The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-04


dolph thought ,? and remembered next, then this
and graceful appearance of eagerness.
beg ,yys your pardon he sad is this where Judge
Jane lifted her face, pink her gown and then she
Yes" she said Her heart beat so that she could say
wv Why Y then then tbs this" Rudolph claimed with SMILE
Eyes, Mr.. Victor" said Jane, simply I'm so glad
you remember me-"
,o INDEED remember yos Rudolph assured her
In Rudolphs ten years of study in New York and
abroad he had not once found time to come back to the
his home For his mother had lived abroad also, and
their return now was simply to give attention to the
property D,-
"you have been living here all these years."
Father and have lived here quietly with his books and
at is wonderful old garden" said Rudolph rather
with an air of assuring her of its excellence than of
admiring it. And because it delight to watch her
color reappear with each new question: Rudolph added,
for graceful patronage Where do you like best to
Jane tried to remember, but she could hardly think
1t all for the surgng of her heart She had seen Ru-
doph only before since his RETURN and then he had
not seen her. but that time had set strange little voices
She had been leaving shop when he had handed his
ssff h n Sas'is sd ss shf
Their outline is almost straight line. Wonderfu!"
s4 in the ang st5 ane said s h I a o the
hooks There is something about the way the shadows
are that makes me pretend l am little girl And
She stopped in confusion and looked appealingl at
Rudolph t to see if he were e laugng o,
watching the color creep down her throat She lost the
patronage in his tone in the feeling that she must prove
knew and loved the West Hills, and all the beauty that
he had learned to love.
down her book without comment.
Don't you see3" said Jane, turning to him with
to whom 1 would talk of-these things-any more than
would let them cry. Think of all the people
whom you knoW-whom you must know-and imagine
Rudolph thought for minute, and from his medley
clubme actresses and few stray literary flashlights
he gradually, by the help of James mute imagination,
up gooa to he for Se cut Of from
whom, he heaved sudden sigh -,
"Tye got father said Jane Father loves his books,
but he loves the logic and science andand all the mers
Rudolph laughed delightedly. Here was the artistic
nature indeed and it was as it so rarely is, uncon-
scous.
Presently when he remembered to ask it, she took
him to the other garden book-shelves. There
ss the and e ed with and
filled with vel worn volumes, and the holyhocks kept
EXQUISITE" he said; at fancy could work in some
delicious corner such as this am very sensitive to at
mosphere." :, ,,,
na1yey. Then 1 do what St. Guido did-sw for the
magic to begin but have known what it was
"Tell what the magic is sometimes, Rudolph
asked, sitting beside her on the old stone bench
Well, sometimes" said Jane, Il pretend that am
talk to the other dryads left there lonely in the stone
and tell them how much wonderful 1t is to be
pretend that one Of the naiads that used live in the
fountain up in the white phlox and talks to me-
his bs IN his san ns The he ,
the old sun-dal, Jane i'll the pink gown ne hinselt-
na s sternoom and how we'll their talk fitted the pic
ture, he thought, in vast content! .,,,,
And what is the magic of the mornings?" he asked,
softly. -. ,.n. ,,,,;,, ~1 sometimes
have my breakfast the arbor 1t very early but tne
roses have been long time awake This morning a big
rose nodded right over my glass of and if fairy
was asleep in it she fell out and was drowned and
III bring n my share OF magic" he said impulsively
may come to breakfast in the arbor in the morning:
"The yery incest time" declared Rudolph without a
An. he applauded himself he idled back to the
Great House half hour later, what happy subject
am l. to be sure, the great god Whim
,.lnw aernoons and still twights found Jane and
Rudolph in the garden and found Jane wonderfully con-
Rudolph found the days sa OF i.
enjoy. Though in reality Middleton was OF no more
interest to hum than the tim he ai invested with
associations which, sentimentally again. he enJoyea re-
newinp Moreover his mother, an exquisite oi. OF oia
porcelain found great staying in the great
house TO which she had bride After the pen
sons and apartments of Paris where she had spent hve
wears to be near Rudolph whom she seldom saw. how
ever her old home filled her with delight 1t was
beautiful old home but conventionaiiy the grea.
house of village that suspected 1t OF being
tradition and not made of mere boards and mortar
Madame Victor herself, walking in its gardens IN hef
And as his delight in Jane deepened, Rudolph did not
sneak to his mother of departure. So their weeks m
tended stay was heightened. ,
No wonder that the long days went by like shadows
No wonder that Madame Victor. in her white morning
rftn oli.Ad air n
house No wonder that Judge Hassel looking through
Tie blowing curtains of his shaded library and seeing
the two figures on path the sun-da sighed and