The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1908-04-10

Fcliee and f0iandei ana 3uAe1s0'
The fragment kept repeating ITSELF
n musical cadence as Olney Beaumont
sat before his open hardwood fire
Yolande? JuRette? No, those were
not the names. Trey we're Helen, and
Louise, and Ethel, and Marie, and
Edna
Daughters Of dreams? Rather were
they the mothers Of dreams, for each
IN turn had given birth to visions and
fantasies until in the inconsequenl
manner Of dreams. one picture had
displaced the other. but they were All
shadowy phantoms brought up from
the depths of memory.
But bow clear they were on this late
December afternoon, with the wind
swlrling the snow against the window
names. as he sat gazing on the blazing
logs lust ready to fall into glowing
Goals.
YES. he could call them all up to
day; some forgotten for years, but
now, by some subtle necromancy, az
vivid as when in his hot youth his
pulses had bounded more quickly, and
delicious thrill had shot through him
at the touch Of soft hands, the fra
GRANGE from shining hair the tantaliz
ing temptation Of red lips.
There was Helen. the first girl he
had over loved. fair, plump, white
skinned, luxurious; bat she had proven
mercenary, and the seductions o.
wealth, more alIuring than himself
had married a man old enough to be
her father
Then there was Ethel delicate, fra
giIe, splrituelle, dainty as a flower
Poor Ethel She sleeps in the LITTLE
cemetery just under the hill, where
the sunlight loves to linger and th'
first ylolets peep ln the spring.
And Marie! Tall. slender, supple
with eyes like sloes and a mass 0
raven hair Once he had seen
Ioosened and she had seemed yelled 4
mystic midnight; but. alasl Marie ha
o temper
Once he had inadvertently owe
heard her berating her mother an
sister when something had gon
wrong, and the magic glamor that ha
cnvcloped her had vanished Ike mi.
before the sun.
And so with each but one-Edni
Yes. he had loved Edna we'll Ha
Ioved7 He had never ceased to lov
hor and that was why, at thirty-fivl
he sat alone in his bachelor room
calling up the visions OF the past
What a fool he had been Why ha
he allowed his silly Jealousy to get tn
mastery and make him say things h
would have bitten his tongue throug
sooner than have said In his coolC
moments?
And she? Too proud to deny. e
gentle to answer back too brave
show her hurt, she had simply locke
at him and turned away And he ha
flung at her like a melodramatic a
tor. 'l'll show YOU you cannot pla
fast and loose with me. But the loc
stayed with him, and by degrees
read It's meaning. read It when tc
late. the reproach. the sense Of inju
tice, the injured pride, and, OH Il
after-btlerness, as later he could 81
through Il All her yearning love.
Cooler the next day. he determine
20 be magnanimous and forgive he
apologizing for his words, but net 4
the thought that prompted them; b
when he went in the evening she hi
gone. gone to visit an aunt In Ne
York. who he knew had not liked hi
because his contemplated marria
would cut short the musical career 81
had planned for the girl.
The maid handed him a pack
which she said she had been told
deliver to him. Whom he opened
later he found his love tokens and T.
words penclied on a card. "Good.by
AID that was seven years ago
reply had come to his letters sent
New York, and when he was fina
able to 20 in person he found Il
Mrs. Arlington had gone abroad O
taken Edna with her.
So, IN despair he had made appli
ton for the position OF medical t
aniaf TO an expedition going up
Amazon, and was accepted HIS W.
proved 80 satisfactory taat he was
huesled to undertake a further &
mission on ehe Pacific side aud al
a few days ia New York again fol
himself IN South American woods I
1ungles, from whence he lad but
Gently roluraed. and was now drei
ing before Tie open tife on this gloo
December day
He reused himself with a ST
Pshawl What was the use? Coul'
he rid himself Of the longing for I
one facet He had learned before
departure that his Jealous suspiC
was basoless. but too late to 70
amonds for his unjust accusation,
her look as she turned from him nc
ceased to haunt him.
On the bosom of the mighty ri
81 the depths Of the tropical forest
night Ia camp With hts indian gni
Ne saw Il but today Il was more Y
and persistent than ever. She see
50 near, 50 close Once during