The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-27
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JACK OF
HEARTS
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/ ~ wasn't it?'' Miss Martindale said.
1t doesn't seem like it,
No." he replied, "it seems-thirty''
Thanks! Have 1 really aged so much
since them?
Il mean until I saw you it seemed
thirty" he explained.
Three years. 1t goes very quickly. You
haven't changed much"
Il? / haven't changed at ALL
She regarded him critically
No, you haven't-in looks
Il haven't in any way he replied earn
nestly, and with an undertone of intention
In his voice. And you-you are all I
imagined
You imagined? Then was not a real
ity three years ago. was mere Pigment
Of your brain! What do you mean?''
II mean-Why-that in all these years /
have been imagining you in all sorts Of
| ways, you know
oh! Sometimes as fair-haired, I sup
pose, and sometimes as dark haired;
sometimes with a hump, and sometimes
| cross-eyed!'
| 'Nonsense!"
well, it's what you said-'aIl sorts of
| ways, And yet-do you remember the
silly speech you made to me when you
| went aWay?"
| ''Of course Only it wasn't sillv-it was
the solid truth
1T didn't seem very solid then; but
| perhaps it does now, however, at this
| distance. You haven't answered my ques-
ton yet, though. What was it you said?''
Observation-Disclosures the use of my
telling you over again if your memory
is SO good?"
It's your memory that's in question,
| not mine. Confess you don't remember"
| But DO, OF course. 1t was that
"0 TiS1 [1 forget, he said triumphan5lly
| MISS Mart1ndaIe dropped her eyes, rails
! ed them again for brief fluttering mo-
ment, and again dropped them with a
! pens1ve little smile.
SAID TO you then?"- he asked impressive
| " leaning nearer and looking down at
/ the bent head.
You said-of course, you were only
saying it-but you said you would re-
| member every word l had said to you,
every look of my eyes every tone of my
| night -
1T was meant every word Of it, No
man could forget it. know it now
do you mean? You talk as though /" YOU YOU
| your
'Wen, every man changes. YOU know
every seven years. Scientific fact, l be-
.6 6St it it hasn't hasn't been seven-only three
me yet?'' -''' tii''t lAio'0ei opii VI
of course! AS if I wouldn't! 1t has
n sfo1e - oe cen, out of my keeping since
Il thought I gave it to you myself!'
s s4eo SAID. with some surprise in her voice
| from me that night?"
| Or course l have not forgotten
| how beautiful the moonlight was on
| b tae water mat evening, and far off some
feetion!'' - was per
Yes perfect-at least to me-
20 you remember when we glided into
/ of mad nd 7
dripping from the water each drop ike
diamond liam and you said
ana anu SAID wished they were real
SO that | could give them to you he
Did you? I thought it was that the
T Io,, 5, m9uld spoil my, gown-the gown
Il did admire it. 1 have always seen
| you IN that goWn-and your face luminous
IN nan shadow, the CLINT Of your hair,
ana your arms cleaning in the moonlight
as you tra1led your fingers in the water
ana made silvery ripples over the polished
| black mirror of the-er-riyers
He drew long breath when he fin
lsned as one who felt relieved
j ana " was as we neared home, wasn't
II that you told me that you wanted my
| Yes"
1.-THE The corners of her mouth twitched a
she said. "A marvellous G mer6 yUT Nfv call
| 1T. wish l had one like it though it's
not what would call accurate, if that's
sample because. you see you didn't
ask me for my photograph that night
But you said yourself
Yes, did. just. wanted to test you
NOW commence to doubt that you really
still have my picture
Il can show it to you
| Are you certain it's not some other
girl that you've mistaken for me? One
is liable to mistake one person for an
other, unless there's some special reason -
NO danger!. There's not another girl
a
| moment saw YOU
| Knew me?"
"Yes-across the ballroom
| You were not thinking of me until
4 mean" he explained slowly like
one who. picks his way, that knew
you for the one girl 1 cared about
"Oh-h! 1 remember you telling me
that three years ago, but 1 didn't think
| it was at a ball that that knowledge
came to you; We met first-let's see
''At-at- It's idiotic, but for the life
| Of me can't remember for the moment
You were the important matter. All
It's hardly to be expected you should
| recollect," she said, compassionating his
''Of course-the Brownings I knew;
but | couldn't think of the name 1 re-
member Jack telling
| Jack? What Jack?"
"Er-Jack-Jack Browning, of course"
''Oh, | never knew there was broth
! er. And he told you"
.i That he he wanted me to. meet you. He
why, / thought your name was jack
| But possibly that's changed in three
years, too. You used to be called Jack"
hep"
! TT seems like it,
| 81 mean he may have more than one
| name. My name is John Arthur Ora
| ham. All my old chums at college called
me Arthur
II might have understood-so stupid
| of me. So Mr.. Browning was a chum
| of yours at college?'
| Eyes; great friends we were"
| 'And that's how you came to know his
sisters? Charming girls, weren't they?'
| Very very charming! Only l don't
| want to talk about them now, IT'S such a
| wastei''
why? Have you quarreled?"
! s'No-not exactly"
Il thought perhaps you had, because