The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 23, 1884, Page 6

fe sai Na 2 PINES. torm coming among the groan r associates the pellation of ‘Bac pods Li As I waited—and particularly speculated upon the po: ility of her making 2 still more egregious fool of me by not coming at ali,—I alternately cursed the feminine whim and love of power which had induced her to sum- mon me hither, and my own mad, fool- ish infatuation for her beauty which had compelled me, as it were, to obey. ap- as I Her beauty! While waiting for her living, breathing presence to gladden my bodily eyes I conjured before my Matchle: unaided had done her best, and altogether beautiful. 1 despair of describing her. The i lithe, graceful, exquisitely ht, rounded figure, whose every movement | and attitude was full of unconscious The darkly bril- ssed the and unstudied grace. liant and expressive fac to softest rose or vivid ¢ ; the larg » suD- mson on were t the that not read of more who cot mind nee, and 2 on intel! soul. love with h in lov a seri passion more than half ms oe up of wh Tex r in my li could come of had to ld me ad str: ad knew nc ery ith itself, aking. Surely King Cophetua’s “maid was ne fairer. But ed ruffians of Could Tally my- them? atives—loy st mould my family—v “And if you could and would, you should not,’ she said, resolutely. “You must go—for my sike and your own—2o, and forget me!’ And I had promised to comply— man’s Jove is somuch more selfish than Although in my xiety nd pain L se ealized the humil- iating fact, 1 know now that it was less of her interest or happiness I thought than of my own. I had left Ens before this pre hunti and some three months nt stormy night, on a ion in the wilds of Can- ada. Anenthusiast in the sport, no woman, until I met ‘Liz of the Pines,” had ever proved a rival to my gun. But it was different now. I started as the sound of her light, swift footsteps fell upon my ear at last; and as I drew her into the for- saken hut, and touched her for 1 mom- ent as I took the dripping closk from her head and shoulders, my pulses thrilled with a sweet, half-delirious i: and the heretofore gloomy, deso- ate place seemed changed to an earth- ly heaven. She was trembling, and very pale. She had kept me at a terrible distance always, this backwoods beauty, who now summoned me to a rendezvous at night; but when I saw her shaking so that she seemed likely to fall, I sud- denly threw my arms around her. What was my surprise when, instead of gravely repulsing me, she clung al- most convulsively to me for an in- stant, and burst into a passion of tears. For a momentonly. Almost immed- iately she had recovered her self-con- trol, and drew a little aw from me, though not quite out of my arms, look- ing up earnestly into my face. “'ye come at the risk of my she whispered, warn you yours is in pare We were sta the hut. Ther wind had lull moon stole out timi idly. light I could see ti and the g eyes, f uplifeed to my own. before she kuew, I sto; —tor the first time. She with a faint, lowe but I flung and prude nee to the winds at the touch of those vel t life,” that “to By > sweet, pale face, of love and f. Sudden ped and ki Heaven bie r that brings you to my s “Oh, L weet Liz!—I She stood at a li wateh- ing me with startled e; if uncer- tain whether to stay inde- Her cision Was ¥ y “I know,” she said hand with ad to keep me off —*-{ know Fyoudo. And Cu too—no, don’t touch me, please—if i didn’t care for you more than all the | World, should I be here to-night Qn, Liz! but it was hard to hear you say those words and yet stand aot Bia: y 3 quiet “My cousin came home to-dsy,”” she told you of. WhatdoI know if he’s Sousis\pr not? What do I know picture of her | Yi pure | sprang | Went on, hurriedly; ‘the man I have | whose child I am? ter. see call me a sno mat- But me, placin, hand u your gu so And e who The earne 1 upon my arm, and the 2 upturned. “T ask you him for my sake,’’ she said, ‘‘and not stay to try to get it back again. Your life’s not safe between them. Father is owing Jim money, and [ was to be taken for the debt. When I said I wouldn’t laid the blame on you, marry him they ot me if I spoke to you and swore to sh: again. But it’s you they’ll shoot—oh, my dear! my dear! The bullet that kills my heart will pass through yours first!” In her agitation she betrayed her | feelings as she had never done before. I caugat her in my arms: “And if I should go will you let them you to marry him?” I cried. yy!’ she answered, firmly, with her beautiful, serious eyes fixed full on mine. They could never force me. | See here!’ She placed her little hand | in me. ‘I’m no wife for you, but Llov you, dear, and for your sake I'l go single to my grave.” The moon had risen higher now and her light ms things visible. + Searcely had left Lizzie’s lips, when wit of rage a man a the pines, and Instinctively, ng her round self my wi away i had bee under br one in amone t who hac i fruitless scene of ite the | e hou rte ‘d—rous 1, but I found not So, after a } I returned to »Tto im uncouth chare uted cou but she be- led zed, ithout i to say rse, word, to the ne voring town—a rough, wild place, at vest, but I was d to get there, for that was 9 row. wild ride that led to with suc ide escort, among the pir oe 3 ad laughed contemptuous | myseif, ~ over the accu: } made against me. I knew Liz could prove my innocence with a word. But the matter began to look far more ser- ious when I learned that the girl could not be found. Jim Allen, the foul traitor, swore that he had seen me fire, and that Liz was nowhere near us at the time, and a score of vindictive voices cried out that I had come from among the pine trees with the gun still in my hand, and that the gun was mine! It was so, indeed—the weapon that I had lost, and that now appeared in fatal evidence against me. Liz could have saved me, but Liz was gone; and greater than my anxiety | over my own possible fate was the tor- Eng fear of what might have befallen er. They proved that I backwoods beauty. had loved the They dared to cast asluron the fair fame of the girl I loved—pure as the proudest au in the | Iand she was!—in order to show that there was angry blood between me and her father. I rose in my place to bear | witness to her purity. “You vile slanderer!” "Ie Allen, “if ever I leave ce, and find | L shall be my He looked at me w of hate. You will ed to Jim accursed the Pines her, an evil t to bear for hope evi- denve. was terrible, an of guilty seemed almosta foregone con- ideniy there sta red into = court-room a pale, worn, aggard woman, who feil—with a moan of anguish—prone at the judge’s feet. No one knew her. An officer came | forward to take the wretched, ragged creature awsy. Then, as he lifted the i senseless form, the head fell back—a | miserable bonnet dropped from it— ; down tumbled a mass of magnificent, black hair, and in an instant we scowl | « Pines! z > confusion. Idon’t but I did, to save her faithful lover before t married das she Who but I w nould her for —in th at very ‘hour. nurse, and comfort, and console 1 the pain and sorrow that | had brought? | And love he forth to b« woods br my only happiness ride be il in more than hee an apt pu of whom her teach y well be proud. My fair, Sey No statelier, lovelier lady adorns society to-day, nor none more univer- Hy admired; and yet, in all ignorance and sorrow, site is the sweet ‘Liz’? who stole into unawares among the Pines. —_—_—_—— a my In the Hammock. A drive or 2 stroll through the sab- urbs will show how generally the ham- mock has come into use a3 an adjunct zza of 3 or mor Rightly placed s ud a dooryard ora y sion hout one swinging couches. atic But ri pended both hur the th i luxury of repose, 2 sre A “7 i done well to borrow it from their je = pap reese eee mer hbors, whose clims | : temperamer so conducive { as 5 \ ly npiy ses the | feet. | ok for the the » when two 2es are e, the hook for head ened to the tree or the rope post set in the ground i: distance at the lower | manner, shade can be secured though the lounger be the poss of bu The tobe used hung | the in- «s may be e closely | as they wear out be as po: nmocks h the buttons nor n enjoyat ummer 1 nd healthful siesta, nd as ay dream- air” is prefera- iLothers. For the purposes of or court a the latter le to the *—we have i or direc- ry. The hammock graces and natural and adapts itself toa icies with z facility that in in the 1] Its utilitarian ends but itis nevertheless essen- of beauty and luxury.— Ke'’s Feast. While I was mowins heard & couple of old ing a fearful n n the meadowI suines hens mak- e, and upon going to where they were, I found that a very large Ksuazke had coiled itself around the nest in oe were three eggs. I soon concluded that he had b took up my n i from his looks x eggs, so I ide and cut his ck of the first | well b Jegg. Standing upon is tail with oo foot, and pressi his | | back of my mowing t landed ni all in a p carefully roll nest, making twent old hen, after co around, went on t in a few d eteen esses, bis m sefore company cb the wish for 3 ed as tu sed w end boy I haven't peo., self con. ix “under con- Lis mother too much fau + bim at the tam been found with | of outdoor comfort. There is scare ely, | e thought that: a il TICULAR. aFECT | NEVER | ati IN EVERY OUT OF ORDER. 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