and then he commenced to speak of the incident of the night be
fore. At this she rose and would have gone into the house, but
he caught her hand and drew her back.
“ L,et me go! How dare you!”
Harold knew that this was said in mock severity, for he felt the
hand tremble, and of course he did not obey.
“ Oh, see how bright that star shines !’’ she exclaimed, snatch
ing her hand away to point, and then putting it behind her,
laughing.
“Don’t you ever have any serious thoughts?” he cried, im
petuously.
“O, yes,” she said, still laughing
“ I am glad that happened.”
“ Why,” she asked, surprised.
‘‘Because—because it showed me how much—how badly I’d
feel if anything should happen to you.”
‘‘Why,” she repeated, provokingly, but in a tone which be
trayed through its teasing accent the feeling in her heart.
“ Because I love you dearly,” he said, earnestly. What an
effort those words cost him! How they made his heart beat!
But another heart was beating in sympathy, and as Harold took
her hand again she did not draw it away.
A DREAM OF EXAMS.
A student dreamed a dream one night,
When all around was still ;
He dreamed about a 11 Pony ” dear,
That helped him up a hill,
He rode the “ Pony ” but a day,
And then the “ Pony ” died ;
And though he loved the "Pony ” much,
Never a tear he cried.
And when somebody asked him why,
All that this student said :
"There will be other ‘ Ponies,’ sir,
Although that one is dead.”
THE VENGEANCE OF KAEOUMIS.
(A Tale of the Transmigration of Soul.)
The great desert lay white and gleaming under the.effulgent
rays of a newly-risen moon. A little distance to the north stood
out in clear silhouette the silent pyramids and the grim Sphinx,
The Free Lance.
“ East night, for instance.”
[May,
M.and M.
F. T. Coi.e;, ’oo.