Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-08-08

one woman while the face of another
haunts you-comes before you in
dreams by night-looks at You all
day-stands between you and the face
you ought TO loye-fills your heart
with a love that defes despair;
that be right, then next year / shall
marry Barbara Earle
But who in the world have you
fallen SO deeply in love WITH" asked
BERTHE, aghast at his friends earnest,
impassioned manner.
eff l could but tell you" said Lord
Bayneham. with a sigh, "a myth, a
fairy, a nameless, beautiful vision
But that is nonsense" said his prac
tical friend. Visions are all very
well,-I like something more substan
tial. Where did it appear to you?"
'You promised to be serious, Bertie,"
replied his friend reproachfully. 81
will tell you where | saw it. Do you
remember in May went to Scotland
with Trevors and Higham?"
81 remember" said BERTHE.
we "OhI W lIO5dCH CdSlle, anu
remained there three weeks" con-
tinued the young nobieman; then l.
tinued the young nobleman; then |
Scotch scenery, went on a pedestrian
tour. To shorten my story, l need
only tell you that one delicious morn
! ing | wandered into the very heart of
the bonnie woods of Brynmar. I lost
the path, and was getting bewildered
when all at once the richest and most
musical voice | ever heard rose, clear
and bell-like on the morning air.
listened to the =. words; they were
pretty and fantastic, and they are
firmly imprinted on my heart. l went
on. and saw.-ah, BERTHE, l can never
paint the picture for you! Imagine a
young, girlish graceful figure stand
ing in the midst of soft, mellow
golden light-imagine the loveliest
face that poet ever dreamed of a smile
parting the sweet lips as she bent over
her flowers, wealth of bright golden
hair falling in beautiful confusion over
shoulders that no sculptor could imi-
tate,-imagine little white hands hold
ing, half lovingly, bouquet of blue
bells
1t would be a pretty picture" in
terrupted BERTHE. you should paint
it,"
There is no need" said Lord
Bayneham. Il give you my word of
honor, BERTHE, / did think it was a
vision. You never saw anything so
delicately lovely. I spoke to her.-I
asked the right path, and she showed
it to me. | said something about the
beauty of the woods. cannot tell
how 1t happened, but | remained with
her for some minutes; and at the end
OF that time | loved her as it takes a
lifetime to teach some men to love. I
could have knelt at her feet and offer
ed her my life. l longed to tell her
how fair she was, and how | admired
her; but although we We're alone in
the woods, a queen upon her throne
was not more sacred to me than this
Young girl, whose shy. sweet eyes
rarely met my own. When we parted
| asked her for one of the flowers she
held. She gave it to me, BERTHE. and
| would not part with it for anything
you could offer me-"
Did you never discover who she
was?'' asked BERTHE.
No" replied Lord Bayneham..-not
exactly. 1t was a lonely neighbor.
hood. | asked at some of the cot
tages. One woman tod me | must
have seen Lady Hutton, as she lived
at Brynmar. l looked in the Peerage;
Lady Hutton is over forty, and has
no daughter. I went back to the
81 le place last week, but could
neither see nor hear anything of her."
What shall you do?" asked BERTHE
What can | do?" said Lord Bayne.
ham impatiently-" 'dree any weird.
as the Scotch say; try to forget her
| suppose, and marry Barbara Earle
next year."
1t would not be fair to Barbara"
said BERTHE Carlyon; 'she deserves a
Whole heart Or none"
You are right" replied Lord
Bayneham,-"I esteem Barbara high
ly; butt love the girl / saw in
Brynmar woods
Try to discover her." suggested
BERTHE.
Even if did" said the Young earl
what am TO do with Barbara?
There must be misery one way or
another. Now l have told Won nv
secret, BERTHE. do not torture me by
reverting to 1t; bear with me patient.
ly for time. We Baynehams are
doomed to love unhappily.'
Nonsense again" said practical
BERTHE. Il do not believe in dooms.
visions. poetry, or unhappiness. am
quite sure, no matter how dark the
Cloud may be Just now, it has a silver
lining"
To be continued.
Her Kind Sunoastie.,