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Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c. , v. 53, no. 33, June 4, 1898, [Incomplete].
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Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs. Carey, Lilian.
Date Added
19 March 2022
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Newspaper
Language
English
Publish Date
1898-06-04
Publisher
New York : Street & Smith
Alternate Title
New York Weekly. Pretty madcap Lucy; or, A life for a secret / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. Diamonds or hearts? / by Lilian Carey. Life for a secret
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New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals
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Vol. 53.
OFFICE:
81 Fulton St., New York.
Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1898, by Street & Smith, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D. C.
New York, June 4, 1898.
Entered at the Post OMmee, New York, as Second Class Mater,
Three Dollars Per Year.
Two Copies Five Dollars. #
No. 33,
FOLLOW THE DRUM!
Do you hear my summons hammer
thro? ‘the crackle and the
Do o sou fe ci my t throb and thrill?
When I meet the smell of powder,
oh, my merry note grows
“louder,
And my song shall not be still.
Follow, cach eside his. Iellow,
the vapors gray and
‘ilon
Witdly cheering, sternly dumb,
And rumble, rumble, rumble, when
smoke wreaths toss and
tum! ite,
You shall hear the rolling dram,
Follow the dram !
wt
Men forget their fears and follies
as they face the blinding vol-
ae
d the young recruits they come,
with pei simple nburat faces
the quiet try
To ee 2 eal of me, the drum,
Come, ploughboy tad and carter,
ot life blood freely
Fort the ‘bullet sure for aon ey
And ‘rattle, rattle, rattle, through’
he din-and roar of battle,
You shall hear the rolling drum.
Follow the drum
+ wt
When the boys that adtiow fast there,
aside and fall at last
there,
From the surging lines of red,
nd mourn the dead.
Bat wile long ‘hattle needs me, and
stling bullet speeds
Through ‘the reeling ranks I come,
You veal hear ine rolling drum.
Follow the dru
dele ect
dts
‘There was a short, sha
A sharp*ary of remonstraneé shied from Lucy’s fips, though cher heart
at! 1 invited everyone miyself, and you know it well,
ed fiercely at Albert Valentine,
dlog?”” he demanded, following up the insult by seizing the young man’s shoutder and trying to
‘And eater, clatter, clatter, where * Beau, how dare you? Cousin Betty d did not tell you &
ta coatten Beau. did not an wer her angry speech
en regiment Will you leave like a genieman, or be kicked out like a
the shoulder and felled
strug sso, and a shriek from Lucy that brought a doz
‘Pemberton to the ground with a heavy thud like a falling tog.
nk heavily in her breast,
Mr. Valentine is my invited guest, and shail rem:
fen or more tushing to the scene just as Albert Valentine’s arm shot out straight from
Author of “A. Dreailfid Pemplation,” “An
‘The Bride of the Tomb,” ete, etc.
CHAPTER V.
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‘ed, red rose
Cauowty spring ta san
On, ny Yovern ke the eneiodtia
‘That's sweetly played in tuo,
agiaic ‘att tho mnie lass,
And {aril love thee sill, my dear,
TUL all the seas gang dry,
—Burn:
Pretty Lucy and her lover were too muc
absorbed in themselves to notice the dark,
he merry stealing swift glances
at each other, the girl's eyes shy ‘and.cva-
ive, the young man’s full of ardent admir-
ation.
Tuey's heart was throbbing wildly, f
re presence into: “dd her with a
subtle joy that she would ot have had ‘hima
the sensation
and curlosity, and thanked her lucky stars
that Miss Betty was out of the way sulking
in the library.
«When the “dance was over Uncle No
tip a waltz, and again Valentino
Sinimed Lacy for his partner, though: she
d
hyly protested that he ought'to choose one
f the other girls.
y,” he answered, slipping his
“feages arte about her waist whirling| t
‘her away into Elysium as it seeme
Lucy, the warm clasp of his soft hand, the
\light'pressure of hisarm about her form,
es
A Life for: fora a Secret.
By Mrs. Alex. Mc McVeigh Miller,
Old Man's Darling,”
(Parry MaDca Lucy” was commenced last week.) > °
Pretty Madcap Lucy
thrilling her with such
ecstasy that. she
fsiv hice floating on for-
ever in that dreamy en-
tra,
“On, that the music might
go on falling
ke a shower of silver
spray.
‘While we Whirled on to the
vast Forever
‘Where no hearts break and
Ho ties sewer,
nd ne one sees away.”
ue all things sweet must end
and presen the pulsing music, SRopP ped.
and ‘tlentine is riner of th
room, foll Towing the daceers who were flocks
ing out on the broad coloaial porch to rest,
jon wasat its full, and the May
night wa ike June, a
balmy breeze eawrapping them like a ten.
der caress.
“Let us go out and smell the dilacs,”? said
e young man, placing Lucy’s wrap
about her bare, white shoulder: .
‘They strolted down the gravelled whi
walk to
moonlight
was intoxicating to the sense:
Valentine broke off a lovely spray, kissed
it, then divided it ving Luey a
part to to pin on her breast, Ww vhile he inserted
a spray in n his Dutton hole, quoting, softly:
Luey said not a word, only looked away
from him at the full moon sang aboye in
the amethyst sky, her great blue eyes secm-
ing to question THe future ‘wistfully. of her
"She felt through ali her bounding pulses
that her dest
Srapped up’ in this
‘iny was
i sterful yet humble
ehalfconipelled
love by the magnetism of his ow
Never had he. met one so handsome and
his debonair lover of hers
uumbly
me ev cro
y gazed pensively av the moon, and
Vaienline Jooked adoringly at her, wonder-
gif Heaven would smile‘on him’ and
win the heart of this dear little south-
ern Bat s0 both weresilent in that eloquent
stillness of lovers when heart seems to
speak
Saddenly t rsh
step crunchin; gra
and a hand fell ‘Heely though gently on the
young girl's 3
“Luey,” said Ben wed Pemberton, au
"| thoritatively, ‘your cousin Betty sent am
tell you to come into the house.
ff his grasp, disdainfully,
saying over her shoulder
{Lam coming presently.”
But she wishes you to come now—at
once!” remonstrated Beauregard, taking no
notice of Valentine's s pres
1 Lucy's cheek ished, and shé darted
an aay glance at the speaker, retorting
a
he calm was broken by a ia
may go tell Cousin Betty I said so.”
“Will you not come to please me, Lucy?”
he murmured, tender
“No, indeed, I will not!—I prefer to stay
here to please myself! So go away, Beat
| Pembert n't you see that you're in-
trudin; ’s company, three a. crowd !””
turned Pemberton livid ge; while
‘alentine stood still, loo! iene on and liste
ing without interferen
Bu a Pemberton having — received Miss
tty's ra morous permission to turn
the intruder from the house, waxed bolder
with ee and now cried, hoarsely
Well, Mi | Lucey,” T only ‘wished to
spare 3 you'a father unpleasant scene, but
stay if you and see this unwelcome in-
trader get a sentence befor
Mr, Val tl e Bouse,
Aicy’s guardian, desires me to say that as
she sent you no invitation to this p:
you ‘are figuring as an unbidden guest, and | wi
she desires you to leave the premises at
t | once!”
wel behind them, | Vall
ont shail not come in till I choose! You |i
though her heart sank
from Lucy's lips
heavily in her breast
ow dar Cousin Betty did
you that! re invited everyone my-
well, Mr. Valentine is
guest, and shail remain!”
ry speech.
He looked a freely nt Albert Valentine.
“Will you leave like a gentleman, or be
kicked out like a dog?” he demanded, fol-
lowing up the insult by seizing the young
man’s shoulder, and. trying to hustle him
out of the
‘here was a short, sharp struggle, anda
shriek | from Lucy that brought @ dozen or
st as Albert
with a heavy thud like a falling
d him right! cried Lucy, passion-
ately earning tite prostrate body with her
white kid t alentine came
h
er ide, eaying, humbly, before them all:
Hallam, Tbe ardon
striking the fellow before your even,
you, 6:
jhe jay so stillon the ground like
‘as indeed stunned by the blow from
alentine's athletic fist, and it was some
time after they
red consciousness, Then
curses low and deep shrilled over his lips.
“Curse phim, it have his heart’s
for, that blo’
You
x
ge
struck hi
your mea
ing foot, indignant
ush, Lucy! You are behaving like a
ough child
was terribly upset by. what had hap-
Pon ne
A sharp ery of remonstrance shrilled
“Whatever did you go
strange fellow here for, anyway?”
but
aw that the altercation was forced on
ay
carried him into the house | be the
blood
for
_loy’s big blue eyes flashed Light
as she cried
brought him ‘because
sulted before, I ath sure, nor will
be again when my papa learns of
this ‘Sutrage.'
She was superb, the little beauty,
in her wrath and scorn, and Miss
Bettty cowered before her flashing
pale and gasping
on the lounge in the library, add
Come, Uncle Ned, strike up the
‘Come, girls and boys, don't
Jet this spoil our dance. "I'm sorry
sed dancing with Val-
ose.
When] q fell into
spoiled” re ‘he ‘tesa comm
temps, bra
thongh 3 ait ‘he eos ha ta Fone out of
it departure of
nlentine,
‘True and unselfish at heart, de-
ite her caprice and wilfulness,
she
her own disappointment, and
sighed to herself, bravels
wai
my heart
me 50 al
care! Iam not sorry I asked him!
T'm glad he came, an
heavenly
+ shall see him again, too, in tbite of
a. jhundred cregp ‘old ‘maids and
lous cous
F chums, all plied her
The git
preity romance,
dliestlons aoouther
but for once Lucy wasreticent, She declared
that she had told all there was fo tell.” She
had never seen Mr. Valentine till just be-
fore she fell into the water and he sprang
inand saved her half a mile below the
budge going over the dam, He was a per-
fect gentleman, she knew, and out of
e had invited him to her birthday
party, so now there was nothing more to
tell.
CHAPTER VI.
“LOVE LIKE ouns was A CHALLENGE TO
Wo loved with that sacsionats love of youth
‘That blenges but once with its perfect piles
A Jove that in epite of ite trust and tra
joolns Hover tp titivo ln world like ‘this,
What utter sinking of self it
How little we eared for the, Sword of ment
For love's fair kingdom, and love's awreot laws
all of the world and life to us they
with eration
‘net at Hallam Tall last Sight and that
id have ed, ‘never, if
y,:
a)" admonished Miss Betty, | who was the sou
att
and pring that/ to him again,
a8
dear papa had been at, home dea
f kindness ai
Fo And she would fell him “how she
nt to spenk |
ome wretch | She
glad Valentine had punished him so
Pembert ton, and
,
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