The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-18
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Was II Brown?
ly NeIIIe Crayey GilInlorel

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Rsyr iosget that dizzy walk aane
'SStan The hospital il ,agSs.tA6h 4 allur
Ing ran; inc savage plesSge S. - px
rerienced in the cruel way ii whHsed
Ysn ehot cheeks and half froz& ahN
angry blood curdlng fiercely thsonga
Hel rebeliious little body.
she had been q fool to go there
.. course. And she faced the ver-
dict Of her own common sense witA
lhe keenest sense Of humiliation she
hau eVes known 70 be refused ad-
hltlanee to the room where her low.
& presumably lay dying because She
could not give the affirmative answer
% The attendant S inquiry as to wheth
e' she We're anything to The patient
vas bitter enough Of Itself, but to
came face to face with Chalmers
mcther and Aline Bester, about 10 en-
Ter whe-e she had been denied. and t3
De met by a haughty stare Of surprise
tionl each, made her young blood boil.
AS a matter of fact they were ey.
clything to each other. Both sne
ana Chalnes know thar far better
than amy spoken word Or circlet OF
sold could signify, but no formal en-.
gagement existed between them. and
she could not be the first ID proclalLs
thcis love.
They told her at the hospital that II
he lived through the night the chances
were he would recover. The follow
ING day a pars graph in the paper
stated that young Chalmers was pro-
nounced out OF danger A succeeding
Item niilted at his approaching be-
t'othal to Aline BosteE. And within Il
week the young fullbaek was on the
rapid read to recovery
The day before Chalmers vas dis
charged from the hospital Sylvia. her
noiner and Father sailed for Japan,
Nine weeks later Sylvia sat reading
with oVef-bright, indignant eyes the
following letter from her Iove3
fBoston, Mass. Dec3
'illear Girl why did YOU run
away witaout one word of farewell?
Is il pcssiblc that. after everything.
you can siill be in the dark about
how feel toward You? Have boon
nnstakeD in assuming chat YOU felt
the samee
nv lasi conscious thought before
that ffgAtfui accident was of N0u.
ml first On re- Weakening 10 the ra-
tional world was of,-you. nv very
first acl aftor release from The cruel
ne Of nurses aUA doctors was "a hast
ga to Wildmere. only 40 find YOU
thousands of miles away-and not
ole word or line OF explanation
"Fhe governor aud my mater were
50 cut UP about the accident that |
haFe concluded ta retire from th6
efldiron forth present Thus you
see, everything considered, / return
tc college a very detected and gloomy
soph. viii you not drop me 4 line
ficm the fan off Orient that life may
seem something less than a blank
dear and the Borld habitable place
instead OF. one vast, aching wilder
ness? As slEays, BILLY
Sylvia read the letter several times
with variety of emotions. Then she
crumbled it and tossed ii into the
trash basket Afterward. she went
cye9 to her writing desk and pannel
cloudy polite little note in reply
that effectuaily shut off any possible
excuse for further correspondence
When The letter was sealed, the III
tlt resolnte line Of her lips relaxed
Tito quivering and she broke into 4
storm Of tears.
Hsrly the following autumn the
Marburys returned to America.
It was on glorious Novembei
ncrning that sylvia came in, flushed,
from a downtown expedition, and hur-
Red straight to the little white sit
tlrg room in their new apartment at
a fashionable New York hotel
Without stopping to remove her hal
she turned her bag upside down,
emptying the contents on a small
onyx table. There were several new
postcards, half a dozen newspapers
clippings, a few half-iones-of Brown,
She opened her scrapbook and pasted
them all in with painstaking fingers,
Never had there been man like
Erown on the Yale gridiron. Every
dav add ID fresh laures TO his already
hrilli7nt record. He was wo~shipped
b.. his classmates, idolized by his team
ana adored by the girls.
From the wreck of her shattered
hopes, sylvia had risen to join In the
VI iversal hero worship. On her man
tel was d panel Of the inyincible
Brown; in her bureau drawers We're
innumerable likenesses and unlike
nosses. She carried his picture in Q
tiny locket about her neck, end on
her desk was porcelain painting OF
HIM.
She glanced smlingly at the dozen
different caricatures each newspaper
had proudly named as the only true
LIKENESS of the mighty one Then,
with queer little pang al her heart
she opened the secret compartment
of her desk end drew forth an OLD
photograph Of Billy Chalmers. She
loked into The handsome serious eyes
long aud earnestly: \ lilile sob caught
l.. her hroat. How she had loved
hmi Could ii be really true, she ask
ca, herself, thnt he had changed SO
nuch--and cared for chat other t2l
cared enough TO mary her, as report
sghl2
A sharn RAP en- tie door Interrupted
Tie painful train Of thought, aud
Syl,ia rose and turned the knob
scbcolng her face INTO unconcern i
Nae a special in nilly's own hand.
writing. and she tore opcn the en-
'vclope With crimsoning checks.
Dear sylvia (it ram May | eall