The Brooklet. Whence somest thou, Oh, little brook, With silvery voice and limpid look? Reveal to one all worn with strife The secrst of thy jovous life. The rock's dark bosom is my hots, Through field and woody glen 1 core The kindly hearons, serene and cool, Are mirrored in my shiniag pool. HE KURTZ, And so my life is full and free, What matter whore my course shall be * Since He who brought me to the day Will surely guide me all the way, «Mom the German of Gath, . FRED Kditor and MyiRights, Yes, God has made me a woman, And I am content to be Just what He meant, not reaching out For other things, since He Whe knows me bost and loves me most has or dered this for me. VOLUME XIV. “I want you to tell me about your ! her and took her hands in mine. “Lola” people and your home." {TI said, “whatever lies before you, I felt as if her little, soft, plump hand | whether joy or sorrow, remember that bad dealt a blow upon my bare heart; | you have me always for your friend. You but 1 answered, simply : must rely upon me as you would upon “1 have no home, and my people are | vour”.-1 paused and then said ‘father.’ all dead or gone from me that is, my It was an effort, bat I forced myself to parents and sisters and brothers, for I | say it. Then, before leaving, 1 stooped never had a wife or Wn child, which is and Kiss a her sweat lips It was the what vou meant, perhaps.” first time and wonld probably be the last “Yes: I meant that It is so sad. | and I valued it as people do value what thought, perhaps, you might have a | can come to them but once danghter Like me, and that made you Ri When 1 reac hed the house, the address kind.” of which Lola had given me, I mquired “No, 1 have neo daughter,” I said | for her lover—he was gone. The woman slowly * M though I am, in truth, old | who kept the house conld give no infor enough to he your father.” mation except that she thought he had “And yon have never loved any one gone West. never wanted to be married to some one I was unfeignedly distressed. In that who was good and beautiful and kind? | moment 1 rose above self and thought How strange!" only of Lola. How shall I describe the These questions were scarcely marked | scene that followed my announcement to by any interrogative accent. She seemed | the little creature? The heart-rending to be merely stating them as facts, with | grief. the wild denial of her lover's a gentle reluetance. But, though she | faithlessness! Khe utterly refused to expected no answer from me, I was irre- | believe it. She would far sooner, she sistibly prompted to confession, said. think that he was dead. After her Yes, Lola,” I said, “I knew some | first outburst of passionate grief one like that once, and I loved her. But | over, she calmed herself and said, stand it was long ago, and we were parted.” ing up: “1 I must not “Oh, why did yon part? she said, | stay here.” passionately. * Why did vou suffer any Ihe sight of her thing to part you? Was she not willing | me. to give up all, to leave home and friends ““ Oh, Lola,” I said, “ where ¥ and country and evervthing to follow She flung herself back on the lounge love, as I have done ¥ i with a motion of utter despair. I went Urged on hy a deep excitement, she ta her and throw myself on my knees had revealed her secret, and I half feared | beside her and folded both her tremb she would repent and trv to retract if, | ling hands in mine but she did not. She seemed either * Lola, be brave,” Isaid. * Face the to be unconscious that anything had been | worst. It is a bitter thing to say, but 1 divulged, or unconscious of the fact | believe he is false to vou. 1 believe the that 1 had not known it all the time. illness was a feint. and I believe he is “You do well,” I said, fervently. “It | willfully lost to yon. My little darling, is worth the sacrifice. God grant you | it is hard 1 know, but not so bad asif vou do not repent it.” had married him and found it out after “1 have no fear,” she said, confidently. | wand. But do not despair I will not * Fear could not live in my heart, which | leave you, and you shall tell me just what holds a perfect love.” vou would have me do. I will take yen Then, so simply and naturally, she | hack to Spain if you want to go." ; told me her story. She had become en-| “1 cannot! I could not bear it! And With none to eavil or question, by never a look gaged to a young American sent out to | I have no money.” «gainsaid, Spain as agent for some New York busi- | © Never mind that " 1 said ness firm, and he had gone home a few | plenty, more—far more than 1 want. months ago, expecting to return: but would give my life to comfort von his superiors had made other arrange- {will £0 DOW, if vou say so. and take pas ments, and he had written that although | sage on the next returning ship.’ he would be stationary in New York! +] could not bear it. I never will go thereafter, he was coming back to marry | back,” she said; * no one loves me there her and bring her to her home in the 1 am only a useless little burden. I never new world. At the time set for his ar | will go back I” rival, however, he had sent a letter in- «Then stay,” I said, passionately— stead, saying an attack of illness pre- | « gov with me. Let me love and com. vented his coming, but he was now con | fort von, Stay with me always, Leola valescent, thongh the physicians said he | x, one can ‘ove yoru asl will” must not take the voyage forsome time. | yt fpst I think she did not understand “When I got that letter,” said Lols, | \.v meaning, but when she did she “I could do nothing but ery and fret for wrenched her hands from mine the first two or three days. I did not eat | 00 to the middle of the room. or sleep, and my annt, whom 1 lived « How ean you? How can you with, said I would die, and was very | ....}7 shesaid. ** Do you think I could hard and cross. I was utterly w retched, | ever love any one else after having given until one night as I lay thinking it all | vc Jove to him? No: I have loved him over I resolved that I would go to him. : He had once, half-hesitatingly, suggested it, saying it would save so much expense, ‘ and he is not at all well off ; but 1t had |, .