Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-10
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fingered upon the scene. and it scar
ed into his brain. The late afternoon
sun, golden with the warm glow of
Spring, had slanted into the little Of
flee, had touched with mellow lus-
ter the soft brown granting of Billys
desk, had cast refulgence, like
halo upon the sprig of apple blos-
SONS in the glass. and had blessed,
with an aureole-like radiance, Billy
and Tavy, as they stood near the
window, Tavy still sheltered in Billy's
arm, and broad-shouldered Billy turn
ed sternly towards the intruder. Tavy!
In her eyes was growing that same
smouldering passion of defense, which
he remembered so we'll in Jean. Tavy
had taken Billy to be her own!
Abruptly the old man turned and was
gone from the room! Billy ran after
him into the hall, but heard only the
click of a descending elevator.
What was it, Billy? What did
he mean?" Tavy's voice was trem-
bling.
"I can't understand it. Hal and
are good friends There is no reason
for what he saidi" Billy was more
"Of course not!" The answer was
prompt, and full of resentment. But
why should he presume to interfere? :?
What right has he to even speak to me
concerning you! Who is he that he
Ceiil Idh6 SuCu llD6IIleS
HE must be unbalanced to-day"
Billy suggested this explanation in
answer to his own perplexity as much
as to hers. Who was John Doe?
Tavy's father, after ALI What had
Billy done for which he could be
criticised. The only thing was that
little matter of drinking. Hal had
spoken to him several times about
that, but surely he could not hold it of
such Importance as to wish his daugh-
ter dead rather than married to
Billy.
That's it," Tavy's troubled eyes
both cleared and softened. "Do you
remember how strangely he acted
that first day he saw me? He must
have loved his daughter very much"
"Yes, Tavy," Billy's voice was very
gentle as he drew her to him; and he
: was very thoughtful of her, and of
( Hal. and of many things, as they
= walked across to the desk. He look
ed at his watch, and took up the
phone. Suppose we tell Mummy
stuart about that impromptu dinner
party"
"Oh yes; dol" All brightness now,
and happiness, nothing in her voice
the tragedies of life forgotten, when
one is young.
Billy asked for the new number,
which was already so familiar. Tavy
1 stood near him, and, as he held the
phone, he reached out and stole his
= arm around her slender waist. Her
s cheeks flushed as she nestled against
= him, but she slid her arm across his
}. shoulder, and fluffed his hair. She
: had always wanted to rumple his hair
1t was so wayward in it's waviness, so
e stiff and uncompromising.
f Hello, Mummy Stuart" he called
: into the phone. 1--WE want you to
+ drive out to Woodbriar for dinner
J, VIII you be ready when we come
d Tavy's at the office with me. We
e found her gold piece. Say; we've
II something we want to tell you'll The
biggest bit of news in the world
A small palm was clapped over his
=, mouth. He looked up laughing, and
Il the cheeks of Tavy were flaming red
+, He drew her hand away, and the
Il playful struggle which ensued ended
e with Tavy once more in Billy's arms
Il and being kissed again and again
: and again, and being told over and
n over and over how Billy loved her anC
T loved her and loved heri
A voice, a woman'S voice, faint and
far distant and strangely metallic
finally penetrated into their con.
g scienceness. 1t was the voice of Mrs
k Stuart, plaintively saying Hello
: through the telephone at regular in.
J, tervals.
Cut off," glibly apologized Billy
with a wink at Tavy and a pat of the
hand which had done the cutting
We'll be home in twenty minutes
Billy fully meant that, but it took
l., five minutes to put on Tavy's coat and
u to fasten it beneath her piquant chin
& 1t took five minutes more to explain
: just how it felt when Tavy looked
n at him that first day at the door; and
Il it took an uncountable length of time
hnT m \ L..
: left the little office, although no one
|, could possibly explain why they
:, should need to say good-by when they
= were both leaving at once, and to-
gether, and bound for the same des-
e tination. Queer; wasn't it? Neither
d OF them thought of John Doe again.
= What wonderful ride that was
= to the new Stuart apartments! The
world was such a delightful place.
so cheerful, and bright and happyi
I Everybody in the streets seemed CAV,
and in the very air there was a sort
OF hmpid ecstacy, much as If the
D glory of the millennium had suddenly
\ burst open the earth and made ali
humanity kind. How balmy was the
: breeze of Spring! How beautiful was
the evening sky, reddening now to
a glorified dusk! On the river, as
they whirled up the Drive, were the
: white hulls of a hundred craft, trail
pearl gray smoke against the soft
roseate of the west, and reflecting
! their fraceful outlines in the glisten-
ing river, itself aglow with dancing
coral tints. 1t was a fairlyland, and
even those tall, prosaic smoke stacks
on the Jersey shore were a part OF
the enchanted scene. That is what il
is to be in love, when one is young!
Why, in all the world there is moth
ing but beauty! just beauty!
Here is the enchanted apartment
house, with an enchanted doorman
in an enchanted marble lobby; and
here is the enchanted elevator, run by
an enchanted elevator boy, with
twenty-four brass buttons on his coat
and blue bruise, probably put there
by enchantment, under one eye. Here
is the enchanted suite, and here, too
is the enchanted Mummy Stuart, al
ready dressed for her drive in her new
gray silk, which is so becoming to
that high-piled gray coiffeur. A rath-
er stately woman, is Mrs. Stuart, and
one whom any fastidious young man
might well be proud to have as his
guest at Woodbriar. Money is not
such bad thing after all. 1t cannot
be altogether bad when it will coaS
the delicate tint of health to pallid
cheeks, when it will smooth away lines