The evening Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1902-1902, 1902-07-31

him; he was so handsome, and l,
poor, foolish 1, hadn't met anything
masculine that was not old, or fee
BILE, or selfish or unlkind, and was
! eager to think him all that he ap-
peared."
She paused, drawing in her breath
sharply.
ut was mistake-he was utter
ly worthless, utterly vicious :.
and my guardian had known, think
ing in his cold wordliness that an
ancient pedigree was sufficient
atonement for moral blots, and
that we should jog along as half the
world j$gs on-at any rate, away
from his immediate neighborhood.
We were married., O00lbs year
makes year makes man with a
totterlng fortune impatient. And if
was unhappy before no l can't
talk of it to you. But knew on
my wedding day that all question
i~of love on his part was pretense;
he laughed at the mere idea. Aud
with that laugh my love fell d ad. =.
One night he turned ms out OF the
house, and afterwards afterwards
Lavender and l went away togeth-
err; at eighteen was alone; and be-
cause God forgive, l hated him, I
tried to drop the memory of those
twelve months, and came to Pol
wherra, and Lavender toldpeople I
was widow, and together we grew
to feel happy and safe at last. And
for this! But o, it is for this, tor
this, you must forgive me Oswald!
Because the pain of your pain hurts
me more than all past grief"
She laid her hands on his breast,
and looked up into his face and I'M
der her eyes his bitterness lied.
He caught her up in his arms.
'Jean. Jean, must such as this
part us! 1t shall MOTT ought not.
We are each others heart and soul.
Look into my eyes with your clear
eyes, and tell me you don't love me
then, and only then, will leave you.
Yet-neither then!"
There was a concentrated passion
in his manner that for a half second
shook her, she recovered herself, and
after the brief struggle drew nearer
to him with sweet seriousness in her
voice that claimed his very stor my
mood.
Oswald, it is because I love you
that it would kill me to draw you
down to any thing lower than you
now are--good, great generous. Be-
cause | care, you too must care-care
to make the world the better for your
gifts to be strong for those who are
not strong, that our suffering may be
not only to cur blessing, but other
peoples"
You ask an impossib!lity,' he
SAID.
Then she lifted her face and laid,
her lips on his. there was the solemn
fty OF farewell in her kiss, and he
knew it.
So for a few secondsthaystool then
she caught herself from his embrace
ana left him standing alone.
The same evening TrefCsts put a
small parcelinto his hand.
Herries opened 1t mechanically.
Inside there was a shabby little
volume. 1t was an Ecient edition of
Bunyon's "Pllgrim's Progress" and
there was a marker within at which
the pages fell apart
On the strip was written: God
bless you, Jean But the old type
was scored with a pencil at the words
that speak Of the Valley Of Humlla.
ton -
"And, though Christian had this
hard hap to meet here with Apollyon
and to enter with him into u brisk
encounter, yet l must tell you that
In former times men have met with
angel here, have found pearls here,
and have IN this place found the
words Of life"
lie read the passage, and as he
shut the faded book and put it next
his heart his eyes were dim.
The next week him in his place in
the busy world of London.
Crossing Hyde Park one balmy
April morning with the MS. of
leader for the Period in his pocket,
he ran across two horsewomen, who
both turned their heads after they
had acknowledged him.
Oswald Herriesw cried one;
that journalist sportsman Jack
of-au- trades, who defes Society's
caresscs and runs off to the wilder
ness when the world and his wife
are dying to congratulate him on a
literary achievements
Three months in Cornish will
derness! What did it mean2" said
the other thoughtfully Ticking at
the mares ears.
"A caprice
cor a woman"
And ii a caprice can bring forth
such fruit as high attainment, single
heartedness and a new belief in old
things, then were those months
spent within sound of a piping wind
on weedy shore, only that, and
nothing more