The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-04-14

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Her Joy was so great that she nearly
died Of Il. bnt even her brief experience
on the stage had taught her that q that
moment she belonged 70 the public, not
to herself. She made one mighty effort
and burst into the song;
Ny Lore h home again,
Ny iove 10 home again;
After all the weary waiting
| My love IL home again.
All that she felt In meeting Frank,
she put into that song. Her voice. her
I face. were full Of feeling. She held out
her arms To him involuntarily. The
listeners thought It the art Of the actress
and the theater rang with their applause.
Only Frank sat stern and immovable,
and rs Doris ceased singing, arose, cold
ly turning his back to her, and walked
down the aisle aud out Of the door.
Il was only that he feared to make q
scene before strangers, Doris thought.
surely he will come behind the scenes
to speak to me-" She answered her en-
core, thinking that surely she should
End hun waiting for her when she came
back. but instead there was note. She
went away by herself to read 1t, trem-
! bling now in every limb, and this h
what she found written In pencil on a
sheet Of paper:
1 DORiS AMER experiences which probably
would not Interest you return home impa-
tieni To meet you, believing you would rejoice
to see me. Fearing you had had news that
might alarm you. and finding that could not
reach home tonight, came to this place 10 pass
/ away an hour.
Fancy my emotIons when / End that you
I have taken advantage Of my absence to break
/ your prOmlse to me. Fancy what felt when
: ! saw you on the stage, singing In that wild
and frenzed fashion, painted. bedizened, all
/ that most detest You, my pure little dAisyi
/ My pearl, my snOwdrOp, as I used to call you.
| Well. II Is all over. GOOdby, Doris. ! shall
20 10 See grandmother and DO OF again.
think there can be no sorrow greater than that
feel nj this moment.
Again and again Doris burst into tears
In the cruel silence Of the night in her.
lonely city boarding house.
Could she have dreamed that anything
but joy could have come to her with the
knowledge that Frank still lived. And
now, alasl he seemed farther from her
than when she thought him dead. Even
the love Of the old grandmother would
be lost, for she had never told her that
she acted on the stage, but had led the
old lady TO believe that she taught at q
school.
What was disgraceful in Franks eyes
would be ten times more so in hers.
How could she go home on Sunday In
deed, she was not needed. Frank would
care for his grandmother, and she should
never even know what had happened
when Frank was missing She had loved
him so well. She would only have done
what she had. knowing that he soseriOua-
ly disapproved Of II, for the sake Of the
dear old lady. And now while they
were happy together she was thrust ont
into the oater darkness as . wicked
thing, unworthy Of their remembrance.
Poor Little Doris.
How long was the night In coming.
How sadly she attired herself and went
upon the stage when her call came.
Her first lines were uttered. Bless
me, nobody here" with very ittlespirit.
When u voice from the audience fell
clearly upon her. Ives, daughter, thee
did not look in the right direction. lam
here, and Franklin ALSO" And there in
an orchestra chair sat Mrs. Fairfax In
her Quaker bonnet and drab shawl, and
beside her Franklin, with very differ
ent look upon his face than that 1t had
worn the night before. And the aston
ished audience, all REFRESHING smiles, at
fected neither Of them in the least de-
gree.
All! how all things changed ut onceI
Doris saw everything through golden
glass, and when she sang her little song
she made Of it so sweet q thing that
some among the audience wept. Han.
nah Fairfax was one.
All Frank said when he CAME for her
after the play was over was;
"Can you forgive me, darling? never
can forgive myself" And Doris was too
happy to be cruel. But Mrs. Fairfax
was more voluble than her grandson.
Franklin is TO blame. Doris" she
said. ut is the way Of the worlds peo-
pie to speak hastily and without con-
sideration, but he is much concerned In
consequence now that he knows the
facts of the case. which are so creditable
to thee. And that meeting which At
tended seemed to me agreeable, and the
Friends who had u call to speak uttered
excellent sentiments, and the music was
melodious. ! can nee no harm in it,
So they went home together and Doris
heard the story Frank had to tell. Of
how. attacked by desperadoes who stole
his hose and his money and left him for
dead, he was succored by natives, who
carried him with them in the opposite
direction from that In which bis party
was going. How, penniless Us he was,
he could not rejoin them for q long
while. and how. when at last he found
them, everything had gone wrong. Diff
6culiies undreained Of had arisen and the
whole party had returned.
But still he has excellent prospects"
Grandmother Fairfax remarked. ''And
| deem 1t advisable that thou ahouldst
marry him. Marriage is . holy state.
and It is excellent to have q congenial
life partner"
And so It came to pass that no public
audience ever heard Doris sing her little
song again. though abe sings it often to
her babies:
Ny love Ia home agnln,
My love b home again;
After all the weary waiting,
My love Il home again.
THE END.
1t Is very grievOus to notice now great
and various are the difficulties in the