The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-02-12

 to love her don't know whether you saw how things were going. but you were so kind and helpful that my time there was the best and happicst have ever known And then. when it all turned out wrong and everything seem cd going round. your gentle sympathy stcadled me. and l got through some how"
 "l was SO sorry for you. poor boy!
 You have always been good tO me. and. though goodness knows I'm noth' lng 10 boast of. 1T it hadn't been for you l don't know where should have landed. A fellow doesn't forget these things. Mrs. Kingston. though at the time he may not Qnlte understand them"
 By the way. Mir. wlngrove. do you still care for Clalref"
 Mrs. Kingston. what a question!
 Do youT
 "Really-but. hang 1t all-you must not ask me that. It isn't right-in' deed lt isn't"
 Don't you know? Didn't they ever tell you? She's a widow, Mir Win grove"
 "Claire a widow! But how? WhenT "IIe died more than a year ago; in auenza-Qulte unexpected. It was so sad.'
 And I have been away all this time without knowing word about t. Heavens, don't care who hears Y now. may speak. love her Just as much as ever. and. by love, she must marry me, Clalrc free
 Hush Mir. Wingrovc. | am very sorry | spoke about it. but l thought | hoped-you had really forgotten her. Oh. why did you come back just at this moment? Claire Is not free"
 understand"
 "She Is going to marry John Mears- dale. He was one of your rivals. you will remember. and. though l don't think she ever liked him in the way she did you. he pleaded so hard and was so devoted that at last she took him. You know what an extraordinary fascination she has over men. Ever since | can remember. even when she was the merest schoolgirl. they have come round her and liked Co look at her and hear her talk. There Is some thing magnetic about her. suppose. but where she gets it from
 "Who knows better than how hope lcssly irresistible she Is? But never mind that now. What want to kno" Is why didn't you or somebody let me know what had happened and give me another chance. know she liked me better than Mcarsdale. She often told me so. After all that there was be tween us. was it fair or kind to leave me sticking out there while he had ev erythlng his own way hereT But. my dear boy, how could we write to you after that VOW you tookF "Vcw. In heavens name, what yowi"
 "Can you have forgotten"
 "opens au cscritoire and produces a manuscrlpD
 Ii ycu are true. DO love more true
 Than mine shall bc bestowed on you; But if you're ilisc. then go your way
 And trouble uot gocihy io say,
 Tor this VOW. by an most dear
 will not give you one poor tear.
 One moments thought. one slight regret,
 But hasten Co unl,arn-iorgct
 "Nfrs. Kingston. you don't mean to say that that absurd Jingle prevented you from writing to meT'
 You signed it Mir. Wingroye."
 "Slsned lt. I've signed a thousand idlotlc things that ought never to be made binding on me. Why, was al .ut nineteen when wrote it-a mere irresponsible boy. Look at it wretched stun. such as all boys write when they're lE love for the first time, which ought to be swept together and burned by the common hangman. She can't have believed it"
 "She did. though. and so did l. You were always SO earnest ln what you said and did. remember her telling me after you had given 1t her that she felt quite certain that h. after all. she did not marry you. you would never come near he. or think kindly of her again"
 "Oh. but women are impossible When you tell them all day long thst