Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1902-08-14

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vhe door eUds opened to Mr.. and Miss
Calender.
she went on in voice whose tenderness
seemed to increase with the formal pre-
cision of her speech.
Certainly"
''And you'll say we're not forgetting
him
81 promise -
AS she handed him the parcel her
lips softly parted in what might have
been equally smile or sigh.
He was able to keep his promise
sooner than he had imagined. It was
only few weeks later that, arriving in
London, he found Grey's hatbox and
bag in the vestibule of his club and that
gentleman himself in the smoking
room. He looked tanned and older.
II only came from Southampton an
hour ago, where left the yacht. And"
shaking the consul's hand cordially,
''how's everything and everybody up at
old st. Kentigern?"
The consul thought fit to include his
news Of the Callenders in reference to
that query, and, with his eyes fixed On
Grey, dwelt at some length on their
change of fortune. Grey took his cigar
from his mouth, but did not lift his
eyes from the fire. Presently he said !:
ST suppose that's why Calender de-
cEned to take the shares I offered him
in the fishing scheme You know I
meant it and would have done it. -
perhaps he had other reasons. -
"What do you mean?" said Grey,
facing the consul suddenly.
''Look here, Grey said the consul,
"did Miss Calender Or her father ever
tell you she was engaged?''
eyes; but what S that to do with it?''
"a good deal. Engagements, you
know, are sometimes forced, insult
able or unequal, and are broken by cir
cumstances. Calender is proud -
Grey turned upon the consul the same
look Of gravity that he had worn on the
yacht-the same look that the consul
even fancied that he had seen in Ailsa's
eyes. THAT exactly where you're mis-
taken in her,, he said slowly. GA girl
like that gives her word and keeps it.
She waits, hopes, accepts what may
come, breaks her heart, if you will,
but not her word. Come, let's talk of
something else. How did he-that man
Gow-lose Callender's money!
The consul did not see the Callenders
again on his return, and perhaps did
not think it necessary to report the
meeting. But one morning he was de-
lighted to find an official document from
New York upon his desk, asking him
to communicate with David Calender
of st. Kentigern, and, on proof Of his
identity, giving him authority to draw
the sum Of $4,000, damages awarded
for the loss of certain property on the
Skyscraper, at the request of James
Cow. Yet it was with mixed sensations
that the consul sought the little shop Of
the optician with this convincing proof
of Cows faithfulness and the indissolu-
bility of Ailsa's engagement. That there
was some sad understanding between
the girl and Grey he did not doubt, and
perhaps it was not strange that he felt
slight partisanship for his friend,
whose nature had SO strangely changed.
Miss Ailsa was not there. Her father
explained that her health had required
change, and she was visiting some
friends on the river
''I'm thinkin that the atmosphere is
not so pure here. tits deficient in ozone.
I noticed it myself in the early morn
in. It was not the confinement Of the
shop, for she never cared to go out. :"
He received the announcement of his
good fortune with mistaken calm and
great practical consideration Of detail.
He would guarantee his identity to the
consul. AS for James Cow, it was nc
more than fair, and what he had ex
pected from him AS to it's being an
equivalent Of his loss, he could not tell
until the facts were before him.
''Miss Ailsa,'' suggested the consul
venturously, will be pleased to hear
again from her old friend, and know
that he is succeeding
"I'm not SO sure that ye could call it
'succeedin' ;" returned the old man,
carefully wiping the glasses Of pair Of
spectacles that he held critically to the
light, when ye consider that, sayin
nothin of the waste Of valuable time,
it only puts James Cow back where he
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