The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-02-12

eiN shy VIII Ata HANN5A tAt HA Aeif AAA
So their stranger eyes met, and con-
quered Without hothering With the
formalities Of social life, he spoke
gaily
Surely the world has grown young
again with the rising sun
The world IS more fortunate than
we, for it grows young each day. while
we become older"
He smiled, such a fascinating smile
as she, country girl that she was, had
never seen before, motionIng to a seat
on a great rock.
There is a dawn which comes to
some that makes the old young again
It washes clean the slate Of life, brings
those who understand into paradise,
Of perhaps but day, but that day is
worth a lifetime
The blood surged in her veins, but
she asked wonderingly:
What is that dawn?"
THE dawn Of love, he replied
promptly, his eyes seeking hers.
Once more the blood throbbed in the
girls veins, and ran madly to the roots
OF her hair, while he asked, half mock
ingly:
Has that dawn come to you?"
She shook her head, whispering;
4 want to see it.
DO you? It is a lovely sight and
experience. would like to see your
face soften and grow beautiful under
its magic light, he continued, laying
his white hand upon the brown one og
the girl. 4 viii tell you Of one.
Imagine a lovely face, crowned with
golden hair"
She was delighted that her hair was
golden.
"a broad, low brow, beneath which
are set like twin stars eyes Of violet
hue, heavily fringed with black
lashes. Imagine me gazing into those
eyes" here his arm stole about her
waist, until can see the soul hiding
there
The black lashes dropped over tho
violet eyes until they were hidden.
imagine" went on the deep. fascln-
ating voice Of the speaker, my glance
calling into being a glorious blush like
the suns Illuminating rays, and my
drawing to my shoulder the little head
Of gold until the moments shyness
passed. Then, Just as I felt that the
rays my heart had sent out were pene-
trating the cold mists of maiden inno-
cence and ignorance Of the magical
noontide Of love, would lift the dim
pied chin and press my lips upon the
dewy ones, so close to my own, then,
darling, do you think you could ima-
gine dawn Of lover"
His ardent kisses left but little 10
the imagination. Her heart beat mad
! ly, her eyes flashed. for she under
! stood, this girl Of sixteen. the mystery
Of love.
q could keep on kissing you for
ever" the man whispered.
u am willing" was her halfIaugh-
ing reply, and ike two children. hand
in hand, they wandered away into tho
adjoining woods and, sitting on the
soft grass, they joined with the birds
and wild flowers in perfect enjoyment
Of the wonderful day.
j Above them the birds sung; the
y water Of a brook rippled and the sun
3 smiled down upon them. Their love
E making was so sweet and yet So
4 natural They, the one man and the
e one woman in all the world. The
/ lives they had lived prior to this das
+ seemed dreams, already forgotten
1 Again and again she whispered.
d q want to know another life. win
L never go back, and he held her closer
r in his arms and would not think ahead
v but stilled the scarlet lips with mae
A. kisses.
s 1t was a day she felt was worth I
e lifetime Of suffering. To have one.
e reached the apex Of happiness. though
1t last but for the day. was worth a.
eternity OF sober living. Yet, when tn
y twilight came. the birds ceased sing
n ing, the waters no longer rippled, bu
surged angrily towards the falls, 70
, he left her
p The mans farewell was SO Ike I'm
and his sex. She knew It, With IA
knowledge which had come Of thi
day Of love.
MY precious one. good-5g. In
cruel, but / must leave you. / ca
never come back, so tell me II hav
le made you happy?"
More so than ] ever thought poss
~ bic. and | you?"
You have given me a day in par'
r disc" he returned. kissing her agar
Some might marry you, but wi
- not Out Of al the days OF my life
re have had one perfect one. ana 4 wi
not destroy it by marriage"
- "You need not, she whispered !
return. q am willing to pay th
ik price. You have compressed within
i. this day all that life can ever give
and she smiled an uneaFthly smile. s
sweet, SO tender was t.
For long time after he was gou
II she lay upon the ground until she ha
IN absorbed all she knew and felt thcl
with that same strangely sweet loc
n in her eyes. she slowly mounted "A