Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-09-30
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Happy at Last
NORTHUMBERLAND


remarks which often passed her lips, ono
would not imagine that she found the
world full of sweetness and HIGHT The
kingstown people would have opened
their eyes wide could they have seen the
old maid one winter evening, when, hav-
Ing returned from a walk, she threw her
self on her couch and shed q food of
tears.
"Can never forget him or learn to de-
spise the man who spurned my love1"
she murmured. "Ah, Dick, Dicki nev-
er will cease to love your
Her story was one not uncommon In
New England village life. When prepa-
rations were going on for her marriage to
Richard Waldron, Rebecca's mother, who
was widow, fell i'll. Richard Waldron,
who had been waiting long time for
Rcbcccn insisted upon the marriage be-
Ing performed without delay, for, as their
new home would be within sight Of the
Stoner place, Rebccca could still be with
her mother and oversee a nurse. But the
mother selishly AFFECTED. She knew
that Rcbecca would not be The same to
her after marriage. No one else could
nurse her as well, and she wouldn't be In
their way long. She would 70 gladly as
soon as she was called up higher. etc.
So Rebecca, sick at heart. but not dar-
ing, raised as she had been. 20 resist pa
rental authority, offered Dick his free
dom.
He stormed angrily At FIRST. but. seeing
her pain and distress, at last said 10 her:
"Rebecca. you are spoilirg tvy ives, 1
fear, by your mistaken notion cr yonr
duty, but | must submit. iiut when YOU
are free you have only to write to mo-
for cannot stay here-and call me back,
Whenever you send. / will come, Tor !
will never love any woman but you and
will be faithful to you always"
All might have gone well had h not
been that Mrs. Stoner again selrshly in
terfered. Rebecca and Dick must not
write TO each other. II would only keep
Rebecca's mind In a tumult, md she
would not stand in their way long. She
was ready to go to heaven at any time,
she had never harmed living creature,
she would gladly free them of her pres
ence, and more canting talk like this,
which did nothing to heal Rcbcccas sore
heart
As matter of fact, the old lady bod on
to life with Il tenacious grasp and lived
five more years of helpless iAvatfdism,
selfish to the last.
hesitatcd about recalling Dick. whqm she
still fondly loved. What II he had mar
ried since he had left her? Men were In
constant by nature, she argued. YSe the
remembrance Of Dicks face and his
words as he T. ''cr goodby forcod her
to believe II. aonstancy. Another
doubt assaieG Sne had chnu god dur
ing five years attendance u ne sick
room and had lost much OF her gixlish
charm. Perhaps he would NJ care for
her.
Finally her love conquered, and SIZE
wrote him letter which would have
brought him, happy. eager lover. to her
side. But In some unaccoun,ab.c way
the letter was lost In transit. Dicl: never
received the message calling him a4 "a
Rcbecca. and she supposed. as he did bot
return, that he spuincd the love she Of
fercd. Naturally she was almost heurt-
broken, lost her faith in man and never
wrote again. He, on his part. re- ceivin :
no word after the death OF Mr. y ner.
supposed Rebccca's love had C y ard
rallied Mt the Inconsistency Of wo IN. Bnt
he never wrote, even TO ugb ia he.
Years passed. and he finally returned to
live in his old home; but, though he and
Rebecca passed each other daily, thsrs
was never speech between them. Thy
were now middle aged. and each lived
alone.
One night Rebecca in a restless mopd
started out for n walk. She had gone as
far as Dick Waldron's cottage when ahe
thought she heard groan. She stopled
then, with fast beating heart, ran o. TO
the door and listened. Tho groan Wis
repeated, and, hesitating no longer. she
pushed open the door and entered. Al
most on the threshold she stumbled. over
his PROSTATE form. In momer4 she
was on her knees and lifted his head
upon her breast.
"Dick, my darling, are you hurte" she
whispered, passionately kissing his closed
eyes and rubbing his cold hands Aroused
by her words he struggled to rise, but fell
back. But he knew her. "Ah, Rebecca,
you have been cruel to me-" he murmur-
ed. Then, almost under his brVath, he
said:
'Whcn pain and anguish wiring the
brow, n ministering angel thou"
II fell and broke my leg and crawled
to the door for help" he began to ex-
plain, but tainted away. ld
When Richard Waldron recovered CON
seriousness, he found the doctor beside
him instead Of Rcbecca. MIS- Stoner
saved your life, firmly believe" tbs doe
tor said.
81 know she did" echoed Dick. But
he meant something the doctor could not
understand.
The next day Rebecca received an mr.
gent note from her old lover begging her
To come to him. She could not refuse,
for, as she told herself. he might be dy-
ing When she saw him uula mud e,,f-
had come, the sharp eyes oftened and
wild hope that after all new day of
happiness was about to dawn FOR her.
All that had seemed so incomprehensi-
bic to them was now cleared up, although
the missing letter was nevor traced, aud