The Arvada enterprise., 1910-10-28
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
His Dreams
By EDITH GRAY
copyri,ll 1910. by Associated Literary Pres,

humiliation and dismay that Natal
had explained. out Under the stars
the great suburban estate.
You see, Dick, he's very old, an
mother left him to me when she die,
Always think first Of your fathe,
she said, and SO, Dick dear, you ha
better go away somewhere, for can
possibly marry you Go away som,
where and forget"
He had gone away, to the ends
the earth. 1t had seemed At first. l.
had received unselfish little letter
from his far-away sweetheart, b.
soon these were entirely dropped, a
This only news of her was CLEANED frol.
the month-old newspapers from home.
+: But In spite of seeming indifference
on her part, and persistent endeavor
on his, he had in no way followed out
the injunction of the piteous, pleading
girl; Dick, please. Dick, forget
Not even. after long period OF
neglect on the part of the social sec.
ton, when he had perceived this glar.
ing headline. final and complete
brokers Daughter Betrothed-Miss
Vernon to Wed Son, of British Peer, .
mad he denounced the loved one.
Natalie, Natalie Without, the
wind whispered tender things to the
towering pines. and the stars still
shone, unheeding and unmindful OF
his hurt, Only the guitar, sounding
mellow and deep toned, seemed in
sympathy with the throbbing tyrant,
bound fast within his breast. MY
heart my soul, | love you"
For long time he. sat there. his
eyes closed, obliyious to his surround.
lnss. So completely had he been
swept onward by the ever-increasing
current of his deep imaginings, that
when he opened his eyes again, it
seemed that strangely familiar fig.
ure stood framed within the doorway.
The rising moon from without en-.
haloed her soft brown hair, a heavy
cloak enfolded her; her, hands reached
outward, and even in the shadows he
| saw the questioning wonder of her
eyes.
She stepped forward, trembling and
half afraid. Dick, you haven't for.
gotten? came. with Ellen Du. Val,
Lewis Pemberton's fiancee. Lewis
knew from the beginning. He, told
me to find you here"
The boys chair legs were still tilt.
| ed carelessly against the wall, his
mud-caked boots twisted rakishly
about them, his hands thrust deep into
his pockets. Though he had been
lounging thus for the last hour in
meditatiye abandon OF despair, he did
not feel the cramped unnaturalness OF
his position, nor the growing ache
across the muscles of his back, so for
getful had he been of his physical self
in the pain of despondency.
Even now, confronted by the en-.
trancing little figure, he did not move
muscle, so assured was he that II
was but the embodiment of his dreams
before him. Surely, II he quivered a
fraction Of an inch, the silvery SHIN.
mering of the moon-crowned head
would vanish utterly into the fathom.
less nowhere whence 1t had 80 sud,
denly arisen. Dreams are good He
would go on dreaming.
Dick, you don't understand. You
see father-father--" The voice fal
tered, then continued brokenly
Father died and there is no one to
care now. thought that you might
still want me, Dick, and SO l came"
He managed to stammer, as one
addressing pleasantly shimmering
but utterly impractical delusion. THE
Englishman!"
She laughed, Dick. foolish Dick, IT
was only a rumor! Surely you never
believed"
He stood then, his arms stretched
outward in a great longing for pos.
session, and she found her way to
| them.
Without voice WAS raised, sweet.
toned, melodious.
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