The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-07
UNCERTAINTY.
BY ROSE THALHEIMER.
Copyright. 1905, BY Daily Story Put

Copyright, 1905, BY Daily Story Pub.
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Free! That was the one dominant
| note in James thought. She was not
certain that II was not also tri-
umphant note. The letter had been
tered herself that she had done 1t
| well. She read 1t over now before
| slipping II into the envelope.
Dear Robert have thought and
thought and wondered. 1t is hard to
| read ones heart sometimes, but
know now that it is only liking l feel
| for you. 1 like you better than any
man know, but love must be diner-
ent thing from that.
Let us remain friends, Robert, good
| friends--chums II you like-but put
away from you all thought of any
other possibility Our friendship has
been good for both of us. but my prom
Use of aught else would be hypocrisy.
| Sincerely.
Jane
| He will be as glad to get 1t as 1
am to send it, Jane told herself as
| she sealed the flap. 1t is the woman's
prerogative to break. as 1t is the mans
to make. compacts of this sort.
1t troubled her somewhat to think
| that she could not mail the letter I'M
til morning. 1t was late, and there
was no one to send with it. Not that
| she was at all doubtful about her own
mind in the matter. Still, when one
| takes decisive step, one likes to
| have 1t over and done with.
She gave the letter to her father
| when he left for business in the
| morning, and watched him from the
window to satisfy herself that he did
not forget 1t as he passed the lamp
post
She was going to a luncheon that
| day and as she rode up town in the
| cars. her eyes were attracted to the
large type on the frond page of an
| afternoon paper in the hands of a
man seated next her. He was so abb
sorbed that he nearly missed his sta
| ton. Then. in his haste, he rushed
| by, tossing the paper behind him, SO
that 1t fluttered into James lap.
With languid interest she picked 1t
up to satisfy her curiosity about the
| large type and was at once electrified
into rigid attention. There had been
a frightful railroad accident ON the
road by which Robert came daily 10
the city--to the 7:45-his train. Her
heart hammered against her chest,
her eyes were staring, CLASSY. as they
settled on the list of the killed and
injured Then there was a little gasp
as she read his name-the fifth one
Bobert Brown-dead.
1t meant so much, and yet so lit
tie. that she thought only of the
letter she had written. IT would come
to the house where that silent one
lay to whom it had been addressed a
stab to the dead.
The note she had been so prou0
of the night before would wound the
heart that had been faithful to her
If she could but get 1t back! There
was but one possible chance Sht
must go straightway to Newburg.
The luncheon was forgotten ant
Jane made her way at once to th'
railroad station. She felt as though
she were in a trance, as she bough
her ticket and walked out to the train
noting the air of suppressed excite
mcnt that fingered about the place.
please take my name to MIS-
Brown" she told the maid who opene'
the door for her. 1t was all so horri
bly trite and conventional! She fei
an insane desire to laugh-to breai
through the numbness depressing her
The girl hesitated and looked iron
the card back to James resolute face
Then she vanished up the stairwa:
and instantly, Jane feeIing IKE tniel
snatched at the three or four letter.
lying on the hall stand. Thank So'
there was her own! Owing to the ex
element the mail had been lett Jus
where the postman had delivered IL
She snatched the fateful envelope iron
among the others. concealed II In TN
depths of her jacket, and then nerve'
herself to face a mother so terribl!
bereaved. All the. world was swayinl
about her The reaction had SET ~