The Cairo bulletin., 1904-10-17

~ The Bulletins Daily Story. III:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.:

pItiIulIy SNORT time rnar rney nau
known each other, but he felt as il lie
had been aware Of her through all the
thirty-five years Of waiting
Thus his love, like mighty wave,
whose crest, poised for moment
must inevitably spend itself In foam,
broke into words. Simple, manly
words they We're.
"You are the only woman In the
world for me- he concluded, the color
that usually glowed under his tan
noticably absent From the first mo-
mcnt knew il. / would have follow
cd you to the ends of the earth to tell
you this, even though | had known
that YOU would refuse me-
Betty Alston, her face as white as
his own. turned to him with qufvering
lips. His earnestness frightened her.
But there was Jack Winter-deal
Jack with the laughing eyes and tie
gay smile. And yet Jack would never
have followed her out Of the crowd.
and
She, covered her face with her hands
and Manice pitted against fate, set
his jaw grimly.
rs there any one else!" he asked
at last, and at the gentleness Of his
voice Betty took courage.
You don't know how unworthy |
feel" she began in trembling voice.
"iou see, don't know myself. | hate
myself for 1t, but really don't. If
you love ne like this, | ought to
know, oughtn't l., whether love you
or nott
She looked at him with the puzzled |
confidence of child appealing to an
elder for help In crisis. Then sud /
denly the color came up over her soft,
white neck, rising higher and higher
until 1t suffused her whole face, and I
the eyes that had been gazing SO clear
ly and childishly into his dropped In
that moment her heart was clearer to
him than 1t was to herself
Think about ii for week. sweet
heart" he whispered, and, carrying her
hand to his lips for brief moment,
turned and left her.
"She loves me she loves me, God
bless her! l know it, Manice's
ran during the days that fol-
owed, and, though the hours seemed |
endless, not once during that time did
he approach her. lie shrewdly sus-
,ected that his absence would do more Z
han anything else could to reveal her :
leart to herself.
So sure of bis answer was he that he
wanted to make the day memorable to S
10Th of them. Many plans suggested
bur none of them seemed
worthy. Then chance remark of hers !
lifted across his mind, and he muir
nured, with enthusiasm, THE very a
hing. by Jovev'
She had whimsically said to him once c
hat it was her idea of bliss to have e
lagadorn, the well known organist, =
lay the wonderful organ at st. Mi I
haefs an hour for her alone, and he v
ecided that IL Hagadorn was suscep- :
BILE to the persuasive power of money
le should have that pleasure.
But to his dismay he found that he
as not. He did not understand the
request, and he refused Il
he offer somewhat haughtily. 1t was W
len that -Manice appealed to the man, Il
noring the artist, and at the end of al
IS brief but somewhat shamefaced IN
,planation Hagadorn was smiling pl
,nially. fo
"I'll do 1t with pleasure" said he, 0
,lding out his hand W
And OF course you'll know just fit
ell, just the right sort of musicT al
ggested Manice. 1.-THE sort that will 81
that viii 81
Yes" assented the organist, II in
ink know the sort" And they part pc
III great good humor
At the end of that rapturous hour of nc
'nderful music in the dim interior of OF
Michael's next day Betty simply tn
rned her humid eyes upon Manlce ap
d held out her hands. II was not UNI
she had gained the poise and asser-
n of six months of wifehood that
= accused him of taking an unfair ov
he
As If any girl could have refused me
h a lover she tainted, rufIiing his ms
IT disgracefully. 1T was what the at
Ders call claptrap." SUI