Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-18
CHAPTER VII.

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When the child Anita had been brought
to the home of the Van Zandts she had
found her first friend in her cousin Gray.
They had played, quarreled and been
punished together. times without num-
Der. And when later Gray had deyel-
oped capacity for mischief that made
him the despair of his family ard the
scourge of his school masters. the little
girl, with the instinct of motherhood
that belongs to the woman heart, divin-
ing that she most of all had power over
the Maynard lad, had forgotten her dolls
in her care to keep Gray in the way he
should 60 He was her senior by few
months, yet her mental attitude might
have beftted his grandmother; and SO.
when at last Gray proposed to marry
her the girl simply laughed in his face.
But his need Of Lo~ pleaded for him In
q certain way she had felt herself neCes
sary to him for years, innocently exag-
gerating the Importance of her influence.
How ittlo could she guess how small
was the sweep Of her moral broom in the
wide radius Of his life! And SO she
might, after all, have married him, had
not Donald Bartels, in an evil hour for
Gray, come and won her.
There had been 10 moiety of loves
real passion in Anita's feeling toward
her cousin, but she had been very fond
81 him, in a tender, caretaking way,
and she had missed him out of her life.
And now she was overjoyed to see him
lgaiu-4o hapn- that once, when pause
came i'll the conversation. she caught her
self vaguely wondering why her heart
felt so strangely heavy. Joy for the
moment had utterly routed trouble from
her mind.
But you are looking tim and pale,
she an1iously exclaimed when there
had been timo to study his face clearly
Surely YOU haze not hope you have
| not been ill.,"
''Oh, no." with little cough that
struck terror to her heart They grow
keen to recognize the weauors o1 jue
grim enemy, they VINO liz il Il ut dry
air where doctors send '.on t. make
their fight with death '.a;,uG!.c Gtt;r
cold last spring 1..trc nothing, but II
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