Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-04-18
The Blind God Chance
By Curran K. Greenley
,copyri. 1t. by Daily Story Pub. Coz

go now, he would go forever, back
where she could not follow, for she
dared not tell him yet of her own
changed fortunes, of the half million
that had come to her from the eccen-
trio old grandmother who had ignored
her all her life. 1t had changed the
others, barred her out OF the old life
and comradeship, and it would change
Carr. She must have this hour, and
then. A woman's face, half defined,
seemed TO mock her from the shad-
owed mirror, and yet oh, for the
courage to dare all.
Edith" Carr had risen and was
holding her coat. Their eyes met, his
searching hers, long and deeply, find
ing the unspoken answer. In the
shadow of the palms he stopped, touch
ing the dusk cheek with his lips, and
then they passed into the hurrying
crowd.
A trustee from st. Imogen's, gaunt
and disappearing. Col. Wilkes and the
sexton made up the attendants at the
forlorn little wedding in the hush OF
st. Thomas great nave. With the
touch of the ring. came the first shock
of actually. the first doubt of her own
strength. There could be no Juggling
with the solemn words that made her
Carr's wife-and yet, that other wom-
an who had worn his name-she was
! somewhere to-day. Something of her
thought came to Carr. and as they
drove away from the old gray portals,
he took her hand in his. Edith,
have fully explained to the rector-he
understands the legality of the di-
vorce else he would have refused the
rite To us. Are You satisfied"
Perfectly. she answered automat-
| ically; but the very fact Of it thus
made tangible. drove it home-the bar
rier that stood between them.
They took possession Of the old Carr
mansion at once. There was some
thing boyish in his delight as he led
her through the stately rooms, fur
nished in the magnilicence of the past
! He showed her the one in which he
had spent the vacations, and another
that had belonged to Nine. Carr, his
grandmother, and his one tender men,
Dry of the home. Her portrait hung
above the mantel, fresh and fair III the
quaint bridal gown.
This room was hers when she came
here n bride. 1t is yours now" and
Edith fingered the massive rosewood
and faded satin with reverent fingers
while BraX passed on TO door that
| Ia.
grandfather's," and he flung it wide.
Across the room his eager eyes met
hers. and there, between the two,
seemed to fall a presence, that Of the
man and woman who had lived out
| their lives within those walls-livcd
and loved and died there. Cars eyes
! held hers. as he stood n AIMED in the
doorway. and the Photograph Of primal
life since time began, whose runes no
tongue may voice, flashed past the bar
rier of mans will. lie made one step
toward her where she stood rose
flushed and wavering; then through
| the great house pealed u bell and a
step came up the stair.
Carr took the yellow envelope from
the mans hand and tore it open with
| savage haste:
'The woman known as Madge
Grandin, died last night in st. Vim
cents hospital. Gregg
Jenkins soft tread died upon the
polished stair and the telegram fiut-
tered to the floor as the man and
woman looked at one another, while
the sunlight streaming across the pic
tured face of Nine. Carr awoke the
dimpled mouth TO smile of bcnedic'