Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-07
SHORT STORY FOR
EVENING HOURS

abundant ruddy hair than the figure
and the face and the glowing, loosely
confined and rebellious locks Of Rosa.
| lie Bellingham.
What a lucky dog am" said Jack
Westbrake to himself.
"What is that you are saying, jack"
! IL was just repeating to myself how
beautiful you are, and how great :,
thing II is that you are beautiful for
me. and how good 1t is Of you to moot
me here, where can again tell yoL
what think and feel
Il didn't think you said half as much
as that, Jack. And. really, ] must new.
er. never meet you here again"
"Oh. that's all nonsense. you know.
We are not going to have our love
snuffed out by an old aunt who hap
pens to be rich and to own title. n ii
a bit of it,"
But father is against us, too.
Jack"
Just because your aunt sets him
against us, Rosie. can bring him
llDNHh u Ndb Nu' foNuNN
and things are Fighting themselves
like anything, don't you know? Why,
in two years time"
I'm two years time! But Jack. aunt
says | am to be married for the corO
nation"
Look here Rosie. | shall go down
to your father. and ! shall tell him
once more how things are between y, u
and !; and he shall know how you are
being prosecuted by this-this dowa
lger, and"
"Oh, please don't do anything of the
kind, II you really love me. Father
would just fly into one of his tantruns
and perhaps have another stroke. and
then when he came round he woult
write 10 Aunt Craigend, and thera
would be another of the big old rows
and Elsie and would be sent back to
the horrid, desolate old houes in the
North, and Elsies chances would be
gone forever"
ut is very nice OF you to think only
of Elsie, my darling, but you should
think sometimes Of yourself, and ever
of me-"
'As for Elsie" Resale continued. a;
II he had not spoken. zone must think
of her. You know how mlserably poor
we are, and Elsie cannot bear to H.,
poor. She must have fine things about
her, and fine things to wear. That 10
why she is so happy in London. q,
Jack, why are you not rich mani"
But you will hold out against Lady
Craigend, and walt for me. Roster"
you are pressing the rings into my
fingers"
Rosie you will waite"
20. ! will try Jack. ! will try ever
so hard"
II.
Jack and Resale had been sweet
hearts in childhood, and their liking
had grown up into a manly passion on
one side, and to as much love on the
other as would have made a quite hap
Ply union II young people might only be
permitted to manage things in their
own way. And II 1t had been Jacks
luck to succeed to an unencumbered
estate, things might have been so mar.
aged by this particular couple of young
lovers.
AS things were. Lady Craigend had
determined to play Providence. and Ter
emphatic rendering OF the part threat.
ened to become disastrous. No sooner
did she learn from her brother that
Jack Westbrake had been to see him
about Resale than the two girls were
ordered up to town, the ailing old
mans protestations notwithstanding.
Resale had been mutinous at first.
and non.compliant always. Yet she
was not insensible of the attractions
of the career which her aunt designed
for her. She had met Jack in Kensipg.
ton Gardens. as we have seen, and had
promised to try to wait for him-to tcy
ever SO hard.
Il am so sorry that let you drive
out today, my dear" said Lady Craig.
end, when Resale Joined her aunt.
"Why?" asked Rosalie rather wear.
lily. \
Because Lord Mountcheyiot called,
and | am quite certain that 1t was not
to hear an old woman talk"
But Elsie could have talked to
him"
And so Elsie did, my dear Rosalie
But Lord Mountcheviot did not come
here to talk to Elsie. 1t was on you
that he called"
20, aunt, am tired Of hearing about
Lord Mountcheviot. Surely, | have
told him all that he wants to know"
20, Rosalie, my DEAR" she asked
show many men are there who take the
first No for answer? The little word
that Lord Mountcheviot wants to near
is Yes"
And what he will continue to hear
Is No, no, no, to the end of the chap.
tier"
What nonsense! 1t will be yenrs
before Jack Westbrake RECEIVERS him
self, and mean to get you married for
the Coronation"
And my own wishes count for moth.
| ing, then?"
20, don't mistake me, Resale. Your
wishes are to count for everything, en-.
Cept where Jack Westbrake comes in.
There are no racks and thumbsCrews
in this house, | can assure you. am
rot going to put you in the boiling oil
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