Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-02-16
con yes, take her, and-"


 ed my consent yet. - exclaimed Dudley.
 "pudIcy. just go and tell her, wonf -you9' Dudie, went: be found her s.i ting with d;scorsolato droop upon he mouth and her hair in wild tousle. hc1 eyes red. and doicful book ill her hand
 "It's all right. Eliza beth; you can 2e and ride behind fine tandem; Mum has given in. v
 ''I dor 't-wani to go noW''
 Yes, you do fell you Tom worked like a hero io get thrir consent, but hs did i.. The poet says the cours" of true love is a mights rocky road, and l be lieve it. -
 A glorious color famed in her checNS; she snatched q brush and in tWiukliue had her kar in order and Ter lat an0 jacket on, but her fingers shook so thai she could not put on her gloves,
 ''What makes ,oa eo mel. 5t;- l1H'. ley took her in his arms and kissed hc. S'Good bye You will never be my t~a aay more.
 What do you moan? Nothing cgl come between us, Dudley; you are taIki 1. foolishly. Goodbye.
 She flew down the stairs and at | foot of the stairway Tom was wair;i& fer her with longing look in E's eyes He said nothing, but hurried her dos and walk and into the cart and mount beside her, and the chcstnuts bore ths away in the fair September sunshine.
 For some time there was nothing sai' both knew that absolute and conte,te satisfaction ill which there is no need words. Clinker, experienced as he '; felt something entirely new and pass {: sweet in having this purc and ten1c@ sonality beside him; to have hey a! in the narrow compass of tWo-"At cart and in the isolation one feels " being rapidly borne above the .r"Had swift horses Has q sensation hat ho been longing for since first he had s her. He felt in it's highest degree tha fierce sense of protection that nmp"! him to seek battle and slay an enemy [, her sweet sake. tc felt the sa',' cyui tion with which. when centre rus, in foot haIl game, he had rushed upon enemy, and his analv cal. mind E2: u' | dissect his emotions and to speculate N his yet undeciared love should carsa sations SD closely analogous. He rt. iZcd that love and war the primitive sions of man still held their old toice tire as in tue days when man sloA s enemy with l,'s club or stone aN and :: nexca his bride to his own posses>;or-
 Elizabeth watched the beautiful Ee so well trained that they seemed to E; mouths of velvet; their ia"nN r:: q flew in tue wind, their shecny cos,s :. fected the sunshine in iyri' ,l glealns; she noted Tom $ strong l.; q in very correct gloves; he see:.:' handle the horses with much ease. never would have believed she could q beside any man with such feeling oi :; solute trust and confidence; she hal the feeling of confidence and security | q she would have had with one of ti brothers, with a difference She vas 'o4 young and happy to be analytical; sM just gave herself up to being so serenel, and divinely happy that she did no think much; she did not look beyond but did carefully note tie time when Clin ker looked at his watch aud saw that i1 was half past four, and sighed with satis faction as sine thought she Noula not havt to so home until dinner-time ---half pas six--two hours She kHaX that Ton would not take her back until he mast. i
 "1 always wanted horses, but pap; could not keep them after he lost hi money, 50 we lave had all our rides 'r cable cars, unless Ut funerals, and :! ha l riding in close carriage anyway. Ohi sometimes the boys take me out. but w; all hate hired horses v
 "You will have them hereafter. IT, darlhg,' ne said. in q matter of-fac 1 tone.
 Startled, Elizabeth turned her head aat looked at him; her large dark eyes hat in them something of an animal al bay 1 what George Eliot terms the "fierceness of maidenhood'' rose within her at thest 1 words; her pride rose up in arms at the assumption of possession. He understood that ho had not sued in due aud proper i form, and now, unless he was prompt i'll deed to prostrate himself, her pride would get the better of her love, and cause hin to be obliged to enter into long and tedious siege before she would surrender | he was not experienced for nothing. ant | as there were no spectators but loaded ap | pie trees on one side of the road ant stubble on the other, for he had at ouct hn .lN.i tl,y> 4 I.,