Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-07-28


"Ah. if we could, If we only couldw
she said piteously.
"Why not?" he demanded fiercely.
You will send me away. You will
say it is right for me to CO." she re-
piled sadly.
do we not love each otherY was
his inpatient answer.
"Ah, yes, my love-" she said. "but
love is not ALL"
Nor cried Craig. "But love is the
best"
"Yes," she said sadly; Glove is the
best, and it is for loves sake we will
do the best"
There is no better work than here
Surely this is best" And he pictured
his plans before her.
She listened eagerly.
"Oh, if it should be right" she cried,
81 will do what you say! You are
good; you are wise. You shall tell
me-"
She could not have recalled him bet
ter. He stood silent some moments,
then burst out passionately:
w ny, lucu, 1--WE GUILE u us
We did not seek it. Surely love is of
God. Does God mock u.s."
He threw himself into his chair,
pouring out his words of passionate
protestation. She listened, smiling,
then came to him and, touching his
hair as a mother might her child's,
said:
"Oh, am very happy! I was afraid
you would not care, and I could not
bear to go that way"
you shall not go!'' he cried aloud, as
If in pain. Nothing can make that
right"
But she only said: you shall tell me
but you will see. and you will tell me-"
He stood up and, holding both her
hands, looked long into her eyes. then
turned abruptly away and went out.
She stood where he left her for some
moments, her face radiant and her
hands pressed upon her heart. Then
she came toward my room. She found
me busy with my painting, but as 1
looked up and met her eyes she flush
ed slightly and said:
Il quite forgot you"
$50 it appeared to me-"
"You heard"
"And saw" I replied boldly. cit
would have been rude to interrupt,
you see."
"Oh, am so glad and thankfulv'
Eyes; it was rather considerate of
me-"
"Oh, l don't mean thatr the flush
deepening. 81 am glad you know"
81 have known some time"
"How could you? l only knew today
myself"
II have eyes,"
She flushed again.
"Do you mean that people, she be-
gan anxiously.
mo; l am not people, l have eyes,
and my eyes have been opened"
"Opened?"
Eyes, by love-"
Then l told her openly how weeks
ago l struggled with my heart and
mastered it, for saw it was vain to
love her because she loved a better
man, who loved her in return. She
looked at me shyly and said:
81 am sorry"
Don't worry" said cheerfully. 81
didn't break my heart, you know.
stopped it in time"
"Ohp' she said, slightly disappointed
Then her lips began to twitch. and she
went off into a fit of hysterical laugh.
ter.
Forgive me-" she said humbly, "but
you speak as if it had been fever"
Fever is nothing to it," l said sol
EMMY. at was near thing"
At which she went off again. l was
glad to see her laugh. 1t gave me time
to recover my equilibrium, and it re
lieved her intense emotional strain. 81
ratified on some nonsense about Crais
and myself till l saw she was givins
no heed, but thinking her own thoughts
and what these were it was not hard t.
guess.
Suddenly she broke in upon my talk
HE will tell me that / must go from
him."
81 hope he is no such fool" I sale
emphatically and somewhat rudely,
fear. for | confess l was impatien
with the very possibility of separation
Tor these two, to whom love meant &c
much. Some people take this sort OF
thing easily and some not so easily
but love for woman like this comes
once only to a man, and then he car
ries it with him through the length OF
his life and warns his heart with it in
death. And when a man smiles OF
sneers at such love as this 1 pity him
and say no word, for my speech would
be in an unknown tongue. So my
heart was sore as 1 sat looking up al
this woman who stood before me, over
flowing with the joy of her new love
and duly conscious of the coming
pain. But soon found it was vain tt
urge my opinion that she should re
main and share the work and life OF