The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-03-16

. TGlt exhSpeTdiluu, ! dm WVfKlnx
man, and this Is a working summei
for me!'
DO you think I'd spoil ity' she
urged gently.
But get up with the nrst daylight
10 paint" protested. land ! paint all
day
Oliver Sa0ren had come 10 from the
road and was crossing to the gallery
steps. He lifted his hat and gave me
quick word Of greeting as be passed,
and m the sight Of his flushed and
happy face my riddle was solved for
me. Amazing as the thing was. | had
no doubt Of the revelation.
"Ah.' said TO Miss Elliott when he
had gone. II won't have to take pupils
to get tho answer to my question
now"
1t was evening when l heard SAT-
fren's voice calling my name.
Here" answered from my veran-
da. where had just lighted my second
cigar.
NO more work tonight! All finish
ed-' he cried jubilantly. springing
down the stepy. ~f'm coming TO have
talk with you.
Il won't sit down." he said. .rli
walk up and down In front Of the We
randa II It doesn't make you nervous.
For answer merely laughed. and he
laughed. too. in genial response. con-
tinuing Gayly:
''Oh. It's all 80 different with mel
Everything Is. That blind feeling I
told you of-it's sn gone. must have
been very babyish the other day. |
don't think could feel like that again.
1t used to seem to me that lived
penned up In circle of blank stone
walls. l couldn't see over the top for
myself Mt all. though now and then
Keredec would boost me up and let me
get a little giimmer Of the country
roundabout. but never long enough to
see what IL was really like. But it's
not SO now Ah'-he drew q long
breath-"rd like TO run. think =
could run nil the way TO the top Of
pretty fair sized mountain tonight and
then"--he laughed--jumpscr and ride
on the clouds"
Hespaused In his sentry go. fncin:
me. and said In 4 low voice:
I've seen her again"
yes; l know"
But that's not ALL" he said. his
voice rising a little. Il saw her again
the day after she told you
''You did" ] murmured.
sOh. / tell myself that it's dream"
Il a. ~. xvntn
has been every day since then. That's
why haven't Joined you in the woods.
l have been with her. waikii1 with
her. listening to her, looking at her.
always feeling that II must be unreal
and that must try not TO wake up.
She has been 20 kind-so wonderfully.
beautifully kind to nie.'
she has met your ! asked. Think
ing ruefully Of George Ward. nov on
the high seas In tho pleasant company
OF old hopes renewed.
'She has let me meet her. And 10
day we lunched at the Ann at Dives
and then walked by the sea all after
noon. She gave me the whole day
the whole day. You see'-hs began 10
pacs again-.yon see. was right. and
you were wrong. She wasn't offend
ed--she was giad-thas ] couldn't helD
speaking TO her. She has said 90
do ron think." interrupted. ''tha1
she would wish Jon 10 tell me thisy'
.Ah. she likes you" he said 70 heare
lily and appearing meanwhile % salts
ned with the completed ess Of his -
ply that | was fnin 10 take some sat-
isfaction In II myself / What want
ed most to say TO you.' no went on.
'sis this: You remember you promised
TO tell me whatever you could learn
about her and about her husband"
II remember"
ITS different now; don't want you
to-" be said. Il want only to know
what she tells me herself. She has
told noe very little. but know when
the times comes she will tell me every
thing. But | wouldn't hasten It. /
wouldn't have anything changed from
Just this"
'.You mean
II mean the way Il ID. II could
hope to see her every day. to b. In
the woods with her or down BY tho
shore-oh. | don't want to know any.
thing but THAR
mo doubt ron have told her" vsn-
tured. - good deal about yourself.
and was Instantly ashAmed Of mynelf.
suppose | spoke out Of = sense fok
protest against Mrs Harman's strange U
lack OF conyentionaiity.
1--WE told her NIL l know" he said
readily. and the unconscious pathos
Or the answer smots me. And al
thar Keredec has let me know You
see haven't"-
..But do yoa think" interrupted
quickly. anxious. In my remcEaes "a
divert him from that channel-~0o you
think Professor Keredec would ~ 4
prove. II he knewy''
Il think be would" be responded
slowly. pausinG, 10 hls walk again. II
have ! freiiag that perhaps he doc h
know. and YET 1 have been afraid 70
feii him. think DO knows everything
Ia tho world: hava 1eIt fonigAt fhak
he knows this. and-it's very susngA
but well. what was Il that made
him - glad q a2
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