The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-06


cept as you are now"
She struggled to be free.
ooh. you're so brutal
II haven't begun yet
| He drew her toward the door.
oh not that-dont open It'll tell
him-yes, will
I'm taking no more chances, and the
time Is short
Still holding her closely with one arm,
he opened the door. The man stared I'M
passively above their heads-a craven I'M
age of inconsistencies.
Jarvis
yes, SIR
Miss Milbrey wishes you to say to Mr..
Shepler that she Is engaged
'That I'm ill.," she interrupted, still
making little struggles to twist from his
grasp, her head still bent down.
"That she is engaged with Mr.. B1nes,
Jarvis, and cant see him. Say 1t that
way-Miss Milbrey is engaged with Mr..
Bines, and can't see YOU -"
Yes, sir!"
He remained standing motionless as he
had been, his eyes still fixed above them.
But the eyes of Jarvis, from long training,
did not srequire to be bent upon those
things they needed to observe. They saw
something now that was at least two feet
below their range. G
The girl made little move with her
| TlSnI arm, WHICH was ltupTlSOllto last Oo-
tween them, and which some intuition led
her captor not to restrain. The firm little
hand worked its way slowly up, went
creepingly over his shoulder and bent
tightly about his neck. Ea.#: s.
i Eyes, SIR repeated Jarvis, without the
culver of an eyelid, and went
He closed the door with his free hand,
and they stood they were until they
heard the noise of the front door closing
and the soft retreating footsteps of the
butler. ".
| ooh, you were mean-mean-to shame
me So" and floods of tears came again.
IT hated to do It,: but I had to; it was
a critical moment And you couldn't
have made up your mind without it,
She sobbed weakly in his arms, but her
own arm was still tight about his neck.
He felt 1t for the first time
! But I had made UP my mind did
make it up while we talked"
They were back on the couch. He held
her close and she no longer resisted, but
nestled in his arms with quick little signs,
as If relieved from great strain. He
kissed her forehead and hair as she dried
her eyes.
"Now, rest little. Then we shall CO."
1--WE so much to tell you. That day at
the jeweler's-wen what could I do but
take one poor last little look Of you-to
keep"
! GIL HE IL YOU care LUZ I1S.
"Oh, I do, I do, do care for you.
have-ever since that day we walked in
the woods. I do, do!'' e.. ..
She threw her head back and gave him
her lips. st.s. .as.1 +.
She was crying again and trying to talk
II did care for you, and that day
thought you were going to say something
but you didn't-you were SO distant and
troubled, and seemed not even to like me
fo1t ho1
thought you were going to tell me, and
I'd have accepted-yes, for the money
tho 7 liked you so much. Why, when
first met you in that mine and thought you
were workman, I'm not sure Wouldn'1
have married you If you had asked me
But it was different again when I found
, out about you. And that day in the wood!
thought something had come between
us. Only after dinner you seemed kinder
and knew at once you thought better
of me, and might even seek mel knew i
in the way a woman knows things sh'
doesn't know at all. l. went into the Ii
brary with a candle to look into the mir
to come. Then heard you
steps and-rI was so glad-but 4
wasn't you'd been mistaken again
r you still disliked me. I was so disap
pointed and hurt and heartsick, and h
kissed me and soothed me. And afte
l l
truly did love you just as I'd wanted 4
3 love the man who would be my husband
only all that nonsense about money tina
] had been dinned into me SO long kept m
from seeing it at first. But I was sur
you didn't care for me when they talke
. so about you, and that-you never dt
care for her, did you-you couldn't hav
q cared for her, could you?-and yet, afte
= that night, I'd such a queer little feelin
= as if you had come for me, and ha
|seen-"
''Surely a gentleman never sees any
thing he wasn't meant to see.'
'I'm 80 glad should have been 3
ashamed
They were still moment, while h
stroked her hair.
U They'll be turning in early to-nigh1
having to get up tomorrow and preac
u l:sermons-what "a dreary place heave
must be compared with this i
9 SHE sat up quickly. ~
g "Oh, I'd forgotten. How awful it /.
Isn't it awful?''ss
7. ut will soon be over"
n but think Of my people, and what
r expected Of 'me-think of Mr.. Shepler.''