Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-07-11
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know not when our eyes may
meet,
What welcome you may give to me,
Or will your words be sad or sweet
It may rot be till years have passed,
Till eyes are dim and tresses gray;
The world is wide, but, love at last
Our hands, our hearts, must meet
some day.
Some day l shall meet you,
Love-I know not when or how;
Only this, that once you loved
me-
Only this, love you now.
~ know not are you far or near,
Or are you dead or do you live;
| know not who the blame should
bear,
Or who should plead, or who for
give.
But, when we meet at length some
day,
Eyes clearer grown the truth may
see,
And ev'ry cloud shall roll away
That darkens, love, 'twixt you and
me.
Some day shall meet you,
Love-I know not when or how:
Only this, that once you loved
me-
Only this, love you now
The beautiful melody died away;
but the words of the song entered
Violet's heart 1t had needed but this
to FIJI her whole soul with unutterable
longing for her husband, longing SO
great that it was almost pain. Tears
filled her eyes, and Mrs. Carstone
crossed the room to her quietly to kiss
them away.
you must not agitate yourself" she
whispered.
A strange coincidence happened
that same evening. Although tired.
Violet knew she should not sleep, and
she asked for some books. Amongst
others there was sent to her volume
of extracts; and the first lines upon
which her eyes fell were these:
Marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good
A paradise below"
They struck her with strange force
Had she voluntarily deserted an earth
ly paradise? All, let her but once
return. let her but once more stand
in the safe shelter of her husbands
arms, and she would be all that he
could wish, she would love him with
her whole heart and soul! Peer OIL
peasant, noble or plebeian, mattered
little now; she loved him.
CHAPTER Llv.
Two days had passed, and no an.
swer had come to Violet's letter. II
was the third day now, and the young
wife's heart misgave her. Within
three days, she and Mrs. Carstone had
argued, letter must reach any part
OF England. In the first flush of san
guine hope she had felt quite sure
that the moment Randolph read hei
letter he would hasten to her. She
had expected him every hour, every
minute; every footstep on the stairs
every hand on the handle of the door
she had believed to be his. She haC
started hundred times each day, hel
face flushing, her heart beating fast
faint cry on her lips, which turned
always into wall Of disappointment.
1t was the end of the third day. He
would not come now; he was not In
such great hurry to see her. after all
And no wonder she owned to hersel
in sorrowful honesty-no wonder
after all her caprices and the scornfu
fashion in which she had treated hi,
love. Once terrible disappointment
happened TO her. A hanson dashe,
up TO the grand entrance, and SOM
one sprang from 1t in hot haste-som
one who looked up at the windows o
the hotel as though he expected to Sc
beloved face there For one me
ment her heart stood still. 1t wa
surely he-surely Randolps--come a
last. But, as the face and figure Dire
nearer the were strange to her.
was not Randolph. A horrible sens
of dismay came to her-a horribl
fear. What should she do If he nevt
came and never wrote? That was In
possible; he must write. In all the
little Misunderstanding he had ev,
been the first to yield. A smile,
glance, word from her had alwa,
brought him to her feet. Was
hKely that he could or would witt
stand such words as she had written
Let us be friends?"
The dawn of the fourth day foun
her trembling between hope an
despair. On the fifth day Mrs. Ca
stones kindly heart failed her whe
she looked at the white worn face
My dear" she said. You must M
look so. Try to regain some OF Won
Indifference, some of your careless,
ness; your face is becoming ouit
drawn and haggared."
And Violet, clasping the fr,era,
hands in her own, cried in voic
that was pitiful to hear:
ri do not think my husband wi
answer my letter."
Mrs. Carstone tried to comfort he
With all the gentle soothing wome
use to each other in the hour OF az