The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-08-14

face peering above her vOluminous
boa. She fell to talking with some
others, and presently she flashed up to
him for a second.
81 was rude to sDu with my personal
comments she said under her breath,
speaking quickly. "Please forgive me.
1 knew at the time that l was doing
wrong"
Before he could get over thinking
how quaint a speech this was she was
gone. He saw her no more that night.
There was nothing, it would seem, In
this brief association to keep him wax
ing till dawn. There was nothing to
make her hold her fingers close upon
her eyes as if to shut out a vision. The
mystery remains always beyond ex-
PLANTATION. There is no definition to
the magic word; there is no fashion in
which the necromancy can be account
ed for.
The morning found him eager to see
her and found her wondering by what
means she could avoid him. There
was ice boating, and while he searched
for her he saw her flying by in one of
the skimming craft, sitting erect and
fearless while the great white boat
took to itself the wings Of a reckless
bird.
In the afternoon there was q musical,
and he saw her sitting, demure and
sober, in a corner where he could not
reach her, and later, at dinner. in all
the witchery Of her cleaning toilet Of
white, he had the sorry satisfaction of
glimpsing her as she went down to
dinner with another man.
In the evening she seemed to fit be-
fore his eyes like a l-o'-the-wisp. He
could never get near enough to speak.
He gave up at length and went away
angry and hurt, and the next morning
| a telegram came calling him back to
town. He said to himself that he
would meet her somewhere, though he
| much more given up to fashionable
pleasures than his own. But the win
/ ter wore away, and he met her no.
| where. He could not think Of trying
| to call upon her. She had not asked
him to do SO. She had seemed not to
| care for him after that first night, but
| accuse himself as he might Of having
| been an infatuated fool he could not
rid himself of the idea that for few
| hours his soul was nearer to hers than
it had ever been to that of any other
human being. To be sure, their hap
piness and sweet intimacy had been
hidden under badinage and an affecta-
| ton of indifference, but they were
there, all the same.
Summer came.
II shall see her at the lake." said
Kirkland, and he put himself in the way
Of being invited up. but she was not at
her uncle's house. She had gone to the
Canadian lakes with an English fami-
ly. Kirkland concluded that he ought
to see Canada. A man really had no
business gadding off to the other side
of the world till he had seen his own
continent He went rowing on Cana
dian lakes and nearly lost his life. but
after a fortnight's patience he found
his way to the lodge where Miss
Blynn's friends lived.
"Miss Blynn grew tired of our grim
solitude" said her host. "She says
Chicago is pleasant in the summer
though I myself have yet to see the
time when l would call it pleasant, and
she has gone back home to study some
thing or other. l never knew her SO
studious."
"She's restless" commented Kirk.
land. 81 wonder whyY"
He put all shyness and sense Of pro
priety behind him and determined te
find out why. The morning after
reaching the city he made himself gay
in white duck and boldly called at hel
house. She was out on a porch at the
rear Of the severe looking city house
and had made herself a miniature
country seat there with palms ani
ferns and flowers. The hammock wal
moving as if she had just quilted it
but when he met her she was rising
decOrously from one of the chairs thai
surrounded a reading table Uttered
with the midsummer magazines.
you haven't your skates onv' sh'
cried mockingly, extending her hand
Her eyebrows went up and came dowl
in a funny, nervous little way and tn
corners Of her mouth seemed tremu
lous.
els it necessary for me to have m.
skates on in order to recommend my
!, self to your favor?" he inquired.
81 cannot TELL" she responded, "till
see how well you converse in Oxfor'
, ties and summer ducks"
, They talked nonsense like this 70
half an hour, but both Of them wer
desiring to keep still and enjoy the hap
! piness of being together again. Neithe
had the courage to become serious. H
arose finally.
been in calling" he said. ut is just
! fed only by-by my temptation
= 1--WE can resist everything but temp
! tatiOn, a clever man once said," smile
! Miss Blynn.
'"Then l may come again"
, "You may come-in two weeks"
, 81 am coming in week or not q
, all"
"Then let 1t be in a week." sh
, laughed.
But it was not a week. 1t was thre
a days.
\ "Pve been miserable for sevel
e months through not seeing you," he el
Iplained. 81 won't stand it any lOnge
unless you condemn me to it."
e Her eyebrows went up and down i
that curious way of hers.
81 shan't condemn you to it," sh
said, ''because-well, because 1 cam
back from Canada, because-welr-
: "Well, why"