Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-05-12

me. You cannot bring yOufSeH 10
care for me, Miss Dolores?"
Il don't know. 1t is $3.50 sudden.
Why did you tell me this tonight?
There is no time to think--to Think
She puts her hand to her brow and
pushes the soft tendrils of hair aside
with an impatient gesture.
All! | was wrong" he admits. But
! did not mean to say tit came out
She interrupts him quickly, eagerly.
Then don't say any more! Let it
be as if you had not spoken.
Il could not do that. can't take my
words back. / would not if ! could.
They mean to much to me, Dolores
Lorrie-will you not give me an an
swer? | don't want you to say that
you love me, unless-unless-" He
pauses and an imploring look comes
into his handsome eyes.
Lorrie turns still futher from HIM.
She feels an answering chord in her
heart that almost forces her to say,
Il love you! love you," but she 81
lepces it, beats it back with a string
effort
I know it's sudden-too sudden:
but love springs up in moment" he
says. AT least, mine did. Lorrie.
| dear, dear Lorrie, don't send me away
from you! feel as if were pleading
for my life | know if you say No l
shall go away feeling as Tiff I had
lost all that makes life worth living
for. Won't you say one little word
to give me hope? I don't mind
| waiting"
I cannot. Oh, why did you say
this? We were all SO happy before,
and now-now we shall be quite diff
ferent, and wretched."
YES he says, grimly enough;
you are right! | shall be wretched,
at any rate"
1T is not my fault" she says, with
apout.
No, he says, 1T is not your fault
that | love you! Heaven knows you
did your best to keep me from it! /
ought to have been warned by the way
you treated me that-that you couldn't
be serious if you tried! That you
were only making fun of me! There"
for suspicious moisture shows in her
eyes; I'm not blaming you! You
were quite right! I don't see why you
should care for me! / told myself
from the first that you rather disliked
me than otherwise, but, you see fell
low never listens to reason when he's
in love; at least, couldn't do it! He
just goes on loving in spite of every
thing. Oh, no, don't blame you; but
I'm not sorry have spoken to you!
| couldn't love you better, if / went
on knowing you for years than I love
you at this moment, than loved you
the first day saw YOU
Silence for moment; then he
passes his hand across his brow and
averts his face a little. A horrible
suspicion crosses Lorrie's mind that
he is crying. But he is not. He is
only suffering as strong man, baked
in his first love passion, can suffer,
without sob or tears.
"Eeaven knows it is not much |
could offer you, Lorrie. You don t
mind my calling you Lorrie? It shall
be Miss Dolores, or Miss Latimer,
for the few times we may meet again.
1t isn't much l can offer you; I'm
| about as good-for-nothing as fellow
can be, and as poor as church mouse
into the bargain"
DO you think care about that?''
mo, | don't think you do! know
you don't. But would your father
MY father! and what about yours?"
A man doesn't think much about
his father, or about anything else,
when he is laying his heart at his
loved ones feet, and Lord Guy had
eGI gUttob--clean forgotton-his ia
ther. and the letter the Right Honor
able the Earl of Latcham had written
him.
To be continued.