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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1889)
THE WEST SHORE. wi uxr, J ! thought, and was turning away when he heard hi 14 Harold Sainton ! why, that must be Nellie's fa. i "'L'uli .i l..J' . iu ; 0WB Eame pronounced with an energy akin to hdig. Tl , f,., ki. tmUit .g ! "ritewmi.; I U i he.rd her .peak of him w ot. r ' ' 4 has broken our dear child s heart, and ruthlesBly " !- b know?" Madam N mclI, and tlM- " It cLtfl fail into Ift hand rit She faint), ad io a ttw bouri waa raring in delirium." Harold Htintm't fair-wraths fricJ would hard I; hat rwgt.ii! him at that monirtl " Ob, (J d, my putiahmrxt it greater than I can Uar," I grotd, " but it wu chiefly for brr take that I did it I net! monry to kivp her in com fort, fr it U tl only w.iman I f rcr luted." " Hit," cril Lis otrnj-atioD, riling, her whole frama 'jaiitriug with indication, "to joa hare sac rifle! two woa"0 to your caljabl wrakneta." " Na of wutitg pity on Mra. Swintnn," he amwrrrd, with larcuttc LitWDraa. Ttrrt m a htl! ulrcr and then Madame laid: "( with to and Uk npou th work of your baida U ttr t bar lrft Lrr in I'tah than to haTe bright lrr Lrfr) l) Ai tbia d-tL" He uttoed a kiw tao, but j c txit again until they ttood on tba tLrbld cf tb airk girl'i cbaaUr. " My darling, oh, tuy prtcioct IUb !" he cried, and thro - itrocg, Lardmrd man ubiu- he bunt " KindhrartM aa a woman, ncatablf) u the wind," thoojLt Madam. Again and again I calM U, ,icl gjr-, Ut ah h!! not, only babbled on, in her wild nn! (.taei..cinrM, " UaruM ' Harold ' " tlwavi " II r trampled under foot the love I wonld die to win?" " It is true, Max, I have known him for years, and supposed he was honorable, though he was rath er fast and inclined to trifling." Harold, holding his breath, could hear Max pac ing the floor like a caged animaL " Scoundrel ! " he heard him mutter, "he deserves a genuine cowhiding, and I'd like the pleasure of ad miniatering it." Under other circumstances Harold Swinton would hare strode into the young divine's presence and in lilted that he try it; but a thought of Bab sent the blood back into his colorless face and he sank into a chair. After all it was neither the threats nor the epithets that troubled him most, but the fact that tome one else, and that some one an upright, noble man, the brother of Nellie's affianced, loved Bib. He itarted up in a fury at the thought What right had any man to speak that way of her, his affi great heavens ! of what was he thinking? Bab, if she liTed, could never be aught to him again; she would dotpiBe him and marry some one else, and for the moment he felt he would rather she would die. " But the must be mine," he hissed " I will di vorce Paul-rurse her, and her paltry dollars I and marry my peerless Bab." The days dragged slowly on. School had closed sooner than intended. One by one, with bated breath and noiseless step, the girls had passed into the sick- room, and with tear-dimmed eyes, gone out again, ItH'IintT inro RAHAB Ill 1 l 1 1 A L ttmnallf ev . " . uc'c' WUU1U lDe 1001 on ian ,wm tllM 1 . MJ ! ilorh or tt.A litn . . i. i 1 o,rr IL. d.,. ad ifc.lu ,, on tL, sUm-MocW 1 tZLT i a tiaio lo tL toouLtait. U.Uk.lb.t(.!!brrM.L,.u.m(,trri.; i2 I- L f came Dora, and sinkbgon ah. wowU U l.lirg U.iM u, Lli hJ ! by the bedside she prayed God to spare ruu you, too, feel sure, in spite of your childlike faith, that this is a separation for all "I shall never see her again, something tells n'" she aobVl, M at the threahold she looked "g y back. Of a truth thy prophecy shall be raI;P lhr hut how, you little dream. "7 e all gD0 at last, and the strange silence a premonition of a yet more terrible ailenee ' f"1'- At ut the crisis came, There were in I" r- ' Mlane Md the physician. In word-a-ticty th-v kir.t !- o l niArtw Aftrra. Cr.t outbur.t II,!J Ula hw takm hm t th. a, i L!l , hpr g . lb. pi .trr that body tt,e lfr Ut , am. wtmld t.i4 irrait it, -Ny.b.1,-,,,0 ba,,L r:,LUo ,t L May IrJow itain atd at:t rBt ItWMtUd.yafW hi. arnultu,, ; , Intbt l bun, ,L:. til VP ly tu ttttraar l tuify U.,, i ,. ' lfally alcH to ,trrjtllCk, . It.. I. I . " ..." ""l to truok twelve. Fnr a mntnnnt Mad- f Z " Urr' fiuivcrcd- i t the white v D I "'' "he saw a chance cretin over it. r a