Alaska sentinel., 1902-11-20


 But she had only picked one apple, the nearest, when his lady loves voice came to them through the trees, call ing him by name. And there was a sharp note in her voice Qike the taste of an unrlpe apple which told them what she saw.
 If you put me down before I've picked the four I'll never forgive you" said the lady of the apples; so he held her till she had them all, though the task was robbed of full half of the delights he had anticipated. Now" she said, when she was on her feet again, 'go quickly. O, poor you"
 Shell cast me off," he said.
 "I should-if were she." And then he turned in haste.
 But, if she does, come back to me" she called after him. "Well-and what? Be quickw
 And I'll give you bite of an apple If there's any left" she laughed.
 
 The girl he was engaged to had seen It all, she said, and forthwith re- nounced her right to that connection. She seemed to have seen even more than all, considering what it amounted to when she went over It In words. Low tastes and the society of the ill., bred. she told him, would be his ruin. Then she tossed him over to ruin. de- rlo rinD oha ypnnl1 hox It,
 You are free" she said (by no means for the first time), "and know exactly how you will use your free dom"
 "I hope you'll have the opportunity of using yours as we'll" he said, stung into retort at last.
 Il might have known" she cried. 70, what I have been saved. Every fresh face"
 "So few faces are fresh" he said; and that was really unkind, for she had a sallow complexion.
 'I am not going to argue 1t any more,' she declared, having herself talked the subject bare. Cop
 And he went. But he was gen. tleman, and previous to going he had tried his best to soothe her annoyance even to frankly owning that-from her point of view-she had cause for it. He had tried to close his ears to the echoing voice, his eyes to the laugh ing face, of the girl he had left under the apple trees. He did all he could to shut out the sweet, sudden vision of freedom, of release from captivity which had always irked him. It was not his fault In the present that his past faults were acco nnted unpardon- able. He only went when he was cer- tain that he was powerless to reriyet his chains.
 He was not poetical young man, but some verses the lady who had re- llnquished him was fond of quoting came to him as he wandered back to where the cause of the mischief (so he de utly hoped) still awaited him. He wa, ed, on his part, until he was quite certain that she was there, until he stood in front of her, and then he re- peated a verse aloud:
 Where the apple reddens. never
 pry-
 Lest we lose our Edens, Eve and l."
 "So she has sent you adrift?" said the girl seated under the apple tree. But Eyes all rightv'
 He flung himself beside her.
 "Eve's all right" he echoed. "God bless her! You haven't finished the apples"
 "No-you're just in time. Here's a whole one left" and she passed 1t to him. That's the prettiest sIde," she said, .lointing; you may bite 1t there" "Re&lly?"
 Tt seems a ceremony befitting the oc- casion," she said. There" he said, as he handed the bitten apple back to her. But knew what was good for me the,moment saw it. before ate of the fruit" You are not keeping closely to the original" she said. Eve Is all right" he repeated. Dear I love you! Am I" He bent towards her. They were so close under the shelter of the old apple | tree that she could hear his heart beat, | he could hear hers. Her cheeks were redder than the ap- pies. and there was strange, new note | in her clear voice. "Wait," she said, "I thought could deceive you, but I | can't. saw her there before let you | -seize ma"