Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-01-03

been delayed much longer thar IT was
were IL not for the fact that Ned Del
mere was back from his vacation
She knew he had returned. the fact
was duly chronicled in the litae subur-
ban paper. And Allie Lyme had met
him and said he was handsomeF than
eyer-had a mustache-think OF that!
Lorraine thought of that, and of
good many other things. Bitween
the embarrassment of her glasses and
the detection Of her devoted young
lover she grew positively thin and
haggard-as far as 10 may. Ned, whe
had been her shadow since they had
graduated together from tAe high
school. Ned, who had impoverished
himself taking her to theateYs and
sending her flowers! Ned, Who had
written her loads of the ioveliest
rhymes and nonsense from the north
ern wilds whittier his firm had allowed
him to go for rest and regeneration.
Was he deserving her? She bad an
swered his every letter. To be sure
her replies were little airy, gessamer
things, bright and shifting as cloud
of butterflies. But she had written
nothing that could offend-sstrange
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 will
low publicly for any man. 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. Toe
late. The cable car fiinging franti-
cally around the corner had crashed
into her resentful meditations! Going
back to the office after luncheon wrap
ped in the childish abstraction of
passionate pique, her sight dimnfed by
the fashionable pince-nez, she had
stepped unheedingly before the mod
ern jugger-naut.
A babel of hoarse cries arose. She
shut her eyes-stepped backward.
"All right! In here. No-Pm not
hurt-in 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
policeman, and the blanched visage of
the motorman, and the sharp, inquisi-
tive countenance of the newshoy all
merged in waves of blackness which
whirled, eddied, swept into eornu-
copia of illimitable perspective, and
went down with the roar of ever
whelming waters,
When reason asserted itself sac 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 cordia, he held TO her
lips. She looked him straight in the
eyes Tell mel" she entreated.
He excpaimed how the accident De-
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"
All" she. exclaimed. No, should
not have become bewildered were il
not for those dreadful glasses. 7 wore
tnem because thought they were be-
coming. | really could not see with
them!"
You won't have to wear them
again." he laughed. They were
splintered under the wheels where
they fell. But-Loraine! Why Womb
you not recognize me when l got hack
from the north? l stopped Won nm
dearborn street. You held your head
very high. 1 am not acquainted with
you, sir you said, and passed on"
Did | say that-to your"
Indeed you did,
Well!" She set up. clasping her
hands. She drew a long breath. was
II the mustache-or the glasses-or
Doth! Yon know I'd never'-her ewes
hnished the sentence her lips had he
gun.
Wouldn't you?" eagerly. He xas
on MS knees beside the dr-ugssst's
lounge. IF you only knew how I've
suffered"
Don l. though? You dear"
beg pardon!" The druggist re.
treated hastily from the doorway
The young lady you rescued, sir
mas quite recovered, thank Won
VIII you call cab? Take my arm
dear, as il your sight"
Her radiant gaze laughed back his
quizzical glance.
How can you like vain girls?" she
whispered.
1 DON'T. promptly. 81 only like
one! And don't like herr"