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Jocelyn Leigh" and who was now Nine.
Ralph Percy.
:" In all my life 1 have kissed you only
once l said to the wife VINO was uire,
To Have and to Hold
1.-The rose deepened, and in her eyes
there was laughter, with tears behind.
You are a gentleman of determination
she said. If you are bent upon having
your way, do not know that THAT /
can help myself. / do not even know
that ] want to help myself
"Outside the wind blew and the sun
shone, and the laughter from below the
upon us. The world forgot US, and VIC
were well content There seemed not
much to say. !. gsupppse we were too
happy for words. kneit beside her, and
she laid her hands in mine, and now and
then we spoke -
81 must soon he gone, she said at
last. 1t is a stolen meeting. 1 do not
know When we shall meet again.
'She rose from the settee, and ] rose
with her, and stood together beside
the barred window There was no dan
ger of her being ssenS fsIreet and square
were left to the wind end the sunshine
My arm was around her, and she leaned
her head against my breast. Perhaps
we shall never meet again. she said.
" The winter is over 1 answered.
Soon the trees will be green and the
flowers in bloom. 1 will not believe that
our spring can have no summer.
'She took from her bosom little flow
er that had been pinned there 1t lay, q
purple star in the hollow of her hand.
1t grew in the sun. II is the first flow
er of spring. She put it to her lips, then
laid it upon the window ledge beside my
hand. / have brought you evil gifts
foes and strife and peril. VIII you take
this little purple fower-and all my heart
beside?
Il bent and kissed first the tiny bios
som and then the lips that proffered it.
I am very rich 1 said.
1.-The snow is gone L said. This
snow birds are flying north.
. The woods will soon be green, she
murmured wistfully. All, If we could
ride through them once more, back to
Weyanoke-
:" TO home, I said.
% Home she echoed softly.
There was low knocking at the doc;
behind US. 1t is Master Rolfe's signal,
she said. must not stay. Tell me thai
you love me, and let me 60
You must not stay" protested Janice
Meredith There are Ave
81 know it," interrupted Jack Brereton
and if you'o not come to me, I'd have
burst in on them arather than have my
third ride futile 10
''Oh, go; please goi" begged the girl, his
reckless manner adding yet more to her
alarm. isis
Say that you forgiveime," pleaded the
officer, catching her hands.
yes, yes, anything; only go!' besough'
Janice, as second laugh from the dining
room warned her, anew of the peril.
Jack stopped and kissed each hand In
turn, but even as The did so one of the
officers in the next room bawled:
Here's a toaststo Iseftenant Hennion
and his bride-hipsS ship, hip, bumpers!'
Janice felt herself, caught by both shout
the touch. ,s ~
what does that rnean?'' the aid de-
manded, his face very close to her own.
The girl, with bowed head, partly IN
shame, and partly to escape the blazing
eyes which fairly burned her own, replied:
Il am to marry Mr. Hennion next Inurs-
day."
''Willingly?' burst from her questioner,
as if the word were shot from bomb.
No"
''Then you'll do nothing of the kind, :"
denied Brereton, with sudden gayety OF
voice. MY horse is hid in the woods by
the river; but say the word ana you snail