The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-11-21

man, the man | thought he was. You
know, Mrs. Hayes, he seemed TO me
/ TO be very much like my iather"
! For time she thought it over to
/ herself. Mrs Hayes did not press her,
and continued to show her sympathy
by holding her hand.
Eyes, it would have been lot better
/ had he died before l ever knew What
would have been d beautiful dream is
now only a hideous nightmare. And
1 believed in him so! You who have
| seen just a little of him can't know
/ how / loved him. 1t wasn't exactly
| love when we were abroad in the same
party. Yes, it was; only | didn't know
it. 1t wasn't until he had gone away
and no word came from him that
knew how much he was to me. And
| then / met him here Heaven seemed
to open for me that night"
She turned her head for minute,
and the tears began to flow. When
| blurred with tears.
Il can tell you, and l could tell
Mrs. Gilbert, that it's going to hurt
me lot. It's going to hurt to think
how l was deceived. l thought l was
building my house of life upon rock,
and when the rains came l awolIe to
find the foundation was only shifting
sand"
1--WE all have our troubles, dear"
Mrs. Hayes told her. Yours may seem
hard to bear, but you must know that
life can't ell be painted in rainbow
hues. I've taken you with me into
Belmont's unhappiest homes, and what
| you have seen should teach you to
bear your own trials with resignation
and fortitude as a Christian should.
| Perhaps it's not well to think how
much better off we are than other
| people, but when we do think of it we
see that God has shown us abundant
| kindness compared to that given to
others, and then our crosses are
| lighter"
But l loved him SOL" cried Gloria,
| burying her face in the pillow
Mrs. Hayes could only clasp the
! girls hand The attempt to comfort
her was Improbable. Her grief was
| too new, her wounds too fresh for COM
! fort. Longer and longer grew the in
! tervals between her sobs. Finally Mrs.
| Hayes thought she had fallen asleep,
| but Gloria was only thinking. It came
| to her that she was still young. Love
| would never be hers, she was sure of
/ that; but long years stretched out be-
| fore her She couldn't be a coward
and shirl1 those years. Once she had
! built her house of love and life upon
! the quaking sands, now she would
! build her house of life upon the firm
rock of service In ministering to the
unfortunate, she might find surcease
| for her own sorrow.
Mrs. Hayes?'
What Gloria?"
I'm not going to let anything that
happened today spoil my life"
"Of course not. dear. Rain today
means sunshine tomorrow for u.s.
Il don't know about the sunshine,
but do know that l want to go along
just as if nothing had happened. To-
morrow let's do just what we planned
to do, and the next day and the next.
want to keep busy. Can't you under
stand?"
Mrs. Hayes did understand, and adj
mired the girl for her bravery
"Au right, Gloria. l think that is
best We weren't put into this world
to have only the good things of life
and shirk the bad things. We must
take them as they come, the bad with
the good. You are doing just what
Mr.. Wright would have you do if he
were the man you thought him and
he had died before your wedding day.
Perhaps all will come out as you once
| had planned"
The daughter of David Kerr shook
her head.
THAT can never be-"
She said no more, and after a time
seemed to fall asleep. Mrs. Hayes IN
clasped' her hand, turned out the light,
and left the room.
Through the windows streamed the
moonlight. The girl assured that she
was alone, turned on her side and
watched the beams creep slowly across
the room.
What a food of memories the moon
light brought!
Those first nights on shipboard had
been under a silver moon that shed
its rays upon a silver sea. Those nights
in France a month later had been I'M
| der a moon no less gorgeous. Then
! had come the Rhine and there, too,
| had been moonlight.
She tried to think OF him as he had
/ been and not as he was. In him she
/ had found every good trait a man
| should have. She was chagrined to
| think how easily it now appeared she
| had been won. How much she would
| have been spared, she pondered. had
/ she not been sc eager for his love as
to show him 50 soon that she cared
| for him.
Every familiar gesture which was at
all part Of him she knew would call
| him to mind when another man mIgit
make it, The way he held his cigar
when he smoked, the odd manner in
which he would lock his hands togeth-
er whenever a knotty problem both
cred him, these little things and host
Of others would come back to plague
her
Al the dear, dead past crowded into
! her mind. 1t was not of the man
| whom that afternoon she had spurned
| that she thought, but of the man
| whom in her heart she cherished-her