The Mercur miner. [volume] (Mercur, Utah) 1895-1913, 1904-01-06

whether you eat II or NOT, Destiny
will 20 straight to her mark. Love is
destiny, and the heart Is its own fate.
lid / not know thee. John, the very
moment that we metz
She spoke softly with a voice sweet.
or than music, and her husband was
/ touched and Gained. He took tle
/ hand she stretched out to him and
/ kissed it. and she added:
/ Let us be patient Love has rea-
| sons that reason does not understand.
and IL Cornelia is Hydes by predcs-
tination as well as by choice. vainly
we shall worry and fret, all our op-
position will come TO nothing. In a
few days Arenta will have gone away.
and as Ter Hyde airy hour may sum
mon him to Join his father in Eng
land, and tlis summons, as 1t will in
cude his mother. he can neither evadc
nor put off. Then Rem will have his
opportunity"
TO be patient-to wait-to say
nothing-t is to give opportunity too
much scope
Time and absence against any love
affair that is rot destiny! And II II
be destiny, there is only submission.
nothing else. But life has maybe
III everything dear; a maybe that is
just as likely to please us as not"
Then Doctor John looked up with
smile. you are right, Ava" he said
cheerfuly. Il will take the maybe.
Maybes have a deal to do with life
Yet, take my word for it, there is, |
think. no maybe in Rem's chances
with Corneia."
I'VE shall see. think there is
Rem, with the blunt directness of
| his nature. watched with jealous dis
like, and often with rude impotence,
the familiar intercourse which his
aunt's partially permitted Hyde. He
was, indeed. often so rude that a less
sweet-tempered, less just youth than
George Hyde would have pointedly re-
scented many offences that he passed
by with that noble not caring" which
is often the truest courage.
But wrath covered carries fate.
Every one was in some measure con
scious OF danger and glad when the
wedding day approached. Even Aren.
ia had grown little weary OF the
prolonged excitement she had pro-
voked, for everything had gone so
well with her that she had taken the
public very much into her confidence.
And, as II to add the last touch of
glory to the event just a week be
fore Arentas nuptials a French armed
frigate came to New York bearing
dispatches for the Count de Moustier,
and the Marquis de Tounnerre was
selected to bear back to France the
Minister'S message So the marriage
was put forward a few days for this
end. and Arenta in the most uneXpect-
ed way obtained the bridal journey
which she desired, and also with 1t
the advantage OF entering France In
a semipublc and stately manner.
81 am the mclkiest girl in the
world" she said to Cornelia and her
brother when this point had been de
cided. They were tying up dream
cake for the wedding guests In
madame's queer, uncanny drawing
room as she spoke, and the words
were yet on her lips when madame
entered with a sandal wood box In
her hands.
REM" she said, "go with Cornelia
into the dining room for a few min
utes. ] have something TO say to
Arenta that concerns no one else"
AS soon as they were alone madame
opened the box and upon white vel
vet cushion lay the string of oriental
pearls which Arenta on certain occa-
sions had been permitted to wear.
Arentas eyes flashed with delight
with an intense desire and interest
she looked at the beautiful beads, but
madame's face was troubled and som
Der, and she said almost reluctantly:
"Arenta, am going to make you an
offer. This necklace will be yours
when | die, at any rate; bpt think
there is in your heart wis have
1t now. And as you are going - what
: is left of the French court. win give
it to you now, If the gift will be to
your mind
: There is nothing that could be
more to my mind. dear aunt You
r always know what is In young girls
/ heart"
First, listen to what | say NJ
. woman OF our family has escaped cal
D amity of some kind, II they owned
those beads. My mother lost her hus
}, band the year she received them. NJ!
+ Aunt Hildegarde lost her fortune a.
D soon as they were hers. AS for my
: self, they very day the became min'
S our Uncle Jacobus sailed away ant
0 no has never come back. Are you
v not afraid Of such fatallty?"
mo, | am not, What power can
t few beads have over human life o