Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23

my memory, the letter being in ashes five
minutes later, they ran thus:
For the last time implore your forgiveness
On Friday morning l sail for England. 1 am
going there business; but l shall remain
there indefinitely if you will not pardon me.
Will you meet at the old spot at the end
of the Pine Walk tomorrow evening at sunset?
If you do not come. | shall know that you
have wholly ceased to care for me- and l shall
never trouble you again.
went to Elizabeth with the letter "The
maid brought me this l said, laying it on
the table before fer. Il opened it and
caught the sense of it before | knew it was
not mine
Elizabeth snatched up the letter, glanced
at it, and flung it into the smoldering fire in
the CRATE beside her. With all her beauty
and dignity, | must say that for the moment
she looked the shrew and vixen and nothing
else.
ooh, Elizabeth" l cried in dismay
Wont you forgive him? Won't you 60 to
the Pine Walk? Which was a foolish
speech; for had had time enough to learn
right well that my sister goes by contraries.
MOI said Elizabeth, all her pride and
anger flaming in her face and behind it the
heartbreak looking out of her eyes.
But he is going away" l pleaded, still
unwisely, land he will not come back unless
you forgive him! You are setting the feet of
your pride on the neck of your happiness;
Dearest"
do not speak of this again, Evelyn, if
you value my Affection said Elizabeth in
her haughtiest manner. q" Once for all, will
not 60 to meet Anthony AIlenl' -.
SAID no more then; but ventured to hope
that she hardly meant it. Anxiously all the
next day l watched for hint of relenting.
No such hint came. Dearly would 1 have
loved to shake the girl! At sunset / went to
her again as she was reading in the library.
| say reading" dear Mills; but, consider
ing the fact that she was holding the book
upside down, take the liberty to think that
the pain of deciphering it must have over
weighed the pleasure of the story.
Elizabeth" | said. pleadingly "he is
waiting there for you now. Think of it!
Won't you co.?
Evelyn Stuart said she Jelly, "must l
tell you in plain English that permit no in
reference with my affairs, before you will
cease to intrude yourself into that which
does not concern your"
Indeed, at that | had almost left her to
her fate. And should have had she alone
been concerned; but there was Anthony 1t
was for his good | did what l did
ran up stairs to her room, whipped her
crimson dress out of her wardrobe, and has
tened to my own. The dress fitted me per-
fectly, and, when l had wrapped Elizabeth's
red scarf around my head to shade my face
and peered into the mirror was well salts
fed. True, it was a very rosy Elizabeth 1
saw; but surely even she, at such time,
would be flushed, and by now the light
would be very dim in the Pine Walk.
l slipped out of the side door and hurried
down past the pines. A curve in the walk
shut me from the house just before l came
to the hedge between the demesnes of
Beechwood and Rockywold. There at the
gate was manly figure. Indeed, my heart
could not have beaten more uncomfortably
if l had been Elizabeth herself.
At sight Of me he sprang over the gate and
fastened toward me. Oh, dear Mills, he was
very handsome, this same Anthony! No
wonder that Elizabeth loves him in spite of
herself A dash of fair hair over a sunburned
brow, pair of frank, blue eyes, laughing
mouth-so much had time to see before l
found myself engulfed in his arms.