Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-05-11

MlSJdh0u!
YES. Why, it was only the other
day you first saw me! You can't love
YOU can't have learned to feel as
you say in that short time!"
Only the other day? Yes, so it is
he assents, earnestly, and as if sur
prised at the shortness of the time;
'but I feel as if l had known you all
my life, as if all my life, until that
first evening l saw you, had been
wasted. Don't you believe that
love you, Dolores?" he adds, with a
lovers passionate, reproachful appeal.
Lorrie raises her eyes and looks
beyond him into the mist that is fall
ing over the meadows, typical of mist
that enwraps her heart like a veil, so
that she scarcely knows whether she
is awake or dreaming, whether the
handsome face before her, the musical
voice that rings in her ears, and not
the phantasy of vision.
Believe you? l don't know"
"Ah, what can l say to convince
you? am a poor hand to plead my
cause, Miss Dolores! / can only say l
love you-be my wife,
The rich crimson dyes her face
again. BE my wife," For the first
time thrill runs through her, thrill
as strange and mysterious as the first
sound of Pans pipes to the wood
| nymphs of Arcadia the blest.
Wont you speak to me, answer
me?'
What do you wish me to say?"
Say yes!" he says eagerly.
She shakes her head and leans
against the trunk of the elm, her face
turned toward him.
Guys head sinks, and his face grows
paler even than it has been.
mo, then then you don't care for
me! You cannot bring yourself to
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! l 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. I can't take my
words back. l would not if l 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
lences 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 / had
lost all that makes life worth living
for. Won't you say one little word
to give me hope? 1 don't mind
| waiting"
II 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! l shall be wretched,
at any rate"
ut is not my fault" she says, with
apout.
mo, he says, sit is not your fault
that | love you! Heaven knows you
did your best to keep me from it! l
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 youi You
were quite right! l don't see why you
should care for me! l told myself
from the first that you rather disliked
me than otherwise, but, you see a fell
low never listens to reason when he's
in love; at least, couldn't Go it, He
| just goes on loving, in spite of every
thing. Oh, no, don't blame you; but
I'm not sorry l have spoken to you!
| couldn't love you better, if | went
on knowing you for years than I love
you at this moment, than 1 loved you
the first day saw you"
Silence for a moment; then he
passes his hand across his brow and
averts his face 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.