The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-22

We lost Yourselves in the first few minutes and could not find anyone ,, who could understand our signs and direct us.
 After a long time we found 'shel- ter" and concluded that we were in a park. We could not find the way out. Alice wrote on my cheek. Very cold, hungry, tired. frightened She want ed to sit down, but we were shivering already, and I dared not stop hoving till we found heap of small leafy branches cut from the trees. We sat down and walked alternately. Then I slipped into some water, about drank greedily. and I wrung the water out of my clothes. Then we crawled away to seat and fell into a sleep or stupor. I was reused by Alice shaking my arm.
 The darkness is moving" she wrote on my face. ''Moving"
 I have often asked her to describe what she saw, but she can find no oth- CT words than this To me 1t seemed gone, but they could not see through the darkness outside mean over whelming blackness that rolled upon us in black waves outrunning the black mist at the back. could feel 1t, taste it. It almost stifled me, and my tongue swelled till it nearly filled my mouth. and I gasped for breath. The end I wrote. Good bye" And suddenly the black waves pass ed and the world sprang upon us out of the dark. It was a bright day and the sky was blue Alice grasped my arm till her fingers hurt. We turned to one another and saw-strangers!
 Alice has never told me what she expected to see and what she saw, and I have never told her; but I think she expected to discover a handsome, we'll groomed young gentleman, and I know that I had thought of her as a dark haired. dark-eyed, rosy checked, pret- tily dressed girl of 20. She found creature who looked like a tramp; bent, unkempt unshaven rufflan, wno might have been 40. I saw a fairhair- ed. blue-eyed, white faced. travelstain- ed-child! For she whom I had taken for the lady of my dreams was but tall schoolgirl of 15t
 We sat and stared at one another. Our lips trembled when we tried to speak. I think We should have hurt one another if we had spoken, but the woman's heart in her childish body saved everybody. She took my hanS and wrote on 1t slowly.
 Friend! Kind friend"
 And then I took her hands in mine and spoke. My voice was hoarse with thirst and weakness.
 God bless you, dear" I said. God bless you This Is the sun and the sound We are the loyal and loving friends that we have been-that we shall be always"
 Always" she said; and we rose and walked forth to find the world. hand in hand.
 It was Central park. and the people gave us food and drink; and In an hour we reached her home.
 That is the end of my story of the dark days that men lost. You know as well as I that the astronomers reckon that they were seven and say that the darkness and deafness were due to our passing through an ether less space which stopped light and in some way which they cannot explain, deadened the sound vibrations of the air. Sometimes I think that the days of darkness were not in vain; and last night I almost wished them back.
 l was leaving Alice's house. and she saw me to the door as usual. w have always loved one another as man and child may love, and now she has ceased to be q child. and does her hair up in a golden knob. I think her very beautiful.
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