Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-02

instant, and he was gone. She smiled
as she heard the door close after him
| Men We're so unreasonable-it was either
| all or nothing with them. She went up
| stairs to the library and took a book
and went back into her favorite corner
| to read. A few minutes passed and
| then she discovered that she was simply
staring blankly at the page-she had not
read word. Where was her mind? 1t
seemed to be filled with some vague I'M
| rest of its own over which she had no
control. She closed the book sharply.
What was it he had said: you do not
loYe me enough to marry me, and it
hurts: Yes, that was it-and she did
not want to hurt him-she cared too
much for him for that. Why, he was
different from any other man she had
ever known in her whole life If the
other one had only been like him how
different everything would have been
to the window. This would never do, to
think so much of him before he was
even out of the town. With a sob in her
throat she turned back to the room 1t
seemed wide and empty. She sat down
in chair and laid her face against
its cushioned back and cried
1t was not very much later than that
when tall, slender young woman, wear
ing long, loose, light coat, and with Il
black hat drawn down over her eyes, and
over which she had drawn, too. a long.
light tulle veil, as if to keep the curious
from knowing that she had recently shed
tears, came hurriedly into the Grand
Central station, and approached the tick
ct office.
"The O'Clock express said she trem-
ulously-to Chicago. l must GO"
on VIII have to hurry said the
agent. You only have n couple of min
utes.'
She seized the ticket and the money
due her and darted out to the car tracks
oh, would the man ever let her through
the gates. you will have to hurry"
he said.
express stretched down the track. Only
the portcrs, their steps in their hands,
stood by their cars, ready to swing on
She began to run. her light veil flying
out behind her, What if. after all. she
would not be able to reach him. \ ter
ror filled her. and utterly weakened by
her hurry and fear, she reached the first
porter.
The Chicago sleeper" she cried
breathlessly. He pushed her M the
steps of the platform and swung up him
self She could already feel slight
sWaylng motion. "All right, Miss" he
SAID. 1t IS three cars ahead. l will
take you to it
The rumble of the train was in her
ears, the motion of the cars beneath her
feet. She followed him unsteadily
through the Pullmans. Her senses were
dazed, and her heart was sitting her
with great thrObs They seemed to be
walking by interminable rows of berths |
and passengers that made only a blur
of heads, and then they came to the |
Chicago sleeper, and WilmOt was the |
first one she saw. He sat alone in his |
perth ms nat down over his eyes, star |
ing vacantly out of the window She |
forgot everything but the fact that she |
had found him. She touched him on |
the shoulder.
oh" She cried, ut was mistake-an |
a mistake. | do not want you to go |
away"
At the sound of her voice Wilmot
leaped To his feet For a moment he did |
not seem TO realize what she had said |
TO nm, and then as the meaning of her |
words dawned on him, his eyes swept |
hers imperiouSly and held them. Some |
thlng he saw there sent little shiver |
of delight through him. He reached out |
and seized her hands.
''Sit down. he said She slipped into |
the seat beside him. Her chin was quiv- |
ering childishly and a tear glittered on |
her cheek. |
nat oil and Smoothed the little locks /
back from her forehead gently. The /
train was just beginning to enter the I
tunnel and the lights had been turned |
mp. Their radiance fell on the softly |
waving hair that framed Virginia's face |
and for moment il seemed to Wilmot |
that she wore a halo round her head. |
His eyes rested on it an instant and then |
with certain hoyish movement that yet |!
had in II something of alteration he |
leaned down impulsively and pressed his |
face against her arm.
What would you have DONE" Wilmot |
asked his wife some months later, III | /
had net been on that train? Suppose l /
had taken another one or had been de /
tanned or something like that?"
Il never thought of such a possibility" /
answered Mrs. Wilmot, truthfuly. Il |
just seemed 10 think that if | could get |
that express everything would be all !
right. 1t was just the way that any |
woman would have done, New York |
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