Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-11-08

and the child" And as she rose there
was the cracking of twig under a
hasty footstep, and Kate Selden stood
face to face with her husband. He was
very pale, and his lips looked pallid
and drawn with the effort to keep from
trembling She had flushed deeply when
their eyes met, but now the color ebbed
away from her girlish face, and she said
confusedly:
81 am so glad--I mean, not to keep
you waiting. You see am here first :"
"You are very good" he said, but
you are always good You got my let
ter?'
"Oh, yes, Or / wouldn't have known
you were coming here" She moved
backward step and was very glad to
drop into the old rustic seat. sit is
very generous of you, Sidney, to agree
to everything and particularly about
baby. "
1t is all I can do now--to try to
please you," he answered weakly, and
the perspiration was like dew on his
brow. He took off his hat and stammer-
ed something about it's being lawfully
hot. !"
eyes, perhaps you have walked fast
1t is very warm, and you look tired
Won't you sit DOWN." She moved a lit
tie farther away to make room for him,
and he dropped into the place beside her.
1--WE used to say there was just room
enough for two," he added, with a
smile, and she turned her head away,
perhaps to pluck rose, for she snapped
one off short and then threw it away.
"Am to see baby today" he asked
after few minutes of awkward silence.
"Ihaven It seen him, you know, since
"Oh, yes" she answered hurriedly
and looking about. "There they are, he
and Annette, yonder in the woods. They
are coming this way. Oh, Sidney" she
cried suddenly turning toward him,
chow could you? can never, never
forgive you!"
IT could never dare to ask you. !"
They were almost the very words OF
Pauline and Claud She remembered in
a moment that it had been the first play
Sidney had taken her to see after they
had married and how often they had
laughed at that pair of lovers, each
dying to forgive and be forgiven and
neither daring to say the right word.
She used to think she could never be sc
foolish as that, and now-it was get
ting very awkward, for this was fal
more serious matter, and she knew that
she could never, never forgive. What
woman could?
And then she heard the laughter an6
shouts of little Sidney, who had just
caught sight Of his father and was now
running wildly to welcome him. 1t was
a fortunate interruption to scene thai
was nearing painful climax, and she
was very glad to take step or two to
ward the laughing boy, who was al
ready flying across the bridge followed
by his nurse; then there was a crash, 6
shrek. The side of the bridge was gap
ing outward. The maid stood wringine
her hands The golden curls, that hat
foated moment above the rushing
water, were gone.
1t was so sudden, so inexplicable
that the frantic mother could not real
ize at first what had happened. WheI
she did, the air resounded with her ag
onized cries, and it was the nursegir
who was the first to see that Selden hat
already reached his child just in time
Courage, ma am, couragep' the CIR
whispered, while she supported he
mistress "See--he is safe! His fathel
has him. Look, look! The darling ha
his, arms about the masters neck, ant
he's hugging and kissing of him just al
if nothing had happened at all!'
The girl assisted her mistress back tt
the little rustic seat, and when thu
father and child had reached the youns
mother little Sidney was already laugh
ing with delight, and as he put ont
dripping arm about her neck he drew
her close till her face touched her hus
bands face
Kate" whispered selden, "Kate
may beg forgiveness now?"
ION, Sidney, have been so prouf
and heartless! I was jealous and vain
and-and-so selfish and unfair!
wouldn't listen to you, and all the tim'
I knew you never cared for that woman
Can you forgive me too?'
"Just give me chance that's all. ;
And then two pairs of arms met an(
clasped each other close about the con
quering hero, who seemed to find him
self quite suddenly an object Of second
airy Importance.
It then occurred to Annette that Mas
ter Sidney would have dreadful COLI
unless his dripping garments wer
changed Immediately, SO she. carried
him off in pursuit Of dry clothing =
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