Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-04-18

cool freshness and IL pleasant wood |
smells. and there, IN the softened
blue light OF a pine-hung glade, she
would rest, and let her fancy build
what heaven.reaching towers II would.
On some brown bed OF plne.needles.
or on friendly gray boulder close by
tho water-side. where she could give
her eyes to It's fiow and foam. and her
ears to its music,-musio like the |
mudled tInklIng of little silver bells in
the distance, --she would let herself |
go out to her dream with the joyous,
reckless abandon OF falling water.
II was commonly dream OF a youth |
in doublet and hose. n plumed cap. |
and cloak of purple satin. who came |
in the moonlight to the balcony OF his |
love, and sighed his passion in tones |
60 moving that she thought an angel |
must have yielded-as did the girl In |
the balcony who had let down the
scarf to him. She already knew how
that girls heart must have fiuttered ut
the momenI,--how she must have felt
that the hands were mad, wicked. un.
controllable hands, no longer her own.
There was one place in the dream
that she managed not without sonV
ingenuity. II had to be made plaiS
that the lover under the window DID
not come from long. siX.dooreA
house. with a wife behind each door,
that this girl, pale in the moonlight
with quickening heart and rebelliouS
hands on the scarf. and arms that
luh 30, 90. ha ~ -
his first wife but his last; that ne
was never even to consider so mucH
as the possibility Of another but was
10 cleave unto her, and to love her
with a single heart for all the days OF
her life and his own.
There were various ways If brin~
ing this circumstance forward UsuV'
ly she had Brigham march or at tn"
head of his great family and counsel
the youth to take more wives, n oriS'
that he should be exalted in the King
dom. Whereupon the youEg maD
would fold his love In his arms and
speak words of scoTn, in tho same
] thrilling manner that he spoke hts
other words. for any exaltatioB which
they two could not share aloha Brig
ham, at the head OF his wives. wouIc
then stink of, much abashed
She had come naturally TO see her
own face as the face OF this happily
loved girl in the dream. She knew
no face for the youth. There was
none in Amalon; not Jarom Tanner
six feet three. who became a help
less grinning child in her presence;
nor Moroni Peterson, who became q
solemn and CHASTITY imbecile; nor
Ammaron Wright, son of the Bishop,
who had opened the dance of the
Young Peoples Auxiliary with prayer.
and later tried to kiss her in dark
corner of the room. So the face Of the
other person in her dream remained OF
an unknown heavenly beauty.
There was a young lady came a-trippIns
along,
And at each side a servant-o.
And I'm each hand glass OF wine
To drink with the Gypsy Davy-O.
And will you fancy me. my dear
| And will you be my Honcy-O:
swear by the sword that hangs by ny
side
You shall never want FOR monoy-o.
"oh. yes. I will fancy you. kind sir.
| And will be your Honey-O,
II you swear by the sword that hangs BY
your side
l shall never want for money-O."
The singer seemed TO be making his
way slowly. Far up the trail she had
one fieeting glimpse OF a man on a
horse. and then he was hid again In
the twilight OF the pines. But the
music came nearer
Then she put on her high-heeled shoes,
| All made of Spanish lenther-O,
| And she put on her bonnie. bonnie brown
And they rode on together-O.
soon after that. her lord came home
Inqulring Tor his lady-O.
When some OF the servants made this 70
ply.
She's a-gone with the Gypsy.o
''Then saddle me my milk white steed.
For the black IL not so speedy-O.
And IN ride all night and IN ride al
day
TIL overtake my lady-o"
She stood transnNed, something
within her responding to the bidder
singer, as rhe had once heard CLOSED
piano sound to voice that sang neal
It. Soon she could get broken glimpse'
Of him as he wound down the trail
now turning around the end OF falleT
tree. then passing behind a gian
sprlce. now leaning far back while
the horse felt a way cautiously dow
some sharp little declivity. The i'm
preston was confused,-a CLINT OF red
: OF blue. of the brown OF the horse, I
figure swaying loosely to the horses
movements, and then he was out o
: sight again around the big rock tina
had once fallen from high up on th'
side OF the canyon: but now. when h
: came from behind that, he would b
sauarely In front Of her, This recalled