The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-02
NEWEST DESIGNS IN UNDERWEAR.
GONE FOREVER.
How a Young Girls Heart Was Well Nj Oh
Broken.

How Young Girls Heart Was Wen Nj Oh
Broken.
1t was afternoon. There was a slight
haze overhead, and the scurrying clouds IL
the western sky bore their warning of the
coming shower to the passersby on he ave
nue., who hurried swiftly along, some witt
their Overcoats turned up and others. NOR
free and easy, with the hurried air of the
metropolitan pedestrian 1t was not
pleasant afternoon in any sense of the wore:
and yet to Mildred Twilling, as she pace
rapidly up and down the drawing room
her fathers princeiy mansion on the
nue.. it was the gladdest, gayest Afternoon
in the whole year, for was he not coming?
As she stopped to think of what til
meant to her, her heart gave great throL
of joy. Yes, he was coming at last-her
tall, broad shouldered lover, who had said
goodby to her on that terrible night two
years ago and had left her to roam in for
eign lands, and now-nOw he was coming.
She held his letter in her hands, and even
as she stood thus, with all the eager Joy of
anticipation in her beautiful face, a tall and
sunburned stranger, with the stinguished
air of one who has travelled much alighted
from carriage that but d moment before
had rolled up to the door, walked slowly up
the steps and rang the bell.
1t needed but a glance to see that Edward
Cashmere was not the same imprisoned
lover that had torn himself away two years
before His face was anxious, perturbed
and showed no trace of the great joy that
should have been his. He hesitated a mo-
ment in the hall, and then, summOning all
his resolution, threw open the drawing
room door and stood face to face with the
woman who had chung to him so passionate
ly at parting and whom he had promised,
even as ne kissed her farewell, to be faith
full to. And now what was he to bring
her? Nothing but record of broken prom
ises, the charred ashes of dead love.
'-L-ward, " she said, looking up into his
Wi a GA 0S he flTII6
read his very soul, 'have you nothing to
say to me? After two long years of wait
ing, do you come back to me now only to
tell Dae-ah, have l guessed the secret?-
that your heart is ano5her's?'
With quick gesture of despair he hur-
ried from her. and burying his face in his
hands muttered hoarsely: ''Alasl have you
so soon learned the truth? Yes, indeed. it
is but too true" he went Zone day
while / was travelling through an unfre-
quented portion of Italy met by chance q
beautiful girl from Plainfeld. For nearly
a day after that we were thrown almost
constantly together. It is the same old
story, Mildred, of''-
And is she your wifeS7 she demanded,
the color gradually fading away from her
face and leaving it quite CHASTITY in its pal
lor.
''She isl he replied brokenly. 1--WE were
marriedin Paris last month But Mildred,
DEAR he cried passionately, do not grievs
so. Can it be possible that you still love
me so? Oh, tell me that this is not truel''
With a piercing cry the young girl threw
herself PROSTATE on the sofa. e'Oh why
did you not tell me this before?p she moan
ed. NO, Edward, it is not that loved you
SO much, but now fear that it is too late"
TOO late?'' he repeated mechanically.
why, what can you mean?"
Il mean this,'' she cried Historically.
knowing that you were coming back and
believing you to be true to me- this morn
inn fr,cl hot IL,
CANT engagement rings. Tom Mason in
Life.