The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1916-06-30
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Misapprehension
By WILLIAM CHANDLER

count or the hu3gnCe OF Tue uau uau
gone there TO see. asked the clerk Of
the hotel where stopped n there was
q free library In the place. lie direct
ed me TO one Of the most attractive
little buildings I ever saw. Ia the cen.
ter OF grove. Invent there and nosed
over the fiction shelves for awhile and
finally took down a novel
On turning the leaves a bit Of paper
fitted 10 the door. picked II up and,
seeing some words written on II In
pencil. read them.
Ten years today since Prank left US
and I am no more reconcilcd 10 his alb
sencs than the day after his departure
on. the long. long. weary day
% ALICE.
Now, there was something In this
that fitted me. My name II Frank
Tisdale. Twelve years before I had
accepted position In a commission
house In IIongkong and gone out there
TO make my fortune I returned on
visit after eight years sojourn In Chi.
ma and never went back. I was TWEEN.
~ years old when left home. and
among the girls 20 whom said good.
by was one Alice Rlngold. But was
not aware that I was any more 10 her
than any other young man.
took the book aud the paper to the
librarian. telling her that I had found
the one In the other. She said that ~.
turned books were apt 10 have Q varie.
~ OF articles In them. usually put there
IN lieu OF q book mark. I asked her
n such articles were returned. and her
rrply was. Sometimes I requested
that n she returned the paper I had
left with her 20 the person who had
written Il she would let me know. !
left with her . postage stamp and my
addrvss.
Not very long after my return TO
my home ! received n letter from the
librarian announcing that she had
found the Alice whose name was ap-
pended 90 the writing on the paper I
had discovered. The lady had dropped
II into the book which was lying open
on a table. some one else had closed
the book. and Il had been returned 60
the library with the slip In H. The
librarian gave the name. Alice Rln.
gold
Now. I had passed the age ot thirty.
supposing that no woman had shown
any predlspo-ition toward me I wa
on the verge Of middle age. with no
one 10 care for me. aud now accident.
ally I bad dlscoyer,d that giri from
whom | had parted a dozen years be.
fore bad been mine for the asking dur.
Ing the whole OF that period. I rvmsm-
berrd Alicc Rlngold. n shy little thing.
no young that I would not have be
lleyed she could love any man. She
could not AZ the time have been more
than fifteen
Here was a chance 10 breas away
trom the bachelorhood into which
fate seemed 20 have thrown me I
would renew my acquaintance with
Alice Ringold. and n she was Of the
same mind and from the recent date
of what she had written n was likely
that she was-i might settle myself In
a homo under tho same advantages az
pertained 20 youth. Hut I must con
trive 20 make the meeting appear ac
cidental
She had removed from the town
where she had lived 10 Acland. aud
there I went Having learned where
her homo was situated. set out 10 mud
her. proposing 10 make up a story as
30 how I bad come 20 know of her
being In Acland. Just befotc reaching
the house a young woman came out OF
the front door and ia another moment
met me face 10 face.
She was Alice Ringold. Between six
teen aud twenty.six there Is not ~
great a difference In ones appearance
as between twenty-slI and thlrty-slI
At any rate. there was enough left Of
the girl had known for me 60 recog
niEe her I stopped. lifted my hat aud
spoke 10 her, she looked AZ me. aud l
saw At once that she knew NE
Alice Ringoldr' I asked.
Yes; and you are Frank Tlsdale."
Singular that you should know me
after % many years absence"
NO more singular than that you
should know me"
II have been wondering what had
become ~ you since my return to
America. ! have been hunting you for
months"
She east her eyes down just as she
did when She was little more than a
child She was going 20 the village.
and walked beside her, | told her OF
the many tunes | had thought OF her
during my absence IN the east aud how
I had longed that fate should have
brought us together again.
Win that slip OF paper IA my pos
session had all the holiness OF q
grenadier, I made rapid progress
speaking more and more plainly In my
loyemaking as | advanced when |
parted with her told her would sen
her In the evening, and when the
evening came. having gone through the
prehmlnaries, I proposed 20 her
She said Il was very sudden and q
great surprise TO her smiled inward
ly at this, thinking % the paper I had
| found However after n LITTLE eoVnaaa