The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-12-31
81 might take the part myself, IL

Il might take the part lily STILL
Gillespie were not already cast Tor It,
"Gillespie?" she said, WonderlnSiy'
then added at once, as though memory
had prompted her: "To be sure, there
is Gillespie.'
There is certainly Gillespie. Per
haps you would liefer call nm VT
lando?" I ventured.
LET me see" she pondered, bending
her head: then: 20, that's a brave
man, He writes brave verses, speaks
brave words, swears brave oaths ana
breaks them bravely, quite traverse
athwart the heart of his lover; as a
puisny litter. that spurs his horse but
on one side, breaks his staff like a
noble goose; but all's brave that youth
mounts and folly guides
THAT is Celia's speech, but we'll
, rendered. Let us consider that you
are Rosalind, Celia Viola and Are
all in one. And l shall be those i'm
mortal villains of old tragedy-flrst
t second and third murtherer; or, II
!, suit you better, let me be lago 10
honesty; Othello for great adventures
!. Hamlet for gloom; Shylock for relenl
t lessness, and Romeo for loVe-slcR
u ness"
o Again she bent her head; then draw
J. ing little away and clasping he
hands, she quoted: Come, WOO M
N WOO me; for now | am in a hollda
IS humour and like enough to consen
What would you say to me now, a
* I we're your very, very Rosallnd!
RI 7 stammered a moment, dlmly r
N calling Orlando's reply in the pla
or 7 did not know whether she were ola
or ing me; and this was certainly not Il
nd girls mood as we had met at St AZ
tha's. My heart leaped and the bio
Nv tingled in my finger-tips as memo
10 searched out the long-forgotten seen
no and suddenly threw at her the lin
aw "How if the kiss be denied?
mr. She shrugged her shoulders.
v " "The rehearsal has gone far enouS
20, Let us come back to earth again.
of. But this. somehow, was not SO ca
bic Far across the lake a heavy tr;
nv rumbled, and its engine blew &c
,ov blast for Annandale. | felt at that
slant the unreality of the days ever
lilo with their elimination in this stral
the interview on the height above
lake. Never, | thought, had man
Ied leved with woman on so eXtraordlh
business. In the brief silence, WI
CO, the whistles echoes rang round
shore. | drew away from the be
hon that had stood like barricade
7 tween us and walked toward her
:, Of did not believe in her; she
ovo Haunted her shameful trickery in
,oen face: and yet l felt her spell upon
as through the dusk | realized a
van her splendid height, the FAINT
zoos closure of her noble head and 1elt
how glory of her dark eyes. She did
Won. draw away, but stood quietly, with
foirc head uplifted, light scarf ca
h i'm about nGT SuUuluSlo ., anu Oii i4~A
a round sailors cap, tipped away
ton, her face.
you must go back; must see
Won. safely to St. Agathas," / said.
gbod She turned, drawing the SCARF
oh. under her throat with quick ges
two as though about to go. she lau
re with more honest glee than
+hic known in her before, and | forgo
ronst duplicity, forgot the bold game
- ha was playing, and the consequence
- which it must lead; my pulses bou
won when a bit of her scarf touche'
rour hand as she flung loose end owe
ng is shoulder.
bonld MY dear Mr.. Donovan, you pr
7 am the impossible! We are foes.
,tobt. must remember, and I cannot a
,ss in your escort"
, mo But I have a guard about the b
VOC. YOU are likely to get into trou
you try to pass through. l mus