The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-11
WRITTEN EVIDENCE.

Claire.
NO, and I don't mean-that Is. how "a
uheg"
Don't you ever speak Of heEl'
'sNeger; on my honor.
'sOr think Of hero
CAS- little aa possible
''OhP'
ss1Iy dear Mrs. Kingston, this Is scarcely
reasonable. OF course, I had a great deal
of-respect for your daughter, and so on,
but she threw me over for that other fel
low, and I went to the cape. I tried not
only to forget my trouble but to forget
her as well. That was the only thing to do.
Wasn't ite''
Did you succeed"
Have you quite forgotten, Mr. Win.
grove9''
s.VVell-of eourse-that is-yesf'
'sThen why have you come to see meP''
Surely we are old friends Remembel
how kind you were to me when was
student at Heidelberg. Your house WA
a home to me at a time when I most
needed good influences, and when she join.
ed you and began to love her don't
know whether you saw how things were
going, but you were SO kind and helpful
that nay time there was the best and hap.
piest I have ever known. And then, when
Az uAA tLL4G4 GU fNA0A-e5 an 1f@-J .-----e
seemed going round, your gentle sympathy
steadied me, and got through somehow.
Il was so sorry for you, poor boy ="
t'YOu have always been good to me, and,
though goodness knows, i M nothing tC
boast OF, if it hadn't been for you don't
know where should have landed. A fel.
low doesn't forgst these things, MIS- King
stons though at the time he may not quite
understand them So I'm glad to be back
with Won anrain altar the three years sit
ting and telling you all about myself, Just
as you used to let me. -
Yes, it seems good and comfortable.
Go on just as you like.
(Wingrove goes on for ten minutes aft
er which there is a silence. Then Mrs.
Kingston speaks with apparent indider-
enoe.)
by the way, Mr.. Wingrove, do you still
care for Claire'g
Mrs Kingston, what a question:
do youf''
6eally-buts hang it all-yOu muslin {
ask me that. 1t isn't right-indeed it
ism
Don't you know? Didn't they ever tell
you? She's a widow, Mr.. Wingrove. -
stClafre a widow But hovyP WhenY'
lie died more than q year ago: infiuen-
ER-ouite unexpected. 1t was SO sad p
And have been in Africa all this TINA
without knowing a word about i'll Heav-
ELS4 4 QO44 GllG VINO ACdEA II now. 4
may speak. love her just as much as
ever, and, by Jove, she must marry me.
Claire free
Hush, Mr. Wingr0ve. am very sorry
I spoke about it, but I thought hoped
you had really forgotten her Oh, why did
you come back just at this moment Claire
is not free /"
s.I-don understand -
she is going to marry Sir John Mears-
dale. He was one of your rivals, you viii
renem Der and thought don think she
ever liked him in the way she did you, he
pleaded so hard and was so devoted that at
last eba took hin, Va, know vgbet az,
a &c., es- - -
- = --- C- - -' Ia s-'i1 9i-9 las OF9A
men liver sAnS9 can 1eLleAlaosL' even
when she was the merest schoolgirl, they
have come round hSF and liked to look at
her and and. near her TAX. IneFe IS soIneShing
lna8heuAc aDoaC heE' suppose Do5 where
sne 8ess II rom
NO Alo"s oeUlef 9nsn now hopeless
~ lEresl IS. aAe lsf EuO never 1aina Ghat
now "n@e We,AS 20 Ahe" Is why uleh
you OF 5oA2eOoly lou me Know Wnas mao
happened ana give me announcer chance 1
know she hked me better than Atearsdale.
She often told me So After all that there
was between US. was it fair OF kind to