The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-04
F OR w WHOsE SAKE
BY Nina Montgomery.
"And Be happy ever afterwaFd" he

"0r try to be" corrected the girl
'Your advice is useless. / cannot
forgive the ruin of my faith in human
ity, or forget the pain II brought me.
shall never be well again, and some
times. Dorothy. | have thought Of end
Ing II all another way-just TO take the
final plunge into eternal forgetfulness "
Never. never think OF that, Mr..
Holbrokel II would be cowardly. and
ii would not be to forget. Promise me
that yeu viii mott" And she laid
cold little hand on his 4 pray every
night that God will send you health
and happiness again.
There were tears couring down her
cheeks. grown pale now from intense
feeling.
Don't cry for me, child. You little
goose, don't you know ! am not worth
a tear Or prayer27
Promise me-" she enueated.
"Ah. well, II You allow me the priv
i.ege Of changing my mind, II nature
| presses the soul too close in her
eramped environments.
Her aunt's voice sounded across the
lawn, calling her Dorothy went, the
tears still glistening ia her eyes.
1T Is true. said her aunt, what
Miss Eastman has told me. that you
I ought to be stopped from going to Mr..
Holbrokes, and thaz it was neither
good for you or quite the thing. I told
her ! allowed you to 60 because Of his
illness, but she said the world would
make no allowances for that I was
blind not TO see It. Yoa'll be crying
your eyes out for something you can't
have like e child for the moon. I'll
send YOU to your Aunt sarah's right
away. until after they are married, and
you must not 60 there again. You
know 1t is wisegt and beEt"
Eyes. it is wisest and best as far as
/ am concerned. aunt. but unless Miss
Eastman marries him right saon, he
win mics me. He needs cheering al
ways, and / can generally do that. And
you need not have told me: ! know
he is as far out Of my reach as the
neon from the childs; that | am just
a raskeghIft TO kill time; yet | would
rather be tust that for him than a
queen for any one else. And the girl
sohltd In distress. and continued to
sob fltfuiiy ali night. fiei st41i, hns
waves upon a stony shore, suFged ever
. unnn the unalterahle fat ol Their part
: ing.
The next day her trunk was already
hacked for her departure, when sh'
went out and looked az the window
across the way.
She gathered a large houoAst 2
t roses. aud gained, unnoncsd. the litIi'
) dividing gate between the two iawas
4 where She hesitated between contend
E ing emotions. the shy shrinking Of tim
E Ia eirlhoed, and the hearts inaatiaDl
! craving for last glimpse Of its Pc
Z loved. Finally the latter proved strong
est. and in a moment more she stoo'
r before Alwyn Holbroke, the roses !
i her hands.
Il hope 90 not disturb you, NJ
" Holbroke. could nol 60 without say
il ing goodby"
vi She had never gone into his pIesene
n before this, save al his request
II you disturb me very much, poroth.
.e why are you telling me good-hy! 7!
!. because / am going away
= "Why?r ~
le aunt is sending me-" as
: .pees,,ses-nsrvoualy pulling
quantity OF rose petals on the door
le "she says / am not looking we'll
le "That Is not 1t, Dorothy she VI
ar never SO careful Of you before.
Sc at. Is all I can tell you, Mr. Hc
at broke"
Il aid not withhold confidence fro
you, Dorothy
10 eNo-but, with evident relief, the
as is aunt calling me. and she told
/" never"
ut She stopped. blushing IN confusion.
'.Never to come here again, he Fl
n ishcd for her. u saw Miss Eastm
20 there yesterday, aad guessed t
oil sequel. You see she loves me SO mus
ne Dorothy. she cannot bear that shot
a have little entertainment apart fr'
her
Of She was too absorbed in her o
"a. misery 20 notice the intense seorn
his voice.
Inc "Then she viii come TO you, and
in will not need my poor entertainmen
bis She laid the roses on the stand
ni- his side. took hts hand a moment
her own, kissed it. dropped two te
upon it. and was gone. The touch
sns the soft. warm lips thrilled him.
the sweet. subtle influence seemed 10 al
ith with the cdor Of the roses. and I'LL
being. lie forgot pain and nnhar
ieh ness. everything but Dorothy. WI
be- he rang and sent for her she had g
-est He had an Interview with her at
one who proved as irrosponsiye and
ued communicative as 2 stone wall.
self "Who is he fretting for?" Mrs Gr
lrh then asked herself for the hundr
hea time. and for the hundredth time &C
eh- net fnd a satisfactory answer.
you For months she had believed il
be for Miss Eastman, vet now, "
hat that young lady had done all in
Won power to show her entire willingi
80 i. r,oi-a Hfra hannv he was GROW