Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-22

Tor none Of them-but believe, non
estly, / am in love at last.
He laughed to himself, and, though
the mouth was handsome, the laugh
was not pleasant to hear.
1T would be a strange thing he
unused and saows the expediency OF
taking fortune at the right turn
BIr. Nugent remained in the grounds
until the dew fell on the grass anu
mowers, and then he went slowly IN
doois. A handsome Zee that bright
ened the walters face, and a few dis
Greet questions, so adroitly asked that
they seemed perfectly innocent, OBJ
tained for him all the information thai
he required,
ETHEL Gordon, he muttered to him
elf, the beautiful name suits the
beautiful face He repeated it again
land again. Ethel Gordon Ethel
with the sad, sweet eyes and the sad
sweet FACET | could only make her
love me if / could only win one smile
from her-sweet Ethel Gordon!"
The name seemed to have a charm
for him He fell asleep that night re
peating it as one repeats the words OF
some haunting song.
The next morning he rose early. Out
in the grounds he gathered bouquet
of fairest roses; the dew was lying on
them, and every leaf seemed full OF
perfume. With another bride, even
heavier than the first, the waiter con-
| 10, ha hpiItIpt uayaH
to Miss Gordon's room.
"Be particular, and do not mention
| from whom you received it.
rhe waiter in his turn bribed a
chambermaid; and when Ethel rose,
| one of the first things she saw upon
| her toilet table was superb bouquet
of roses, and on the paper Unfolding
them she read, in strange, quaint char
acters, the words, Sweets to the
sweet She took up the roses and
| looked at them wonderingly. Who
had cared sufficiently for her to send
her these? She had been at the hotel
so many weeks, and no one had ever
appeared to recognize her Who had
risen to gather these beautiful roses
for her? Who had written these pref
ty words, Sweets TO the sweet"
It did not enter her min that it was
an admirer--a lover. Such a POSSIBLE
ity never occurred to Ethel. That
some day there would come TO her
vague beautiful dream called love she
felt intultively; that there would come
fairy prince who would change all
the world for her, making it doubly
fair and doubly bright, she also felt,
and she thought of it with a softened
light in her eyes and a crimson blush
on her face. The happy time would
come, for it came once in every ones
life when, she did not know. She
had felt no want In her life. her
fathers love, and her own pretty, fan
! tastic will BOD more than filled 1t, No
/ voice in hel cried out TO her
| that her life was unfinished because
! love had formed no part Of it, The
! Joyous time would come sooner or
later, and the beautiful distant golden
/ future had a greater charm for her
/ than frtations and lovers had for
other girls
| The grandest heritage Of woman was
/ not hers yet-the love that suffers,
4 that eudures that brings with it keen
est bliss and keenest pain--that love
! that makes OF this world paradise or
/ a purgatory the love that crowns
womaus lie or brings with It certain
/ death No warning came to Ter from
/ the sweet dewy roses or eacl fragrant
/ leaf might have cried. BE, re; Be
ware"
Mr. Nugept had rightly CUES "A that
/ Miss Gordon was too proud to Ques-
/ tou the servants about the seno Of
( the flowers She held them In lor
white hands she inhaled their lus.
cious perfume; she kissed the sweet,
crimson leaves
/ You come from friend she said;
! therefore YOU are welcome
4 She hesitated shyy whether she
+ should place one Of them in her belt
or In her hair; and shyness gained the
i day she left them in her room, bur
/ an that day il seemed TO her that she
4 had friend near mt hand
/ Laurie Nugent laid his plans He
/ had determined upon a floral siege II
Miss Gordon were inclined to romance
as, from her face. he expected this
I silent fragrant wooing would have
great charm for her lie watched her
/ that day in silent admiration, yet
4 keeping out OF her sight
I The next morning found on her
/ table a bouquet OF lilies fair. white
aud odoruus, but on the paper that in
/ folded them was written no word Her
wonder increased who was there
that cared enough about her to send
+ such lovely flowers 1t could not be
/ Miss pigby
II should hate them if ] thought
they came from her" she said to her
self
Her face flushed. and her eyes
flashed She would have trampled the
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