Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-20

paths had merged for a little space,
but in future they would lie far apart.
This is fate" she thought bitterly,
and she felt it's shadow lie heavy on
her heart.
The sun had disappeared beneath
leaden sky and the man raised the
shade. AS he did so she noticed his
hands, which were large and brown
strong hands, she decided, capable
of good hearty grip. Outside the
prospect was not cheerful, for it still
had the cold, raw look of early spring.
"Now," he thought whimsically. "if
sitting here close by my side, and
we could talk together while she look
ed up at me with those big blue eye.
and smiled on me with that sweet lit
tie mouth-by George!" And his
heart bounded at the thought
The tran-hov. noisy and persua
sive. came along with his arms full
of Easter magazines. AS the mar
selected one from the number the gir
peeped at him from the cornerd OF
her eve. She experienced decided
sensation of pleasure when she oh
served that he chose the very maya
zine that she had been reading. She
took it up from her lap with renewed
interest, whereupon the man, his at
tention attracted by the movement
looked across and saw also that the!
we're reading the same book. Fac!
could not but see that the other saw.
!, "Our tastes are the same," he
thought, and he, too, was pleased.
: After luncheon. of which each par
took somewhat sparingly in the din
? hour in the smoking apartment and
+ tried to reason himself out of what he
felt to be the absurd frame of mind
| in which he found himself. Here
. part in his life, as college, the hard
= work of his manhood. and later the in
2 terests of successful career, had
absorbed his time and energies The
: feeling inspired by this little girl
whom he did not even know was
something entirely new, and thing
= which he felt his reason should con-
5 iemn. But as time passed he found
+ it impossible to treat the matter light
: ly. He did not know her, it is true,
j. but he seemed instinctively to know
L her goodness, sweetness and dearneSS.
= In some subtle way they had been
d communicated to him in the glance
y that he had from those blue eyes. He
d was sure that he loved her, that she
n was the one woman in the world for
d him, and with the realization came Il
e feeling of mingled joy and pain such
: as he had never known before.
i When he turned to his section he
n could scarcely keep smile from his
: lips. The car was warm and she had
n laid aside her hat and cloak, and sat
+ revealed in all the trimness and daint.
o mess of her traveling-gown.
II "She is the kind that grows love
lier and dearer the oftener one sees
e her" he thought, and then there came
II to him IL most painful suggestion
n Suppose there were another man
The thought which followed, that sh'
II might he married. he dismissed q
d once as intolerable.
IS AS for the girl, she was havin'
y an unhappy time. All the strength
g of her soul was in rebellion agains
lie circumstances. She experienced
lie kind of mental and spiritual nausei
lie when she thought of her return hom
l. where every influence would agail
A. suggest the other man as her inev
t. table destiny. The thought becam
lie more and more distasteful. She wa
at woman who at all times knew he
Of own heart and did not attempt to de
Ell ceive herself as to its dictates, so sh
fully realized that as she had trie
n to love the other man and failed. 5
now she could love this stranger Will,
he out even trying.
AS the day heightened and twiligh
,u shadows began to darken the car tn
man ceased to try TO shake off the nj
n. traction that enthralled him. Fools
ne and unreasonable it might be- but h
of accepted it as fact. The girl ahar
doned herself to her unhappiness, lea
n ing back with her cheek presse
II against the cushion and her eyes turr
ly ed toward the night. She was tn
l." more miserable of the two becaus
she was hopeless. The man had III
n! blood of fighters in his veins and he
n! ed against hope that way might y,
All be opened. The car faded away an