Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1910-05-31
TIE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
THE GOTH OF MAY

| With the applause of a wildly enthu-
siastic audience ringing IN her ears
| Clarice Lane walked unheeding to-
wards her dressing room. The man
ager grabbed her arm excitedIy. cry
ing:
Go back, Bowl Do something.
What's the matter with you2 Can't
you hear them raising the roof?'
Slowly she turned, made her way
back to the stage and stepped out be-
fore the footlights, to be greeted by
cheers and deafening applause, smiled
and bowed again and again; then as
| the tumult began to subside, left the
stage with that same unheeding air,
and went to her room.
As she closed the door behind her,
piled in beautiful confusion on tables,
chairs, dresser
Give them where they will do the
most good" she said to her maid, i'm
keep here and she laid a small clus-
ter of evergreen on the table before
her.
-Mademoiselle is not feeling well :''
questioned the girl as she removed her
mistress beautiful gown. Can L do
anything2''
Nothing; only hasten, zanier !
am tired; L want to get home.F
Deity the girl worked, casting anx-
ious gIanees at the white. cold face
above her. then wrapping her cloak
about her mistress, led her quickly to
the waiting carriage.
You may 60" Clarice said as she
reached her suite. Il shall not need
you tonight"
But the girl hesitated "I-pardon
me, mademoiselle. but I fear You are
III. Can l do anything for your
Yes. there is one thing Clarice
answered with feverish impatience.
Listen to met Let me talk. I must
tell some one; II cannot go through
the long, dreary, endless night like
thisI" She motioned the girl to a
chair. and began a nervous pacing as
she talked. Tonight is the 29th of
May; tomorrow was to have been my
wedding day. Oh, yes, "-as the girl
gave a start of surprise-tI can love,
even though nv admirers and the
world of scorn was expressed in the
word-"cal me cold, heartless. The
man I IoVed-no; the man l love, was
poor, a struggling physician We We're
childhood sweethearts. and as we
grew older our love siren gthened and
ripened. until, until-one day I discov-
cred l had talent; then love, home, all,
was forgotten in my mad desire for a
career. 1 told him I could not marry
him then but I would some day, If he
would wait, say a year
Finding / was determined. he
agreed. but when the time came was
just beginning to taste the fruit of
real success, and asked him again to
wait. The last time l saw him was
two years ago tonight. 1 was helping
arrange some flowers for the decora :
ton of the soldiers graves in our little
hall at home; our season had closed
and I was home for a rest. He was
with me, and asked me again when /
would marry him.
= Marry youI' I laughed, and / never
noticed how that laugh hurt him; oh,
don't talk about that now. all I can
think Of is the sweet success am go
ing to make next season.
He was strangely quiet and when /
looked at him again, his white. set face
frightened me and I added quickly:
If you will wait, / will marry you two
years from tom orrow night
You laugh; you treat this as a
joke he said hoarsely, but to me it is
more serfous,' Then he stopped and
picked a scrap of evergreen from the
flowers at my feet and said in that
quiet way, 1 sail not see you again.
but | want 81 10 remember always
that my love for you is like this spray: