The Washington times., 1904-09-25

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compare and comments to make about
places where we had been and things
we had seen.
Some day I am going back there-it
may be quite soonI' she exclaimed.
after speaking enthusiastically Of places
she remembered with pleasure. IF YOU
do not go with us YOU win at least come
and see me. viii YOU not2"
''Yes-to be sure. / faltered.
So much might happen IN the mean
| time. and at this time so uncertain did
the future seem to me. that # seemed
almost improbable that we should meet
again for a long time possibly never
/ Yet, somehow. the senorita had become
so much a part Of my life that I could
not believe we would not meet again.
I had not spoken to her of my plans,
/ or even told her that 1 was going away
/ I had intended to do so, but did not
/ like 10 break into the pleasure OF our
little talk. or even 20 think that I was
/ soon to leave In Puebla, and so I de
layed speaking about it.
''Of course YOU will come TO see my
uncle," she exclaimed. And If I am
thereT'
She looked into my face with q half
} plead ding. half-coquettish expression on
her face. which caused my heart TO
swell and my chest To heave so that
could hardly speak.
81 would so TO the farthest limits
Of the earth If I thought L should find
you there to welcome me- I answered.
"That would be very kind Of you, %
she said. But I would not go so far as
that"
But have come all the way TO Mex
| leo TO find YOU" I said. land all the
difficulties I have met with are roth
( ing as to the treasure 1 have found"
You are very complimentary. senior.
think you fatter, as do the Spanish
young men"
NO" I replied quickly, It speak the
truth speak from my heart"
/ We had risen, and in some way 1 had
taken her hand.
Il hoCe that we may become better
acquainted" she said. Until tonight
you have been so reserved"
J Have IT. I asked absent-mindedIy.
still holding her hand and trying to
collect my scattered wits.
I She did not reply and I waited. try
/ Ing TO say omething I knew not how
/ TO say 1 wanted 10 tell her that
/ loved her; that she was more than all
the rest Of the world to me: that I was
| going away; that we might never meet
/ again, but that / wished her to re-
member me at least as a friend.
Why 1 did not tell her this. God
only knows It might have been better
Tor me had I found my courage. While
Eesitated I lost my opportunity. A
suG-en impulse-probabIy she could not
/ nave explained it herself caused her 10
/ break away from me.
i am staying here too long" She
said.
'Good-by," I said mechanically.
| My uncle viii wonder what has de-
/ tanned me- she explained
She looked up into my face and
smiled. and before I knew it she was
gone.
/ did not see her again; she retired
,, TO her own room shortly after she left
me, and went away early in the morn.
ing before she was up. went away
without bidding her good-by, or ever
mentioning 20 her that was goIns,
though I had intended saying sometime
labout II.
As she was TO marry another. what
was II TO her that 7 loved her? And
why should speak OF myself? I hat
| confessed too much 10 her when w,
were together on the gallery. She must
nave known what was on my mind
and. as ] believed when L thought tn,
| matter over afterwards, left me to pre-.
| vent my speaking
No, / decided. 1 would go without see.
Ing her again, for it would be easier 10
20 that way. Although / afterward re-
! GREETED that i went as I did: vet. at In,
] ] l.Hr
best. knew that any parting between
us must be attended with some en-.
! barrassment-on my part
So my mission as a knight errant wa,
| ended Bat though L felt that I hae
Leen successful in ACCOMPLISHING all
had set out to do. the outcome, to me
| brought only pain and sadness. NIGH
have asked myself what more 1 had [,
expect than the success I had already
lachieved, but my answer would hav,
beeF. unsatisfactory. a man Is not borr
| without passion, or without capacity
for love, and it would have been n,
answer TO say that my disappointment
/ was Of my own finding.
There appeared not even an excus,
| for staying longer at La Puebla, Will,
there were very good reasons why
should go away.
My arrest, should Sc occur, would in
volve Mr.. Melrose in new difficulties
possibly subject him also to arrest l.
left the city it was probable that moth
| ing further would be done, and he wouIC
| be unmoIested. But though / went vol
unfairly. / regret to say that / wen
with some bitterness in my heart that
was to be made the scapegoat to beal
| all the iguominy Of an affair In which
others We're TO reap the benefits
And yet I did not wish 10 stay anC
see the senorita married to Don Luis
1t was best that break away and scel
IN action, I'm excitement, and I'm the strif,
| Of war TO forget the past.
During the few days we had been a
La Pueb.a she had been constantly il
my mind. 1 had spent hours thinking o.
] her, Oftentlmes when 1 was a siIen
watcher by her uncle's bedside during
| the long VGils OF the night.
The mental strain, as well as want of
sleep, had told on me. l was not myself
but a shattered remnant of myself. ner-
vous and Eale. The doctor wished "a
prescribe for me, but L recoiled at the
very suggestion Of taking his pills. lie
might keep his physic. for IL would not
cure such maladies as mine. 1t would
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