The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-06-05
Miss Cartwright S
Constancy

little more attention to the love OF the
living and less to that of the dead, she
might be happier. and save Amos Til
lnghast from wearing his heart out. :
| Mrs. Lowell stabbed her needle
yiciously into the sock she was mend
ing and rocked violently.
Amelia has constant nature
said Ann Briggs.
Consistency is all right if there's
anv reason for it." said Mrs. Lowell,
hut everybody knows that Charles
burroughs wasn't true to her before
he died. He was engaged to two girls
at once"
"Rut Amelia doesn't know It." said
Miss Ann, gently, "and it would hurt
her to know"
well, wouldn't 1t be better for her
to be hurt a little and get walked up
10 the fact that it is Amos who has
really loved her all these years and
who deserves to get her."
We'll. I don't know" said Kiss
Ann. Il hate to see Amos hurt and
hate to see Amelia hurt. Love Is
love. and L guess most Of us have to
suffer for It,"
There she goes, now" said Mrs.
Lowell, glancing out of the window.
81 knew she would. Every Saturday
she's of to the cemetery with a
wreath Of pink flowers. Sometimes
it's roses and sometimes it's sweet
peas and sometimes it's verbenas.
But it's always pink"
poor thing" said Miss Ann.
That's what hurts Amos So" said
Mrs. Lowell. "He knows Amelia
hasn't enough to live on and he has
plenty. And I think he knows. too.
that she would love him II she would
let herself He said to me not long
ago: Aunt Carrie, when I talk to her
about It, she just cries and says,
Please don't. Poor Charles thought I
had 1t in me to be constant-and I
want to be faithful to him-I want
to be faithful"
There goes Amos now" said Miss
Ann. DO you know he's got some
pink roses in that paper? I believe
he's on his way to the cemetery"
"Well, he'll meet amelia there"
said Mrs. Lowell. land I guess she'll
No touched to see that he has remem.
bcred Charles"
Put Amelia, sitting forlornly at the
foot of her lovers grave. was to meet
some one else before Amos. for a
slender little woman approached and
asked, as this the grave of Charles
Burrough?"
"Yes," said Amelia
The girl unwound yards Of waxed
paper from about magnificent
wreath II was evidently made up by
a city florist Of pink dollhouse roses,
and valley lilies. with maiden.hair fern
yelling the whole.
"Oh." gasped Amelia. show beauti.
full"
HE always loved pink" said the
girl.
Amelia looked up startled. "You
knew that" she asked.
"Yes." said the girl. when I wore
pink bows on my hair he always ad
mired them. And there was little
pink lawn dress that he made me wear
the night he left me-"
"He died ten years ago." said Anne
LA. 1T is long time-did you know
him-just before he died."
The girl nodded. "He lived out
west in the same town where
taught. And we we're engaged" She
did not see Amelia's start Of surprise
lille came east-just to see his folks
he said. and then ne was to come
back-and we were to be-married.'
"Then he died." the girlish voice
went on. "and all these years I have
wanted to come and lay wreath or
his grave. saved my money SO that
I might. And-now I am here-and-
land I can't bear IT,"
Looking on the others grief. Anne
liza wondered why she was unmoved
She wonderoa, too. at a certain light
ness Of he She felt free-free &c
live her own life. to love as she
would.
She saw Amos coming up the hill
She bent over the sobbing girl "He
loved you" she said tensely; "you
have that TO comfort you"
Then she went swiftly down the
hill and met Amos. Il don't jus,
know what has happened to me-" she
said. Take me away. Amos. take
me where nobody can see me cry"
| He led her to a place screened BY
a row Of chairs. what is II. dear
heart9" he asked. tenderly.
She told him. WAS he-as fickle
as that" she demanded.
Everybody knew IT," he said, blu,
you"
And no one told me. Oh. Amos.
feel so sorry for that girl. Somehow
don't feel sorry for myself. Per
haps I've been Just clinging TO a
dream. Rut she knew him and lived
close to him and, oh. hope he loved
her best. 1t would be so tragic fit
she is mourning false lover. Amos
And you" Amos asked.
Il found out after he came east tina,
he wasn't all that lad thought he
xas-hut thought he loved rno-and