Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-07-27

need be. AID who had sailed away on
a three-yesrs' cruise the day before
Mr.. Hopkins telegram came.
There was a naval station near the
watering place where Alice was visit
inc. and she officers Of the man-o'-war
in port were coming and going contin-
ually. As one % the prcttiest girls az
the Cape. Alice had been one Of the
bellies 81 The season. She and Richard
Harvie had fallen in love with each
other. after the incorscquent manner
q Young things who take 10 thought
% the future. They had settled 10 that
they were go De married when Dick got
his -step.~ meanwhile he was go per-
form prodieies Of valor. and it would
be happiness 20 be engaged.
There were moments when Alice felt
impeiied 90 tel Mr. Hopkins The story
aud throw herself upoa his magnanim-
ify, which she felt sure would not fail.
but RETAINED for the sake q her
mother Crushed and broke n-heartcd.
Mrs. Frazier had bur one joy left. tbs
satisfaction which she took ia her
daughter engage ment 60 Mr. Hop
kins- When il came 10 the point. Alice
felt that she must suffer anything
rather than deprive her If shat
She wrote To Dick and waited fever
ishlv for an answer. her letter being
scarcely more than an incoherent ap-
I peal for advice. Weeks passed. bring
4 ing no reply. and Alice bethouaht her
self bitterly that II had been general
y understood a. the Cape that Miss
Frazier was the only child Of wen-to
do parents
She let Mr. Hopkins and her mother
tx the wedding day. and resigned her
self 90 the Inevitable. IL was on her
I marriage morn that the expected let
ter came:
y ar deeply Erieved 20 hear o. your loss
and - rupethize with you AID your mother.
~ -lst414 % yourself since you ASA ME
co1-eeA must ADVISE you 70 accept your
4 wealthy sultors a poor cevl Ike me can
. not eNFzcr a. count
May you have AL tie happiness you de-
serve
n s HARvIE~
Alice read the note twice. seeing
: only the sarcasm. and not the pain be-
tween the lines. IL stunz her 70 the
quick. yet she felt relief that he had
accepted the situation so quietly.
Then she burned she note and set her
self sfeadfastiy 10 forget the writer.
The ma ority Of women are like eats.
: in that they Furr 20 the hand which
strokes them gently and accept Hfe's
cream graeiously-
Mr.. Hopkins adored his young wife
and rejoieed TO crafty her every
whim- Moreover. Alice had always
been fond % him. and 20 her surprise
zhe fouDd herself by DO means unhap-
py- II would be too much 20 say that
rhe ceased 10 remember Dick. bat that
Young man was thousands q miles
away. and the sinking did no harm.
even though. during the Spanish war.
she searched the newspapers FOR news
81 him. and felt = itile thrill o. pride
and pleasure when she saw that Ia
zign Richard Scott Harvie had been
promoted 80 iieutenastcy for distin-
/ guished gailantry ia action She could
not eucss that Dick. pierced TO the
core by what he considered her rner-
eenary eourEe. had made up his mind
70 let her see that the loss had been
hers.
That WAS shortly before Mr.. Hop
kins sas taken il--a long and serious
illness-snd Alice's wifeiy anxiety
drove everything else Ons Of her mind.
Her huebsDd's death WAS = genuine
grief 20 her. All Che greater beesuse
she fels that Ia return for his whole
heart she bac given him 50 little %
her own- She Dsssed him even more
than she had done her father, and fell
into sort % apathy which lasted an
~ she ~as ropsed by the discovery
that her nofber'e health Mss falling.
III IL nofhfng serloss.- the doctors
told her. ~shs needs change Of air
rather shsn snsdieia<, Take her 10
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