The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-09-20

the arm on which she lay growing numb.
He reviewed the day and the crowd
ed night. He could do something after
| all. Among other things, now, he
would drop little note to Higbee and
| add the news of his marriage as a post
script. She was actually his wife.
| How quickly it had come. His heart
| was full of great love for her. but
| he could not quite repress the pride in
his achievement-and Shepler had not
been sure until he was poor!
He lost consciousness himself for a
little while.
When be awoke the cold light of the
| morning was stealing in. He was
painfully cramped, and chilled from
the open window. From outside came
the loud chattering of sparrows, and
far away he could hear wagons as they
ratified across a street of Belgian
blocks from asphalt to asphalt. The
light had been late in coming, and he
could see a sullen gray sky, full Of
darker clouds.
Above the chiffonier he could see the
ancient sampler.
La Mutt Porte Conseil" It was
true.
IN the cold, pitiless light of the
morning a sudden sickness of doubt
ing seized him. She would awake and
reproach him bitterly for coercing her.
She had been right, the night before
it was madness. They had talked aft
erward so feverishly, as if to forget
their situation. Now she would face
it coldly after the sleep.
La Mutt Porte Conseil." Had he
not been fool? And he loved her So
He would have her anyway-no mat
ter what she said, now.
She stirred, and her wide-open eyes
were staring up at him-staring with
hurt, troubled wonder. The amaze
ment in them grew-she could not I'M.
derstand
He stopped breathing. His embrace
Of her relaxed.
And then he saw remembrance
ogn1tion-welcome-and there blazed
Into her eyes such look Of whole love
as makes men thrill to all good; such
look as makes them know they are
men, and dare all great deeds to show
It. Like sunrise, it flooded her face
with dear, wondrous beauties-and still
she looked, silent, motionless-in an
ecstasy of pure realization. Then her
arms closed about his neck with a swift
little rushing, and he-still half doubt
Ing, still curious-felt himself strained
to her. Still more closely she chung
putting out with her intensity all his
misgiving.
She sought his lips with her own
eager, pressing.
kiss me-kiss me-kiss me! Oh,
its all true-all true! My best-be-
loved dream has come AL true! 1 nave
rested so in your arms. l never knew
rest before. I can't remember when /
haven't awakened to doubt, and worry,
and "reminiscences. And now it's
peace-dear, dear, dearest, dear, for
ever and ever and ever"
They sat up.
Nov we shall go-get me away
quickly"
1t was nearly seven. Outside the sky
was still all gloom.
In the rush of her reinsurance he had
forgotten his arm. It hung limp from
his shoulder
1T was cramped."
And you didn't move it?"
They beat it and kneaded it gayly
together, until 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. I
won't be long,"
He went below to the library, and in
the dim gray light picked up a book,
"The Delights Of Delicate Eating" He
tried another, "101 Sandwiches" The
next was Famous Epicures OF the
Seventeenth Century" On the floor
was her diary. He placed it 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 it to her
through the narrowly opened door.
AS he went down the stairs he heard
SSAA
went to the door.
'Baggage!'
The two trunks were down and out,
They're to go On this car, attached
to 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 I wish you'd get from nv room"
He let her pass him and went up for
them.
She went into the library and, tax.
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 it to her
father and laid it, with a paper weight
on it, upon ''The Delights Of ne1icato