The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1897-10-20

you were coming here. She moved
backward step and was very glad to
drop into the old rustic seat. 1T is
very generous of you, Sidney to agree
to everything and particularly about
baby ="
1t is all can do now-to try to
please YOU, he answered weakly, and
the perspiration was like dew on his
brow. Hetook of his hat and stammer-
ed something about its being lawfully
hot.
Yes, perhaps You have walked fast
1t is very warm, and you look tired
Won't you sit down. She moved lit
tie farther away to make room for him,
and he dropped into the place beside her.
We used to say there was just room
enough for two, he added, with II
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.
Il haven I seen him You know, SINCE
"Oh, yes, she answered hurriedly
and looking about, There they are, he
and Annette, yonder i'll the woods. They
are coming this way. Oh, Sidney" she
cried suddenly turning toward him.
chow could you? can never never
forgive you =
II could never dare to ask you -
They We're almost the very words of
Pauline and Claud. She remembered i'll
n moment that it had been the first play
Sidney had taken her to SEQ after they
had married and how often they had
laughed mt 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 so
foolish as that, and now-it was get
ting very awkward, for this was n fur
moro serious matter, and she knew that
she could never, never forgive. What
woman could?
And then she heard the laughter and
shouts of little Sidney. who had Just
caught sight of his father and was now
running wildly to welcome him. 1t WAS
n fortunate interruption to u scene that
was nearing painful climax, and sho
was very glad to take II step or two to-
ward the laughing boy, who was al
ready flying across the bridge, followed
by his nurse; then there was crash II
shrek. The side of the bridge was gap
ing outward. The maid stood wringing
her hands. The golden curls, that had
tloated II moment above the rushing
water, We're gone
1t WAS SO sudden, so inexplicable,
that the frantic mother could not real
ize at first what had happened When
sho did, the air resounded with her ag=
onized cries, and it was tho nursegirl
who WAS the first to SEE that Sclden had
already reached his child just in time.
Courage, ma am, eourager" the girl
whispered. while she supported her
mistress. "SeC--he is safel His father
has him Look, look The darling has
his arms about the masters neck, and
hos hugging and kissing of him just as
if nothing had happened at ALL"
The girl assisted her mistress back to
tho little rustic seat, and when tho
father and child had reached tho young
mother little Sidney was already laugh
ing with delight, and as he put one
dripping arm about her neck he drew
her close till her face touched her hus-
band = face
Kate, " whispered Scldcn, Kate
may beg forgiveness now"
"Oh, Sidney, | have been so proud
and heartlessl was jealous and vain
and-and-so selfish and unfairl
wouldn't listen To you, and all the time
l knew you never cared for that woman !
Can you forgive mo too2'
Just give mo n chance that s all. "
And then two pairs of arms met and
claspcd each other close about the con
quering hero who seemed to find him
self quite suddenly an object Of second
AIRY importance
1t then occurred TO Annette that Mas
ter Sidney would have dreadful cold
unless his dripping garments were
changed Immediately, SO she carried
him Off in pursuit of dry clothing -
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