San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-01-13
CONTINUED from Saturdays issue

Phil laughed in spite of himself.
"You re quite right, he said frankly.
"That's just how felt-some four or
five years ago. But one can't keep it up
to that white heat, you know-at least
not
cat least not, when?" Freda put it as
he hesitated.
"Well, at least not when you don't
see the girl you love for five years or
thereabout, Phil answered, with rare
candor.
"Oh, Mr.. Gilman" Freda cried,
"I'm afraid you re very fickler'
"No; not fickle," Phil answered,
growing hot and red. He couldn't bear
to be called perfdious by such beautiful
lips. he couldn't bear such lovely eyes
to look SO reproachfully across at him.
Then he leaned forward gravely. miss
Treyelyan, he said, with some earnest
ness, "you mustn't think of me like
that. I really couldn't bear that you
should imagine me wanting in due
consideration for Aggie. But, remem-
Der, we were young-we were both very
young-when ] went away from Eng
land. Aggie was 10, and was one and
twenty. Naturally hardly know what
sort of girl she may have grown into by
this time. Naturally she can hardly
know what sort of man she's going to
marry"
He paused second. Then he spoke
still more seriously. "At the time we
both loved one another dearly. 1t was
heartrending to part. If we'd married
then and there, we should no doubt have
gone ON loving one another just as dear
~ to this very day. But then we should
have seen great deal meanwhile OF
each other. As it is, conceal it as we
may from ourselves, we must meet as
strangers. My first anxiety will be to
see what kind of girl has come out to
marry me. Aggie's first anxiety will be
to see what kind of man she has come
out to marry. May speak to you frank
ly-only in self defense, you know, and
to repel your charge of fickleness? Well,
till the moment arrived when could
send home for Aggie, my one feeling
was longing to be able to marry her. L
looked at her photograph day and night
with a distinct rapture. l looked at it
often. 1t gave me thrill to look at it.
1t was only ON the very day that l wrote
home to ask her to come out to me that
another side to the question first occur
red to me- Then thought to myself, all
at once, it's not the Aggie of today I'm
looking forward to see at all, but the
Aggie of five years ago, What reason
have / to think she will be to me now
at all the same person? l loved the girl
of IS when left England, and if that
girl could come out to me now would
love her just equallyA But how do l
know 1 shall love the girl of % who
now bears the same name? And if l find
her altered out of all recognition what a
terrible thing for her What terrible
thing for mel What blow for both of
us! How appalling to feel you're mar
rying a woman You don't really love
How appalling for her to be marrying a
man who can't really love herl We're
taking one another now in the dark, put
the best face you can upon it. "
"You re too frightened, Mr.. Gilman, I"
Freda answered, with that charming
smile of hers. 1.-THE moment you see
her, the moment she sees you, all your
old love will return again with rush.
I'm sure it will, because can see you
in earnest You think of her as well as
of yourself, and with you men, when
ever man thinks of the woman as well
as of himself, you may be perfectly sure
he's really good fellow. y
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