Putnam patriot., 1914-09-25

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 more than mere romance. which ai- ways seems somewhat intangible to me moonlight and summer nights. and the frsolity Of thingH-
 Yeg. Iut ae men forget easily" interrupted pavlds. checking what promised fo be eolable diseearse oH the philosophy 9f romance as inter ureted by F9rde is the women "ho feel tae lra8 in their sealz and Rho live ca and love on. and die aith the wonder of it undiscovered.
 "aafe true remarked uem.us. Vho had hitherto been silent and ab- stracted and l @ill tell you of just such d case"
 Somehow all pregeRt felt that some thing was forthcoming
 Boys, he continued quietly and with an odd depth to his voice we've been good pals all of us, and ! alone have been retieeHt aud secretiQe BOW I'm going 10 show my hand
 'When was twenty-five l was rather unlike most men at the same age. Ny uta had been, and was com pesed of outdoor sports and getting ahead in my fathers business ma. king good the name he had ieft ne
 Women to me simply did net ex- igt Jast about tHeH came m one serious HlHes5 typhoid and | was beastlY low. nurses and specialists. and ls treatment. and all that. and finally q tedious couvaiescence, bright ened only bg the uHob5trusive but un. tiring attentions Of my hepseEeeper.
 One day when was learning the use Of my limbs again. l Was sumter ing about the house, and in the li brary I ehaneed upon book left there Presumably the housekeeper had been reading it.
 .'The book contained some closely written sheets of paper, and how l came to read something not fer my eyes shall never know. hut read them did. lt is that letter that makes the love of a woman fore9eI impossible for me. l carry it with me always" his hand rose tentatively to his breast pocket That letter he resumed. laid bare womaHsoul
 the very auIntesaenee Of woman hood all the fierce tenderness the sublime unseliishness. the glorious self-abnegatiou of the love of @o. man Tor the undeserVing man. As 1 read knew that the writer of that letter was the one woman in tho world for me.
 And ! felt. for the first time in my egotistieal, selfsullicient career, | strange doubt, a curious abasement.
 4The follow ing week l was to de pat south further to rceuperate and Fou may believe | y departure was a reluctant one.
 Tn the iAtervel my heueekeeper was slightly indisp1aed With what eventually developed iato typnaid, and she must have felt st me slight amaze at my assiduous attentions and de. ligbtfu affabiiity. 1 was positively amorous with my floral donations.
 Well as l say. went south, and had been gone nearly a month when was called home by telegram saving that my housekeeper had con tracted typhoid and had died As she seemed to have uo one to make the necessary arrangements. would come at once and attend to things myself?"
 Deminr paused. and selected fresh cigar witt purotlious care.
 T arrived home. he resumed. and found that the old doctor had aone everything. and that the funeral was that night l disliked death as being morbid and therefore an undesirable factor in my thoroughly wellbalauced makeup.
 However, ! decided to go in and pay my asst respects to one who had served me well She looked quiet and quite 8t peace Around her throat was slelder gold chain with & ne dallioa attached Careless hands had laid it ,one side up, and bent over her ana turned 1t over."
 The cigar glowed hereely red for an mstaat, :aen peming said very low:
 My picture vas in it and under meath the name aud the date in her handwriting.
 That's all boys All night sat gazing al her. this woman who had lived in my house for seven years, on whom had bestowed some hriet snatches of conversation or an occa- sional appreeiat}e gift, this woman loved tCo late. whom l might never touch-who would never know try ing to make reparation Co the dead for the blind stupidity had shown the living
 h her dear still face l read the pluful story her hopeless love her loneliness - vowed then that ss she had lived and loved and suffered, SD by Gods mcrey l should tee Next morning took her aWay
 \ long. vibrant silence followed Then ths boys departed quietly.
 
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