The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1914-07-23

dwelt for days.
The second bit of pale green paper
contained cry from most tinexpect-
ed source: "Cable your London ad-
dress. s. refuses to give 1t to me.
think understand the situation. We
want to make amends for what you
have had to put up with during the
year. She has shown her true nature
at last" 1t was signed Leslie"
From Sara came these cryptic
words: For each year of famine there
will come seven years of plenty
All the way across the Atlantic she
lived in state of subdued excitement.
Conflicting emotions absorbed her
waking hours but her dreams we're all
of one complexion: rosy and warm
and full of joyousness that dis
tressed her vastly when she recalled
them to mind in the early morning
hours. During the day she intermit-
tently hoped and feared that he would
be on the landing stage. In any event,
she was bound to find unhappiness.
If he we're there her joy would be
ehort-lived and blighting; if he were
not there, her disappointment would
be equally hard to bear.
He was there. She saw him from
the deck of the tender as they edged
up to the landing. His tall figure
loomed in the front rank against the
rail that held back the crowd; his
sun-bronzed face wore look of eager
expectancy; from her obscured posi-
ton in the shadow of the deck build
ing, purposely chosen for reasons only
too obvious, she could even detect the
alert, swift-moving scrutiny that he
fastened upon the crowd.
Later on, he stood looking down
into her serious blue eyes; her hands
we're lying limp in his. His own eyes
were dark with earnestness, with the
restraint that had fastened itself upon
him. Behind her stood the respectful
but immeasurably awed maid, who
could not, for the life of her, under
stand how man could be on both
sides of the Atlantic at one and the
same time.
Thank the Lord, Hetty. say I. for
the five-day boats" he was saying.
you should not have come. Bran
don," she cried softly. and the look
of misery in her eyes was tinged with
glow she could not suppress. 'It
only makes everything harder for me.
IL Oh, wish you had not come!"
But isn't it wonderful?" he cried,
that l should be here and waiting for
you! 1t is almost inconceivable. And
you were in the act of running away
from me, too. Oh, have that much
of the tale from Sara, so don't look
SO hurt about it"
II am so sorry you came" she re-
peated, her lip trembling.
Noting her emotion, he gave her
hands fierce, encouraging pressure
and Immediately released them.
Come" he said gently; 81 have
booked for London. Everything is ar
ranged. l shall see to your luggage.
Let me put you in the carriage first"
AS she sat in the railway carriage,
waiting for him to return, she tried
in a hundred ways to devise a means
of escape, and yet she had never loved
him so much as now. Her heart was
sore, her desolation never SO complete
as now.
He came back at last and took his
seat beside her in the compartment,
tanning himself with his hat. The maid
very discreetly stared out of the win
dow at the hurrying throng of travel
ers on the platform.
How / love you, Hetty-how l
adore you'll" Booth whispered passion
ately.
"Oh, Brandon!"
And don't mean to give you up"
he added, his lean jaw setting hard.
you must-oh, you must" she cried
miserably. II mean it, Brandon"
What are your plans?" asked he.
please don't ask me-" she pleaded.
you must give 1t up. Brandon. Let
me go my own way"
mot until / have the whole story
from you. You see, am not easily
thwarted, once set my heart on a
thing. l gathered this much from
Sara: the object is not insurmount-
able.
"She-said-that?"
I'm effect, yes," he qualified.
What did she tell your" demanded
Hetty, laying her hand on his arm.
Il will confess she didn't reveal the
secret that you consider barrier, but
she went SO far as to say that it was
very dark and dreadful" he said light
ly. They were speaking in very low
tones. When / pinned her down to
it, she added that it did not in any
sense bear upon your honor. But
there is time enough to talk about this
later on. For the present let's not
discuss the past. l know enough Of
your history from your own lips as
we'll as what little could get out
of Sara, to feel sure that you are
in a way, drifting. / intend to look
after you. at least until you find your
self. Your sudden break with Sara
hoa LII a.