Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-06

%7lARS and HsSome as a reed. she was
dressed in deep mourning and
the narrow crane band about her throat and the
dull black of her gown made her face which was
rather sallow look almost fair by contrast She
had quantity of SOFT fair hair not golden lighter
than that, which yet had golden glints ABOUT IT,
where 1t was coiled low on her neck
She wore her hair drawn straight back in the
same fashion that she had affected ten years ago.
and now she eight and twenty. Her eyes
were rather a surprise to you when you came 10
notice them With soft. fair hair and sallow
: complexion one naturally expects blue or gray
ewes but Margaret Lese's eyes were deeply
black. nretty soft tender eyes, too thar really
+ redeemed the planness of her whole face. she
was gazing now toward the west to a httle en-,
closure two hundred yards away, Where .ail
shaft rose at the head OF cedarsnaoeu sravv,
with this simple inscription TO the memory
of Andrew Leslie, born June, IS, died. June,
is" and lower down, II have fought the gooo
night have finished the course, hence1or.n @ 'nere @
rs laid up for me-. Margaret had been con
fined to the bed for weeks with TEDIOUS illness
that had left her without strength TO creep out M
into the sunset afterglow to where her nusoaho
grave had been for i've years.
People said that Margaret Leslie worsnppeo
q heing of her own imagination and that she
was grieving for demi-god who had never eXlsteu'
jTrue Andrew Leslie had been good man anu d"
1 oood husband but he had never in his pest moous
been the uncrowned king that his wife mad tnougnt
him There were few people VINO resented ner
a;rotion of him while living and her devotion 10
h;s memory as personal affront, and John ASH
Us, ~ los ono of these Perhaps, however, he was
ts, ,,nnreiudiced for when Margaret Leslie
INTorgoret Dunham them had been young girl
- ,ono before Andrew Leslie had come upon the
80 Iobn had been her faithful knight. quick
n understand her varying moods ne nau oeen d
ho++or friend and a more congenlal companion
thor anv other of her young acqualntahces' anu
,ho, Andrew Leslie came with MS uark cuiie
va aobonair wavs 1t seemed to poor, sore-hearteu
Ih that he took the citadel or Margaret anec
t,ons nv storm and almost before John nau nau
t,,o IN GROW alarmed she had capltulateu to une
enemy. a cont
Andrew Leslie proved to be very gooo sorl
NON He and Margaret loved each oIher
aa lived very happily together Tor TWO years
tu be was stricken with the disease thaC 'eI
ina+ed IN his death and Margarets wloo"hoou
IN, shock of his death brought her TO the very
o ~ the grave, and when sne ralneo Io iilo
y +in, daisv-starred grave held the nope Oh Ihe
sturo as the longer one did the memories vi
Tho mast and the baby who had never hVeo siep'
beside its dead father.
1obr Ashland was good man, as men 60 pu'
10 would have needed to have peen d pe.eei
no, than he was, to have kept some tnouen's
nut ~ his mind that would stray there as ne
Soord the first clods fall on Andrew Lesnes
cof8n He had, however honestly respected hel
sorrow for the memory OF her oeceaseu nusoanu'
hut when time passed ana the
grasses grew green upon Anore" Aeene eI"''
he yentured timidly to remonstrate VIII nei
"vo, do not seem to understand" she said
s,n,n,v "Andrew Leslie never had another love;
7 cannot think of him as being dead" She ieft
tbe room for a moment, and when she returned
che held a little book in her hand. 1t was tiny
- -oo,or apd tho Hv leaf held lines