The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-11-11
On the Wings
OF the Storm
There Came a Change In Her
Views About Love.
Bv PHILIP KEAN

NE manager VI JIG D0al h'A"
stock farm watched the storm from
the window of his bungalow. 1t
was typical western hurricane,
coming after a dry spell, with pink
lightning and tempestuous winds
and the continuous roll of thunder.
To the unaccustomed eye it was
terrifying, but Alexander gazed UNI
disturbed. He was young and
strong.
But something very like fear
gripped him now as he saw between
the swaying trees a wralthllke tg-
ure running toward the house.
He went to the door and opened
it. He dragged her over the thresh-
old-a little, gasping, frightened
girl.
'I'm so afraid" was all she could
say at first.
GLOW does it happen that you
are out ?" He put her in big
chair by the side of the fireplace.
otis SO late and such an awful
night"
She looked at him with startled
eyes as she tried to pin up the thick
brown locks that had fallen about
her shoulders.
"I-I was running away" she
confessed.
ooh" Alexander said as he sat
down opposite her. "You look a bit
old for that. l was nine when l
decided to take to cave dwelling
and man Friday"
A dimple showed in the corner Of
her mouth. "But-but l wasn't
running away to live in cave. l
was running away to get married"
But" Alexander said presently,
"you-you don't look quite old
enough for that"
81 am eighteen" was the expla-
nation, "and he is twenty-one."
'He?" murmured Alexander.
| where IS he
Her lip quivered. 81 think the
storm must have kept him home.
You wouldn't think a storm would
matter to a man, would your"
"Not man who was going to
marry you," Alexander found him
self saying.
"Oh"-the warmth in his tone
brought a rosy flush to her face
"of course something may have
kept him."
''Where was he to meet your"
Alexander asked.
cover there by the church. We
are stopping at one of the cottages
just beyond"
"And when you didn't find him
there you ran to the nearest house r
q saw your light and ran to-
ward it"
"And now," he told her, eff you
are rested bit I'll take you home"
"But | can't go back!" she cried.
"The door locks with spring, and
l haven't a key"
eye gods!" Alexander's brows
were knit.
And then, because he could think
of nothing else to say, he asked,
"Are you hungry"
Starved" she cried.
He brought out crackers and
cheese and sardines and olives and
marmalade and all the dainties that
bachelor manager who elects to
eat at meals the coarse food that is
given his men keeps for private
consumption.
eff l only knew where Bob
bic was" she said, 81 should be al
most happy"
$50 his name is Bobbie ?" Alex
ander asked.
She nodded. eve went to school
together, and he is at college now,
and he hasn't anything to marry
on, and that's why mother objected,
and that's why we ran away"
"Do you love him?" Alexander
asked slowly.
"Of course" she said quickly,
"only I'm not so sure right now. 1t
seems as if he couldn't have let me
come out in the storm alone--if he
had loved me-"
Gle couldn't" said Alexander
briefly.
And then, after a moment, he
said slowly, 81 wonder if you know
what love is really like-love for
which one suffers, for which one
dies, if need be?''
| She caught ~ breath. ''No one
ever said sucl ~ lgs to me of love
BEFORE" she said. "Bobbie and l
Just thought Of fun-and-of hav-
ing our own way"
She was such a little innocent
thing. but with such purity in her