The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-12-30
AN OLD l0VE SONG
b HENDERSON WELSH.


lovers euarreis usually are-but
Dick would not admit it 50 far as
his part vas concerned OF course
Eloise had been foolish in thinking
he would tolerate any such treatment
She was heartless and aid not
care and be had been we'll within hts
rights Ii leaving as be had
But whether he had been right or
foolish be vas very lonely now. Cat
tie ranching has It's charms. but they
are not sufacient 10 soothe the heart
that longs for q certain girl-even II
the head related 70 the heart does
not admit the longing
Today his mind had drifted back
TO her more than ever before. Perhaps
this was because It was his birth
day.
He pulled himself together with q
jerk and pushed his horse into gal
Iop that banished all unhappy
thoughts for the time.
That evening the lonely thoughts
carue trooping back. as he lay sprawl
ed Oh the grass near the ranch
house. The night was beautiful, just
such another as that night had been.
"A great loneliness filled hin I'D he
vainly tried not to think Of Eloise-of
Eloiss and her singing.
Eyes. she could sing" he admitted
/ grudglngly. but she was cold and
cruel. She did not care-so why
should 7? ! ought to have more pride;
and / have!e he snapped. as he
thought that settled it. "she has
forgotten me long ago" he added bit
terly.
Then. through the stiffness, came
from the house few chords that
struck him like blow. He knew them
4 30 we'll Then came voice:
"Eloisel' he cried, leaping 70 his
feet
Forgotten you? Wen, II forgetting
be longing with all your heart
The words we're ringing clear in
such voice as has seldom been
heard on land or sea.
Dick sank to the ground. His legs
refused to bear him. That song was
for him-sung as she had sung it for
him fye years ago.
Dicks heart, also, was pulsing wild
" as the song died away and life
flooded back into him. He sprang up
and raced to the house. What or
whom he expected to find there, he
scarcely knew. What he did find was
the ranch family and most Of the
boys crowded about most modern
singing machine. He elbowed through
them
sThat--that record" he demanded.
Lets see that last record"
"Surel7 said the raneher reaching
back in the cabinet for it. "Wasn' t
that great? | heard her sing in Den
yer Monday night and tried to get
several Of her records, but this is the
only one. It seems she has refused
to sing any other song for the com
+ panies Funny. too, that the latest
/, prlma-donna should pick an old love
song like that
Dick had grabbed the record and
on It read Forgotten, Soprano Solo
by Mile Elolse Remey." He could al
r most have kissed that record.
3 "Mr. Miles, he turned to the ranch
I er. "herding is pretty slack right now
Cant you spare me for few daysg
"Alph.9 he called, 1--WE got to catch
the ridnIght ayer VIII you ride in
NStn me and bring back my horse?'
But Dick heard none Of the chafing
His ears were ringing with the song
D All the galloping way to the train
then on and on to Denver, he heard it
B, There he found that the prima donna
to whom America had suddenly bowed
the knee, had gone on to San Francis
2 co. Tho next train took Dick.
He reached there too late to ses
Q her before the performance, but he sal
through it entranced while Elolsc
poured out her soul in wonderful
4 song.
, Had she forgotten MIN WOuic
= she forgive him.
9 When the two faced each other
neither had to ask such questions
Y Eyes told in a fash what tongues
might long stumble over
!. You have been such long time
coming" she said
Yes It was my foolish pride-anC
then ! thought you had forgotten me
u until | heard that song
Il sang it for you" she said, sim
Il ply. "Of course I love to sing, bu
1t was for you chiefly that | went int
public opera. ! thought sometimes
you might hear, and II you loved me
you might come back to ME. Then
2 when the phonograph company want
ed me to sing for them | refused ant
= then ! thought that If l sang Forgot
J. ten as I used to sing It to you, yol
B might hear it and at least remembel
8 the old days" And then she addet