her work through
it, and they talked of the changes they
| would make when the Boer woman
was gone and the farm belonged to
them alone. There should be a new
room here and n kraal there. SO they.
chatted on. Suddenly Gregory dropped
the handle and impressed fervent
kiss on the fat hand that guided the
linen.
"You are so beautiful, En-" said the
lover 'It comes over me in flood
suddenly how love you"
En- smiled.
10 -hny, N hnr
age no one Will look at me, and 1t is
true. My hands are as short and broad
as n ducks foot and my forehead is 50
low, and haven't any nose. | can't be
pretty"
She laughed softly. 1t was so nice to
think he should be so blind.
when my cousin comes tomorrow,
you will see a beautiful woman, Greg
ory," she added presently. "She Is like
little queen; her shoulders are so up
right, and her head looks as though ir
ought to have little crown upon IT..
You must come to see her tomorrow as
soon as she comes. am sure you will
love her."
"Of course l shall come to see her,
since she is your cousin, but do you
think could ever think any woman as
lovely as l think your
He fixed his seething eyes upon her.
"You could not help seeing that she
is prettier," said En-, slipping her right
hand into his, "but you will never be
able to like any one so much as you
like me-"
Afterward, when she wished her low
er good night, she stood upon the door
step to call n greeting after him, and
she waited, as she always did, till the
brown pony's hoofs became inaudible
behind the "kopje."
Then she passed through the room
| where Tant' Sannie lay snoring, and
through the little room that was drap-
ed in white, waiting for her cousins
return, on to her own room.
She went to the chest of drawers to
| put away the work she had finished
and sat down on the floor before the
lowest drawer. In it were the things
she was preparing for her marriage.
Piles of white linen and some aprons
and quits, and in the little box In the
corner a spray of orange blossom
which she had brought from smouse.
There, too, was n ring Gregory had
| given her and a veil his sister had
sent, and there was a little roll of fine
embroidered work which Trana had
given her. 1t was too fine and good
even for Gregory's wife-just right for
something very small and soft. She
would keep it. And she touched II
gently with her foreinger, smiling, and
then she blushed and hid it far behind
the other things. She knew so well
all that was in that drawer, and yet
she turned them all over as though
she saw them for the first time and
packed them all out and packed them
all in without one fold or crimple and
then sat down and looked at them.
Tomorrow evening when Lyndal
came she would bring her here and
show her all. Lyndall would so like tc
see 1.-THE little wreath and the ring
and the Write veilI 1t would be so nice
Then EN- fell to seeing pictures. Lyn
dali should live with them till she}her
self got married some day.
Every yiday when Gregory camethome
tired fEom his work, he wouH look
about and say: where Isl my wife
Has no one seen my wife? wife, some
coffeer'. and she would give him some
Ems little face ,grew very grave al
last, and she knelt up and extended hei
hands over the drawer of linen.