The Cairo bulletin., 1911-03-14
WHEN THEY
MET AGAIN
BY Il. c-.MBERTON sLADE
Copyright " ,mer.can Press Asso-
Ga ion, l9ll,

sge. We were twenty. | was yc!'
Iiltrh in love with her. Int ! hadn't
! kent in the world. nar bad She. A iii
At that age Il far l.! ,rc Developed thu
n man of the SAME years. She seem
10 advance quicker. BIT not 50 far
the man. Lp3W there are wone
/ nowadays who viii nal admit this. bp
4 am not so.as TO stop In my story ~
argue the pont. At all events, vhc
Mildred and were twenty | VAS sti
Il boy building castles In the air. Whit.
she was looking at her aid my pre-.
.ent and future status in ratlnaisti
|way
| Was going out TO Chna to caras
In business and to live there .ndcf
uiteiy was II take {; clerkShip ~
lhe bottora Of tie ladder. and In
mot heard that promotion WIS vrr
rapid | was unreasonable enough ,,l
h:r@e Mildred to engage herself to H.
lOf course she 6ecliacd, but not TO-
any reason except that she considerc
the circumstances would be unjust !,
both
Very we'll said ITO not col
slider yourself bound to me. nor will
consider myself bound to you. but So
sure as the world turns on Its axis
Twill return. and If YOU are free ar
willing | will marry you
So we parted. went to China d..
termined to attend strictly to the wof
of advancing nyscf so that ! mig !;
return for my love, | wrote her o.
OCCASIONALLY and received replies to n
letters. | was bent on keeping II
promise and strained every nerve -
achieve the wherewthal to enable nlb
to do It, But the luck was against III
II had been with a firm five years whe
they failed and went out Of bushes
Il found n position with another COZ
Germ. with which | spent another tivs
years. was lust about to be az
United to the firm as junior partn
when the head of the house died. II
widow insisted on the business beir
wound UP that she might get her cap
tai ont Of 1t and go home to Amerlc2.
This threw me out again. BY th
time had acquired a little capita
ard. putting it with that of anoth :
man, we went into business togethc'.
Within & year we lost all the capt. |
of both hy speculation. started
again with borrowed money and In tt
years found myself with fortune.
| was now forty-two years old, al
Mildred was the same #ge. For 4 ,
last ten years l had heard very lit }
from her. but knew that she had t
been married. suppose 1t was prie ,
or obStinaCy, or both, that induced
to go back to America for her.
course an absence Of twenty-five yea }
from woman one loves--or has Low
must make quite difference in / j
feelings for her 1t occurred to n 3,
however. that when we came togeth
we would go on from where We le /
of. ! wrote reminding her that HI ]
told her when ! separated from b :
that | would surely some day con
back to marry her and was nc '
about to do so.
received a reply to my letter t
day | sailed. Mildred confessed til I
she had been waiting for me all the 2
years. since she had believed W )
lust the man to DO what ! had said I
would do. fortunately" she sai !,
40 f,.ya IC tnfI q \
or dozen years younger than WON
lof my age, and there is hope that Il '
personal appearance won't shock you
I | confess ] was greatly agitatt
when called on Mildred sent up y
lcard and waited for her TO receive II =.
When she came in she was natural =
Embarrassed. AS for me. was ST =
Iprised for she did not look more th \
Itwcnty-eight. While she might W.
have changed so much that / wOu
not know her. | saw her just as / l =
Imembered her, though few Yeas
lolder, and yet not old enough to Ia .
Iher beyond the pale of young lad =
hood.
After separation of more than ty D
decades beginning just where we le t
off was impossible found that |
| must win my love agaln-not that /
felt "a anxiety as to how my cou :
lship Would result. but that we we .
both changed. ] knew very well tn
Mildred would not have known I 3
lhad she not expected me. And as r
her though she was not so changed
appearance as L. there was IN br
those other changes that come over 3
so impcrccptibIy that ones friends s ,
not notice them unless they are ser :
rated from US for long periods. 0u5
change in her was more marked fha 4
any other. / had left her an ertrerN-
~ matter of fact woman. lncreas 1
years seemed to have developed CO.
tain ideality that | had not notice !
when she was younger But am it'-
clined to think that every trait there
is in US is developed as we gro v
older.
In month we were married, sine
! must get back to my business. TIE
ceremony was over when my wife IN
Itroduced lady as her older sister.
was much disconnected.
II remember Your younger s.stpr
Florie, about six years old when lc'r
America. ] never heard of on o.d r
one"
81 am Mildred" said the older