Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

kiss, DEAR" He tookehcr in his arms
and kissed her fondly.
"You grow better ut compliments rs the
days so by"
mo, dear, deeper in love-"
'sWith such commonplace kind or
thing as 4 wife,?
with the most uncomnonplace sweet
heart-wife in all the world"
John, l am already beginning to feel
quite mildle-aged wife, and my ring
where it touches the guard is getting
worm"
THAT'S a desperately serious thing
about the ring. / mean. Gold was too
easily-worn Il metal to marry you with,
Edith 1t should have been plain band
of adamant, and even that would not
last long enough, dear"
Are you practicing q speech to win
constituency"
mo. I am speaking out of my heart
to keep what l have Won"
EDO you know I envy you only for one
thing?''
"And what is that?"
"All the love that you give me?'
but we are quits there, for give all.
you give all"
But yours seems SO much richer than
mine"
But I am with you, and always shall
be. You are not afraid of my leaving
you?"
I'm the vulgar sense? Oh, no! Afraid
of your going away and caring for some
one else? Oh, no. That could not be-"
mo, indeed. No, indeed"
'For should call you back and show
yNN9 WV \ w.
me when you saw that there was nothing
in all my heart but you? Your pity would
not let you do that. You might take
take away all that had in my heart"
"You dreamer of holy dreams You
have come from some blessed place, you
| have come to us from some place that is
better than this
NO." she said, softly, emo. There is
| no better place for me. am where God
| placed me-in my husbands arms"
They had been married couple of
! months, and it was June once more. Not
a cloud had arisen between them for
these two months or during the months
before. John Hanbury's mother said that
Edith Grace had the same witchery in
| appearance as that village beauty of the
| blood which flowed in his veins made him
succumb at once to her, for otherwise
how could it be that he should almost i'm.
mediately after parting from Dora Ash
| ton fall helplessly in love with girl so
extraordinarily like Dora Ashton as
Edith? How else could the fascination
be accounted for?
81 do not believe" he would say to
himself, that 1 was ever in love with
Dora. | do think we should never have
got on we'll together, and I am certain
when she and Winfield are married there
will not be happier couple in America,
excepting Edith and me. When l heard
| that Dora was to be one of the party ON
| the homeward cruise Of Whinfeld's yacht
knew all would be arranged before they
saw Chicago again. They are most ad-
| mirably suited to one another.
with Edith an inspired accord arose
between us. She leaned upon me, and
grew strong enough to support the bur-
den of Atlas. l flung myself aside, so
that / might not be impeded in my services
| to her. And I was welcomed in the spirit
l came She would take what / had to
| give, and all I had, and had no care in
my mind of myself or any of the gifts or
graces which had been mine and now
were hers. So had enough time to think
| of her and no care to distract me from
| her"
| That was his way of putting it to him
| self when he was in very abstract and
| figurative humor. When he was not quite
so abstract or figurativc he would say to
himself: ut is sympathy, nothing more
than sympathy. That is the Miracle Gold
we should all try to make in the crucibl.,
of our hearts,"