The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1899, Page 6

igs i a, Or dove mr Nothing else adds so mach to the cnarmof the draw room oF houdvir ax the softly radi m CORDOVA Candies. 1 ute more to the the luncheon, Tempting Fate. A HALLOWE'EN STORY. (By Lillian Sheppard.) The teachers Institute had and it was the night of Judge Par- ker’s xeand reception to the teachers and toeir friends. His palatial resi- deuce was brilliantly ilauminated and the light of the Chinese lar - terns suspended on the lawn, dainty forins with their manly escorts might cabout. Sweet strains out on the pleasant closed beneath be seen strollir oF music floater summer air from the screened piazza Mingling with suppressed sounds of Merriment proclaimed ajoyous gath- ering. Adown the path toward the lakelet in a remote of the grounds slowisy stroll two figure—Prof. Ernest Callaway of a renowned college, and his demure companion, Iris Graham, a@ suceessful school teacher of Athens, and so deeply absorbed are they each in the other that they are utterly ob- livious to all else. corne) Ernest Callaway is son of a prom’- nent. wealthy citizen, and although he bas always been what may be termed a “Jady’s man” witty, fascin- ating and agreeable and has received no little amount of encouragement from fair maids and their designing Maimmas, yet he has remained en- tirely heart-whole until this vacation when, while visiting his father’s, he enough,” she answered gently. “Oh, could it be that heaven is at last so kind to me as to grant methe} blessing of a pure, true heart’s love,”” he cries rapturously. then adds re- morsefully, “would it hadcome soon- er or that I were more worthy of it.”” But why pursue the conversation further for, as | have said before, | they are lovers Sweet is this night, the night of} their parting. but bitter is the morn of wake *Tis as when we retire serenely after spending an evening among our choirest, tender flowers and find on awakening that a frost has fallen while you slept, and only blackened and withered leaves remain where our beauties once were, for the next week it was known far and near | that Professor Ernest a thief and a forger ind had fled the country in disg And what of Iri She is a true wor Callaway was ? ask? heart onee placed is never withdrawa, and need you an and her although he on whom she has bestow- ill her wealth of love has become a ctiminal, although others coudemn him, although she herself believes him to be guilty, yet her heart remains true to its idol * - * * * * Two years have passed away. Two long weary years of waiting for Iris Gr aham, but no word comes her Ernest Calloway. The long period of patient waiting has changed her but little; it but more perfectly the angelic side of her to from has developed character. The heart that truly loves once is ever unselfish and more gentle to all with whom it comes incontact. So, although her tensified yet she life and demureness is in sufficient sty of spirits to make her POSSesses a supreme favorite with her young cousins whom she is now visiting and also with their friends. ’Tis Hallowe’en and Col. Graham, with true Southern hospitality i tertaining the young people of the is en- neighborhood with asocial gathering fe) a victim of cupid’s arrowenforced | @t his Kentucky home in honor of by Iris Graham's bright smiles and|Iris. Ivis is the center of a merry aweei, Joveable character; and so|group. badly wounded is he that for nearly} ‘‘Let’s go to the churchyard and three months he has found it impos- sible to remain long away from her side. Even now. while ostensibly vis- iting the Institute, he is only employ- ing a ruse to be near her a little long- er. And this is the last night; the parting is now inevitable. They must each return to their duties. Shall he tell her of his love, orisit best untold? Nay, he thinks he will not, for per. haps she does not reciprocate, yet he feels that she does, and he will not spoil this last delicious evening. Down to the lakelet they stroll in the bright moonlight conversing on commonplace topics each striving to conceal the vague unrest within. He unfastens a boat he finds there, as- sists his companion to step in and pashes idly off from shore. Idly and aimlessly he rows, for his thoughts are on a deeper subject than boating. They wish to be free from intrusion for—well, because they are lovers. Out on the glassy mirror-like sur- face of the lake whose ripples catch- ing the bright moonbeams make it appear a sea of silver, they glide among the water lilies whose white frosted petals and golden-hearts re- tain a part ofthe brilliancy they possessed before—as the legend goes— they in their loneliness and desire to be near the children of the forest fell from the stellar regions in the bright moonlight rivaling their more selfish astral brethren who stille dwell in space. Out here amid these surround- ings, with the sound of mandolins and dancing feet in the distance, is it not tempting fate too sorely—is it strange that he should, tell her of the ardent, consuming, passionate love which his heart holds for her. Alas, for his previous resdlutions! “7 ask of you no promise,”’ he con- cludes, “for there are reasons why I cannot ask you to become my wife, but Iris, my sweet Iris, I love you so dearly that I felt that I could not let you goaway from me to-morrow with- out teling you this, and Oh, I wish I bad made myself worthy of you.” “You ask no promise, Ernest,” she said in her low sweet voice, “and you do not even ask for my love, but the one is bestowed already upon you and the other you will not prevent my making. You say you havenever loved so before, neitherhave I. I feel that we belong to each other, and therefore, I give you my sacred prom- ise to think of you, and only you as m ‘ne and you may think the same of me.” “Pmt lris—oh. vou do not mean hand ¢ ture husband will clasp it. you kneel there the saints will per- form the marriage rite and have ghosts, goblins and spooks for witnesses. O-o-o-h, I try it, should bescared to death.” the peaceful city of the dead,” replied Iris,” “I ratherfear the living vandals who may be abroad to-night.” us that there will be no danger; and really, the boys are all afraid of the churchyard after night and avoid it all they ean. mode of tempting fates trary ‘no.’ chorus of ‘z go, too, we not be contra departed this adventurous party qui- etly left the out in the brig4t moonlight in the dit try ourfortunes,”’ asked one. “How?” asked a vivacious little maid. “Why you go to the churchyard at mid- night and kneel down beside a grave and repeat some verse of scripture—I forget what—what it, Iris? you told us last night.” “My beloved is mine and I am his,’ Is ig repeated Iris reverentially, thinking of her belov®d. “Yes, that’s it; and stretch your ss the ave and your fu- And as you will wouldn’t dare “Yes, let’s do try it. It will be something new and it’s only a short walk. kind enough toreveal any part of the future to us. but it boy: I don’t suppose fate will be will be what the calla lark. I'm not afraid, are you, fi “lam not afraid of the dwellers of “Oh, there will be such a crowd of All of this ay ‘aye’—con- iood, we'll go!” asa responded. ‘You'll va, Iris?” in favor Ay “Oh, certainly if vou wishit. I will After the neighboring guests had ee vase, slipping silently The soft, As the last str he murmurs softly in he sweet mu- sical ve Tam his, og “Oh, Ernest."imy stretched her hand across the grave. 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Ernest my love, it is I. °Tis its the shadows, as it the solemnity them. cedars t Iris. and of t throw hurch clock be rection of the churchyard. balmly, southern breeze gently fanned their cheeks which were hot and flush- ed with excitement. brings them to thechurch where they rested a few minutes on the steps to still theirrapidly beating hearts, then they passed on to the gate of the cemetery where they pause, awed by scene before No one speaks a word. still as the grave itself. and peacefulis the silent city with whitened, grassy streets and its aming eolums of marble over which A he their short walk Allis How quiet sombre ies there before them bathed in thesilvery moonlight. How seems to profane that sacred enclosure by mortal foot. to strike. tis glanceeagerly Hallowe'en and we girls were tempt- ing fate. I did not know whose grave I knelt beside, for I am stranger here. I came only to please thegirls. 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