South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-01-31
SECOND YEAR OF
MARRIED LIFE.
BY MABEL HERBERT URN

With eager fingers Helen cut the
string and tore off the wrappings from
a large box of candy.
How dear of him! He had not for
gotten after all!
layer of crystallized fruit was on
top. She lifted out the pasteboard
tray and underneath was an attract
i've assortment of chocolates. Oh, it
was dear of him! And what a big
bOx-surely five pounds. 1t must have
been at least four dollarS-thiS candy
was never less than eighty cents!
Oh. he shouldn't have spent so
much. But Warren did not do any
thing half way. If he gave her any
thing-it was always something worth
while. And today was the second an
niVersary of their engagement
She had determined not TO remind
him and when he left that morning
without the slightest reference TO it
she had gone about her work with a
heavy heart Try as she would, she
could not keep back the sickening
sense of disappointment. That he
could ever forget this day. 1t was
just two years ago he had taken her
in his arms with a murmuring I'VE
will always celebrate this day. 1t
will be a day apart from every other
| because of thisii"
was his remembrance. 1t was like
! him not to speak of it in advance. He
never talked Of things-he only did
them.
And now, as was her nature when
given the least chance, she began to
dwell on and eXaggerate his every
virtue and minimize his faults. Did
not this show he thought OF many
| things that she believed he had for
| gotten? Perhaps very often in the
same way his thoughts were full OF
! love and tenderness of which he gave
no sign. Perhaps all she had felt was
! indifference was only a lack of dem
| onstratiOni
Her heart went out TO him in a
wave of tenderness. Oh, she would
try to understand better after this, she
would try not to be hurt at his seem
| ing GOODNESS, but to remember that
deep down in his heart that he did
! love her-only- she must not expect
him to show it, that was not his ma
| ture.
She started up-she would phone
him. She could not wait until he
/ came home-she must tell him now
| that the box had come and how happy
| she was and that she felt it had help
ed To make her understand him bet
ter than ever before. JoyOusly she
went TO the telephone
"1125 Cortland
Warren il Out.
"Hello-Fd like TO speak TO Mr.
Curtis oh. then. will you ask him tC
! call up Mrs. Curtis as soon as ne
comes in?' she had hardly hung III
the receiver when the door bell rang
| 1t was the elevator boy with a very
worried look on his usually stolid face
I'm sorry, ma am, but that package
/ the other boy brought up a little while
ago-that don't belong TO you. Tha
il for Miss Cuttings
Miss Cuttings" Helen gasped
why il was addressed to me-"
NO. ma am. il weren't Ii might
have been wrote badly, but il belong
10 Miss Cuttings. She gets box like
that every few days The other DO!
brought it up-and he's new-h'
didn't know
Helen's cheeks were crimson as sh'
went over to the waste basket anC
took out the wrapping paper that haC
4 come around the box. The address
was no more than a pencilled scrawl
But it's Mrs. Curtis, don't yol
see" handing it 10 the boy.
NO. ma'am. il is Miss NJ Cutting
that's her name"
With a sick weight on her hear
Helen realized the boy was right. Nov
that she looked at it closely 1t wa
Miss NJ. Cuttings.
But I've opened the box-I have
eaten some of the candy, What shall
/ do2"
Just have TO say it was opened b,
mistake, l reckon"
Helen brought out the box.
"Oh. there amt much gone" th'
/ boys voice expressed relief.
Just spread il out bit and tie j