Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-10-06
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found him, and / shall get justice"
Il am so glad" murmured Kate, in
her gentlest voice. $50 very glad,
dear Jess. ] don't know all your SAD
story, but l can guess, can imagine;
and oh, Jess, | am so glad you have
found him. And now you will be
happy-at last"
Jess rose and went TO the window.
Happy" she said, feverishly.
Who knows? Perhapsi 1t depends
upon him. Yes. | will be happy if he
will let me- / loved him once and
the feeling may come back"
"Oh, yes, it will!-it will" said
Kate. How could anyone love and
lose the power of loving once and for
always? 1t must be-"
! do you think so?" said Jess, mood
lily. Tonight, when | saw him, |
felt that l hated him rather than
loved him! l thought of ell the
misery he caused me, and the shame,
the suspense, and the despair, and
yes, hated him! But he shall marry
me-" she said, with a return of her
old fierceness. HE shall marry me
whether hate him or love him,
whether he is a mere nobody or a
dukei"
Il hope he is duke, for your sake, .
said Kate, going to her and putting
her arm around her waist. "You
would make a grand duchess, Jess"
Hates beautiful face with half
suspicion. Are you laughing at me?''
Laughing at you-and at such a
time." said Kate, reproachfully.
and you think / might pass for a
lady; that in time | might learn TO be
something like your" said Jess, with
restless usefulness. Since you have
been mere | have felt the difference
between us; yes, though you have
treated me as an equal, and been kind
and gentle with me even in my worst
! fits, know the difference; but do yon
think, If | tried hard, Kate, that |
could learn TO be lady, so that if the
man who married me was a swell he
would not be ashamed of me?"
THE man who would be ashamed
of you, Jess. would be too low for any,
thing-beneath a woman's notice, -
sand Kate. quietly Whoever he is,
he ought to, and will be, proud of you.
= she added. looking at the handsome
face, softened tonight as it had never
i been before since Kate knew it; "and
you will be very happy. Yes, Jess.
the long lane has reached its turning,
the dark clouds are rolling away, and
The sun is showing itself All, Jess.
| hope that IL will shine on you with
all the splendor and warmth of JOY
and happiness for many a year,"
She turned as she spoke, for the
! warmth of her words and, perhaps, the
| thought that for herself no sun could
shine, brought the tears to ner eyes.
! Jess let her go without a word, ana
stood looking out at the night, think,
ing of the past and the future
At last with something like a sigh.
she began to put the room straight, as
was her custom, before going 20 bed.
AS she did so. she saw a slip of
paper lying on the ground beside the
chair in which Kate had been sitting.
and, absently, she stopped and picket
+, II up.
Thinking that it was something that
had dropped from Rates pocket when
she changed her dress. she put it on
! the table, and was turning out the
lnfnn when Oh nausea
Why should l go to bed?" she
murmmred. IL could not sleep. and \
should think and think till | went
mad,"
At ten o'clock she was to meet the
man-her dear old lover, her future
husband,
She could not so without telling
Kate, without leaving some message
and she would have to make prepare.
tions which would necessitate he,
leaving the house, perhaps before
Kate was awake.
She would write and tell her wha,
she was going to do. and that Kate
was to remain there till she (Jess)
came back.
Dear Kate!" she murmured: "she
thinks. perhaps, that we are to be
parted. But. no; where my home is
hers shall be-"
She looked about for pen, found
one at last, but, falling 10 AUNT up q
piece of paper. took mp the folded slip
she had placed on the table.
She turned 1t over, thinking that /,
might be blank on both sides. when
she saw, with start, that il was a
marriage certificate,
She was folding ii up again. quick
ly. when her eye fell upon one name
1t was the name of the bridegroom
and II seemed to start out from the
paper. as If it were written in words
of fire.
For a moment she sat holding the
paper in her hands, her eyes fixed on
and yet not seeing it, her heart seem.
ing 10 stand still.
Then. with a hoarse cry. she nut,
tered
Il must SEE it,"