Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-11-25
CHAPTER xxxIll-contInued.

win love her always.
CHAPTER X><xIH-Contlnued.
With unsteady fingers she un-
wrapped the oiled-silk. broke the let
ter's seal, and read:
Dearest:
Before you read this. you win no
doubt have heard the thing that has
happened this sunshiny morning. Sas-
soon-poor Sassoonl l can say that
with all my hearts, dead. What this
fact will mean to you, God help me!
I cannot guess. For / have never
been certain, Judith, of your heart
Sometimes have thought you loved
meme only-as l love you. Last
night when / saw you wearing my
cape jessamines at the ball, l was
almost sure of It. But when you made
me promise, whatever happened. not
TO lift my hand against him. then
doubted Was it because you feared
for himf Would to God at this moment
/ knew this was not truoi For what
ever the fact, / must love you, dar-
ling, you and no other, as long al
Nvel"
When she had read thus far, she
closed the letter. and pressing hand
against her heart as II to still its
throbbing, locked the written pages
in a drawer of her bureau. She went
downstairs and made Ranston bring
her chair to it's accustomed place un-
der the rose-arbor, and sat there
through the falling twilight.
She and Shirley talked but little at
dinner, and what she said seemed to
come winging from old memortes-her
own girlhood, its routes and picnics
.Nnd hRrum-scarum pleasures And
there were long gaps in which she
sat silent, playing with her napkin,
the light color coming and going in
her delicate cheek, lost in revery. 1t
was not till the hall-clock struck her
usual hour that she rose to go to her
room.
Don't send Emmaline," she said.
Il shan't want her" She kissed Shir-
ley good night Maybe after a while
you will sing for me; you haven't
played your harp for ever SO long"
In the subdued candle-light Mrs.
cambridge locked the door Of her
room. She opened a closet, and from
the very bottom Of a small hatrcloth
trunk, lifted and shook out from It's
many tissue wrappings a faded gown
of rose-colored silk. with pointed bod
foe and old-fashioned puffsleeves. She
spread this on the bed and laid with it
pair Of yellowed satin slippers and
a littls straw basket that held a spray
of what had once been cape jessa-
mine.
In Che pickering light she undressed
and rearranged her hair, catching its
silvCry curling meshes In a low soft
coil Looking almost furtively about
her, she put on the rose-colored gown.
and pinned the withered fower-spray
on It's breast She lighted more
cardles-in the vall-brackets and on
the dressing-table-and the reading
lamp on the desk Standing before
her mirror then, she gazed long at the
reAection-the poor faded rose-tint
against the pale ivory of her slender
neck, and the white hair. A little
culver ran over her lips.
Whatever the fact she whispered,
you and no other as long
as / live"
She unlocked the bureau-drawer
then. took cut the letter, and seating
herself by the table, read the remain
der:
II write this In the old library and
Sristow holds my horse by the porch.
He viii give you this letter when
an gone.
Last night we were dancins-all
% us--at the ball ! can scarcely be
RSVs q was lsss than twelve hours