Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-11

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stand 1t a day. Then he WINGED. He
thought. Of Elsie. the grocer's daugh-
ter, and her amiable patronizing of
his mother giving her orders Of a
morning from the surrey to some
young woman who brought out a
spoonful of sugar for inspection and
apologized for delay. Aurelie-she
would throw it into the customers
face If she fancied a slight!
She read his thoughts. you think
I couldn't, don't you? Oh. boy.
could or you! You hold me from
being rebellious and ridiculous. !
could just do anything for you-run
away with you, or go to work-just
anything!"
He felt her trembling in his arms.
Sometimes, Aurelie, think we ought
to go down to the house and make
clean breast Of 1t. Tell them every
thing-that I love you, dear!"
Her voice choked with gratefulness
-dimly she could feel what a sacri-
fee he was making. But now the
prospect frightened her. "Oh, no
not yet. Your father-he'd hate me,
now!" .'.s...
Hate you? Why, Aurelie. he'd
help you! Maybe he would get a
place for you at the bank-keeping
books or something. But you can't
keep books. You're all lightness and
temper and lovableness-you'd have
10 have the outdoors or you'd not live.
But If you did have a place that would
pave the way for you"-he hesitated,
wondering how to say it and not hurt
her absurd pride-"raise you, SO that
some day people would sort of for
get!" r' .-...'.- e.
"Forget?" ..-...'
Where you came from, dear.
Down the river with Old Michigan
and that you haven't even name ex-
cept a borrowed one from Lindstorm." J"
He laughed to sooth 1t over-"Oh,
but it's FUNNY! You're a wild hawk,
Aurelie. I remember when you used
to come into town with Knute to sell
rabbits, and the coolest winter day
you always had a bit of bright leaf
stuck somewhere about you like an
Indian girl! 1 thought you were at
first. Then forgot all about you and
went away to college, and when /
next heard you were in high school;
and then this year I met you In the
hills, here" ....
And made me love you, Harlan. Oh,
1t wasn't right-it wasn't right"
Then, in the way Of all men and all
lovers, he laughingly kissed and COM
forted her. They went down a moon
filled > glen and up a slope, and there
the silent town lay, the court house
tower white as silver above the robing
trees. Sinsinawa was tinkling down
from the highlands at their feet, and
across 1t a trail lay to the first street
at the foot Of the bluff. In window
of a cottage tucked at the foot Of the
rock, they saw the blur of lamp, and
he knew 1t was Wiley Curran idling
over his editorials, for the graceless
renegade of Rome had Away Of turn
ing night into day and writing or
wasting hours when decent folk were
all abed.
And when it seemed that he was
about to leave her at this accustomed
parting place, she clung to him sud-
denly whispering: Take me with you
oh, take me with you! I can't let you
go-oh, can't!"
She held so tightly to him that he
could not go If he had tried, and after
long vain comforting, murmuring to
her all he had said a hundred times. he
slowly unfolded her arms and looked
down at her intently. A sense of her
great loneliness without him, without
her school, without the bit Of aspira-
tion and Of vague hope she had come
to find, touched him as 1t had never
done before.
"Aurelie," he muttered, Il can't do
that-you know 1 can't. I must finish
school and buck into work. Before ]
-I-marry you" he blurted tenderly
But you ought to have place-some-
thing to do and-be while were walt
ing, dear! And I'm going to take you
to mother and tell her ALI"
She looked up frightened at his stub
born face. "No-no-wait!"
First I'll tell Wiley Curran. You
know that editor? He's my best friend
here-the only one 1 care about par
ticularly in town. And I trust him In
things Of this sort-he could look at II
right and honestly, without any fool
ishness about my family and that kind
of thing. Dear, We'll go tell Wiley, anc
If he says to tell mother and father
we'll do it-and have the whole matter
| outI" He cried out joyously, brave
with the hazard of it. He felt suddenly
a man going out to mans world anc
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the honor of his faith; and this brave
knowledge was worth all the miserable
travesties of good FORM" the SINUS
and easy conventions Of his set
These were we'll enough for old womer
to fiddle over, but they were not fol
youth, nor love, nor the glory Of thi:
first protecting manhood and its surety
Of the years to come, that future which
would achieve all, enoble all, redeem
all.
He saw suddenly her own flint
achievement She, who gave her whole
life to him. as one would place a ros'
in his hand. She would sit small, pen
sive, alone, waiting for him IL tn
hills, or in the squalid quarry house