Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1897-07-22

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e sN~ these questions
over and over, wearying of the repeti-
ton, and yet never able to end it by
saying heartily that he was glad and
triumphant, OF bitterly that he was
sorry and ashamed The plain fact
stared him ever in the face, that Helen
Raymond did not love him, and that
Mrs. Raymond had urged his suit, and
eXerted her maternal influence and
eloquence until Helen had consented
to be his wife, telling him very frankly
that her heart was i'll the grave of her
lover, George Yanhorn, who had been
killed i'll railway collision nearly one
year before.
Mother was never willing I should
marry George" Helen said, sadly,
because he was poor, and we have
suffered all that poverty can inhict.
He was on his way to Colorado, where
his brother had been successful, when
he was killed"
Will Spencer WINGED, for he was
rich, very rich, but then he put to the
wound that soothing salve, Il VIII win
her love when she is my wife, " that
has wrecked so many lives. 1t may
come, this love that will not be hid
| den, to Il man and wife after they are
bound together for life, but the risk is
great, and Will Spencer knew it.
Yet he cherished the delus;on that
love in the end would win n return,
and he knew his own love to be strong
and enduring. He had stepped back
when George Yanhorn was met with
such smile as he could never win,
had kept from pressing his suit
when the name of Helen's lover APP
peared on the list of the killed in the
account of the railway collision, but
after the lapse of several months he
had won Mrs. Raymond to his side,
and so, by proxy, wooed Helen and
won-what? cold, reluctant consent
to be his wife.
Yet she was not cold, this girl OF
twenty, whose heart had seemed
crushed ever since the day when
George Vanhorn's name was recorded
as dead He could have told how her
eyes could soften with loves tender
ness, her cheeks burn with loves
bushes, her low, sweet, voice tremble
with loves whispered words. He had
won what all the Spencer gold, the
riches of long generations, could not
buy.
In the 'long ago" the Raymonds
had held wealth, too, but Helen's
father, to use the expression of his
brother, had "muddled away two for.
tunes, somehow" and had died rau
per. Helen was but child then, and
her mother was sufficiently wise to eft
her for a teacher" by course of ju.
dicious education, for which her uncle
paid.
And Helen, nervous, sensitive,
quick i'll feeling, impulsive in speech
was about as unfit for teacher as 4
girl could be. Still she trudged about
in all weather to instruct such pupils
in music and French as she could pro
cure, and helped her mother shoulder
the thousand and one cares of board
ing house when she was mt home.
Before that fatal railway collision
she was bright, beautiful girl, witt
large, expressive, brown eyes, n voice
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heart, bringing Jest to all the house
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