Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1894-03-23


Es5:ssrTssssSA 'y:] The man in the
ESkXAsG corner by the fire
Sth0rD afhsssQfssA die tat ed these
words slowly and carefully; and the
girl at the table wrote them down.
Then there was silence and the girl
looked across at the man expectantly.
''Is it getting dark" he asked, after
few minutes.
For Lewis Darlington had been blind
for nearly six months. That was why
he had engaged Marion Norman as his
secretary.
eyes, ] can scarcely see, answered
the girl. ''Shall light the lamp"
"No, am tired, answered CARING
ton. ''Let us stop now and talk"
Marion put together the sheets in
their proper order, tidied up the table,
and came over to the fire, by which
she stood, leaning against the mantel-
piece and watching her companion.
She was no older than Darlington.
thirty-five or thereabouts; but she
looked older than he did. A woman
who has lived her life out of the sun
shine-which is love-fades early. For
the sunshine is good, even though it
scorch at times.
is that true, do You think?" asked
Darlington, lifting his head.
Marion blushed little, and then she
remembered that the eyes that met her
own could see nothing.
'Is what true?"
THAT sentence about love and sell
fishness. Men know so little of
women"
Marion Norman sat down in chair
by the fire and leaned her chin upon
her hand as she watched Darlington.
81 hardly know" she replied,
slowly. 81 hope not. l think,-no.
Indeed, | am sure of it.
GLOW do you know" asked Car
rington, quickly. "Ah! forgive me.
should not have asked that
In their four months daily com
panionship, begun as matter of bust
hess, they had grown into the habit of
talking over many things together and
Marion looked forward TO the ten min
ntes or so between the close of work
and her departure as the pleasantest
time of the day She turned her eyes
from Carrington's face to the fire.
eyes, Ihave had my romance, she
replied And then she told hlm the
story. 1t was poor, feeble little
romance, dead almost before it WAS
born. ten years ago, when Marion was
nurse at the London Hospital Mere
Iy young doctor who was poor, n few
howers and note, which Marion still
kept in her workbox, though she did
not tell Darlington that. Some girls
would scarcely have noticed it at the
lime, and would have forgotten all
about it in. n fortnight But Marion
cherished its memory, for it stood be-
tween her and the certainty that she
had never found favol in the eyes OF
man.
'fou know | lost more than my
sight when my eyes went, said Car
rlngton, after a pause. "That is why
am SO anxious about the operation
next week.
fesY You mean"
IL was just engaged. And her peo-
pie would not let her marry a blind
man, They were quite right weren't
they?"
"And she?"
"she cried aud obeyed her people. I"
III | had been she" Marion be.
gan quickly,
"Well?"
Nothing. Only 1 never had any
people. %
You we're nurse once, Miss Nor.
man, were you notg' said Darlington
presently
'fea. Yet il Is still strange 10 hear
myselt called Miss Norman. vas
Sister Marion until year ago Bnt
nY health broke down and / had to
/ give Il up
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fattief haft SOME one know
tta hand sent uut Ia the vague sas
peaullaF to the blind Marion met Il
and held a moH.eai IA her osn.
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