The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1903-08-21

tear II up and let IL be as If 1t Ia,
never been drawn. VIII your
Life is made up of little things
They are the straws that show the wa,
the wind is blowing. No; don't tea
Ii up. | want IL for future reference
as / said. | want 10 be reminded 10y /
that if | should be married 10 you no
only my face, but my every action
would be distorted thus"
mo. no.
eyes. And that is not all. We are
100 alike for happiness-both sensitive
as flowers, both jealous. We quarre
now; we would quarrel then. After
marriage the making up is not so sweet
as before 1t grows monotonous, and
then come the sleepless nights and the
tears-the tears. Already with me they
have commenced. The night you kissed
Mabel | walked at 4 o'clock and never
closed my eyes again l lay still, hall
heartbroken, watching the pattern OF
the paper on the wall grow out of dim
ness and take TO itself its old fantastic
shape in the light OF the dawn"
mabel is hardly seventeen. She Is
only a child
children grow to be women, and
soon. Suppose we were married and
two years from now she came to our
house and you kissed her again"
She tapped trembling fingers on the
arm Of her chair
eB,,r1J Jfa ,f IL ~ clio foltavpI
He drew up his chair nearer, and,
taking the trembling fingers in his own,
he careSsed them
Somewhere or other in Grimm 5
fairy tales" he said, there is just this
sort of story. Isn't there girl who
goes down in the cellar and sits there
weeping because some day she might
marry and the storks might bring her
a little child and the little child might
fall down the steps to that cellar way
and break its leg?'
1T is only when you love n man, y
she continued TO muse, following up
her own train of thought, that you
lose the blessed sleep that knits up the
raveled sleeve Of care"
Didn't / come to you early the next
morning and comfort you. NeishaY'
Her kiss was on your lips" she an
swered.
With a shrug of his shoulders he
laughed
you are ridiculous" he affirmed.
"Once you were mine." she resumed.
as if he had not spoken, Il should
want you TO be all mine. SO far as
have been able to judge, no man ever
belonged solely TO one woman. There
fore, since the thing is impossible, it IL
best to tear ourselves apart before it is
too late"
He dropped her fingers.
you speak very coldly of tearing
ourselves apart, Nelsha." he com
planned.
81 am not cold, but I scent unhap-
piness. Living alone is a negative I'M
happiness. Living together would be
positive"
After a time:
Besides. | am a rover" she sighed
ALREADY l have stayed in this one
place too long begin TO grow rest,
less again"
IF you put your head on my shout
der a little while wouldn't that take
away your restleSsnessT
For little while, perhaps; but II
would return, and then | should have
to 90 back again to my Mother Nature
for comfort. She comforts with flow
ers, with dew. with soft. sweet breezcs
but most of all with the sea. The moan
Of it. the sob the sometime sigh: its
lightS-rose lights. white lights, soft
mellow lights of the setting sun-drift-
ing while you look into the silver SHIN
mer of crescent moon. l long for the
sea"
"Neisha. you make me sad, as sad,
sitting there. as if you were alone,
longing for the sea. You are not alone,
my sweetheart. | am here"
She regarded him with a gaze that
seemed not 10 soc him.
For months / have studied you" she
began. You have given me much hap