Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1900-01-12
WINNIE'S ROMANCE.


e. STORY OF NAN AND WEED
yN'hat iifel' repeated thc inai 10
himself. with aiMost wsfhc. Mas
hig bricks without straw an thc year
round. Il wish -thete. / wish 80 God
ia never learned how to write.
Tho door behind cracked Noluan
glided IN on tiptoc Don't siart-it's
only l." she whispered
Don't start" he threw down the
pen without turning "lts all staris--
or the strain Of expecting them I'm
sick OF Il. l tell you-sics OF II an.
What's the timer
ut must be nearly g."
"sltY Dark IN another hour dusk
nowl I've done nothing. And you-- yod
never attempt 70 help me by SO much
as word"
II never help you.' she lepntet
calmly. Would you Ike me to trys
perhaps something has just come TO
nay mind. II is silly, maybe. MS 1 tcil
81, but you, my husband might make
1t clever and Interesting. You say
your stories are always twaddle ~
you first set them down"
80 1? Well, what is itF' lac san.
staring across az he opposite roofs
Couldn't ! tell YOU just as II e. me
to me, thenT she said. "I'm not Aev
Cr enough TO know. Its more Of "a
SKETCH perhaps. IL Imagined two
lovers. very dear lovers They got
married and there was beautiful
world before them. with. such reaoa
a. the end, if they knew.
Make the man an artist Tic lived
i for his art. The giri-the girl was
only just a girl; she lived for the man.
She hung on bis every word. yon
night say; she prayed for his success
'-hen he was never there to hear.
thought for him Ia WAYS that he
would never know, and checked her
singing and moved always softly. so
that he should never be disturbed a,
: his work
"That went on FOR years. The man.
deeper and deeper Ia his work. neyoi
saw that his wife was changing; thai
the light had gone out OF her eyes
RE forgot all he had meant to be-foi
got after a time even to kiss her: and
the girl-she could never bring herself
10 remind him p En- Still. sh,
lived only Tor him, but he never cared
what she wore, newer thought that hoi
work might be hard IN It's little way
and that there are some women Tor
whom years Of such silence and lone
llness spells death--or worse
You might put It that at first IA,
man's mistake was in always strain
ing forward 10 his goal. forgettin.
that the happiest time 4 now FOR
getting how, when he looks ar last
he viii not ind just the same laugh
ing girl as he married
"We'll suppose-well suppose tina
Que day the wife. somehow or Other
Heard him talking to ffient
The friend was quiet; ne ha
asked: Whats the matter with
) with herr All the romanc
gone that you used 10 talk about
Make it--make II that she held Ii,
breath for the answer even them
I even then; that even then she wa
hungoring 70 put her arms around hin
T ard tell hiin,, oh, no. it was not gone
And surprising she heard him say: he
i Pooh! Take no notice Of her-aiwa,
n the same Wish to heavens sometin,
ia never married-what with the q,
j pcnses and miseries at home. can
IA make her out-not Ike other ,vomel
z Given it np long ago. Don't you ev,
c marry, old mani And supposing I'll
d wife stood and cried to Cod TO tax
/, her on the spot, and that God did n,
}, answer, aud that at last--at last, whe
8 something seemed as &c Il would sna
G ia her hraip-she crept into her hu
e hands study and took out the plst,
It that he kept in his desk and put II
y her forehead and almost pulled III
Is trigger Wouldn't n paper accept
IS story like that?"
An indescfibable sob and a swi
rush. A hand had plucked open Il
drawer NJ the mans side and som
- thing bright flashed out. Just IN tin
a DE realized something and swaycd 4
a with a hoarse cry. "Winniel No M
- Don't. don'tl Come back to rne-con
: backg'
And for these two Time put ba,
Il the hands Of the clock But the stoi
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