The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-09

and quiet fell upon us both.
 "Marjorie's eyes were fixed the fire and as the dog lay beside her.
 Suddenly she looked up at me- and I that her eyes were filled with tears.
 "I bent toward her
 =. Marjorie, Marjorie dear said I, T love you. is there % any chance nc V that HO,1a you@7' you
 Ah h.! Jnr she cried ed, and lifted her up to was something else in them-something else" Nom he naa Tosed a Gne and S s ss %
 The next day." he continued "I told MT. Cray don and his wife, and asked their consent. u ~I knew your father Jim said MT. Gray!doH, happy with you; but it is hard to give her up You
 f promised reIucfant1y to be patient for year the next summer would come back to the woods ,bo The 4Ss Ffst fsT days day; tell towIn-wonderfu moments.
 arms about me, my lips in her hair.
 s9saF s8@iFs back to ~s-Ji"' my Ji"i Come soon, he doa 9oatsssd just ss stsr back 3 hs5 TsfS but couldn't It was something too sacred to
 You saw that was happy I had to work hard so that wouldn't be too happy. You remember one, and worked day and night for weeks ike a
 Every night, however my letter to Marjorie started no+ +o and @ sasR morning nor brought iron ness. my letters grew shorter It had to be so. I didn't @ have a minutes peace until December. lay on my desk. It was from Marjorie, and put in it in my my pocket & to read later forgot it. Teddy weeks afterward found in my coat two unopened
 And I---rny work was driving me- and made it excuse to myself-days came when too l forgot to write days when forgot her.
 "The little things I had cherished because they that carried the hair bit of birch bark
 pair of dainty noceasins so taG taKen Without @ teaTe sJ because they were hsrsmthese things that
 You noticed her picture the rnantel, Ted but one night on reaching home chanced to notice it's
 T asked Kamoto about it because he had had his orders never to touch it. He knew nothing about back of my desk where it had fallen and had lain i1nnoticed and forgotten for week!
 me thinking when I summed them all up. I and the result was long and tender letter to "Ah, Teddy the letter I had in returhl I read it over to-day and wished had never been born.
 Thanksgivine and you are coming, dear, she and you are nearer to me. Our woods are IeaAess now but you are n unehangedIyopr let And where ere, did id. I spend ThanlesgiyingI At
 Don't you see now-can't you see Ted, where
 T was forgetting her. forgetting girl who had
 "Doc Evans Biil Worthing-aT1 that old crowd the club and downtown were reasserting them selves-unconsciously enough, to be sure, but per- sistent1y. Wall Street and Broadway were their g hsF liz: e was fading Marjorie was passing out of to her, I would not, My bull-headed determina- ton has carried my through terrible winter; but deserve it-I deserve it all
 Marjorie does not suspect. She believed the reasons gave her for n9t going to her at Lhsn- and my excuses to her were lies lied to Marjorie
 "f wouldn't get excited about it. Jim," said r. You're overworked again and this affair is mag nifying itself to you. The chances are that you bably you will never her again. and her infatu- stion for you will die out in timei"
 "Why-why; you sFn;ug-faeed3 3 PbarSes T yoSmhow d dont f y your gay You ' know am telling you he truth even if haven't told it to heri Look at this" by the ReN dreiight i0ns resd Rst this telegram
 "I coming to you. It is too long to wait Aunt AA'''e'' > r''D~' "'s"' MARJORIE"
 Now at 3Es y0e to sSd m be1 whet s lies in my hands-I know it. She is living for me as R h st hs4e @ yoE io s6 d0F nte her nome and win her love; unless know can give in retuTnf Gan the full conviction had last summer? Can I, er % my deeepon H Shall te ReT Ke truth and break her heart shall live; lifelong lie? born nna again. e1 Wili % fis winters doubt vanish as toqfh M sepped he[ with H head dropped on bs Breast
 And tomorrow night Jim would have 10 know his mind
 In the morning he said to with a. drawn face, Teddy, I don't know yet In the he, afternoon the same: "I can't tel; don't know I'll have to wait
 The night was crisp and brilliant Jim took his Seoilison ne e@Ha" e@tra" fel on 3' deaf ears the cab and walked the remaining half-block alone.
 A maid answered his ring She recognized him
 SHas Miss Graydon arrived yet?" he asked, ab- ,:4., ;a .-,a ,.;e1- ,,oe+,r. oe bo--o~