Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-09-03
Jack. nobody knows me better than
vou What rpDly can | makeT'

you. What reply can maker
He is too cold and too proud for
you. Molly. How can you love him?
Perhaps." added. because | was very
sure that she would marry him. "after
marriage you will find that his cold,
ness is only cloak to hide his natural
warmth and that bis pride covers bis
wife as we'll az himself"
HE is a good man. Everybody says
so. Lady AnaStasia declares that he is
the most honorable and high principled
of men. On that point am safe. And
think, Jack. what u point 1t is. Why.
to marry q drunkard. sot. profigate.
q gamber-one would sooner die at
once, and so an end. But | can trust
myself with him. | have no fear or
such treatment as drives some wives to
distraction Yet he Is cold In his man.
ner and proud In his speech. | might
find II in my heart to love him If was
not afraid OF him." And so she went
backward and forward. He was so
good and so great; his wife must al
ways respect him. He was Of rank 80
exalted; 1t was q great honor to be-
come bis wife. He was 80 brave; she
owed her rescue to bis bravery. Yet be
had spoken no word OF love, nor had she
seen any sign OF love. ! asked her what
sign she expected, and she was con-
fused. "Of course" she said. ANY girl
knows very we'll when a man is In love
with her," How does she known |
asked her. "She knows because she
knows" l suppose she felt that the
man was not In love with her just as
her mother felt that bis character for
virtue and nobility was assumed
corrupt Within" she said. Women
are made so. And In the next breath
Molly repeated that what bis lordship
had done was done for love. "How DO
you knoww l asked again. because
the captain says 3d." she replied. with
unconscious Inconsistency.
"ls the courtship to be conducted Ell
tirely by messenger I asked.
mo. He will come tomorrow morn
ing and see me. am to give him an
answer then. But the captain has al.
ready told him what the answer Is to
be. Oh. Jack, am so happy! | am 80
fortunate that ! ought to be happy.
Yet | am 80 downhearted about 1t.
Going away is dreadful thing. And
when shall see any OF you. ! wonder.
agalni Oh. am so fortunate: AIN 80
happy And to show her happiness
she dropped tear, and more tears fol.
lowed
What kind of happiness, what Find
of good fortune, was that which could
fill the mind OF the captain with gloom
and could dissolve MoIly's mother In
tears and could herald its approach to
the bride by sadness which weighed
her down? And. as for me, you may
believe that my heart was like lump
Of lead within me, partly because l
was losing the girl | loved. but had
never hoped to marry. and partly be-
cause from the outset OF the whole af-
fair-yes. from the very evening when
the news Of the grand discovery was
read to the Society Of Lynn had
looked forward to coming events with
forebodings Of the most dismal kind.
"Come to see me tomorrow after.
noon. Jack" she said. II must talk
about 1t to some one. With the cap
tain | cannot talk, because he is all for
the unequal match, and with my moth
er I cannot talk, because she foretells
trouble and will acknowledge no good
thing at all in the man or in the match.
Do not forget, Jack. Come tomorrow.
don't know how many days are left
to me when I can ask you to come.
Oh, Jack, to leave everybody. all my
friends! 1t Is hard. But | am the
most ungrateful of women because l
am the happiest-the happiest-oh.
Jack, the happiest and most fortunate
womap that ever lived"
TO BE CONTINUED.