Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-29

happy face my riddle was solved for
me. Amazing as the thing was. l had
no doubt Of the revelation.
"Ah," said to Miss Elliott when he
had gone, IT won't have to take pupils
to get the answer to my question
noww
1t was evening when I heard SAT-
eren's voice calling my name.
"Here," I answered from my veran-
da, where I had just lighted my second
cigar.
mo more work tonight! All finish
edr' he cried jubilantly, springing
down the steps. "I'm coming to have
talk with you.
II won't sit down." he said. 'Tll
walk up and down in front Of the We
randa if it doesn't make you nervous"
For answer merely laughed. and he
laughed, too, in genial response, con-
tinuing gayly:
"Oh, it's all so different with me!
Everything is. That blind feeling 1
told you Gifts all gone. I must have
been very babyish the other day. l
don't think could feel like that again.
1t used to seer2 to me that l lived
penned up in a circle of blank stone
walls. couldn't see over the top for
myself at all. though now and then
Keredec would boost me up and let me
get little gIimmer Of the country
roundabout, but never long enough to
see what it was really like. But it's
not so now. Ah''-he drew long
breath-'Fd like to run. I think l
! could run all the way to the top Of a
pretty fair sized mountain tonight and
then"-he laughed-"jumpo Off and ride
on the Clouds"
He paused in his sentry go, facing
me, and said in low voice:
g"I've seen her again"
Eyes; know"
but that's not ALL" he said, his
, voice rising little. II saw her again
the day after she told YOU
"You didv l murmured.
ooh, tell myself that it's a dream"
he cried, "that it can't be true, for 1t
has been every day since then! That's
why haven't joined you in the woods.
have been with her, walking with
her. listening to her. looking at her,
! always feeling that it must be unreal
and that l must try not to wake up.
She has been SO kind-so wonderfully,
! beautifully kind to me!'
"She has met you?' ] asked, think
ing ruefully Of George Ward. now on
the high seas in the pleasant company
Of old hopes renewed.
"She has let me meet her. And to-
day we lunched at the inn at Dives
and then walked by the sea all after
noon. She gave me the whole day
the whole day. You see"-he began to
pace again-...you see. was right. and
you were wrong. She wasn't offend
ed-she was glad-that couldn't help
speaking to her. She has said So"
do you think" l interrupted, that
she would wish you to tell me this?"
''Ah, she likes your he said so heart
lily and appearing meanwhile so salts
fed with the complexities of his re
ply that l was fain to take some sat-
isfaction in it myself. What l want.
ed most to say to you," he went on,
sis this: You remember you promised
to tell me whatever you could learn
about her and about her husband"
II remember"
ats different now; don't want you
to-" he said. Il want only to know
what she tells me herself. She has
told me very little. but l know when
the times comes she will tell me every
thing. But l wouldn't hasten it. !
wouldn't have anything changed from
just this"
"You mean
81 mean the way it is. If could
hope to see her every day, to be In
the woods with her or down by the
shore-oh, don't want to know any
thing but that!'
mo doubt you have told her." ven
tured, "a good deal about yourself"
and was instantly ashamed of myself.
suppose spoke out OF sense OF
protest against Mrs. Harman's strange
lack OF conventionality.
GIVE told her all know" he said
readily, and the unconscious pathos
Of the answer smote me. And all
that Keredec has let me know. You
see haven't'-
"But do you think" I interrupted
quickly, anxious. in my remorse, to
divert him from that channel-"do you
think Professor Keredec would ap-
prove. if he knew"
~ think he would" he responded
slowly, padsing ii his walk again. ~!
have feeling that perhaps he does
know. and yet have been afraid to
tell him. / think he knows everything
in the world! l have felt tonight that
he knows this. and-it's very strange.
but I-well. what was it that made
him SO t-'"''3'