New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOX JUNE o. i'i'

He smiled at her whimsically. on We
sooiled me fearfully, Pamela, he said. on
do things exactly right. Life WOULDN'T have
been worth living with anyone else.
She noted the tense of the verb with
little sinking of the heart. "Wouldn nave
been"-as if it were over! But nothing Oh
that showed in her face, either. Every ilve
minutes" she said, with a nod toward the
class. Had you rather | talked to you
between times, or kept still
@Talk." he said. Tell me about tonight.
@Why. | saw the ghost she SAID tine
rabbit. YOU know, and was little more
frightened than I'd bargained tor but
but that young American man came along
and saved me-
Her voice sounded little queer to her as
she said that, and she wondered II her rather
noticed it. She hadn't any other way OF
designating him yet. uu,, ~,
Apparently he didn't. The one down.
stairs this morning. he asked.
She nodded. HE used to live here once
she went on. "Oh, long ago, when ne was a
little boy. SO he treated my ghost respect
fully e,,..
She gave him another spoonful OF brandy
then; though the five minutes WASH up IL
was getting harder all the time to keep the
even flow OF conversation going a1
"On the whole though, she went on l
don't think the ghost was the queereSt thlig
that happened to me; although perhaps
this was Just another ghost. We came nome
rather roundabout, because | was AFRAID 70
90 past the churchyard again. But on the
way. not very far from here, there IS place
where two lanes come together at the hi8Ii
street There's a perfectly lovely little cot
1 nh win
thing YOU could want a cottage to have,-a
hcdge Of Nav around it, and an old, old
annie tree. We stopped to look at 1t Just
brrausc il was so lovely. But the more |
looked AZ il. the more | seemed, somehow,
70 remember it. told you this morning
about how | seemed to remember the toe
coming in Well, this was just the same
only stronger.
@Tust off the high street, you said?' he
asked her "To the left as you go down
toward the bridge
yes" she said, that's the place
"That's curious" said Tered Harris, hardly
above a whisper. He said it reflectively, as
# talking to himself rath" than % the girl.
81 wondered if you'd remember; but 1t
seemed hardly possible.
Then YOU did bring me here" she ques-
toned, "whcn was very little;
-Four years old, he told her. But l
didn't bring YOU here. took you away
from here.
~You didn't bring me, but YOU took me
awav?" Her frown was frankly perpleXed.
But"
~Givc me some more Of the brandy he
interrupted. "Not just teaspooniul:
real drink
THERE was a little silence after she had
given it to him. while she sat watching
the blue pallor in his face give place to a less
CHASTITY hue.
1t was he at last who broke the silence.
pamela. you've heard me say suppose
I've said it pretty oftcn-that there are
times in nearly cycrybody's lie when the
right thing 10 do is % 10 wrong; anyway, to
10 something that perhaps everybody else
in the world would call wrong. Or course,
all the justification one can have tor dong a
thing like that comes from the event. II 1t
turns out right, then perhaps even other
people may say that what YOU did was the
right thing TO DO. But that doesn't matter
50 much. if YOU can say 1t yourself. Inc
trouble IS that things don't turn out AZ all IN
any final sense. one thing leads T. another
and that leads % something else. And YOU
cannot be sure that what you did may not
lead. sometime. % q disaster or a tragedy.
He h.sif4'pi "A moment there Pamela,