Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-13

er you have become!" And they
laughed together. Tell me- she add.
ed, how does 1t feel to be lion?'
"one longs for the mouse to come
and gnaw the cords, and allow one to
set up and stretch ones self"
She knit her brows.
What an artificial speech!"
believe me, 1t describes an artificial
condition"
why do you talk like that?"
oh, it's expected of me, | suppose,
and 1t expresses exactly what | mean
when | refer to the cords that bind one,
and the stretching of the limbs so de.
youtly desired"
Il have read your books, Colin" said
she, after pause.
Can you see anything in them to
justify their existence?"
Il can see you in them, Colin. They
reflect you constantly. They sound
like you"
He flushed with pleasure.
| mo? Do they, thought" Then his
Voice dropped to a more fleeing key.
Molly, am glad at last that I wrote
them. | never thought very much of
my work, but If II served to bring me
to your memory 1t has not been vast.
ed"
His great blue eyes were bent upon
her ardently. She laughed, and set
herself to sway her fan gently.
sD1naSn gtn Ut hnt
Colin" said she. People are looking
at u.s."
But Colin was not to be repressed.
The old feelings that had died four
years ago were in course of being resus.
citated. Love Is flame difficult to re.
ignition where once 1t had been
Quenched: but let that reignition take
place, and its blaze is all consuming.
Colin was realizing this. More fully
still did he realize 1t when, two hours
later-toward the close of the evening
he found himself again beside her, in
the conservatory, where there were no
prying eyes to restrain him and where
with impunity he might gaze at her as
he listened.
He fed his glance upon the perfect
curve Of her white throat, the glisten.
ing masses Of her ebony hair, and in
the clear depths of her dark eyes his
soul at last was drowned. His hand
closed upon her. His fine, foolish
young head was bent until he felt her
hair upon his cheek.
Molly" he stammered. II love
YOU"
She moved her head away. The nc.
ton seemed In the nature OF a rebuff,
but the soft, seductive laughter that
rippled from her lips counteracted what
effect II might have had upon hot.
head Colin. He read In Il challenge.
and, answering 1t, his arm was about
her in an instant, and he was seeking
to draw her to him. But she broke
from his clasp, and pushing him fore.
lilly back. she stood up suddenly. She
40 longer laughed; she was breathing
quickly. and her tone was one of stern
rebuke.
Colin. how could you dare?"
Colin sat morally crushed and de.
feated where a moment before he had
tasted the joyous anticipation Of vic.
tory. He felt extremely foolish, and
for that feeling he was exceedingly an.
noyed both with himself and with her.
II now became q matter of extricating
himself from a position that he felt
was decidedly undignified. A retreat,
he realized. must be more ignominious
still; therefore he determined to push
on.
What have ! dared that should of.
iGnd you?" he demanded in accents of
beautifully modulated aggrievance. "Is
II an offense to tell woman that you
love herr"
She made as II to answer, but before
she had time he was ON his feet close
beside her, and speaking very fast.
There are some things in life that
endure as long as life itself, things that
we cannot blot out, strive as we may,
things When. four years ago. left