The Falls City tribune., 1906-05-11

with dear, wondrous beauties and still
| she looked, silent, motionless-in an
ecstasy Of pure realization Then her
arms closed about his neck with swift
| little rushing, and he-still half doubt
ing, still curious-fet himself strained
to her. Still more closely she clung,
| putting out with her intensity all his
misglving
She sought his lips with her own
eager. pressing.
kiss me-kiss me-kiss me! Oh,
it's all true-all true! My best-be-
loved dream has come AL true! | nave
rested so in your arms. | never knew
! rest before. cant remember when |
| haven't awakened to doubt. and worry,
and heart-siCkness. And now it's
peace-dear, dear, dearest, dear, for
ever and ever and ever"
They sat up
Now we shall go-get me away
quickly
It was nearly seven. Outside the sky
was still all gloom.
In the rush of her reinsurance he had
forgotten his arm II hung limp from
his shoulder.
1T was cramped."
And you didn't move it?"
They beat il and kneaded it gayly
together. antil the fingers were full OF
the rushing blood and able again to
close warmly over her own little hand.
Now go. and let me get ready. /
won't be iong."
He went below to the library, and in
the dim gray light picked up a book,
The Delights OF Delicate Eating" He
tried another. "10l Sandwiches" The
next was Famous Epicures OF the
Seventeenth Century" On the floor
was her diary. He placed II on the
table. He heard her call him from the
stairs.
Bring me up that ring from the
table, please!"
He went up and handed 1t to her
through the narrowly opened door.
AS he went down the stairs he heard
the bell ring somewhere below, and
went to the door.
! Baggage"
The two trunks were down and out.
They're to go on this car. attached
10 the Chicago express" He wrote the
directions on one of his cards and paid
the man.
At 1880 the bell rang again. The
cabman was there.
"Seven-thirty, gent"
"Avice!'
I'm coming. And there are two
bags | wish you'd get from my room"
He let her pass him and went up for
them.
She went into the library and taxi
ing up the diary, tore out a sheet,
marked heavily upon it with a pencil
around the passage she had read the
evening before, and sealed it in an
envelope She addressed il to her
father and laid II. with paper weight
on it, upon "The Delights of Delicate
Eating" where he would be sure to
find It,
The book itself she placed on the
wood laid ready in the CRATE to light
touched a match to the crumpled paper
underneath and put up the blower.
She stood waiting to see that the fire
would burn.
over the mantel from it's yellow can
vas looked above her head the humor-
ously benignant eyes of old Annekje
Van Schoule who had once removed
from Maspeth Kill on Long Island to
New Harlem on the Island of Man
haitian, and carried there, against her
fathers will, the yellow-haired girl he
had loved His face now seemed TO be
pretending Inconsistencies of the
rashly acted scenes he had witnessed
lest, II he betrayed his consciousness,
he should be forced, in spite of himself,
to disclose his approval-a thing not
fitting for an elderly, dignifed Dutch
burghcr to do.
"Avice!"
Coming"
: She took up little package she had
brought with her and went out TO meet
him
There's one errand 10 do" she said,
as they entered the carriage. but it's
. on our way. Have him go up Madison
t lavenue ana deliver this"
t She showed him the package, ad-
4 dressed Mr.. Rulon Shepler, Per
t sonal."
And this" she said, giving him an
A unscaled note. Read it, please!"
He read:
q Dear Rulon Shepler; ! am sure
s you know women too well to nave
n thought | loved you as a wife should
Q love her husband. And know YOU
4 lbigness too well to believe you viii
feel harshly toward me for deciding
4 that ! could not marry you. could o
e l2Ourse consistently attribute my chang,
g to consideration for you. shoul,
( have been very little comfort to you
If | should tell you just the course
o had mapped out for myself-just wha
latitude | proposed TO claim am Ger
8 tain you would agree with me that
have done you an inestimable favor.
Q Yet / have not changed because
= do not love Won but hpcausp | do love