Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-03-28
Continued.

presumption leads him. youhe
penniless soldier. and yet he asks fol
the hand of my daughter! Thinking
of the brilliant match that Marguerite
is making causes me to feel more
lenient. or should send the letter &c
his father, and advise him to use
horsewhip.
"T love him. mother | said, and
shall never love any one else while
live
She laughed, Violet-such a laugh;
hear 1t now in my dreams.
"a schoolgirl of your age knows
nothing of love, should know nothing
OF IL. The word has not even decent
sound on your lips; 1t has not. indeed
| do not know, cannot tell. what the
world is coming to when a child OIL
your age talks about love. You may
be sure of this. that, II hear the
word again, will lock you up in your
room, and give you bread and water
for day or two to bring you TO your
senses | will ask no questions; per
hans. II knew the whole truth
than am will answer this letter
| shall tell him that he must not come
to the house again | should not like
to resort to stronger measures. such
as forcing Mr.. Caerlyon to resign the
living which Is in your brothers. gift
shall write to the young man ana
tell him what | think of his imper-
Thence. forbid him to return to the
house. forbid him to speak to you
again, and. as soon as our visitors
leave Ms, we shall go to Mount Avon
80 in a few minutes all the bright
ness was taken from my life. | looked
into my mothers face. There was no
softening, no relenting. It was 80
proud, so cold, SO cruel, that my heart
sunk. Should | never see my brave
young lover again? | have faint
recollection of clinging to her. OF
kneeling to ask her to take pity on
me. because ! was 50 young, and !
loved him So | remember falling
with my face toward the ground. and
then all was a blank to me. a terrible
blank. How the days passed | can
not tell; | was never conscious of any
thing but the one horrible pain; the
one terrible blank AS | recovered,
no one ever spoke to me Of my lover !;
I never heard his name.
'But saw him, Violet, once before
left Ryversdale--only once. 1t does
not matter how. have never seen
him since. was with him nearly an
hour He held me in his arms, he
kissed me, and we swore to be true 20
each other until death. Violet. you
must not think | am mad: but | feel
the loving clasp OF those arms and the
warmth OF those kisses now We
swore to be true to each other, and we
shall each keep our vow do not
think any two in the world have ever
loved each other as we do. II Ia all
hopeless. | know that after we
reached Mount Avon, my mother had
many letters from him-I know that
he wrote to me; but she returned all
his letters unopened. | write to him
whenever have chance OF posting
the letters unknown to my mother.
You may think 1t wrong. Violet; | do
not II there had been anything
against him except his want of money,
IL would have been different thing.
but he Is just, brave and generous,
with scorn from all meanness. II
there were one blot on his character,
one stain on his fair name, it would
seem less unjust, less cruel. but there
Is nothing wrong. only that he has no
money. He Is we'll born, wellbrcd. he
is "A gentleman and soldier. he Is
brave and noble. but he is poor"
1T seems very cruel" said Violet,
to whom this lovestory was revela-
tion. What shall you do Monica?"
There is nothing to be done.
shall wait for him and love him all
my life, Just as he will love and wait
for me-"
And in the meantme'" said Violet.
'lu the meantime my heart is slowly
breaking | live my life. and ! try to
make The hest Of il. My mother made
mo 20 90 London"
You arc not beautiful like Mar.
gucritc she said; but you have a
style of yoar own, You are brighter
and moro wluant than your sister.
lust now that kind of thing is more In
vogue then nrIr beauty shall TX
pect you 60 make better match than
Marguerite
And. Violet continued Monica,
with q smile more sad than tn,ra