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


and a coxcomb' swear to you that
was struck dumb, and he had taken
himself out of the room in a passion
ere could find a word 10 throw after
him. Then ] got up and went to a
mirror and looked at my ears, and
they were scarlet, and my cheeks
matched them. and for a moment
was In a towering rage. sat down,
| cried. laughed, ! was amazed |
was after a little while. ashamed, and
finally | came to a reasonable temper
and acknowledged | had been served
exactly right For had no business
TO put my wicked little tongue in my
cheek because brave gentleman
could not crook his leg like a dancing
master. Are you laughing, Jane?
Well | must laugh too. shall laugh
many a time when think of Cymlln's
Two big hands over my ears. Had he
kissed me afterward, | would have for
given him--I think"
IL cannot help laughing a little, Ma
tilda, but assure you Cymlin is suf-
! fering from that discipline far more
than you are"
! morning | admire him. There Is not
another man in the world who would
nave presumed to box the Lady Ma
tilda de Wick's ears; accordingly am
IN love with his courage and self
respect. / shall laugh and cry as long
as live, and remember Cymlin Swat
lam"
1T was too bad of Cymlin-but very
ike him. He has boxed my ears
more than once"
You are his sister That is differ
ent. | will never speak to him again.
There, let the matter drop. | wish
now. you would either take Stephen
or send him Off forever. | am in a
hurry to be gone, and Sir Thomas
also. Go and send Stephen with a
! Yes or No to me. | am become in
different which. since you are so much
So
Many letters were promised on both
sides, and Jane was glad to notice the
eagerness and hope in her friends
voice and manner Whatever her
words might assert, it was evident
she looked forward to a great Joy.
And as long as she was with Matilda,
lane let this same spirit animate her,
her ride home, however, was set to a
more anxious key. She was a little
angry also. Why should Stephen do
Wick intrude his love upon her?
Twice already she had plainly told
him that his suit was hopeless. and
she did not feel grateful for an af-
lection that would not recognize its
limits, and was determined to force
Itself beyond them.
She entered Sandys with the spring
all about her; her fair face rosy with
the fresh wind, and her eyes full OF
the sunshine. Cymlin and Stephen
we're sitting by the fireside talking of
Irish hounds and of a new bit for res
tive horses which Cymlin had In
vented.
When Jane entered. Cymlin and
stephen both rose to meet her. Gym
lin was kind with the copdescension
Of brother. He spoke TO her as he
spoke to creatures weaker than him
self, and kissed her with the air of a
king kissing a subject he loved to
honor. Then he made an excuse to
the stables and gave Stephen his OPP
portunity. The young man had kept
his eye fixed on the beautiful face and
slender form of the girl he loved. lie
went to her and clasped her hands
and said with n passionate eagerness
Jane, dearest! | have come again "a
ask you to marry me. Say one good
kind word. When you were not az
high as my heart, you did promise to
be my wife. | vow you did,"
stephen. knew not then wha,
! marriage meant You were as Q
brother TO me. love you yet as
- loved you then. I cannot be your wife
r | am already plighted."
d ITO Lord Neville. You shall never
=, marry him. forbid il. | will hum
n him to the gates of death"
3 1T is sinful to say such things"
2, let my sins alone. am not in tn,
[ humor to be sorry for them. | say
y again, you shall not marry that scoun
@ drelly Scot"
,, He is not what you call him--fal
4 from it"
G 81 call things by their right names
4 ! call Scot a Scot, and scoundrel, 9
{ scoundrel." lie threw her hands faI
S from him and strobe up and down the
r room, desperate and full of wrath
d You shall marry no man but myself
IS Before earth and heaven you shall!'
III God wills, | shall marry Lore
l. Neville"
/. "Oh, Jane! sLall 80 to total ruiz
II II you do not marry me-"
Shall marry a man who is moi
o lord of himself? | will not"
II "YOn have made me YOur enemy