St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1910-08-12

JOY consented. She was glad to have
him at any cost And when he kissed
her her grateful hear, was ready to
break
Joy and Billy we're married and
went away to the city to 60 TO house
keeping in a four.room fat Joy
proved to be marveIous little house
wife; she juggled with the dimes un.
I'll they did the work of dollars: she
kept Billy's clothes In perfect order;
her dinners we're the best of their
kind to be had. She never troubled
Billy with complaints or any demon.
stration; she simply loved-and wait.
ed. In return Billy rather neglected
her. He was kind and appreciative,
yet he accepted her as matter Of
course. His disappointment was still
recent enough to hurt
They had been married three years
then the baby came He was a beauty
big, dimpled. merry. all smiles and
giggles and with adorable wooing
ways. They called him Robert. which
presently resolved itself into Bobby.
Then for the first time Billy woke up
TO the fact that Joy was OF real i'm.
portance: she was his boys mother.
He planned and lived and saved for
that boy. And JOY looked on. sitting
her longing and trying to be content
But IL seemed long time to walt
When Bobby was four years old
Aunt Marshall died and left to Joy
the little house In westmore and a
few thousands OF dollars. which we're
all her worldly possessions. Then. for
the first time. Joy expressed the home.
sickness which she had silently en-.
dured so long.
Let us go back" she pleaded.
''westmore is better for the boy and
for us. too. We can live I'm the house
and you can have the money to start
in business with. You'n be sure to
find some opening there"
Billy had fallen into the habit OF
taking Joys advice. He hated to go
back where Haroldine was. he had
not heard anything concerning her In
all the seven years he had been mar.
ried and away. lie still sighed with
unutterable longing when he thought
OF her. A mans first love dies hard.
Yet Il came TO pass that one day he
and JOY packed up thcL belongings
and set forth for woatmoro.
From the first day OF his arrival he
had been on the outlook for Harold.
Inc. hut HaroldIne was not In West.
more. lie learned that her father had
died the year before and that aho had
gone with some friends to California.
IL was not known when she would rc.
turn. People had forgotten that Billy
had ever been interested In Haroldino.
Perhaps Haroldino herself had forgot.
ten. Certainly II ceased TO bo n living
reality TO all save him and JOY
The business In which Billy engaged
thrived wonderfully. Ho had brought
TO Il tho experience aud now energy
that Il needed. II was soon said OF
him that he was making money.
Women who. seven years before had
not known Joy. came 10 call upon her
and ask her 10 their houses. They
made parties for her. Soon she was
drawn into such whirl OF society
as Weatmore afforded. by spring
Billy had decided that n they were 70
return any OF their social obligations
az all they must have larger house,
lie bought a lot In the fashionable
quarter OF the town and proceeded 10
have a house erected upon H. The
house was finished and they were liy'
ing In Il when Haroldine came home.
When Invitations came from Mira.
Herbert Crosby for her MUSCLE on the
9th. Joy accepted them for himself
and Billy. knowing very well that iiar'
oldine would bo there. There was a
good deal OF anguish. a good deal OF
uncertainty In Joys mind the night
she dressed for the MUSCLE. but she
hid Il all under a brave little smile.
She wore a black dress OF ietled lace.
Men admired JOY and considered
Billy a lueNy fellow 20 have such a
wife. And BILLY himself was proud OF
her. When he saw her that night
standing beside Haroldine, he felt a
pang OF revelation as turned him sick
at heart Haroldine was still Miss
Ross and with no immediate prospect
OF changing her name. Her pale blue
silk looked too young for her, she had
grown yisably thinner; her eyebrows
showed their peneiling and her cheeks
their rouge. Beside Joys fresh. young
matronliness she looked faded and
inans and Oyerdone. And when she
turned 10 Billy with a eOquetish smile
he realized poignantly that no had
been a fool for seven years and
thanked God that Haroldine had re-
fused him.
Al home after the party he took
Joy IN his arms and kissed her many
times-kissed her as a man kisses the
woman he loves and has won. In his
penitanee he confessed great many
things, but the sweetest thing OF all
he told her was that he loved her and
her only.
"You, Joy. you-for all these years
and | have not known Il until tonight
| wasn't much OF a lover and | haven't
been much OF a husband. but II you'll
forgive me I1l make II all up 10 you.
dear.
Above her scintillating black laces.
Joys face shone happily, Her waiting
was over, The good she had prayed
for was here forever.
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Helen" demanded the stern mother
II a he