The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-10

'Ithe#trunk3F Of O. bigMonk behind @hcr, 59ler
scarlet lips curved n bnclt ana showed Il "
lines Of brilliant white: her eyes sent d
whitening shaft Of disdain, her small head
was thrown back hnughtily, and her
whole attitude was dashed with an un-s
sinistnkable air, which might have served
for q statue Of Defiance. 81 is 743;
#s was young tooAvfor q man-and my.
veins throbbcd with anger, for she had
sunhestntingly opposed her will, her opin-
Ion, her argument, to mine. In the hent
of this argument both had said bitter
things which had best be forgot; and the
thing had eliminated In the merciless
farewell that cut me to tho quick. 2s
$8S 1T was too sudden, too cruel to be true!
FL. .Forever?" hnd FILTERED, dazed.
.Forever!"4 she had flung back, with
q determined sweep Of the lips together.
And those lips had been mine!
i fotgot myself in my anger
II did not think" 1 cried, "that you
were ~ woman to give yourself lightly!
You pledged yoursel = have you forgotten
that ?'',SS III
u did not give myself lightly she
replied, nov quite cool. And ut no time
did II ever pledge my conscience and my
principle to you. pledged faith and
devotion. love and care, and much else,
to him thought generous and NOBLE
II lam mistaken" (there was dry little
eaton III Ilcr VolCoJ, anu 'o - IVY Justt-
fled In the step. would feel justified
in 1t IL we were MARRIED, which, thank
+ God, we are not" f4g
That night cursed tho err which
gives women the spirit of men, Why
could not Juno let me judge for her In
these matters? Why did she not trust
entirely to mef There were questions
a woman like that should not venture.
%WlileiI strobe tho length of my apart
merlt many, times, crushed in my palm
the slender symbol which she had tossed
back to me, Il
Ten years had passed. felt, ms I
stepped from tho vessel, loneller and
moro deserted than had been In u
foreign land, This was home, but was
not Of home, procured my old rooms,
and tried to fancy myself as had been,
but it WAS out OF the questionable club
had changed. tho fellows had married or
moved, or forgotten me; and Juno-Juno!
Il Abroad had found wealth and some
fame, for had the artistic soul within
me--n narrow. bigoted soul. she had called
it In her pussion--and people are not slow
to discover those thus prospered, So cards
deluged me, which l did not accept. and
I moped at homo In preference to being
bored away from 1t.
one evening met IIewett. an old chunl.
now married and very much settled
down. He would not take no.. and I
spent the evening quietly at his home.
ndn,irlng the bables/and trying to get
up an enthusiasm for Mrs. IT., who Is a
characterless little thing, at best, but a
pleasing kitten, all smiles-or with only
an occasional pout.
Before left IIewett, Jr., fell asleep
In her lap. and her pink and white
face took on such broodng tender
ness, her eyes caressed tho flushed
chernbic countenanec on her bosom with
such material concern, that thought
had never seen anything quite so beautl-
ful as that group. with tho hrelight
dancing ftfuly. and casting rudy glow
Ing charm upon the figures of mother and
child nothing SO beautiful, that is, OK
cepting Juno. with her naughty little
head, and her proud air ana her indig-
nant pose, and her white gown against
tho brown of tho oak, and thpquiverins
hammock, had carried this picture Of
my lost sweetheart for years in a foreign
land, and i had nugged and loved the
vision with on intense passion, though
the sight OF 1t gave ME pain.
IT may have been partly this that made
II impossible for meas surveyed the
group In tho frelight-to keep mist
from settling IN my eyes confonnd them.
1t was past II when resisAed the