The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1915-09-18
With the Latest
Improvements
And a Pair Of Loving Hearts
to Enjoy Them ALL
BY NELLIE 3. RANSOM.

thnt wound between tn0 trees TO the
village She had watched the road Il
great deal during the last few days. ~
first with happy anticipation. hut now
with helpless longing.
II was bad enough In the daytime,
but 1t was worse when II grew too
dark to see who was coming along the
road. for then the footsteps grew loud
er and louder until she WIS certain
that they were going to turn toward
the white pillared porch. only to die
away again. leaving her sick with
fresh disappointment.
On the previous Sunday evening the
vague. beautiful something which had
enveloped the whole summer. making
It different from any other summer Of
Dorothy's life. had suddenly taken
definite form. A look. n touch. a word
or two, and she had found herself
without doubt that John Porter low
ed her and that she loved him. but he
had gone away without any open dec
laration, and. though Dorothy had
watched the road till her eyes nchcd
he had not returned.
"I might have known It," she said IN
herself disconsolately. "He is too
proud and independent to ask the
daughter Of rich man to marry him.
Now that his work on the new electric
road is finished he will go away. and
! shall never see him again"
Dorothy's neighbor. tweIve-yearold
Gladys. came skipping across the In wn
a very perky pink how topping her vel
low trcsses. She perched herself on
the broad arm Of Dorothy's chair.
i've been reading such lovely sto'
ry!' she exclaimed.
what was 1t abOut?" queried DorO
thy, with ianguid interest.
"Oh. II was about a brave knight in
shining armor." said Gladys. "nnd he
loved fatr and noble lady. who loved
him in return. But she had gold md
Jewels and all that sort Of thing. you
know. and he hadn't thing hut his
charger and his good sword. md 40 he
could never. never ask her to marry
him"
"Well.' asked Dorothy as Gladys
paused for breath. what happened
them
-Oh." replied Gladys. there WINS
nothing for the knight to do hut ia
ride away to the wars. and the prin-
cess just sat in her tower and pinned
and pinned till ut Inst she died. oh. II
was perfectly iovely-so sad aud
sweet"
at seems to me-" said Dorothy al
most GROSSLY. that It would have been
stay and marry the lady instead OF
leaving her to pine and die"
why" cried Gladys In disgust
''that would have spoiled the whole
story"
She jumped from her perch md was
dancing down the steps. but turned t.
call back:
"Oh. say. that Mr.. Porter has gone
AWAY. hasn't hef saw him at the
station Monday with suit case in his
hand. Aren't his eyes just too hand
some for anything? I'm sorry he has
left. aren't your"
Then. having unwittingly destroyed
DOrothy's last vestige of hope, Gladys
checrfully departed.
A gray haired man with a keen but
kindly face came and stood in the
doorway behind Dorothy. noting with
an anxious look her dropping figure
He moved uneasily once or twice ami
then came out to where she was sit
ting.
You ought to be playing golf this
nne weather" he suggested.
I'm rather tired of golf. father" re
piled Dorothy
Mr.. Allen took turn up and down
the porch.
HIS that young Porter left?
haven't seen him for several days." he
asked. with a carefully careless air
II really don't know. Probably hi
has," replied the girl. sitting very
straight and assuming an air even
more carefully careless than that OF
her father.
Mr.. Allen after few more turns ant
anxious sidelong glances bctook him
self again to the house. Since the
death of Dorothy's mother ten years
before the bond Of sympathy and un
derstnnding between him and his only
child had grown unusually strong. but
here was situation which he felt ir
nowise competent to handle.
Left to herself. DOrothy's sprightI,
Indifference suddenly vanished. Hel
hands fell Iistlessly into her lap. ant
she leaned her hcnd YEARLY against
the back OF her chair. So he had gone
without even coming to say goodby
Well. there was no use watching the
road any longer.
ats just like Gladys story" She
sighed 1.-THE knight has gone to fight
his BATTLES. leaving the poor princess
in the castle TO pine alone. only. beins
q twentieth century princess instead Of
a medieval one. I'm afraid can't die
OF love. Girls never do nowadays
suppose that's one Of the modern i'm
provements." she continued whimsi