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] Vol. XLIX.
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i VANDEWATER STRPER,
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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 6, 1892.
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No. 1267
“TO MY QUEEN.
¥, w, oneY,
¢ of southern moon
Shining on rippling summer seas,
Or musi of the whispering breeze
Which stirs the sleeping woods at
noon:
Sweet as some old, famitiar strain
fills the trav'ler's eyes with
tears,
Alter a weary lay
Far more than all things heard or
seen.
‘Dearer than all the world hath best,
More aaa than any
rou, ot thee when far away
‘And hush each anzious thought to
rest.
‘Could I but tell thee all, and see
An answering message in thine
eyes,
‘So I might only win the prize
More dear than all beside to me:
Af but thy volce, so soft and low,
Whispered love's accents in mine
ene ee vo big a
‘Then, brighter than the southern
moon
Shining on rippling summer seas,
And softer than the whispering
‘That stirs the sleeping woods at
sneer than vesper hymns, that
From convent walls to highest
7e0,
Or distant chiming bells at even
‘That tell of peace which never
dies,
My Queen, thine eyes would sbine
on me,
Thy voice would cause my heart
to beat
And I would cast me at thy feet,
And give myself, my all, to thee,
+9.
Author of * Delta's Handeome
Leonie Locke." Ju
fe Rosebuds Lovers
CHAPTER XIII,
roved a lesson to Harry Kendal and
ith edged tools.
Tite
ther nent few days, when Doroth:
gradually this restraint
grow to
ooked a pltyiagty om all my woe: \
Tus story was commenced id No, 1962 of Tux
the dark rings of her hair brashed
him to the
bis cheek, tariling
preriine
“THERE SHOULD BE O) On]
Nor
THEY ARE ALL WHISPERING
SHOULD THERE, aR Ta
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DRIPTING—DRIFTING APART!
Tae contretemps which had been so cleverly avert-
ed—of giving the pony, Black Beauty, to Miss Vin-
cent, and Dorothy's kos resentment—ebould have | But
warned
ttle careful of what he sald to Iris for
y wa prea: But
in to Wear” 0
alonot rocklene tn the way be
Sind carried on with the girl, even though bisstnece
yn Was
certainly not
raptures over every
‘and she, with her
K at him,
re frequent; thoy
that such a bold firtation—for, it had certainty
come to that should mn right in the
face of poor, blind Doro!
# Some one 01 bint of what is
ving on,” ‘ced fnaiane little Katy, the maid.
it ther ve who could find it th his or ber
tow
blow would be Moore. than en cou
ed
that ho
rig to the table, hile she; Buln as she was,
bor way as Best sho could to her own scat,
Ue ated to see. him Lavish attentions onthe
beauty, and it drove tiem sitmost out of ther ae
see their ees meet in that provoking
Biotoal smile.
porothy was beginning to feel Harry's neglect,
bat ne nongtt of the true cause of it ever dawned
FAbI contd sho have seen how they paced the
grounds. together atm in arm, and how near they
together on the step of the front porch, 8 oa aig
wnat a lover-like manner he bent his dark be
ghar her litle, white bands, the aight would ive
killed Dorot
OT wonder if they think we are foot” whispered
MY PERFECT, Conp,
IDENC, EB,
ANSWER m,
VE Ce,
ME THIS,
FASED To dove MEDEAR.’
“ye
the, serrants, indienaniy, ore to the otbers and
their Blood bola wis ruge at this m lov
et ‘even the attention of Titdidyomo, ary Ken-
dal seemed to pall upon the beauty. Gray Gables
was duly she ranted more life. nore gayety.
“Why re. & grind ball.” ehe suggceted,
‘god invite the whole country-ed
really mi
deal of wren}
pastime, will ite to nine ‘a vom
rothed lover from bis
ear ‘caring ne itle for the broken TORS a0 a the
rained lives strewn alony
Harry Kendal selaed cagerly ‘upon the {dea, be-
cause it would please Inia Sire. Kemp knew no
qther than ber beactifal willful iece’s pleas
ited Dorothy. She soem
been et ‘eee out of the calculation,
sot had cor
ot hr Presence there.
0 ert Surely they
ought to Enow that abe could take no part is it,
she was blind.
ot et ue found berselt alone with Ir she
This, Dut the gin tured Wo with a Lice
have
$0," sho doviared, =
be shut up a
y Gables ought
You need
he Is growing 80 .
“Do they say tae cried Dorothy, the color
deepening in her chee!
asser sientl Iris “ And for that
study appearances, 80
how w that bei pyar fesse |
with @ cold chill, as
her companion aa ene that they shontd.
“Then let the bail be give all means,”
turned Dorotliy, with a Tie qa gainer in her voice.
nid go the matter was
tho
them ea tey made
to note Dorothy's
more,’
reason I would adv
that every one ma;
Jet them think be fe
‘The words et
is and Hlarry were basy with
side by side, compari
ihe out, aud never Snot econ
reaence.
* did not quite snit thelr
qui ickly Tejected: but Doroth: we
noticed that he never once tured to her, bis be-
trothed bride, and asked ber op aton.
was
—
ETWEEN BEyROTHED lovers.
~AREWARE. -you- Grow!
‘one young iis to whom Dorothy had
been quite
etaclod, who lived yory noar Gray
soft Ate sie hand er step) ato his, aa
hero was’ "no one "15 soe, tough’
Dorothy —God belp heri~sat_ si
of that little
end wes frgioal, In the mad
inpuace Ot the moment. he rai
tobis lips and kissed it, and Iris
Koov that aio had'won the battle
even before he spoki
“ Alice hat T not be
invited to the ball,” he said, husk~
ily. my’ decision.”
that her betrothed lover would.
lecide agains:
it faitly took her breath away,
and a sudden new
nsation shot
r
a deity aliororerpradt ng bet
. She did not interfere again,
nd she suffered ‘them to arrange
{he invitations after that to please
- uictly at length and
sightless eyes.
‘They did not even uotice her
absence, Dut chatted and laughed ..
\ quite the
"Atter they liad nished
+ \proposed that they a take
0, and the
‘the Invitations to bo
[LN
Gables, and who had ron over to see ber alineet
orery day, up to the time Iris bad come
hen her visite requents
wiehin the lat ifort they mad-ceased' witretlen
Doro \xions, of course, that thi
oung wa shou Bo invited; but Ine pat in &
inurrer at onee.
“Of all the g tis T ever met, I dislike her the
most,” decla
‘Sho was very careful not to tell the real reason
hy.
w
‘This same young girl had beon the first to notice
her Strtation with Harry Kendal, genet had had quite
seen
{Glow to marry o giel stove bi
They ad parted in anger, ‘No wonder, We re
at, that wviting Dorothy's friend
Jzis objected to
bi ‘the geai
“Ont ro, we, must fnvite her,” said Don.
othy, spe her friend's name was brought under
disenssion, * Musta’t we, Ha
ite turned away and talked mooaily to the win-
dow withont se ie It iris aid ot ike her, that
settled the matter. ea
{mn the girls favor,
for, ils opinion
‘must settle the — erm said Dor-
me suggest a better way,"” he replied,
fs he took hig geat at tho table again. «
ve clamoring
“But we do not t bins Wo xi "ooule eto. an BgToe-
outed 1 ‘You.yill have to chooee for
startled, sweeping look, and she
iat that he would not dare go against
hor for
rot
“T mast decline,” he aaid again, for be fet nere-
ue ‘with those sightless eyes turued eagerly in his
rection,
"You most say ‘Yes? or *No,"” sald Dorothy,
never, dreaming that bis poset regnid be in the
tive, for on the we rst come:
touray Gables he had vai wT must Iheoduce you
at once ‘who lives actoss th
te a lovely, aut ‘dnl nnd 1 Room soa al Tike her.”
nud Doroiby bad tked gentle Alice
‘a the question of tnvit
"come up, and never fora
at had she doubted the result of hs secon.
Xo," pont
ie
He gave her her
Ae
3
ort
a Come, ‘wo are wasting thine.”
close to bis chair—so near that
They
to the postoat
6 alon Pat
Dinped a
re
the pach ‘nih 2 Ti
zt con
ue
Pain broke from
Ife gai
thing ia
“Tam
this trip with me. Let me
“it was on
against
few moments, a1
Tight
vito this
remove
ow
sprained my ankle?” eho fa faltered, looking up {nto
Bis face
no ove bad ever yet
*S rye
Yoie
her udu
“Does
he returned, boaree!
"Ot if Voould oti bel believe what my heart would
fain tell me,” she
foe | there, directly in the path before bim, st
Kem
deautital Titece's sbort-cominy
& woman to 60
Tris to listen love
belonged, i che sist Pon 6 Goa, pom
Is
On so glad that you
Appe hurt my foot, aud
It was 60 I had to sit down and rest;
nd Mr, gh to remuin bere
with mo a few cccn we although—althoagh—be-
AT 3
am
Degathed, Imskily,
ould
reply.
me Would you?” persisted Iris, in her low, musical
if, hee
For the fitst tithe Dorothy wish
ed that Tris bed not come, .
Kanpat did not intend
deing untrue to Dorothy when he
det hioneelf ditt Into that platonia
fclondabin with Trin, the beauty,
tite had wievelopedl isto
dangers Birtation,
Gractualty the ogi fascinations
seem im, and
before he gale ealzed ie Arla bud
deco rare!
bad Laven te short ont from Gray Gables
lay over the bi
qo arg when suddenty
one, and she stumbled Beudongs in
Taised ber, and to his ute
eration she ro lang to hima half fainting.
Mr. Kendal—Ilarr ve sprained my
Pana a low cry of
her
thered ber close in hfs arms, aud did every-
his power to soothe her, mss 7
fo norry—so sorry that I let you undertake
carry yor fo the
—my ankle is not sprained,” she faltered;
nly wrenched @ Ito aa’ tt turned over
that stone, We Will sit down on this 8 8
voments, and after a litte rest Lwiil be all
a)
ig Kendal willingly assented, but be did not
his arm from the slender waist,
60 thankful that it is no worse, Iris,” he
very much if I bad
‘with those great, dark, m
m'abie to res
from her quickly, and did not
mesmerie éres that
ing pradence to the winds, he turned to
Jdeoly and claxped her still closer In his
Four own heart teach you that, Init”
red, “II would be so.
that IAF love you,” he erfed,
Test of the sentence died away on his lips,
She might ave Been blind to’all ber
ines, bt
mlx right and Tone aa to" permit
ro fron one she knew
Taail, he bad other
10 go out to-day,
ou quite sore Four ankle is not sprained,
he
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