Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-09-30
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| Ills I&l lSIl;in name Was W iIliaiH, dHu
very vast circle indeed called him
Bill" in every information from college
chumship to Bowery Freemasonry.
"Confound it, she said to her spouse
Here | have chance TO get footing
on The Dodd Magazine. but what they
ask me to do is way out of my line
They say they like my style and all and
my stories of life on a tug, but they
want love story, and they thought
could do it,
Yes. know its fault Of yours
You ought 10 have sentiment; it's
great attraction"
oh. is it,
"Yes, il is. Its a very charming SEN
saton to feel oneself rolled and infolded
in lots of nice, warm sentiment; it's a
great pleasure
And. pray. may ask when you expe-
rienced this delightful sensation?'
Certainly, my dear" Bill arose and
| Lit his pipe. 1T was-sOme time ago
She was very pretty little blond, and
well-she did that sort of thing delight
fuIy-the sentiment, you know
Mean it,
"Oh. mercy, yes-very bad case"
! did you respond:"
"After fashion"
"How after Il fashion? ?"
"Oh. she did the falling in love and fol-
lowing up and ALL | let her. 1t wasn'l
my place to say, Go to, little one; tempt
| me not.
''Of course
"Well, she really did mean it, poor lit
A. I
| pleasant for awhile But, dear me, that
sort of thing couldn't go on forever.
was afraid her husband would get on tc
| it, and she was so much in love there
was no getting her to plan anything quiet
| ly or sanely She kept calling me up OF
| the telephone and begging me to see her
| 1t got to be bore, besides being danger
Gus. And then she expected so much Of
me. l must swear loved her every three
| minutes and write every day and never
| speak to any other woman. 1t was her
| jealousy that really made the split be-
tween u.s. You see, | met you about that
| time"
"Yes. dear" Ed crossed the room and
| rumpled Bills hair affectionately. You
met me-a year ago last December-so
this affair is more than quite recent"
''Oh, yes, it's modern enough"
"What was she like!'
Small and rather frail looking. Big
gray eyes and light hair-it was beauti
full hair-fell way down below her knees
Nice complexion, tOo-a tride too pale
generally, but when she was excited il
used to shine pink, like a moist sea
SHE'LL
Heavens. Billy, you're getting po
etc.
well, she was beauty-really quite
a beauty. She lacked strength of char
acter Her forte was delicacy and senti
ment Would you care to see her pic
ture? | have one somewhere in my
trunk"
In the adjoining room the newly arriv'
ed trunks and boxes were piled high. A
few moments search. aud he reappeared
with square tin lock box. This he car
ried back to the sitting room, placed il
upon the table and opened it.
'There!' he said, withdrawing pho
tograph what do you think of her?'
His wife took the picture to the win
dow and examined it closely. Certainly
stunning head" she commented
Rather a sad face-fne eyes, though" 2
Here's another, taken in profile" said
Bill. Its rather better"
Edwina came back, replaced the first
and took up the second portrait.
Undoubtedly stunning-good neck line
hair grows prettily."
very"
"What are all these letters-hers?"
"Yes. She used to write to me every
day for awhile till l made her stop. She
really had great knack of expressing
herself-see here"
"Um." she murmured as her practiced
eve ran down the closely written page
Good! Pity she didn't have my job
Um-um-she certainly has the know
how Let's seen another
She handed back the delicate blue
leaves and selected another note from the
pile.
Bill picked up the missive with half
sigh and began reading. There was 81
lence for over half an hour. except for
the crisp rattle of note paper as it was
withdrawn or replaced in it's envelope
At the end of that time there was q sus.
| picious pinkness at the lids of the bride
and slight deepening Of the lines about
the mouth of the groom.
81 almost begin to understand senti.
ment," said Edwina.
"Poor little grill" said Bill.
What became of her| she asked.
"She went to live in Europe shortly
after we were married. She separated
from her husband"
"Ohw
Bill paced about the room for few
moments 81 thought you had better
know it. Ed, DEAR" he said. You have
| plenty of sense about such things,
know, and now l think l ought to teai
up those-letters are not the safest things
things in the world to keep around" He
took up one of the pathetic little notes
severely. Edwina caught his arm.
"The idea" she exclaimed. "Are you
crazy? Destroy them? Why, it's the
best copy in ages, regular gold mine
| Not a bit of it. You shan't tear one
It's find. It's stupendous. I'll make
those Dodd people open their eyes,"
He turned on his wife look halt
! amazed, half ironical, then he gathered
the scattered correspondence together
with a gesture of protection.
"Hardly," he said. "Now that you
have the spirit you don't need the let,
| ters. s."-Criterion.
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