Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-08-16
CHAPTER v.-Continued.

CHAPTER v-Continued.
Il was tired" he said slowly. ia
worked too hard and | thought the
mountains would do me good. l can
get time off at the bank when l want
and thought I'd take holiday and
come I'D here where ! was last sum-
mer. l knew the place and liked tue
hotel. wanted to get good way on
out Of the city and away from my
work. As for walking up here that
afternoon-Pm very strong ana
never thought for a moment sucn
blizzard was coming down.
He lifted his head and turned
toward the window, then raising one
hand rubbed II across his foreneao
and eyes. There was something In
the gesture that silenced the young
girl. She thought he felt tired and
had been talking too much and she
was guiltily conscious OF her laugh
ter and loQuacity.
They sat without speaking for some
moments. Dominick made no attempt
to break the silence when she moved
noiselessly to the stove and pushed
in more wood. His face was turned
from her and she thought he had fai-
len asleep when he suddenly moved
and said:
Isn't It strange that l have never
met you before?"
She was relieved. His tone showed
neither feebleness nor fatigue, In fact
Il had the fresh alertness Of a return
to congenial topics. She detef mined,
however, to be less laxative. less en-
couraging to the weakening exertions
Of general conversation. So she spoke
with demure brevity.
Yes, very. But you were at col
lege for four years. and the year you
came back was In Europe"
He looked at her ruminatingly. and
nodded
But I've seen you," he said. AT the
theater. was too sick at first to rec
ognize you, but afterward l knew I'd
seen you. with your father and your
brother Gene"
II was her turn to nod. She thought
II best to say nothing. and waited.
her, and the waiting silence seemed
to demand a comment. She made the
first one that occurred to her:
Whom were you within"
my wife," said the young man.
She murmured a vague sentence Of
comment and this time determined moi
to speak, no matter how embarrassing
the pause became. She even thought
of taking up her book and was abou
to stretch her hand for 1t, when b.
said:
But II seems so queer when ou
parents have been friends for years
and / knew Gene, and you know m!
sister Cornelia so WELL"
She drew her hand back and leanet
forward. frowning and staring in from
of her. as she sent her memory back
ward cropping for. data.
well, you see a sort Of series o
events prevented It. When We wer
little our parents lived In differen
places. Ages ago when We first cam
down from Virginia City you were liy
ing somewhere else, In Sacramento
wasn't II? Then you were at schoo
and after that you went East to CO.
iege for four years. and when you go
back from college / was in Europe
And when ] came back from Europe
that's over two years ago now-wh
then"
She had again brought up agains
his marriage. this time with a shoe
that was somewhat of a shatterin
nature.
why, them" she repeated falterin,
ly, realizing where she was-"wh
then-let's see"
Then ! had married." he said gu
city.
"Oh, yes, of course" she asseute
trying to impart suggestion Of SUI
den innocent remembrance to b
tone. You had married. Why.
course"
An hour later when the doctor can
back she was kneeling on the floor |
the open stove door. softly building ,
the fire. At the sound of the opepiI
door she looked up quickly. and, h
hands being occupied. gave a silenci,
Jerk Of her head toward the sleepil
man.
The doctor looked at them DO,
The scene was like picture of sor
primitive domestic interior whe
youth and beauty had made a ne
warmed by that symbol OF life. a I'll
which one replenished while the 9th
slept.