Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-07-05
Psychological Problem

is one more place that l
SO sit before I return to Los
II and that is Vernon. l do not
n by it is, but I feel as if l could
laWay without making a flying
ere. Uncle and aunt are old
silsl not care very much about
GIG ne. And yet l feel irresistibly
10 there. If time could draw back
2rS; If those who are gone
if 1 knew that Mabel
saTas watching for my coming,
kEH she would smile a welcome
then I could understand this
de. longing to go to that dreary
But-time will not roll back,
bel is gone forever. A visit to
twill be but to revive all the
and will have more Of bit
han sweetness in it. Still I
tay away"
Peaker was Claude Murray,
person addressed was himself.
fine looking fellow about
t!ears of age, and bore the ap-
be of a successful man. Ten
I|Teyious to the time our story
he had gone to California, and
Klent investments and still more
Il sales had accumulated quite
/ fortune during the boom"
in Los Angeles.
slow the train ran! Would
Inyer reach Vernon? All, here
5brook. Only five miles more!
alSes we're bounding, his heart
Sayeled the train.
anon" Claude caught up his
! and stepped out of the rear end
II car to the depot platform,
l#lo one waited to meet him. The
III agent was busy at the upper
t the platform, the loungers
about the depot, one or two fell
Ssengers were being greeted by
Friends. He only was alone, and
Twas falling.
4 stood at the lower end of the
Ann and looked about him. The
consisted mainly of two long
Fa houses facing each other from
&te sides of the railroad tracks.
aS were beginning to CLEAN
he windows, but none of them
Tor him. He gazed across at the
@lSe on a side street, under the
trees. There was no light in
widows and the place looked
" and deserted.
%NSe Of homesickness came over
\ md he wished he had not come.
@led hastily away, and started
\ ne track toward his uncle's
! cut his steps Jagged. 1t was
| telling Of relief that he turned
. us mcle's gate. He was sur
y % lind how glad the old couple
,,"See him, and how eager to hear
~ lie and fortunes in the far
y 0MeS were talked over, old
!, recalled. This one had died,
.ue had moved away, such and
; ; V-eS were married.
'>41 ne heard that Mabel Curtis
|, 1atFIed after they moved West %
! Aa0 he not carried the bitter
S1se about with him since he
.,sS1 The announcement in a paper
'aFS previous?
I'd not tell them so. Why
=, !. Ue' Nor did he tell them that
~, merely come back to torture
NJ W looking on the old familiar
!, - and dreaming over the old
!, OFeam for a few brief days.
y NJ oid he think so much about
!, vas it only because the familiar
N brought back old memories SO
; s,snembered an argument which
>, ~ held in the olden times over
~, from Tupper's Proverbial
s.'9AF which they had read to-
-, Mind acts on mind tho
a 0e far distant" He had held
)" was only a verse evolved from
!, VIZ fancy. She claimed that the
!, magnetic currents of the mind
~ out to its kindred mind, and
,SOusht to itself, no matter how
~e distance. All her arguments
Jack to him now.
could only know where you
y Ae thought. whether your
~, ! are with me in these days,
81 your mind is dwelling on the
%9leets that engross mine. then