Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-09-15
CHAPTER xxx.
Flying From Temptation,

With low cry, Nellie sank down,
and hid her face on Hates knees.
Il cannot bear it" she said.
brokenly. You make me feel
ashamed to hear you. Ashamed that
l should ever have thought harshly or
you. But it will never come true what
you say; how could it be possible?
How could he forget you, you who are
so beautiful, and give thought to me,
who am so different? Do you think
don't know the difference between us
you lady, and only a common girl:
And he is a gentleman, And he
thinks of me as sister; just that,
and no more, and oh, no, no, it will
never be-"
| Kate bent over her, and stroked the
golden hair with a soothing touch.
Eyes, Nellie" she said, slowly and
dreamily, ''it must be so. And there
is something else l should tell you. l
have wronged him unwittingly, and
the man l have married has cruelty
and knowingly wronged him, and-but
he shall tell you in his own time,
perhaps on the day when he comes
and tells you that he loves YOU
She sank back, nearly worn out.
Il thing | will try and rest now,
DEAR" she said, family. Don't cry
any more, Nellie. Your crying day.
are nearly over, and life lies before
you all bright with sunshine. Will you
give me one kiss, Nellie, to show me
that all the coldness has gone out OF
your hearth" she added, suddenly.
Nellie raised her hands, and put her
arms round Kate, with an inarticulate
cry, and kissed her; then, with her
head bowed, stole from the room.
Kate sat, with her hands clasped,
looking before her into vacancy.
She had done her duty both by him
and the girl who loved him, and whose
love would more than console rim for
the loss of herself; but the doing of
it had been cruelty hard, and her
heart felt bruised and lacerated by
the ordeal
After a time she undressed, and
stretched herself YEARLY on the bed,
and tried to sleep; but, though she
lay perfectly still, so still that Nellie,
who crept in, thought that she was
asleep. she could not sleep.
The night passed, aud the early ray $
of the sun filled the room with rosy
! light.
She rose with start, for, though
she had not slept, she had been in a
kind of stupor bred by her intense
mental and physical exhaustion.
She was here, within reach of Des.
mond Carr-Lyon, under the roof OF
the girl who loved him.
She stole down the stairs and out
into the air. Some one was ap-
preaching.
| The footsteps came nearer, and in a
few moments Desmond came up to
the cottage.
He stood for two. three minutes,
looking up at the window; then hs
! paced to and fro for another moment,
and then slowly and with backward.
wistful glance at the window, went
down the path.
Again instinctively Kate knew that
he had spent the night beneath hei.
window, and that even now he could
scarcely tear himself away.
Sitting cry. she held out her arms
in the direction he had gone. and a
long sob broke from her lips.
oh, my love, my love. Goodbye
forever" she murmured: and, turn,
ing, walked quickly away in the direc
ton of the station.
Early train in half an hour, Miss,
the porter answered to Hates inquiry
and shs went and sat down in the
waiting-room, where a chilly fire was
struggling feebly for existence
Besides herself there was only one
other passenger. an old woman, with
4 market-5asket on her arm, who was
going, she informed Kate. to see her
married daughter, who had just had
her first baby.
The pallor and wanness of Hates
face, perhaps, appealed TO the old
lady's sympathy, for when the journey
was almost half-performed she opened
her basket, and. quickly taking out
bottle of milk and some bread ana
butter. offered some to her.
IF don't make too oold, Miss; bur
it's pleasanter to eat III company than
alone" she said, respectfully. and