Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-02-13
AS ALLY TO
,--HUNT-
By SARAH LINDSAY COLEMAN
Copyright, 1908. by Daily Story Pub. Coz

N ONT" Elizabeth lifted an ad-
~. monitory hand, lit will make IS
ana besides this is Friday"
Standing on deck, hat in hand, ready
10 bid her good-by. Hunt did. Hadn't
he attended 20 balls, 40 receptions and
something like so tea drinkings for her
sweet sake? Hadn't he sent expensive
candies, ingratiating flowers and edi-
ton de luxe books that. had fairly
chased themselves up the steps in their
hurry to get to this most charming and
irresistible of visiting girls.
She had ridiculed and satirized and
similized Hunt, even asking him for
the loan of his ears as handles for her
loving cup. (Hu;it's ears were his sore
point) He had proposed to be told
she had mt dreamed there was a sh ed
OF proposal in him: had declared his
love for her TO be the one absorbing
passion & MS l!tc 30 be- caided for his
lac, Ct - l1-l g.. and N SPIKE Of The
warn!ar "2,l asGore" cry he was at il
again
Go cred Tho rangplaak win
be dra~ ~" E;t selling led oNs'i- e
iy. "loo;i n; re he ,'l.au aadeG. 20
loo II e 4 raGa 8. ho se.s ever tAincs
easily?"
INV ii,i~"ir tho pt~l listed her eyes
to his aga Wis f'ce wns pala with
the fx.tr of MS ,raose. Under he ;r-
dor Of MS A'es her own dropped, She
was re1i,v verv sorry that his likicg
for her had Grown into THIS great and
not 20 b. mn ged passion
Il wish co"id." she sold indy.
but can't. Go! yop'n be carried 70
New Yor',." She gave kir, a little push
toward the ~elvway as she said. PEG.
pie are nos. cling us"
81 won't" said Hunt, doggedly. "I'm.
going TO ma e II IA right now, III
wire the fifteenth and -
81 wish could" Her eyes had Eindled.
Il do. You are lil-eea splendid ,bullr
dog; whea.you set your teeth II takes
q crowblr TO unloose them.
"You wish you could, then do" he
pleaded.
For one ritying moment she felt
that under the intensity of his ardor
her own heart might kiudle into-not
the old fine certainly, but something
that would satisfy him--then she shook
her head
y ITS just that I've been so gay be-
Ing back in the dear old place." she
said. 81 never meant to hurt you
I'm not unlearned in such hurts You
didn't know? But you are newcomer,
the old story is Enown. Some day I'll
say yes, ] suppose, but it Won't be to
man who cares like you do
Her beautiful eyes were smiling at
IN &c hn ,~,-3.- a
ashore. AS the ship moved Out and the
sea rushed between them she tossed
him a rose,
The faces ran together, the shore
melted away. the city grew dim and
Aimmer-nothing was left but waves,
and she looked out over them with
troubled eyes
Why couldn't she take this love prof
fered her? Had she no pride that she
kept tryst forever with an old aching
memory? Her mind crept back 70
nights tossed through with a hurt and
aching heart crying for the man who
had failed her on the day that she
thought the world had endsd-the day
the money was swept away; crept Saos
to days lived through In fsver;sh sav.
rsry. The world had not ee.asd. Il neve,
does, and she had soye 20 New York
sAd fallen bacs op a talent for art and
shown rnonstrous ability for painting
Mcrufe franaes and dinner cards. But
she wasn't genius, and there wefs
zines when work was impossible ant
life all loneliness
Perhaps it was ecause the night wa.
coming on that she thought of a silent
determined figure she had left o.
shore-the voyage didn't promise I.
be particularly 81 cerful.
With the morn ng and sunlit SCI
Elizabeth walked the deck unmindfu
nf the admirin2 laEces that follows