The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-04-06
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ca AOoi' - KNOW you arg DSiA6 oV
regarded, not in one instance, but in
general, is the highest degree exas-
perating, no matter how we'll your
vanity is under control.
Perhaps should not have been able
to play my part and deceive my de-
ceiver had l been steadily at head
quarters. AS it was, l went there
little and then gave orders. apparent.
~ contenting myself with the credit
for what other men were doing in my
name. In fact, SO obvious did / make
my neglect as chairman that the party
press commented on it and covertly
criticized me. Dunkirk mildly re-
preached me for lack of interest He
did not know-indeed, he never knew
that his chief Lieutenant, Thurston,
On charge at headquarters, had gone
over to "the enemy" and was Wood.
Tuff's right-hand man And it is not
necessary for me to say where Wood.
Tuff got the orders he transmitted 20
Thurston.
My excuse for keeping aloof was
that l was about to be transformed
fate a man of family. AS / was fond
of children / had looked forward to
Hhis with more eagerness than / ven
tured to show to my wife She might
not have liked 1t, eager though she
was also. AS soon as she knew that
her longings were to be satisfied she
entered upon a course of preparation
30 elaborate that l was secretly much
amused, though l thoroughly ap.
proved and encouraged her Every
moment of her days was laid out in
some duty imposed upon her by the
regimen she had arranged after a
study Of all that science says on the
subject.
AS perfect tranquility was a funda-
mental of the regime, she permitted
nothing to rufie her. But Ed more
than made up for her calm. Two
weeks before the event, she forbade
him to enter her presence-"or any
part Of the grounds where I'm likely
to see you" said she. The very
sight OF you looking so Illustrated I'M
nerves me"
While he and were waiting in the
4sitting-room for the news, he turned
his heart inside CIT
J Il want to tell you. Harvey" said
he. that the-boy or girl-whiChever
it isis to be my heir"
Il shan't hold you to that" re-
pied with laugh.
"No-I'n never marry" he went on.
There was an-an angel You know
the Shaker settlement?-well, out
there"
| looked at him in wonder. If ever
there was a man who seemed unro-
mantle, it was he, heavy and prosaic
and SO shy that he was visibly agitat-
ed even in bowling to a woman ac-
quaintance.
II met her." he was saying, when
was driving that way-the horse ran,
was thrown out, and her parents had
to take me in and let her nurse me.
You've seen her face-or faces like it.
Most of those Madonnas over on the
other side in all the galleries suggest
her. Well-her parents were furious
wouldn't hear of it-you know
Shakers think marriage and love and
all those things are wicked. And she
thought SO, too How she used to suf-
fer! 1t wore her to a shadow. She
wouldn't marry me-wouldn't let me
so much as touch her hand. But we
used to meet and-then she caught a
cold-waitlng hours for me- one win
ter night, when there'd been misun-
derstanding about the place. was In
one place, she in another. And the
cold-you see, she couldn't fight
against 1t. And-and-there won't be
another, Harvey. All women are
sacred to me for her sake, but /
couldn't any more marry than | could
could stop feeling her sitting beside
me, just little way off, wrapped in
her drab shawl, with her face-like a
glimpse through the gates of Heaven"
Within me up-started the memories
that 1 kept battered down.
Your children are mine, too. Har-
vey," he ended.
l took from Carlottas work basket
an unfinished bit of baby clothing. 1
went to him and held it up and point
ed to the monogram she had embroid-
cred on IL.
"E. r. S." he read aloud. Then he
looked at me with a queer expression
beginning to form in his eyes.
Edward Ramsay Sayler, If it's a
boy" said L "Edwina Ramsay Sayler,
If it's a girl"
He snatched the bit of linen from
me and buried his face in it.
The baby was a boy-fortunately,
for I don't admire the name Edwina,
and l shouldn't have liked TO handicap
q child with it. Carlotta and Ed we're
delighted, but l felt momentary keen
disappointment. l had wanted a girl.
Girls never leave their parents COM
pletely, as boys do. Also I should
rather have looked forward to my
child's having a sheltered life, one in
which the fine and beautiful ideals do
not have to be nodded into the gross,