The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-03-23

the d0wncast head Of his Young mother
to the footman's now impressive face
lyon made her cry. And the hazen
curls fell In tossing angry mass over
his accusing eyes. '.Y cure a bad man.
You made her cry-dehbery.
He hobbled TO lIis mother side, forced
her head up with his mites of hands and
looked inquiringlv at her white face.
Nanny, tell Ted" he whispered.
ssOh, my darling" and she flung her
arms around him. s.if we could both diei
If you and J. Ted, could just find rest.
It's q sorry old game. this life. dear. It's
a cold. horrid. old world my ba 5y
begin to think there isn't room for us
here.
She kissed him on the lifted baby
brow. closed her dry lips, and replacing
the letter ia its envelope handed it to
the footman
ssTake that back" she said in an icy.
level tone.
tWhat answer madam
mo answer. Just take it back"
"But Mr.. Irevelvon'
SEQ. Tell my father tall Mn. Trevel-
yon. she said, hurriedly correcting her
self-'sthat q cannot answer it us L would
if he stood here before me-"
ssHe might come himself. madam"
ssAnd the way Z would answer ST is
this. lid tear 1T to bits and cast them in
his merciless facer
Long after the door had closed upon
the footman she sat there. white SILENT
unmindful even Of Ted's furtive caresses
ana tender r,nestionino She seemed 10
see fine words of that cruel LETTER sril1 be-
fore nerves. everv. sentence was burn
ID. on her brain.
v,.,r ,..to ~ s,,,..,i rsaof.5 nj. ,.i.s, ar
rived here from san Francisco dr a "trip
around the world You are weak you say, ana
poor. fou ask ne Ior iieip- OF say you would
,S,, lsr1f 80 ,s ,3I,sf sr,e 4i,ss~e5-
sidered the matter. and have decided TO give
you one more chance he Eacfs OF the case are
lAsse. =..s -,
pressed fi9reafs lie ,-5s1i son Of
hated one who tried I'd ruin me 6nauclally
ana socially for reasons I need not state here
et-s4s5-, FL. rr,s--s- 49,, .e-, ~ ,-e- e+'--
forever. Perhaps Sou thought aid BOT mean
IT. did
however, -e14s MASON H NeAu- come paeA,
i 49, 3.,4 h5. ~f5I4 -.ifl $500 ,st ~
I've under ny roaf SEND Hin to the leseariy
rsl@glYes lil7 ltl4er na7 nequ49Illea to lilia HI
rf5 f-r T@ AL ,1- rles.a gtlr-+ tn+ r4
cannot live With 1ne-and. more than that. vou
must drop the Mason aha be ray daughter
a-salI- ll lame anl re zniil. 4AeI g5 oe
T,e+li5+e need f i7o1ose s56
JUyrus Tr.Evu1.Yo17.
4sTbe money would have gcorehad INV
fnoersr the girl muttered ~And Vet.
Oh how wish MIGHT have kent irzt i
few dollars TO buy sometime for Ted for
Easter-poor darlingl'
What fancies passed before the young
widows sad. blue eyes. what pictures Of
the pastf
She saw herself so hapnv as a oirl 1T
Trevelr0n House. her fathers ancestral
home in England She saw Terry Ma
son. who had won her heart the very
first time She had met HIM. during the
London season. She saw herself so ham
Dv. SO happy with him during their short
honeymoon together-hapDv. despite her
fathers estrangement and bitter words.
But the happiness had died SO soon.
She thought of one sunshimy April
morning when fhev were FL +ba Alr,s i
few months before Ted was born. TERRY
had gone up one iii the mountains with a
party of men. His last words still echoed
ia her ears.
ADon't worry. Mildred dear TU bs
back before Won are 71n III +ha rnorr7r,ey Fl
An death had I'LL shadow ovar Mn
even az he spokel He never came back
Into one of the treacberous cravaasas
that Turk iii the still. white depths of the
eternal SHOWS he had f5sannea~e7 His
comparions. reaching tl,e ton had called
and waited for him IN vain. Search rar-
ties sent out had returned without i
hope. The earth had literally svvall owed
him and with it all BIildred's Iov ia life.
Yet-not all-f0r when Ted was born
Door. pretty criu7Ie6 Ted with his
ewes like the sIzv that arched the nealsof
snow-there was something to live for.