Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-10-26

IVY 80
She held out her hand. "Good-by,"
she said.
Goodnight"
He said goodnight again at the foot
plunged into the treet. Lisa Reid
went in through the scren door and
mounted the stairs to her room.
1t sounds backneyed and common
and dull, and it would have looked the
same way unless you knew. Ten
O'clock paintings between young men
and maidens were not unusual of a
moonlight night on Glover street.
that. street where nearly every house
and descriptions, from the little Irish
girl who. sealed cans at, the conden-
sery to Miss White, who was staying
in the country for her health. In be-
tween these two social extren1itieB
came a crowd Of folk, respectable.
ordinary, and small salaried, like Lisa
Reid. who taught the third grade in
pied the least expensive Of Mrs.Van
Loans furnished bedrooms. Certain
10 o'clock partings were not unusual.
but when Lisa Reid. shut the screen
door behind her she shut it upon all
that her poor little life had gathered
OF love and romance and happiness,
for she Knew that she would never
see Ben Worth again. ~
Ben Worth meart everything in the
world to her. Lisc got her rneager
breakfast in Mrs. Van Loans bed
room, but she got lun, heon and din
ner al Mrs. Crosby's, which was next
door to the school. Mrs. Crosby had
a long table full of "mealers." One
cold evening when Lisa was wearing
her old gray flannel blouse, than
which nothing could be more unbe-
new "mealer'' and introduced, him to
the boarders, after which she sat him
oown' right across from Lisa His
maine was Ben Worth and he was the
new supr "intendent of the Westmore
lighting pia:'. He. was big and clean
and frank eyed. but silent. One could
see that he was I'D hand to make
friends easily. But afser he had eat
en- some twenty dinners opposite Lisa
he moved owe to the seat beside her.
I want to get close enough to talk
to-" he said. You look like home
folks. and. I'm 70 lonesome" Lisa,
talked to him."she did not care about
him then but presently after he had
walked home with her and a on the
veranda a few evenings she began to
realize that she did. She began also
to wonder If. he. was ever. going to
care for her, and to hope that he
would in time. In the lean time she
was very happy. She began to feel
joyfully that she pleased his sight
In order to please 1t still more she
committed a foolish extravaganza, she
bought a white wool dress with q gay
girdle. Just for dinner wear. And she
took to %loosentng her dark hair about
her face. as she saw Miss White did.
Sometimes when she looked in the
glass she was almost shocked at the
sight Of her own sweetness. And
she sighed and smiled and hoped again
So. winter became spring ana spring
summer. II - e.
One evening she told him that she
aus she had been offered more
money elsewhere, and 1t was neces-
sary that she should earn al" that she
could. you see, father can't turn
off the work he used to-" she ex-
planned. simply. It was. as much az
she had ever said about her family.
Some subjects were too sacred-for idle
and true and decent as she believed
Ben Worth to be. OF courSe II, some
day she knew him better-but that
day did not zone. In the forty three
seconds that 1t took her to get from
the screen door to her room she re-
altzeo pOlgnantly that she had hoped
foolishly. and that her dream was a.
much q vanished thing as January'e
snow. He had meant nothing; he had
let her 90, without saying a word.
In her own room Lisa turned on the
light, opened her trunk and proceeded
to pack. She seemed to have, only q
strange, horrible, sick feeling where
her young, ~throbbing heart ought to
be. She could not cry. When she look
ed in the glass she was astonished at
herself; her face. looked 90 Hike the
white ash Of something that had once
flashed and sparkled. Hope, expec.
tation, Joy were dead. She, was. carry.
ing their lifeless weight upon her, and
must carry It tomorrow and Tor many
many to-morrows. She shrank before
the thought OF the to-morrows.
The hardest Of all ~ when abe
took down the white wool dress and
folded It away in the trunk. It wa
another dead thing. She had been
happy In 1t 20 many times But now
she could never be. happy In II again.
"Oh, L Wish I had never had 4" she
moaned. II wish ] had never seer
him. Why did he have ia. come end
spoil 1ny Ewhole life? Oh ! might have
known that he meant %nothAng!44. j
ought not to have hoped. Hut
thought he did care for. mo Just the
way I cared for him" - ~
EFSVVhen tho tFunksswaS packed. and
her oom cleared Of all the thinss Gi,l
had used during this one really happy