The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07
a SILVER HEART
BY John strange Winter Author Of Bootes' Baby, Etc
tcopyrghted 1906 by Central News and Press rxcange3

haven't said so. but you haven't yot told
mo that you haven't thought So"
II don't think" said Madeline. chat I
thnve even thought OF 1t. IL could talk
to you better IN a years time, or a .lonth
or a week. Just now am sore and hurt
You must give me a little while to get
over It and to get back to my natural Al
s'of What7" said the mother, almost pit.
wei, perhaps OF unteelingness. Atsall
events,' she went on can tell you this
FOR your comfort mother-that would
mind; I would rather that YOU. having
such a story In your own experience.
should tell mo tho truth. Girls arent-tol.d
s soW w e e sy ra Ss
paner was ssi a Ts sfs don't Know
! how II worked; It doesn't work now.
altered everything, but know that
would rather be told the very worst than
/ be Left merely to take my chance of what
might or might no, happen nn to me. o anu
After TINT evening tho mother and
daughter never reverted TO the subject OF
And time went on. Time, how much OF
sit7 Does 1t matter? Tine Is, or should
be, according TO how you measure IT,. At
INC Dnf,N WnpTG lthIpIl. byTnG was WDCiUb
fortune. fifteen years Is looked upon. as 9
mere apprenticeship: As a matter Of fact,
iino Desmond and Ralph Byrne had parted
Winter Garden at Northampton hve
long years during which not one word had
come to tell her that he remembered her
my dear Madeline" said Mrs. Des-
mond one day at breakfast; do you think
you are wise to refuse Major Endicott?'
oh, don't. know. mother. Perhaps
hlm ~ i hats What You You want anti % know
But why not7 He's So nice. SO
wealthy, go we'll born"
Yes, know, near; but no doesn't suit
1t seems such ,', Pity, said Mrs Dss-
suade you, Madeline. not Mt all: only you
are four-and-twenty.
sand-forty, should say tho same. He's
very nno and large mother. but he's not
aarns Yon have ~ your ~ George nnf
4 ii wont's b long before jose follows he
nobb1Ee but e y e sf a hsn ySu
that you are comfortable and hapA;' and
that, YOU get a good time. Dni.t you
think ], you and were made for each
No, ! DON'T aaid Mrs. Desmond. short
~. when you are married ] look for +;
have flyo married Daughters 10 visit and
five sets OF grandchildren to visit me-
sha bad haye the gayssbs asa at have
women in a big housc Ike this Is too ter--3
But dear. you have four married
daughters to visit now, and we shall have
four sets OF grandch!ldren to visit us; =
It's no use talking 10 me. Madeline:
yo1 hG 9sa k X, y ,ab e mnrry unt
.'When I meet the right man. I'll marry
aase pSsed The Tse
at Il the head a coiumn-aA SILVER cart art
She put the paper down ae y she had
sfs% si hm WY as se earrs ySsh %
yer heart always on her left wrlstg Be.
cause she was q fool, y was the old
No: she wouldn't DO weak;it was against
her principles to DO weak. She was. a
strong woman. s.4 h 5l @f5S33
aas sss s tax af IL sess asa
,he TILE q Play play had hsn
storm. a play by an utterly unknown
author, an author who had no nom de-
guerre. who did not, appear At 4, the pro- Z,
thor!' Who preferred to keep his !den-
gtity an absolute secret.
Theres some y ~: Madeline 4, some me
And whore was the " lucky Madeline?
Well, she happened that very morning to
be walking down st. Thomas's street a t
Blankhampton. She had haif-a-dozen3
commissions to execute; her mind was
intent upon them She was never on the
look out for young mon. MS the majority
OF girls are In cathedral cities, and when
|. somebody stopped and said Mad ltne,
don't you know me r. she gave q start--a
little cry. II see. I" he said. that you are
wearing the silver heart gave you. DID
YOU ace tho paper this morning?EI didn't
ind the Bar quick enough Madeline.
III took tho silver heart for a guerdon..
I've got there. sMndelinel Where are you
going? What are you doing? Let's go up
| to the Dutch summer-hOuse, Madeline. and
Ill teiayou all about It.