The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-24

going to prove me to be the same
person you met at the AnnandaIe sta
ton, how should you go about it,"
Well, to be explicit, you walk like
an angel"
You are singularly favored In hay
ing seen angels walk, Mr.. Donovan.
There's a popular superstition that
hey fly. In my own ignorance I
can't concede that your point is well
taken. What next?"
Your head is like an intagIio
wrought when men had keener vision
and nimbler fingers than now. With
your hair low on your neck, as it is
tonight, the picture carries back to a
Venetian balcony centuries ago"
That's rather below standard.
What else, please?"
And that widows peak would
risk the direst penalties of perjury in
swearing to it alone"
She shrugged her shoulders. you
are an observant person. That trifing
mark on a woman's forehead is usual
ly considered Disagreement"
But you know well enough that 1
did not mention it with such a
thought. You know 1t perfectly vel"
NO; foolish one" she said, mock
ingly, "the widows peak can not be
denied. suppose you don't know that
the peak sometimes runs In families.
My mother had it, and her mother be-
fore her"
you are not your mother or your
grandmother; so I am not in danger
of mistaking you"
"Well, what else, please?"
There's the emerald. Miss Pat has
the same ring, but you are not Miss
Pat. Besides, have seen you both
together"
STILL there are emeralds and en-
eraldsl"
"And then-there are your eyes!"
There are two of them, Mr.. Dono-
van!"
There need be no more to assure
light in needful world, Miss Hol-
brook"
Good! You really have pOssibin-
tiesi"
She struck her palms together in a
moekery Of applause and laughed
at me.
ITO a man who is in love every
thing is possible" I dared
The Celtic temperament is very sus-
ceptible You have undoubtedly
likened many eyes to the glory of the
heavens"
81 swear"
Swear not at ALI"
Then 1 won't!"-and we laughed
and were silent while the water rip
pied in the reeds, the insects wove
their wool of sound and ten struck
musically from St Agatha's
Il must leave you"
IF you go you leave an empty world
behind"
"Oh, that was pretty!"
Thank you,"
Connected! l wasn't approving
your remark, but that meteor that
flashed across the sky and dropped
into the woods away out yonder."
Alas. l have fallen farther than
the meteor and struck the earth
harder"
You deserved it,. she said, rising
and drawing the veil about her throat.
My lack of conceit has always been
my undoing; l am the humblest man
alive. You are adorable" I said, IF
that's the answer"
1t isn't the answer! If mere stars
do this to you, what would You be in
moonlight"
AS we stood facing each other l was
aware of some new difference in her
Perhaps her short outing skirt of dark
blue had changed her; and yet in our
tramps through the woods and our ex-
cursions in the canoe she had worn
the same or similar costumes. She
hesitated a moment, leaning against
the railing and tapping the floor with
her boot; then she gravely, half ques
tioningly, as though to herself:
He has gone away; you are quite
sure that he has gone away?"
Your father is probably in New
York" l answered surprised at the
question. q do not expect him back
at once"
IF he should come back" she be-
gan.
He will undoubtedly return; there
is no debating that"
IF he comes back there will be
trouble, worse than anything that has
happened. You can't understand what
his return will mean to us-to me-"
You must not worry about that;
you must trust me to take care of that
when he comes. Sufficient unto the
day must be your watchword. 1 saw
Gillespie tonight"
"Gillespie?" she repeated with un-
feigned surprise.
THAT was capitally acted" !
laughed. 4 wish 1 knew that he
meant nothing more to you than
that!" added, seriously.
She colored, whether with anger or