Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-11-13

the document LT048 nB pocket ana
handing It to her. "Read 1t. What's
the answer"
Morals hands tremb1ed.
Takes you long time to read 1t.
IL 1t truce"
''Yes."
"And 1 went up to the tennis court
with the intention of knocking his
head off; and now I'm wondering why
he didn't knock of mine. Nora. he's
q man: and when you get through with
this, T'm going down to the hotel and
apologize"
"You will do nothing Of the sort;
not with that eye"
"All right. I was always worried
for fear you'd hook up with some duke
you'd have to support. Now, l want
to know how this chap happens to
be my son-in-iaw. Make it brief. for
don't want to get tangled up more
than Is necessary"
Nora cracked the certificate in her
fingers and stared unseeingly at It
for some time. Il met him first In
Rangocn," she began slowly, without
raising her eyes.
when you went around the world
GA your own?"
Eyes. Oh, don't worry. / was al
ways able to take care Of myself"
"Aa Irish idea," answered Harrigan
compIacently.
"I loved him, father, with all my
heart and soul. He was not only big
and strong and handsome, but he was
kindly and tender and thoughtful.
why, never knew that he was rich
until after I had promised to be his
wife. When learned that he was the
Edward CourtlaEdt who was always
getting into the newspapers, laughed.
There were stories about his esca-
pades. There were innuendoes re-
garding certain women, but l put
them out of my mind as twaddle. All,
never had I been SO happy! In Ber-
lin we went about like tive children.
It was play. He brought nae to the
Opera and took me away; and we had
the most charming little suppers. /
never wrote you or mother because
wished to surprise you"
You have. Go on"
II had never paid much attention
to Flora Desimone, though I knew that
she was jealous Of nay success. Sew
eral times l caught her looking at Ed
ward In a way I did not like"
she looked at him, huh?"
at was the last performance of the
season. We were married that after
NOON. We did not want anyone to
know about it. I was not to leave
the stage until the end Of the follow
ing season. We were staying at the
same hotel with rooms across the cor
ridor. This was much against his
wishes, but I prevailed"
II see"
"Our rooms were opposite, as said.
After the performance that night I
went to mine to complete the final
packing. We were to leave at one
for the Tyrol Father, l saw Flora
Desimone come out of his room"
Harrigan shut and opened his hands.
Do you understand? I saw her.
She was laughing. / did not see him.
| My wedding night! She came from
his room. My heart stopped, the
world stopped, everything went black.
All the stories that I had read and
| heard came back. When he knocked
| at my door I refused to see him.
never saw him again until that night
| in Paris when he forced his way into
my apartment"
"Hang 1t, Nora, this doesn't sound
| like him!"
| II saw her"
"He wrote you?"
II returned the letters, unopened
THAT wasn't square. You might
| have been wrong"
! "He wrote five letters. After that
! he went to India, to Africa and back
| to India, where he seemed to find con
| ISOLATION enough"
! Harrigan laid 1t to his lack Of nor
| NAL vision, but to his single optic
there was anything but misery in hel
beautiful blue eyes. True, they
sparkled with tears; but that signiflet
nothing; he hadn't been married these
thirty-odd years without learning thai
a woman weeps for any Of a Thousand
and one reasons.
"Do you care for him stfll?"
mot a day passed during these
many months that I did not VOW
hated him."
Anyone else know"
1.-THE padre. had to tell some one
or 20 mad. But I didn't hate him.
could no more put him cut of my
life than I could stop breathing. All
I have been SO miserable and I'm
happy!" She laid her head upon hi!
knees and clumsily he stroked it. His
girl!
That's the trouble with us Irish
Nora. We jump without looking, with
out finding whether we're right O.
wrong. Well, your daddys opinion il
that you should have read his frs
letter. If it didn't ring right, why
you could have jumped the traces.
don't believe he did anything wron!
at all. It isn't In the mans blood tt
do anything underhoard."