The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-17
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how 1t Solved Itself IN q Short
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ume down on the grass beside him,
looking up at his companion, who was
sitting in big rocking chair intention
q piece Of intricate embroidery.
And they lived happily ever after
wards, suppose he said.
perhaps they didn't. Perhaps they
found out in a year that it was all q
mistake"
Not if they really loved each other"
SIS that always an assurance of per-
feet happiness then-if they only love
each other?"
No" said Dean, refectively; ''per-
haps not; and, besides. they might be
separated. Bat lack of love in union
like that would oe certain misery, I
think"
Miss Gray vcuchsafed no reply. but
went on with her work. counting the
stitches at difficult point in its alabor
alton.
Dean got up, stretched his long limbs,
and then leaned his shoulder against
the trunk of the big elm.
"Well, Helen" he said, 'the book is
finished. 1 have no longer an excuse,
even to myself. I am going in the
morning.
Miss Gray looked up from her work,
but returned to it quickly.
do you need an excuse, then?" she
said, half petulantly.
"Yes, can you srg gest one?"
81 do not believe in excuses
''Not when they might prolong the
happiness of a fellow mortal?''
Miss Gray laughed a nervous little
laugh and made no reply.
Willis threw himself down again on
the grass and looked up dreamily at
the little cottony clouds that foated
across the sky.
Helen" he said at length, ''there is
a story that l would like to tell you.
/ would like to get your opinion for it
concerns a very dear friend of mine.
VIII you tell me what you think
about it if tell his tory?'
IF can l will"
''W ell, it is question of ethics. MY
friend is engaged-or perhaps am not
beginning right.
very young man, met very young
lady. Their parents were warm friends.
the two young people saw great deal
of each other and the consequence il
easy to imagine.
One evening they went walking in
the garden. l think there was moon,
and she was dressed in white with a
single flower at her throat. She went
tripping along the walk with little
bright in the moonlight.
THAT happened which almost al
ways happens The moonlight, her
song and the brightness of her eyes got
all mixed up in my friends head and
heart and he supposed he loved her
Perhaps he did-then.
He told her so, and she gave him the
flower and let him kiss her.
They were very young, but they
both had money enough, so that tn ere
was nothing impossible about it, and he
told her father the next day. They
were engaged. but their parents stipu-
lated that they must not be married
for ever so many years.
She was sent away to school to fit
herself for the position which she would
occupy as his wife. and he went 20 col
lege. They wrote TO each other, faith
fully az first, then irregularly. They
met at vacation times and told each
other good deal that they had not
bothered to write IN their letters
Once he went 10 sleep while she was
telling him about reception she went
to- Then she stopped telling him about
her doings altogether
But they did not break their en-
gaCenent. She was naturally an afec-
tomato girl. and for her. az least, there
continued % DE a certain amount Of ro'-
nance about the affair: besides. there
were family reasons which make dif-
ference. She was good girl and he
oid not want 70 cause her pain.
Perhaps he would aeTer have known
that il was nos and never had been
real love that he had for her If he had
not met another WHOM he did love with
the love OF fulI-grown man she was
as different from his early sweetheart
SIS black Is from wafSc- sac was strong
OF face and character and broad Of
mind She knew her worth ana
charmed him with her independence
To sag .ha, he lored her hardly ex-
presses the full meaning OF what he
felt She was his queen; he was ahso-
mtcly happy in her presence. and un-
speakably miserable when he was
away from her She was . revelation
TO hila OF al that noble woman could
be
Willis had -sscn ~ lis teet and v-es
speaking excites:ly, nd fg.h Ga his
usually pale cheek. J