The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-11

wood, with the arbor fragrance about
us Il think shah always picture you
with roses all about you. Red roses
the colcr of your lipsD No. it was not
then that 1t began-nor that dreadful
hour when you fought with me to save
my life--nor the morning you sat your
horse in the box.rows in that yew.
green habit that made your hair look
like molten copper. No, it began the
first afternoon, when ] sat in my mo.
tor with your rose in my hand 1t
has never left me since, by day or by
night And yet there are people In
dis age of airships and honking high
ways and typewriters who think love
atfirsts sight is as out-of-date as our
little grandmothers' hoops rusting in
Ihe garnet. All, sweetheart, |. for one
know better!
Suppose | had not come to Vir-
ginia-~and known YOU! My heart
one believe in fate. Here at the Court
| found an old leaf-calendar-it sits
at my elbow now. just as came on 1t.
The date it shows is May 18th, and
its motto is: Every man carries his
fate upon riband about his neck.
like that
THAT first Sunday at st. Andrews,
! thought of a day--may it be soon! -
when YOU and | might stand before
that altar, with your people Tiny
people, too, now around us, and
shall hear YOU say; I. Shirley, take
thee, John And to think il is really
TO come true! DO you remember the
text the minister preached from? 1t was
But all mon perceive that they have
riches, ard that their faces shine o:
the faces of angels think | shall
90 about heneeforth with my face
shining, so that all men will see tina
l have riches--your love for me, dear
Il am so happy can hardly see thu
words-or perhaps it IS that the SUI
has set. | am sending this over b,
Uncle Jefferson. Send me back jus
2 word by him, sweetheart, to say
may come to you tonight. And add
the three short words I am so thirst,
to hear over and Overcome verb be
tween two pronouns---so that | cal
Kiss them all at onte!"
lie raised his head a little flushed
and with eyes brilliant lighted
candle, sealed the letter with the RIM
he wore and dispatched IT,
Thereafter he sat looking into tn
growing dusk, watching the pal
lamps OF The consultations deepen 4
green gilt aFainet the lapis.lazuli O
the sky. and listening to the insec
noises dulling into the woven choru
of evening. Uncle Jefferson was lon
in returning, and he grew impatien
finally and began to prowl through tn
| dusty corridors like a leopard. the
| TO the front porch and finally to tn
driveway. listening at every turn TO
the familiar slouching step.
! When at length the old negro al
peared. Valiant took the note h
brought, his heart beating rapidly
and carried it hastily in to the candle
light. He did not open It at once, bu
sat for a full minute pressing it be
tween his palms as though to extrao
from the delicate paper the believe
| thrill of her touch. His hand shoe
| slightlp as he drew the folded leave
from tho envelope, How would it b'
gin? MY Knight Of the Crimso
Rose" or Dear Gardener tShe ha
called him Gardener the day they ha
set out the roses or perhaps eve
| Sweetheart" II would not be Iona
only a nero Yes" or Come to me.
perhaiN Yet even the shortest n.issiv
had it, beginning AID is endlnE.
He opened and read.
Her aa instant he stared unbelie'
ingly. Then the PAPER cracked &c
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