The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-05-23
was driven up TO his hotel the girl was
ascending the steps.

Goddard felt uneasy. A friend of
his mothers had given him a note of
introduction to IL Miss Margaret Deane.
who was At the hotel or expected to
be there soon after his arrival. Sup
pose the young lady he had kissed
should be this Margaret Deane: And
suppose she knew he had kissed her?
He shuddered Unless she were wo-
man of rare good sense and discretion
she could make it hot for him. Should
she tell the story TO bis friends he
might better take passage for Austria
LA or some port where be would be
( lost TO his former existence When he
had fancied that he might have kissed
the wrong woman be had been much
displeased and disappointed. Now he
hoped be had.
Going to his room. he changed his
dress for dinner. Just before going
into the dining ball he passed the girl
he had kissed She was walking
through the hall She did not notice
him. He was encouraged to think that
either he had kissed the other woman
or that this one did not connect him
with the person who had kissed her.
On the register he found the name
Of Margaret Deane it having been
placed there not far from his own.
After dinner he called a servant gave
him his card with his note of intro
duction and told him to find Miss
! Deane and deliver them. The servant
returned and said Miss Deane would
meet Mr.. Goddard in the drawing
room. Goddard went there and wait
ed few minutes when the lady en-
tered. She was the girl with the kiss
able lips.
She advanced to meet Goddard with.
out the slightest indication of ever hav-
ing seen him before. The blood sud
denly departed from his cheeks but.
encouraged by her manner. he regain
ed confidence and was enabled to
| stammer some commonplace remarks
Then when they came to chat more
| freely he observed her closely with
| view to discover whether there was
| evidence of her knowing that he was
the person who had taken the liberty
|
him into so great a terror. He could
not detect the slightest sign of her
ever having seen him before or of an
tagonism or embarrassment at meeting
him Surely he must have kissed the
wrong woman after all
Mr.. Goddard saw more or less of
Miss Deane. His mind was on his
secret, and he could not let it alone.
He was impellcd to discover what
would have been his fate had she been
kissed by him. as he had intended.
knowing him to be the culprit. He
made a suppoSititious case in which a
friend of his bad done the same thing
and asked her had she been the girl
kissed what she would have done.
a man had never seen and knew
nothing about?" she asked.
Yes"
81 don't know what l should have
done openly; inwardly l should have
despised the man who kissed me-"
He shuddered.
Toward the end of his vacation God
dard recovered largely from his fright
Every day he felt more and more sure
that he had kissed the woman who
had sat behind Miss Deane, and he
sincerely hoped that that woman had
gone to the other side of the globe for
a permanent residence. Had he kissed
Miss Deane surely she would have
given some intimation of the fact that
she had passed through the experience
Of the person he had mentioned in the
supposititious case.
But one day he received a terrible
scare. Miss Deane appeared one morn
ing Oh the beach, her neckwear pinned
with a horseshoe scarf or stickpin the
exact duplicate of one he had owned.
This would not have been SO terrifying
had it not been that he had worn his
horseshoe in his scarf on the day he
came up from the city to the scashOre.
He had noticed soon after his arrival
that he had lost it and, recalling the
circumstances of his journey. had re
membered that when going to the train
on a street car he had been jostled in a
crowd. He had assumed that at this
moment he had been relieved of his
pin. Now, seeing its exact counterpart
on Miss Deane, he was seized with one
Of those alarms that are the result Of
a guilty conscience
He joined the young lady and riveted
his eye on the pin she wore. 1t looked
familiar, horseshoe is a common
form of scarfpin. but this was certain
ly very Ike the one he had lost.
Rather neat pin that of yours -
he remarked
DO you admire it?'
YES"
well. then, | suppose I'll have to
give it to you. It's really a mans pin"
She removed it from her person and
handed it to him.
"Oh. really, l didn't mean to ask
for it."
II don't value it. It's one 1 found"
Goddard's heart began to beat faster.
Found! May | ask where?"
''The owner lost it on the train, l
fancy. the day l came up here"
Goddard's heart stood still
Did you find it on the floor?"
"Non