Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1904-09-22

you're g. living demonstration Oh
my theory that thinking is injurious"
she declared, fippantly. Nov, the
corrective principle is stirring up, ex-
element, pleasure" So she issued in
vitations for a lawn party.
There's friend of Fred's coming.
to whom you should be particularly
NICE" said Mrs. Mayfield, teasingly, on
the evening in question. HE doesn't
dream l know it, but he purloined a
cut of you out of my Writer'S Journal
once when he was here" 49,.
Lima flushed scarlet, remembering
other things. She laughed little, but
with an internal sickening sense Of
loss, and heartily hoped the unknown
pilferer OF, her picture might have q
toothache and stay at home. He had
slipped her mind entirely, when, three
hours later, sweet and bewitching In
her pink organdie, she stood among
her friends guests Oh!%It was all
very deart of Maud. But she would
have given every pretty dress she
owned to be out of itsand away.
Past a fluffy crepe-de-chine Shout
der, presently. she saw Mrs. Mayfeld
plotting a tall, dark-haired. fine-look.
ing man directly toward her. Even
then she did not recall her hostess
warning. A moment later, the group
about her fell back, and Mrs. Mayfield
presented her, companion, whose
name. however, Lima failed to catch.
"Fred's friend, dear. Don't be too
long getting acquainted. l want you
both on the ices" said the lady as she
slipped away.
The strange. offered his arm, AMI
Lima moved mechanically with him
across the grass. She had caught one
hasty glimpse Of glowing eyes and
compressed lips that half-frighteneA
her; a trite speech died in her throat,
and she dumply suffered herself to be
led. '.'>t.
"Td like to know!" burst forth the
stranger, impulsively, at safe distance
from the others, what is your opin-
ion Of q man who jumps at conclu-
sions, and then rushes madly of with
out even testing them? Miss Radford
-Lina"-his voice softened with sud-
den, shaken gentleness-"Can you con-
ceive of greater blunderer than I
have been?"
A swift terror took possession OF
Lima. Who was this-a well-dressed
lunatic? Or She paused and dreT
away, facing him in the light of the
overhanging lanterns. With a deep
breath, he reached out, taking forcib.e
possession of her hands.
"God knows what I've suffered ak
these wretched months" he went on,
unsteadily. For it was only this
morning learned from Mayfield what
monstrous mistake I'd made. Tell
me, dear, that shall not wake in q
few minutes and find it only a mock
ing dream, after ALL"
With a smothered, hysterical cry,
Lima snatched away her hands as he
would have lifted them to his lips. A
quick change, that cut her to the heart
in spite Of herself, passed over Lila
face, leaving it white.
"How dare you'll" she quavered.
what are you saying to me, an utter
stranger"
He stood quite still, bewildered.
"When a man has written woman
such letters as mine to you, he hardly
merits that title, does, he, dear?" he
asked, q trife huskily.
The lighted lawn surged round Lima
She put out one hand, grasping Moth
ing.
"Your-letters?" she gasped; anc the
next instant the audacious stranger
had his arm around her, drawing he,
back into the frtnedly shadow Of the
naples.
my letters, Of course" he was as
surfing her, with a suspicious break in
his laughing voice. why, Lima, dc
you not realize it was dwight Hull
mans self? Oh, darling! l have no
hoped in vain, have 1?-though yos
were so cruel as to let me 60 on b.
lleving all those months that you wer>
the wife of aaother!"
Go and fetch lima and Mr.. Hillman
will you, Fred?" said Mrs. Mayheit
half an hour later. Her eyes dancet
when her husband returned, with i,
face of comic dismay. "You daren't'
Well, Grace and Farley will do. In
going to make Dwight q present o,
that mutilated copy Of tho Wvitar1
Journal"