The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-07

hanging trying to tind YOU he urged Where
you going:
To the Wheelocks.'
SO am L. he cried, transported. Then lis all
T! w iTs be o d Sss s bsamed
Seated i'll the he twisted his chair
about and faced her.
minute 10 waste. | can't escape the fear that may
lose you at any instant. Lie IS SO complicated
nowadays.
Hasn't it been provoking" She asserted, sympa
thcticay.
to oonspirc get i'll the way. Each moment is
precious and I'm so glad to have 1t that YOU must
don, know when III have the next opportunity
Ones grandfather could take everything more slowly
business and war; and-love
Those the days of long letters and long
love-naking-ot correspondence and .eonrtship-
lock and things the fly"
Il know my existence continual
Still haven, the least doubt that l have been
feeling and thinking quite as my grandfather would
AS your grandfather would have thought and felt
abou,-what:: she asked with marked unconscious
Your grandfather would have thought about me-
she exclaimed in e>aggeratedy assumed Management.
with upliited eyebrows.
You konw what | mean-that there is one like
you-that you are the only girl in all the WORLD
Your grandfather never-never could have
thought that about me.
Don't be absurd he said mpaen,ly
1T seems to me that you are absurd
9ou undsIs mean tia, is what h hns
plaintively gazing out OF the window:
s, Is a wha a rp and
often to say it. l began last spring l wanted to
Know
:RideuIous" he stormed Did you miss just
little: Were you glad to me-:
Il might answer she returned deliberately
Yes, he urged.
That, she continued primly. the renewal OF our
pleasurabe encounters has been of extreme
qualification to me-
What he gasped.
After regrettablc absence, during which the
memory OF you has wholly left my mind and,
indeed, has occupied, to very considerable degree,
my thoughts-hat," she laughted, is what should
You're making game OF me-
Il am sure you would never say that to my grand
mother.
All unnoticed by them the train after its swift
course had come to stop. People all about them
were gathering up coats and luggage when the con-
ductor came hurriedly down the aisle OF the
'R. NJ. Harrson?' the dignitary shouted. r. NJ.
That's my name,' Harrison replied. turning with
involuntary swiitness.
She saw him take the buff envelope from the
officials hand. She watched as he tore it open and
though she turned dscreetly away, able to
avoid noticing the disconsolate fall of his counte-
nance.
Read it, he said, holding out the sheet toward
1mperatiyely necessary t., to see you Do not delay
an instant in returning vitality important. Roger.
She looked up, nquiringy.
My best friend, and the best fellow in the world.
I'll have to take the first train back
Yes she assented, reluctantly.
Its exasperatng and maddening,' he went on
clutchng his belongings after he had again given
Wheelocks and tell them How long are you to be
there:
For a week." she informed him, hopefully
III come as soon as possible L can't be kept long
in town.
On the follow ing Tuesday when Harrison realized
that within few moments he should reach Camelot
he experienced peasurabe mingling of excitement
and satisfaction. 4 trap would be waiting for him.
He would be rapidly carried the Wheelocks'
friendly roof, where, he might trust, without
great indulgence in hope, ind Edith ready to wei
him. Perhaps that very afternoon he should
ride with her. AS they walked their horses in after
final jolly gallop he might. in the twilight OF some
and learn the answer upon which, as he knew,
the happiness OF his life depended.
Had she come to meet him, That appeared too
supremacy excellent fortune, and still there outside
the planks brought him before her.
This is good he exclaimed heartily
You" she cried in tone of horror and amaze
,.Didn. you expect me- thought that you might
but OF course you haven't
hadn't the least idea thought You we're st delayed
or had forgotten Why-why-" she repned "didn';
you come sooner"
Il couldn't help it, he assured her. when I ar
rived in town and rushed to Rogers place l dis
covered that his younger brother. Dickie, had let
himself into some absurd scrape in college-just
freshman foolishness-that brought him in danger
being. expelled 1t would have been awful misfor-
tune for him, and when he didn't really deserve it.
when the whole thing would be nothing if the Fa-
Guilty fully understood Roger thought that could
help and carried off to Boston at I've been
busy at Cambridge since. We've made it all
right"
I'm glad"
Now" he chanted jubilantly. I'm here at las,
and want to know what You had to tell me-you
youIseif-in propria persona"
But m just going" she remarked, distractedIy
Going, he repeated, staring at her and frownins
heavily.
lilly Robinson suddenly has taken it into he,
head that she will marry Jack Landreth Immediate,