Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-06
WHO FORGETS
By Ethel Maude

THERE is no enmtv more bitter BY Ethk
than that which follows dead
friendship For twenty-three years
Page Daxis and Clayton Bray had hated
each other as fervently as once they =
had loved and been comrades.
Those who knew only half the
story said that this because <
Alice Fanshawe, first engaged to I
Daxis had played fast and loose I "a
with him and Bray; but Daxis ! I f(
always had exonerated Alice. wMHXZa
He knew that she had believed MsMMN3
she loved him until she met Bray XMWA
and recognized in him her souls N
master. Bray did not love Alice % l&6
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in this WISE being madly in love
with Daxis' sister Marv-who CV8E.o I,
worshiped the ground he walked I N ",
on But in fit of pique, born MH -
of lovers quarrel, Clayton pro- EVsEF
posed to and joyously ac- N&T1%~T
cepted by Alice, while Mary married \AE2
John Thorpe, the third member of W
the trio that had for so long been in
separable, enjoying such good times to-
gether. And Mary
All, we'll! The triple tragedy had soon The Port
been over. Alice, divinng the truth
despite Clayton's careful kindness, had slipped out
of life, leaving behind tender girl baby, IN the
second year of her marriage. Mary, after bearing
her heartbreak SO bravely that gentle John never
knew she had only affection and respect to give
him, followed her two years later. And when John
also had been called higher Mary's boy, the dearer
for the long love existing between his parents and
his kindly uncle, had come into DaX1s ador1ng
hands
And it was this bov further endeared by the long
term of and close association who now stood
before him, demanding to marry Clayton Brays
daughter at the price of his lifes joy.
Fate had forced the two men much together,
always. Business necessities always carrying
the prosperous Bray to the quiet university towns
where Daxis minister except for the lively scorn OF
BRAY that would not be vanquished, grew prena-
turely old with a sedentary life and unrestralned
intellectual labors The college spirit that Bray main
tanned notwithstanding his widely differing sphere OF
activity placed him continually on alumni commit
tees trustee boards and other situations of neces
sary connection with his old friend and comrade The
two men met politely when they must, tacitly agree
ing keep from the world their secret hatred but
each dreaded every meeting. Daxls never had seen
Bray's daughter, just home from boarding school
and college, though for a year the two families had
resided opposite sides of the quiet square.
RUT Gilbert had seen and loved her, witness
- this excited tale apd plea.
Il depend upon you to help me out, nunk1e he
declared, using the atfectionate title his baby lips
had preferred to the more formal " Uncle Page"
as naturally ever. You never have failed
yet, and know You'll find way out of this
coil Because" and his voice broke in sound oddly
boyish yet manly, If can't marry Alice II shall
never feel the same again!
The dear girl has been acting oddly of late"
he plunged on, the fact of the listeners silence swa
lowed up in his sympathy and she has not
it any longer; SO | asked her plain questions
And it appears that her father, for some reason
objects to ME.
Were not engaged. She wouldn't let me ask
her father, because it that he together
last week and told her that while it was nothing