Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1894-05-25

! heart which had never before doubted.
And her heart answered her brain.
MOI it said.
And then the poor forlorn pauper said to
heart and brain:
Tomorrow will know
She had sci herself difficult task All
through the long night she lay with wide
open eyes and for each splash of the waves
upon the beach she had thought. About
in the morning she smiled IA wan but
triumphant smile. At last the right oael
And then she slept.
Now, the family friend was n most hon
CRADLE person. He had never betrayed
man. After breakfast he came over from
the hotel and sauntered across the little
lawn to where the pauper was sitting
upon gag rug spread in the sunlight.
She WAS picking grains of sand from the
setting of her diamonds, which she had
forgotten to remove for her morning sea
bath Her hat was flung upon the grass
and her hair glistcned with brine AZ it
dried in the sun.
Sit here beside men' said the pauper
with a white little smile
And he who never yet betrayed man
leaned indulcntly upon one elbow a he
stretched himself OUT beside her. lie
+ lighted "A cigarette and watched her
through the Sits of his cyeid~ rs one 10y
one she held her diamonds up and exam
ined them. She moved slowly to and fro
IA ring which gave forth little daggerS OF
| light.
He gave me this when we were tn
gagged, this when we were married. and
this when The baby came, and this Here
! She hesitated.
{ al r tl,v ~
ing.
Cannot you guess
! NO" But he shut his mouth suddenly
and the Sits of his eyes grew bit more
narrow He was listening now.
"Well-when found out about -
WHAT" The family friend looks away.
Her. the paupcr says slowly
/ "I-rr," stammered the family friend.
/ "When he told you about her didn't he
tell YOU that he had told meY' demanded
the pauper.
/ Il don't know what you are talking
about" said the family friend uneaslly'
shutting his eyes.
Here the pauper laughed. 1t was long
lauph. but perhaps not very merry.
/ Won goose she cried airily "Nhy,
when he told me he said you already knew.
DO YOU think ] would have alluded TO 1t Ii
| had not been sure Of that
There was moments silence; then:
J NO wonder You forgave hlm"' said tue
family friend in Il low, moved voice.
For Il minute the pauper was astoulshed
at the wild dance all nature executed,
Then the sky came down with Il crash and
broke into jewels, from which she lound
herself placidly picking bits of sand,
.'Whv do YOU think it so natural thing
for me to have forgiven him2' she asked,
and her voice was perfectly even ana not
at all husky.
Because" said the innocent family
friend. no matter how sorry they were,
few men would have confessed to their
wives. never knew he had and then
he tricd to change the subject, but the
Pauper seemed strangely persistent
II took time To think it over" SAID
the pauper, breathing hard ON the dla-
monds. $50.
1T was noble to forgive | thought it
ended rather suddenly for an affair which
had been going on 50 long, don't you
know" The family friend began to feel
Il trihe awkward. Perhaps he had SAID too
much,
Bnt the panper sighed in a gentle way
"He alv ays admired that type OF beauty!
Yes" The family friend looked sur
urised Il never thought her at all pretty
But there was something about her which
seemed to charm most men. lhtn, after u
pause: "She was rather fetchnG-people
always looked twice. But she WASH mar
n stunning as Hem! Areh. your dia-
/ luond- clean yet
Nearly You WEI. about to speak OF
the other one" So1uere was another one.
1, L, g..nnr1tp
per. And she had never dreamed the man
She loved could be false.
wcll--that amounted to so little!
But did he really tell you ell these things'
You knew about both,' y cold perspira
tlon seized the family friend.
"Oh. YES, ;" answered the pauper placldly
They had been rich-these other women
rich in charm-or beauty, And she was
a manner. He had returned to her-had
always loved her with the best of his ma
ture. Thi, she still believed. But wher
a woman loves man She wants all. AND
she had never heen-couid never he-all-
to him.
,,rhere he comes now" exclaimed the
family friend He looked much relieved
and arose and shook himself like big
faithful dog.
He never knew that the paupcr had beer
AS artful as he had been artless.
Il shall have to make the best of 1t.
said the pauper to herself, as she gathered
her diamonds Into her little embroidered
handkerchief and passed into the house.
at can never be any different No woman
can hold a man to any greater extent than
is in her nature
AT dinner that night the family friend
ouite enjoyed himself, and the husband
waxed atfectionate over his wife.
Not every man has wife like mine!
said he. with a genial glance across the
flowers at the pauper
81 should think mott" said the family