Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-05
A Broken Wedding Ring

By Bertha N. Clay.

found that 1t was strangely familiar
to him Somewhere else he had seer
those lustrous blue eyes and tina,
sweet pleading mouth-the same face
but with q different expression. Their
1t dawned upon him slowly that this
girl had been the original of the pic
ture. The First Glimpse of Morn
ing" and he remembered what he had
said to Leah, THAT face has what
yours lacks--tenderness." II am des
tined to know her through the arts,
he said to himself, She dawned up
on me in painting, | see her ethere
allied by music-yet what Is she tc
me?"
She was nothing to him, yet during
the whole Of the day that rapt spirit
ual face seemed always before him. He
would have asked who she was, but he
knew no one there. and when the
anthem was finished she vanished. He
fingered in the old churchyard, where
the tall elm-trees cast graceful
shadows on the grass but he caught
no glimpse Of her He went home to
Dene Abbey with the clear, rich voice
ringing In his ears, There was little
rvulet that ran through the Dene
woods; he bent over It, and 10, the
sweet face smiled at him from its
clear depths. He laughed at himself.
No woman's face had ever haunted
him before. With all its brilliant
beauty, even LEANS had not haunted
him as this one did.
During luncheon he spoke Of the
music he had heard at Southwood, of
the clear, sweet soprano voice, SO rich
and rare in quality.
The duke said that he had heard a
young singer spoken of there as hay
ing very beautiful voice. One or
two of the visitors said they would
like to go to Southwood church. The
Duke of Rosedene declared half laugh
ingly that there was feud between
and that until It was healed neither
himself nor the duchess would leave
St BarbauIds.
Sir Basil decided that every Sunday
while he remained at Dene he would
80 and hear the beautiful voice that
had charmed him so greatly. IF any
one could fall In love with a voice,
should think that ! have done so"
he said to himself Some strange in
stnct that he did not understand at
f,II I, I
corning both the face and the voice of
the fair young singer, He would have
told her that in her he recognized the
original Of the painting they had ad-
m red, but that he remembered so
well that she had been hurt by his
of her own and the pic
.ured face, and he did not wish to
'omind her Of the circumstance.
Il wonder thought Sir Basil. later
IN in the day If she stands there
very Sunday in that pale blue dress,
he light on her golden hair"
He was sitting by one Of the open
windows that evening, haunted still
~ the fair face he had seen, when
.eah came suddenly behind him and
aid one hand caresSingly upon his
lark head,
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