The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1900-04-03


aud that | can love only you. | did
not know then, bnt it has not taken
me five years TO find it ont.
Kitty, dear Kitty. Wait: I want
TO tell you something iirst-something.
How | love you! But Kitty, | cannot
say what | expected to say when
when this time came. How I have
waited for this, how | have longed for
IT, At first with longing that nearly
drove me wild. lost hope, ambition
everything except love and-aud-I
oh, Kitty, am not much of man
not to have borne the waiting and the
pain, rs a man should bear mp under
the trials Of life. l am not worthy OF
you. You see what / ana wreck
pitiful wreck. Five years ago. dear.
L should have been strong had You
, married me. j could have won my
way in the world; but, why talk OF
this? | am not worthy of you.
Dick, she cried wildly, Dick,
you do not know what you are saying.
you cannot mean it. After all these
years OF waiting, after all these years.
for me as well as you-oh, you cannot
mean it.. Her face was very white.
He put her away from him gently.
It's too late, dear, he said tenderly.
i cannot ask anybody to share my
life-now.'
" Dick she said again, Dick, think
moment. You misjudge yourself.
II you are not what You might be it is
my fault. am to blame. 1t is not
too late yet. You arc not fold. much
of life is before you. [ will help you.
Let me make PREPARATION for the past
for my mistake. l am strong, can
work. let us begin life again-to.
gether
But Dick was firm. Ut is too
late, he said. 'You would not be
happy. / could not make you happy. =
"Shc sat down and hid her face in
her hands. He let his hand wander
| over her hair, aud when one of hers
stole up and held his, tear tricklcd
slowly down his cheek. He shook il
away with toss of his head.
" i want TO tell you, he said brok-
emily, that rs long as / live you will
always have my love. God bless YOU. >
''lic looked back at her rs he was
halfway across the room, and seeing
her shoulders shake with sob that
gave no sound, stepped back quickly,
and kissed her hair. She did not hear
the door close, nor the firm footballs
rs he passed out and down the street
When mt last she walked quickly up
and down the room holding her hands
over her bosom, she suddenly saw
herself in the mirror. Her face was
Il
were about the eyes. She gazcd at
herself for long time and then she
sank down close to the fire, and shiv.
cring wept.'
Is that all the story?" asked Tom.
linson.
Rawlins shook tho ashes from his
cigar and laughed
"All, he said; "wcll, perhaps had
Letter finish it. The story is one that
III call him Dick-had in one OF
the magazines. II was true rs gospcl
up to the point where the girl asked
him TO wait five years. She did ask
him, but Dick was not the kind of a
fellow TO wait
IIepaused and puned his cigar.
Then" said he, quietly; Chen
Dick, believing that She loved him.
wrote the story and took pains to see
that she read it and saw his name at
tached."
"Well?' asked Tomlinson.
ooh, she sent for him ut once"
Dick, she said, 4 am afraid 10
wait. / do not want TO wait. / think
/ love you now as well as l can ever
love anybody-and that's very great
deal. lift am-am mistaken-'''
".I'Il take the risk, said Dick. "