Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-01-23

she Stru--'''i a-aju~; herself. "II,gac'; IS
II your ply for me that is slpahiN-; How
He lcit her in despair. Its u-r.''->." lie
said, sadly. Nothing VIII conquer VIZ H.
v.tcratr distru>i."
She followed Kim. With faint cry of en-
treaty She made him turn to l.cr, and held
him i'll trembling embrace aid rested her
head on his bo>om. FORGIVE mc-hc pa
tirnt with me-loyc me- That was all she
could say.
He attempted to calm her agitation by
speaking lightly. AT last, Sydney. we are
friends again. he said.
Friends" All the woman in hcr r"coilcd
from that insufficient word. Are We
ovcrs?' She whispered.
"YeS.'
With that one word her anxious heart was
content. She smiled: She looked out at the
sea with new appreciation Of the view.
The air of this place Will do me good now"
She said. Are my eyes red. Herbert? Let
me go and bathe them and make my seIf tit
TO be seen"
She rang the bell. Tie chambermaid an
swered il, ready To show the other rooms.
She turned round al the door.
Lets try to make our sitting-room look
like home" she suggested. How dismal.
how dreadtully like a thing that doesn't be-
long TO lis that empty table looks! Put some
OF your books ana my keepSakes on it while
am away. I'll bring my work with me
when come back"
He had left his travellers bag on chair
when he first came in. Now that he was
alone, and under no restraint, he sighed as
he unlocked the bag. Homer he repeated;
1--WE have no home. Poor girl! poor unhap-
py girl. Let me help her to deceive her.
SELF
lie opened the bag. The little fragile pres
entS which she called her "keepsakes" had
been placed by her own hands in the upper
part of the bag, so that the books should no.
weigh on them, and had been carefully pro-
tected by wrappingS of cotton wool. Taking
them out, one by one, Herbert found deli
cate china candleStick INTENDED to hold a
wax-taper) broken into two pieces, in spite
of the care that had been taken to preserve
it. OF not great value IN itself, old assoca-
tons made the candlcstick precious to sgd
ney. 1t had been broken at the stem and
could be easily mended so as to keep the ac-
cident concealed. Consulting the waiter,
Herbert discovered that the fracture could be
repaired at the nearest town, and that the
| place would be within reach when he went
out for walk. In fear of another disaster
if he put it back in the bag he opened a
drawer in the table and laid the two frag-
mentS carefully inside ut the further end. In
doing this his hand touched something that
had been already placed in the drawer. lie
drew it out and found that it was a book
the same book that Mrs. Presty {surely the
evil genius of the family again) had hidden
from Randal's notice and had been forgotten
when she left the hotel.
Herbert instantly recognized the gliding
on the cover, initiated from design invent
ed by himself. He remembered the inscrip-
ton, and yet he read it again:
ITO dear Catherine from Herbert, on the
anniversary of our marriage"
The book dropped from his hand on the
table as If it had been a new pain.
| His wife (he persisted in thinking of her
as his witt) must have occupied the room
might perhaps have been the person whom
he had succeeded as guest at the hotel.
Did she still value his present to her in re-
membrance of old times? No! She valued
it so little that she had evidently forgotten
it Perhaps her maid might have included
it among the small articles of luggage. Per
haps dear little Kitty might have put it into
one of her mothers trunks. In any case,
there it was, abandoned in the drawer of a
table at an hotel
"Oh," he thought bitterly, "if could only
feel as coldly towards Catherine as she feels
towards me!' Ills resolution had resisted
much; but this final trial of his self-control
was more than he could sustain. lie drop
ped into char-his pride of manhood re-
coled from the contemplate weakness of
crying-he tried to remember that she had
divorced him and taken his child from. him.
In vain In vain! lie burst into tears