Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-09-24
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me with neglect and forgetfulneSs OF
old friends. think affection for them
has just been dormant all these years,
My life has been very busy one.
served through the Civil War, Aen
went to New York into business.
married there. and lived just for bust
ness until my health got poor: then |
turned everything over to my sons and
took to travelling about, restlessly,
stopping wherever my fancy took me.
My wife has been dead twenty years
My children are all married, and am
supposed to spend the remainder OF my
life resting He spoke with languid
irritation. They seem to think | ought
, to sit in the chimney corner. | sup
pose II ] was woman they would es.
pect me to knit. OF course, I'm com
paratively an old man. But one makes
mistake to be shelyed at sixty"
| Sixty! Blue-eyed, effervescent, fickls
Archie Glenn sixty! The woman re.
wembered her own age with an effort.
After that there were many friendly
visits, and the walk to the spring
! morning and evening was q regular
thing.
One day. with something like blush,
she asked him into her cool little par
1 Tor. He did not notice the nervousness
with which she took an album of photo
graphs and laid IL somewhat cosspic
Yously on the table.
Here are some old pictures OF peo.
pie in Illinois, in my old home"
]. "Sure enough. you did tell me you
used to live In Illinois. But you never
told me what part, nor how you came
TO be living out here In the mountains"
he continued with the egotistic disre
gard for her answer to his own ques'
lions which she remembered so well
He was turning the leaves Of the al'
bum in an inattentiye way, looking at
her again with puzzled scrutiny.
well, had lived so long on the
prairie that ] was fairly famishinS. TO
get off level ground and see the noun
love with the place and bought this
cottage. live here summer and win
ter now."
The mans eyes had strayed again to
1.-THE omen mage where they stared at
the picture of handsome lad with up
lifted chin and confident smile. On
the page opposite he saw the photo.
Igraph Of young girl, taken at full
length, dressed In the fashion of forty
Years ago. He looked up trembling.
Into the face Of the woman pink flush
lcrept to the edge OF the gray hair. aud
something like the light of youth came
into his own face.
Kate DaytOn-impossible!"
mot at all impossible" retorted she.
, with some Of the same spirit of the
Kate Dayton OF other days Goodness
knows, can't have changed more than
you have!"
Alas! What pang she felt though
she spoke lightly
But you know me-" he insisted.
Not until you went meandering off,
like a doddering cid man, about Kate
. Dayton. Do you think you look any
more Ike this" poipting TO the old mic.
ture, than | do like that?"
He seemed not to hear her.
Katie. Katie" he said softly, con
templating her, at breaks my heart to
find you an old woman!"
"Archie. Archie" she mimicked in
the teasing tone of sixteen. sit breaks
, my heart to find Won an old simn,e.
toni"
He laughed weakly.
"The spirit of youth is still with Won
Katie Your eyes are as sright. and
your cheek is plump and round and
smooth; your teeth white and even
gracious heaven! it is only the white
! hair; your face Is the same "
"I've the same tongue too. Won
goose!"
Katie, why have YOU never mar.
ried?" he asked, with sudden irreley.
ance.
Because the man | loved never
asked me-" she answered frankly.