Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — Why He Was Silent. [ARTICLE]

Why He Was Silent.

They stood in the pale light of the May moon, bathed in the purity of the radiance of the fair Selenite. Her soft liquid eyes were upturned to his in an expression of melting tenderness. His arm lay gently about her waist and in his broad palm he held two white 1 ands. The reader will speedily see that his nibs was somewhat prior in his demeanor. “And you will love me always ?” she said, as she monkeyed with his moustache. His only repty was a sobbing moan, as he pressed.hfß hand to his brow. “What is it?” gasped the girl, as he turned pale. “Are you ib ?” But he did not reply. Great beads of sweat stood on his brow, and under his eyes there appeared dark circles of pain. “Can you not answer?” spoke, rather than screamed, the girl. “What manner of confectionary is this you are telegraphing me ?” A low convulsion of pain shook his strong frame, but still he spoke not. “For the last time, ” 'shrieked the girl, her womanly nature and a bad corn asserting themselves. “For the last time, do you love me ?” The young man, with a bound, sprang to the gutter, and loosened the cobble-stone with a quart of tobacco juice. Then “Do I love you. Well, I should expectorate,” he replied. Springfield Sunday News.