Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-04-15
Il am sure she does
"WhY do Won think so q

w lily no you LINK SO
Because she is planning for your
happiness all the time Then, seeing
shadow on his face. she continued:
Remember how long she was griev-
ing for you, and how strange every
thing must be to her l see her day
by day gradually growing back to
you" Then, in low trembling tones
the ffrl added: DO not fail her"
Richard looked intently at the girl,
ana seemed for a moment as if he
were going to say something, then
walked off quickly in the direction of
the hills. leaving Nellie standing
alone
He rushed on and on. never daring
to look even once behind him A mo-
ment of binding realization had come
to him as he had stood with his hand
on the girls shoulder and thoughts
that for weeks had been kept stead
lily repressed came forth in such
strength that they threatened to over
throw all his reason and his judg-
ment
For hours he wandered over the
paths that went winding through the
undulations of hill and valley. The
loneliness and stiffness helped him to
bring order into the mental chaos
which had come from the shock of
the discovery that he no longer loved
Margaret, and that the love he had
had for her had been given to her
sister. He went over all the steps
that had led to this emotional crisis
There was no mistake about his
passion and his tenderness then: on
the night he had brought her home
so fair, so fragile, so spirit-like, he
had walked for hours over these same
| hills that now saw mis- despair, plan
ming joys Tor their future together,
defining schemes that would bring
| back the glow of interest to her eyes,
the spring to her bent spirit. 1t was
| only month ago. What had hap
pened to make him change? He had
| quietly fallen into the habit of Nell
| lies companiOnship-th had gone
| for walks, they had played at games,
| they had thrust and parted in con-
| versation, often they had sat for hours
| while the bright, beautiful child with
| her eyes full of curiosity, had coaXed
! from him tale after tale of adventure.
| The evening would be spent listening
! dreamily to the church music which
| Margaret loved. He thought he was
| happy because of the pale spiritual
| face which now and again sent him a
! sad smile across the room. Now he
| knew that he was happy because of
| the girl whose Astounding young life
| answered to his own strongly beating
| pulse. He was no poet to love moon
| beams and shadows and melancholic
! interludes. Margaret had never really
| loved him as he had loved her-she
/ would never love any man.
Right manfully did Richard set
/ about rectifying the wrong which he
| had unconsciously done to his hancee.
| He spared himself no hour Of the
| day. He allowed no excuse to drive
! him from her side; he became mod
! el of devotion and attention. Nellie,
| it is true, helped him IN the change;
! she was nearly all the time out of the
! house-'looking after the wedding
j fnery' she laughingly asserted.
Richard in the few looks he per
| mitted himself to take, noticed that
/ she was looking pale and tired. While
/ Margaret seemed at last to he getting
/ into contact with life. She took on a
| mothering anxious manner towards
/ Richard; she gave him little unlimited
! caresSes, and he caught her some
! times looking at him with an affection
| ate yearning that went TO his heart.
/ The hours tolled on that brought
| Richard to the night before his wed
/ ding day All his thoughts had be-
/ come absorbed in the wish to have
| the marriage over and to get away.
/ Once away, he would forget; ne
| would not return for a long time. and
| Nellie would have settled down into
a home of her own.
He was sitting on a bench in the
| garden. and so full were his thoughts
| Of the girl that, when she came along
| and sat on the bench beside him, she
| appeared to him more as the embodt-
| ment Of his dream than a reality. She
! looked very pale and white; she
! smiled at him braVely, and he knew
| from the sweet resoluteness of her
| face that she had something special
/ to say to him. After moments ST.
| lence she spoke, but with evident eff
/ fort.
Il think you have not been very
| happy lately" she said. You remem-