Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-10-29

coy sitting-room.
Tonight, for the first time in her
two years of widowhood, Mrs. st.
George daid down the widows cap
which had for so long served to con-
ceal the thick auburn braids so artis-
dcally coiled about the small head.
Eighteen years had passed since she
and Leonard Grover had met They
had been lovers in that far-off time:
but he was poor then, with no whis-
per in the air of the rich inheritance
to which he afterward fell heir, Just
too late for it to bring happiness TO
either.
She had married very young She
was but 30 now. Would Leonard
find her changed, she wondered-he
whose coming she waited here to-
night
Simultaneously with the thought
came the sound of carriage wheels
and horses hoofs on the graveled
path.
She started to her feet, pressing
both hands upon her fast-beating
heart.
She was glad-oh, so glad,-that
the room was dark when she heard
the quick, firm tread; so glad that
he could not see the quick blush,
which put her matronhood to shame,
when the door was thrown hastily
open, and three or four swift strides
brought him to her side.
"Florencew
Oh, how his voice thrilled her
half with pleasure, half with paint
Are you glad to see meT he ques-
toned.
She strove to answer; but her lips
quivered, and no words came.
Florence" he then said again, and
he bowed his handsome head lower,
Is it too soon to speak?"
"Oh, Leonard" she answered, 'can
l yet atoneT
And then the bridge Of years was
swept away, and she sobbed out her
happiness upon his shoulder.
LET me see YOU" he said at last.
'I have not yet seen the face for
which 1 have hungered all these
years."
He struck a light, then turned and
loked at her.
my darlingv' he said. 1T is still
my beautiful Florence. What have
done to deserve this hour?
Mamma, where are your" called
out a fresh, glrlish voice at this In
slant.
The next moment girl Of scarcely
seventeen summers sprang into the
room.
This is my daughter, Leonard-my
only child Maude, let me present
you to one of your mothers oldest
friends"
The gentleman indicated looked
from one to the other-from the moth
er to the daughter-then back again
Now he could realize the lapse OF time
now he could appreciate the
changes years had wrought
The daughter was fair counter
part of the mothers beauty.
An uncomfortable sensation rose VI
In his breast-a dumb warning agains
the inevitable-an unacknowledge'
desire to retrace lifes pathway ant
conquer time.
Meanwhile the girl pouted the fu'
red lips, as she thought her mother
friend strangely absent; and when II
at last forced himself into fey
words Of greeting, they fell upon dull
unheeding ears.
Then she had gone. The lover
were alone again; but he no longe
opened wide his arms, but instea
drew a chair to her side, that the
might discuss more nationally.
"You must teach Maude to Low
you," she said to him next mornin,
II want first to reconcile her to m
second marriage before startling h,
with its probability. Tell me-do 20
think her like me?"
"Your second self"
"Ah, 1 am 80 gladl You will loy
her, then, for my sakeI'
To love, and to be lovedl Der cas-
task set by frail woman in her blin
ness. 1t was Mr.. Grover who mu
be Maude's companion In her dai