The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1914-08-29

IS then In sudden sharpness: you
s shant tell her. Monty. You wouldn't
~ dare"
u NO. indeed" he assured her quick.
e. ly. "Of course not"
IT'S just among us three, Doctor
Southall and you and me. We three
have had our secrets before, eh, Mon.
= TYP"
Yes. Judith, we have"
She bent toward him. her hands
tightening on the cane After all,
it's true To-day I am getting old |
may look only fifty, but | feel sixty
and I'll admit to seventy.iive. It's
JOY that keeps us young, and didn't
get my fair share OF that, Monty
For just one little week my heart had
It all -all-and then-well then II
was finished II was finished long be
fore | married Tom cambridge. 1t
isn't that I'm empty headed It's that
I've been an empty.hearted woman,
Monty as empty and dusty and desc
late as the old house over yonder on
the ridge
II know, Judith. know"
You've been empty I'm a way. too"
she said But It's been different
way You were never in love-really
| in love, | mean Certainly not with
me- Monty, though you tried to make
me think so once upon time before
Sassoon came along. and-Beauty Va.
| liant"
The major blinked, suddenly
startled II was out, the one name
neither had spoken to the other for
thirty years! lie looked at her lit.
tie guiltlly; but her eyes had turned
away. Everything changed then"
she continued dreamily. everything"
The majors fingers strayed across
his waistcoat. fumbling uncertainty
for his eyeglasses. For an instant
he. too, was back In the long-ago
past, when he and Valiant had been
comrades. II had been curious
three sided afrair--he, and Valiant and
Sassoon. Sassoon with his dissipated
fair and ungovernable temper and
strange Ats OF recklessness; clean.
high-idealed. straight-away Valiant:
and he--a Bristow. neither better nor
worse than the rest OF his name. He
remembered that mad strained season
when he had grimly recognized his
own cause as hopeless, and with burn
ing eyes had watched Sassoon and
Valiant racing abreast. He remem-
bered that glittering prodigal dance
when he had come upon Valiant and
Judith standing In the shrubbery, the
rs nhIn- IiUhf
goldening their faces; hers smiling. a
little fippant perhaps, and conscious
Of her spell: his grave and earnest.
yet wistful
You promise john"
Il give my sacred word. What
ever the provocatlon, I will not lift
my hand against him. Never. never'"
Then the same voice. vibrant. appeal
ing. Judith! II isn't because-be-
cause-you care for him."
lie had plunged away In the dark.
ness before her answer came. What
had It mattered then to him what she
had replicd2 And that very night had
befallen the fatal quarrel,
The major started How that name
had blown away the dust! That's
a long time ago. Judith"
Thirty years ago tomorrow they
fought" she said softly, Valiant and
Sassoon. Every woman has her one
anniversary, | suppose, and tomor.
rows mine. DO you know what |
do, every fourteenth OF May, Monty?
| keep my room and spend the day
always the same way. There's a little
book read And there's an old hair.
cloth trunk that I've had since | was
a girl Down In the bottom OF II are
something's that | take out and set
/ round the room and there
Ia a handful OF old letters 30 over
from first to last They're almost
/ worn out now, but could repeat them
! all with my eyes shut. Then there's a
/ any old straw basket with n yellow
! Wlsp IN II that once was a bunch OF
! cape icssamines | wore them TO that
last ball-the night before Il han.
| pened The fourteenth of MAY used 10
be sad, but now, do you know. | look
| forward TO H. always have lot of
jessamines that particular day nm
| nave Shirley get me some tomorrow
and In the evening when go down
/ stairs, the house is fun OF the scent
| OF them All summer long It's roses
| but on the fourteenth OF May Il has
| to be jessamuos Shirley must think
me whimsical old woman but ! In
| sist on being humorcd"
lie smiled little blcakly. and
| cleared his throat