Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1901-01-31

been delayed much longer than il was
were it not for the fact that Ned Del
mere was back from his vacation, and
had not come to see her. She knew he
had returned. The fact was duly chron-
icled in, the little suburban paper. And
Allie Lyme had met him and said he
was handsomer than ever-had mus
tache-think of that!
Lorraine thought of that, and of
good many other things. Between the
embarrassment of her glasses and the
detection of her devoted young lover
she grew positively thin and haggard-
rs far as 10 may Ned, who had been
her shadow since they had graduated
together from the high SCHOOL, Ned,
who had impoverished himself taking
her to theaters and sending her flowers!
Ned. who had written her loads of the
loveliest rhymes and nonsense from the
northern wilds whittier his firm had
allowed him to go for rest and recuper-
alton. Was he deserving her? She had
answered his every Letter. TO be sure
her replies were little airy. gossamer
things bright and shifting as cloud of
butterflies. But she had written moth
ing that could oflenG-estrange him.
She heard of him, now here-now
there She began to think that he had
never really cared for her. And she
was not one to wear the willow publicly
for any mani! She would accept Roy
Millard's invitations. She would go
boating with him in the park! She
would
Ding-dong! Ding-dong! Ding
ding-ding!
She looked around wildly. Too late!
The cable car fnging frantically
around the corner had crashed into her
resentful meditationS! Going back to
the Office after luncheon, wrapped in
the childish abstraction of passionate
pique, her sight dimmed by the fash
ionabie pince-nez. she had stepped I'M
heedingly before the modern jugger-
naut.
A Babel of hoarse cries arose. She
shut her eyes-stepped backward.
"AL right! In here! No-Tm not
hurt-iD here!"
So much she heard in a voice that
sounded somehow like her mothers
just as comforting, as full of sweet
and compassionate protection. Then
the people, and the car, and the big po-
lceman, and the blanched visage of
the motorman, and the sharp, inquisi-
tive countenance of the newsboy all
merged in waves of blackness which
whirled, eddied, swept into cornu-
copia of illimitable perspective, and
went down with the roar of overwhelm-
ing waters!
When reason asserted itself she was
in the little emergency room back of
the drug store.
"What happened?" she asked, and
struggled to sit up.
keep still a little longer, dear
heart!" whispered Ned Delmere.
She drank the cordial he held to her
lips. She looked him straight in the
eyes. Tell mel" she entreated.
He explained how the accident oc-
Cured. "You were not hurt" he con-
Guided. "The man stopped his car just
as it touched your gown. You tainted
from fright. That was ALL"
GAIL" she exclaimed. "No! 1 should
not have become bewildered were it not
for those dreadful glasses. wore them
because 1 thought they were becom-
ing. really could not see with them!"
"You won't have to wear them
again." he laughed. "They were splin-
tered under the wheels where they
fell. But-Loraine! Why would you
not recognize me when l got back from
the north? stopped you on Dearborn
street. You held your head very high.
& am not acquainted with you, sir
you said, and passed on"
odd l say that-to yOu?"
'Indeed you did"
"Well!" She set up, clasping her
hands. She drew long breath. "Was
it the mustache-or the glasses-or
both? You know I'd never"-her eyes
finished the sentence her lips had be-
gun.
Wouldn't you?" eagerly. He was on
MS knees beside the druggists lounge.
"If you only knew how I've suffered"
Don't I, though? You dear"
'Beg pardon!" The druggist retreat
ed hastily from the doorway. "The
young lady you rescued, sir"
HAS quite recovered. thank you.
VIII you call cab? Take my arm,
dear, as if your sight"
Her radiant gaze laughed back his
quizzical glance.
GLOW can you like vain girls?" she
whispered.
81 don't!" promptly. 81 only like
one And l don't like her!"