TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE.
By w\. Lampton.
THE fact that 1 was Arthur Rutled/e
Darlington, a rising young attorney
and the son of Judge Darlington, me
Ca*sar of our rural Rome, had just tlie
slightest tendency to make me tread lightly
on the earth, lest I might tip it up when I
walked forth to my daily duties.
Nor was I to blame for this feeling of
argeness, for when a body is anybody in a
small town he is somebody.
We had a pleasant society in our town,
rather mixed, as it always is in small towns,
but still quite attractive, and, on the whole,
of a higher intelligence than that of larger
places, and to say that I was a shining light
in the circle was putting it mildly.
I was quite sure I had the pick of the
town in the matter of its rosebud garden of
girls, and upon mature deliberation I select
ed, as that one most befitting my station
and future, Deborah Gale, the daughter of
the banker.
The Gales had been residents of our town
for only three years, having come from the
adjoining county, and for that number of
years I had been devoting myself to her.
And this three years was the one circum
stance that made me think sometimes that
perhaps 1 was not all my fancy painted me,
for Deborah had not yet accepted me, al
though she had been asked to do so on an
average of about once a month.
To put the matter plainly, I was in love
with Deborah.
To make my condition more deplorable,
I had reason to believe Deborah loved an
other. And this is Cupid’s crown of sor
rows. « * u h a—Ttrr
To add still more to the
gloom, my rival was a ■
clerk in my father’s office. 7^
A nice enough fellow, _
perhaps, but merely a
clerk, while I was a rising
young attorney and the
son and heir of Judge
Darlington.
And, still worse, his is
name was John Smith.
“Deborah,” I said to j
her one beautiful moon- J
light night in June, when
lovers’ hearts should be in
attune, “will you be my
wife?” «
“Oh, Arthur,” she sob- ff
bed, for she really liked *
me, “ how can I ?” ?
“ Easy enough,” I re
sponded. “Say ‘Yes’
and the preacher will do ✓
the rest.”
This was no way for a ^
man in love to be talking,
but I was growing des- *7
perate.
“J don’t mean that,” ^
she still sobbed, “but I
don’t love you.”
“You will, after a ’
while,” I urged.
“ No, no, it cannot .
be. ^
“It can be,” I asserted, positively, “and
only one thing can prevent it. Do you love
some other man, Deborah?”
“ Don’t ask me, Arthur. Don’t ask me,”
she answered, still sobbing.
I was about to make an appropriate reply,
when Mr. John Smith came through the
front gate and slowly approached the spot
where we were sitting on the piazza.
“ Here comes the explanation of the entire
affair, Miss Gale,” I said, with extreme
formality, “and I shall leave you with it
and never trouble you again. Pardon my
stupiditv. I should have understood before
and saved both of us much pain.”
As I rose to go, he came up the steps and
insisted upon mv remaining.
So did Miss Gale, and the cordiality of
her greeting to him made me wonder where
the mischief she had so suddenly secreted
the large quantity of sobs she had only a
moment before been furnishing me with.
It was further evidence of woman’s dupii
citv, and I contrived to repress my feelings.
It was all I could do, though, to keep
from knocking Smith’s head clean off his
shoulders and leave his headless trunk as
an ornament on Miss Gale’s piazza.
I was glad afterward that I did not.
But I was not to be utterly deprived of
my revenge, and as I left Smith and Miss
Gale laughing and talking on the field of
my defeat, I made up what little mind I had
left to wait for Smith and have it out with
him.
In other words, I proposed to myself to
give Mr. Smith the champion thrashing of
his life and let Miss Gale have the wreck.
The Gales lived a mile from town and
part of the way was through a bit of com
mon with a board fence on one side of the
road. When I reached this fence I climbed
up on it and made myself as comfortable as
I could to wait for Smith.
I sat there on the fence, thinking, think
ing, thinking, and the more I thought, the
"'worse I felt, until if Smith had come along
at that moment, I can’t say what would
have happened to him.
But he did not come.
Instead, I went to sleep on the fence and
fell off with a dull thud that jolted me from
the cradle to the grave
It was about midnight when Smith ap
peared and I watched him from where I sat
on the ground under the fence.
A girl might deceive me, but a fence
couldn’t. At least, not after the first time.
That’s why 1 didn’t trust myself on it
again.
I looked at Smith as a cat might look at
an unsuspecting mouse, and fairly gloated
over him. I had gloated fully a minute,
when I stepped out and confronted him.
“ Hello, Arthur,” he exclaimed, in
startled surprise, 4 what are you doing
here?”
“I’ll be doing you in about a minute, I
hissed, scarcely able to keep my hands
off him, thought I felt that it was only fair
to give him a chance.
“Well,” he said, letting his hands drop
listlessly at his side, “here I am. Go
ahead.’
His tones struck me and I took a second
look at his face. It looked worse than l
felt.
with you? I am here to give you a licking,
but I don’t want to tight a sick man.”
“ What do you want to lick me for?” he
said, in a sepulchral voice that scared me.
“ Because,” 1 said, regaining my formal
ity, “because, sir, you have stolen that
from me which I prize more highly than
I do my life, and 1 cannot submit to it
tamely.”
“What have I stolen?” he asked, plead
inglv.
“The only being on earth that I cared
for.”
I felt that I was growing hysterical and
thought that I would have to lick him any
how, just to give vent to my feelings.
“Miss Gale, do you mean?” he asked,
feeblv.
“Yes; you know very well whom I
mean,” and I was nervously waiting to hit
him a good, hard one.
He waited a niuufte before speaking and I
could hear him gulping every now and then
as if he were choking.
“ If that’s all,” he gasped, at last, “ you'll
have to go over into the next county and
lick Frank Hastings. And, Arthur,” he
went on, bracing up strong and beginning
to paw the ground, “by thunder, if you
want me to go along I’ll do it, and we won’t
leave enough of the chump to hold a cor
oner’s inquest on.”
T he reaction was so strong that I collap
sed and went down in a heap; but Smith
brought me around pretty soon, and there,
in the sweet, serene light of the midnight
moon. Smith and I swore a solemn oath that
neither of us would ever court another girl
until we had assurances from herself and a
majority of her family and friends that we
were sure of getting her.
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