New-York tribune., 1901-06-30
/ REINSTATED PARADISE
BY JULIA TRUITT BISHOP.
Copyright. 1901. by Authors sy,dic,


we can moTe into one Of the back bedrooms for
just few days Poor old Rosa Lynn. / won
der if she's changed much?"
Now. Frank dear had once been very daenlv
il love with TWO girls and being forced by ci--
cunslanees and the laws OF the country to make
choice. had chosen the other one and had left
pretty. slender Rosa Lynn to a little longer
Gltlhood The one chosen had protested in those
DAYS that marriages We're undoubtedly made in
heaven and he had assented. even " hIe he was
ETimly conscious that they might le an acci-
dent e taking the other car OF OF accepting or
refusing an invitation. or Of attending this or
that particular church. The sound OF Sabbath
bells made him remember for several years that
he had gone 10 Rosa Lynn's church that day
with the deliberate design OF sitting by her side
Of going home with her afterward and asking
her 10 marry him. Rosa not there that
day-she had gone another church-but that /
rosy, dimpled girl. Annette Maynard had made
huttering room for HIM and he had read the re- /
sponses from the same book with her. and had
gone home with her afterward and pr.oposed 10
her instead After year TWO he laughed I
when he thought OF it. and after a year or TWO !
more he did not think Of il. When ones dInpled
little wife has grown stout, with tendency to
overlacirg on state occasions. one may be for
given i he forgets much.
But now. after fifteen years, Rosa Lynn hal
that section and would make a brief stay with
her old friends if they cared see her
she was beautiful-once." he said, in reminis- /
cent mood such slender girl-not too slen- /
der. you know-an exceedingly bright and pretty /
girl"
i hope she isn't scrawny," said Annette Writ !
uously giancing at the mirror. When those /
scraggy women get old they horrid. Now /
cont talk politics when she comes, Frank. dear. /
is is Sr.ol-
itics."
"Al women are not alike" said the candidate |
for Congress from the Nth District. dismissing |
the subject with that dry statement
That evening Miss Lynn came. and they met |
her at the station, and remembered with contri- |
ton that the word ''scrawny" had been men |
toned in connection with Rosa Lynn. No. she |
was not scraWny; she was elegant and slender, |
and Annettes husband smiled he looked at
her and from her to Annette's tight compaciness.
Annette saw both the smile and the glance. Dun /
women sometimes have a kind of sixth sense. |
which enables them TO understand many things. /
oh, you talking politics to Rosa" she /
cried that evening. Il asked you not to mention |
politics Frank dear. Don't make il stupid for /
Rosa"
But like politics. said Rosa who forthwith |
plunged into matters that hidden from stout |
women with talents for fancy work. Frank had |
plunged with her, and for the next hour a for |
lorn woman. high and dry on the sands Of un- |
comprehension, watched those two expert swim /
Iners breasting the
You don't know how delighted ] am that you /
have come" said Mr. Briggs with unconscious l
pathos. 1T is not often l meet one who is so /
coneenial. / remember that there Was always |
such concord between us-in the old days
Rosa Lynn smiled with great composure and /
sat down beside Annette. What you max /
ins?" she asked. kindly.
a table cover said Annette with delight |
spreading out her work. Isn't that pretty? |
l nave been on this only two weeks, and in an |
other week / shall finish it"
Let US hope that unlIind Providence will 4
interfere with the completion of that table /
cover" said Frank, dryly, for the destiny Of
nations hangs upon it
After which Annette slowly folded up an un- |
finished table cover and hid it away in a secret |
place
The serpent had entered Paradise
The Briggs home was a very pretty one Frank |
was Justly proud Of il, because il was COM
raratively new possession In the days when |
he had known Rosa Lynn he had been home
less Now il worth while TO drive her /
around the green country lanes and show her |
all the Inetes and bounds, and tell her OF his /
plans for the new vineyard and the improved /
tenants houses.