Bisbee daily review., 1909-11-21

Soon there was a quick step and | laughing Hello. Uncle Law" as Ger i trUde came forward with greeting ] that for it's simplicity and heartiness i and but for the ripened flower of wo-
 manhood before him might have car i ried him back a half dozen years. Lawrence Greer was not one easily 1 to be carried of his feet. but he WAS 1 tcO evidently in the air this time even ! to disguise the fact cleverly. | But l say. Gertrude. how on earth
 did it all happen:" looking her over i from head to foot.
 Years. Uncle Law. just years and | the getting into touch with new kinds
 of life. You said it would be just as
 I've found it and also that l would some day forget my Uncle Law and that he told me so. But. you see. l haven't forgotten either" And she ! smiled as frankly as in the days when 1 he told her. sitting on his knee. of the ! world that she would go into. through
 the gateways of school and experience | and of the society. whose doors had | not then opened to her.
  | those talks to the child Gertrude gave | Lawrence a thrill of real pleasure. That afternoon and evening was
 rare day in Lawrence's experience of | life. The storm ragged furiously, and Lawrence. relieved of duty. gave him | self up to the spell of renewal of ac- ! quaintance that had all the novelty. | piuuancy and delight of a rare and agreeable discovery.
 ! What astonished Lawrence most were the frequently recurring and flat
 teringIy delightful evidences that ! wherever she had been and however | occupied during these intervening | years Gertrude had kept close tab on ! his own career and. furthermore, had ! found a certain inspiration therein. To | be sure. that career had not been hid | den under a bushel. for he was already sufficiently in public life to make him i a marked man among influential men ] Gertrude's discriminating allusions l to his work as commissioner, delegate
 or president of the board. to his work i in correcting civic evils and in bis 1 other public activities betokened pe- ! culiarIy personal interest such as Law | renee had not before met and such as l he least expected in any woman. His | own mother and sisters had shown no i such intelligent interest in his work. ! and even his brother, he was willing to wager. knew far less of his career | than did this mere girl whom but yes
 terday. as it were, be had amused as a | kot ha Was it possible that in shaping the l ideals of life for a child he had unwit- | tingIy offered himself as an ideal to
 the heart of that child? If so would she find him worthy or not now that | the years had proved him? Was her l admiration only admiration? If more 1 than that might it not yet be that ] some enc else already forestalied him
 in her affections? How was he to { know?
 It was near the close of the second ] day and drifting winds had made nee 1 essary a still further delay in breaking | out the roads that opportunity offered | itself to Lawrence to gain some light | on the ever more tantalizing question I of possible rivals in Gertrude's affee-
 tions. As for himself. Lawrence felt
 that his entire world was already re-
 voIying around this one young woman. Gertrude was showing him some pho
 tographs accumulated during the years ! of her girlhood.
 "But where is his picture?" asked
 Lawrence. interrupting her description | of the photographs
 "I have never asked him for one" l "Why soY