The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-26

be angry over what was merely a mis-,
fake.'
That's what call trump of a girl,
worth loving for a lifetime.
Well, we coupled on to No. fha,
morning and started east. this time Mr..
Cullen 3 car being the "endern All or
elS were iubilant, as was natural, but
/ kept growing bluer and bluer. 1 dined
ON their ear the night we We're due il
Albuouerque, and afterward Miss Cul-
len and I went out and SAT- on the back
platform.
eve had enough adventures to talk
about fer a year Madge said as we
chatted the whole thing over, land Won
can no longer brag that the K and A.
have never had robbery. even if yeu
didn't lose anything.
Il have lost something, said lit
tie sadly
Madgc looked at me quickly, startet.
10 speak, besitated and then said, 'sOh,
Mr. Gordon, if ycu only could know
how badly / have felt about that and
how appreciate the sacrificed
had only meant that I had lost my
heart and, FOR that matter, probably my
head, for it would have been ungenerous
even to hint 10 Miss Cullen that / had
made any sacrifice of conscience for her
sake, and would as soon have asked
her 10 pay for it in money as have tol9
her.
t'You mustn't think began.
81 have felt she continued. THAT
your wish to serve rs made you dc
something you never would have other
wise done, for Well, you-any one
can see how truthful and-and it has
made me fsel so badly that we Oh,
Mr. Gordon, no one has right TO DO
wrong in this world, fer it brings such
sadness and danger TO innocent And
you have been SO generous
couldn't let this 90 Oh. "What
did, - told her, was to fight fire with
fire, and no one is responsible for il bat
myself
.tI should like to think that, but
can't" she said 1T know we all tried
to do something dishonest, and, while
you didn't do any real wrong, vet
don't think you would have acted as
you did except for our sake. And I'm
afraid you may some day regret
II shan't - cried, land SO far from
meaning that 1 had lost my self respect,
I was abiding to quite another thing"
"Time?' she asked
EMO
WHAT
Something else you have stolen
CT haven't, she denied.
"You have" AFFIRMED.
"You mean the novel, she asked,
because sent it in to 81 tonight?''
81 don't mean the novel
ct can't think Of anything bat those
pieces of petrified wood. and those you
gave me. /" she said demurely. 81 ann
sure that whatever else have Of yours
you have given me without even my
asking, and if you want it back you've
only got to say So
81 suppose that would be the very
best course, I groaned.
II hate people who force . present on
one, !" she continued, land then, just as
one begins to like it, want it back.
Before could speak she said hurried
~, How often do you come to Chi
cagof''
that I was to wait. and, though longing
I'd uAFC III oottfcu tu0u 8uu tLcIc, !
braced myself up and answered her
question. Now I see what duffer
was. Madge told me afterward that she
asked only because she was 80 frightened
and confused that she felt she must stop
my speaking for q moment.
did my best till heard the whistle
the locomotive gives as it runs into yard
limits and then rose. "Goodby, Miss
said properly enough, and
she responded, "Goodby, Mr.. Gordon"
with equal propriety.
held her hand. hating to let her go,
and the first thing knew blurted out,
II wish had the brass of Lord Rallies. !"
81 don't she laughed, because if
you had shouldn't be willing to let
you
And what she was going to say and
why she didn't say it is the conc,1n of
no one but Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Cor
don.
r-r End.