The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-02-14
BY CANDLE LIGHT
Intricacies Of the Law Do Not
Interfere With Judge in Own
Heart Problem.
ey GRACE kERRleAN.

Judge Landon Carter is in love
with you. Anne. Are you going to let
the memory OF Phil Gaines spoil your
whole life?"
Judge Carter in love with me7 Oh.
no, motherl He is too wrapped up in
the intricacies Of the law to bother
with heart problem"
You'll find out for yourself soon.
Don't blind your eyes to a catch like
that because of a school boy"
II wish that you would let me love
Phil without worrying over It,"
you are twenty-five, Anne. and you
have discarded enough men because
of your foolish infatuation of Phil
Gaines. He is married now and out OF
the question"
Il grant you that" laughed the girl.
but his marriage hasn't killed my
love for him. Why, he is as much a
part of my life now as he was year
ago when the postman brought his
daily thought of me-"
you are too clever and wholesome
to cling to the memory of man who
was not true"
Remember, dear, that he asked me
to marry him and refused"
"Of course you refused when the
night before he had been notoriously
drunk at the Peyton's dinner dance"
mot notoriously, mother, for took
him away before any one knew, and II
had loved him, as you think, well
enough to spoil my life because Of his
memory, l would have married him
even II he had been a confirmed
drunkard. That is woman's way"
mot a woman with your pride.
Annel What do you mean by not low
Ing him as think you do2 Are there
more ways than one?"
"Yes. there are more ways than
one."
Anne picked up a little silver frame
on her desk. 1t held the picture of a
big. stalwart fellow with eyes that
laughed and mocked and yet were
tender.
''If you would put that picture away
and pack all his gifts, you would be
much more likelysto forget. You cod
die his memory. He isn't the boy you
remember. He Is a man now. have
heard that he is coming here on his
honeymoon. l hope he does. to disil-
lusion you"
why do you insist upon marriage
for me?"
Because want you to be happy.
Marry Judge Carter! He is the young.
est man on the bench. good looking
and comes Of fine family. You will
never do better"
"He isn't in love with me and don't
Intend to &C campaigning for a hus'
band" Anne looked at her mother and
smiled Every family needs one old
maid to help mother the nephews and
nleces and pay the wild boys out OF
debt. SO since / am the only hope OF
our relatives, let me be a dear old
spinster. In my rare laces and pearls
will be a romantic figure as / sit by
the fire, seeing In the rosy flames the
bridge of dreams. spanning the riveI
Of youth, that leads into my garden
Of remembered things"
Don't talk like that, Anne. II
makes my heart ache. Be happy Yor
are beautiful and gifted. Anticipate
happiness and make the harp of life
respond to your wooing touch. For
get Phill"
"If only could forgetI"
When her mother left her, Anne
held the picture in her two hands
staring down in the eyes that laughed
and Knocked and yet were tender. :"
wonder how we'll you love her. thiI
woman who has taken my place." sh'
mused. Il wonder what she does Il
comfort you when the blue devils ge
vou, Phil. You know when they cam'
you always wired me to write quick
". Now you don't need me any more