Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-01
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always to make you glad you said
They returned to looking in each
others eyes,, after the receiver was
hung up, as If. they had been parted
a long time. 1t seemed somehow as
if their joy must be greater thar n
other married couple, because they
had all their counting yet to do. 1t
was beautiful to think of what was
before them.
There was SO much on both sides to
be told: and to be told over again be-
cause only half had been told; and
there were so many hopes and expert
ences to be exchanged; SO many
opinions to compare, and to rejoice
over because they were alike on many
essentials. Then there we're the
rooms to be gone through, and Cor
don's pictures and favorite books to
look at and talk about, and plans for
the future to be touched upon-just
barely touched upon. r.
The apartment would do until they
could look about and get a house.
Gordon said, his heart swelling with
he proud thought that at last he
would have a real home, like his other
married friends, with a real princess
to preside owe it.
Then Celia had to tell all about the
horror of the last three months, with
the unpleasant shadows of the pre-
ceding years back of it. She told this
in the dusk of evening, before Henry
had come in to light up, and before
they had realized that it was almost
dinner-time. She told it with her face
hidden on her husbands shoulder, and
his arms close about her, to give her
comfort at each revelation of the
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to do about George Hayne; and then
there was the whole story Of Gordon's
journey and commission from the time
the old chief had called him into the
office until he came to stand beside
her at the church altar and they were
married. 1t was told in careful detail
with all the comical, exasperating and
pitiful incidents of white dog and little
newsboy; but the strangest part about
1t all was that Gordon eve said one
word about Julia Bentley and her i'm
aginary presence with him that first
day, and he even knew that he
mad left out an important detail. 4
l. Celia laughed over the white dog
and, declared they must bring him
home to live with them: and she cried
over the story of the brave little news
boy M was eager to visit him in New
York. promising herself all sorts of
pleasure in taking him gifts and per-
manently lettering his condition: and
1t was in this way that Gordon Incl
dentally learned that his wife had a
fortune in her own right, a fact that
for a time gave him great u~neasiness
OF mind until she had soothed him
n laughed at him for an hour or
more; for Gordon was an independent
creature and had ideas about support
ing his wife by his own toll. Besides
1t seemed an unfair advantage to have
taken a wife and a fortune as it were
unaware.
But Celia's fortune had not spoiled
her, and she soon made him see that
1t had always been a mere incident in
her scheme of living; comfortable and
pleasant incident to be sure, but still
an incident to be kept always in the
background. and never for a moment
to be a cause for self-gratulation or
pride.
Gordon found himself dreadins the
explanation that would have to come
when he reached New York and faced
his wife's mother and brother, Celia
had accepted his explanations, tbe4
cause, somehow by the beautiful ways
of the spirits her soul: had found and
believed In his oul before the truth
was made known to her, but would
her mother and brother be able also
to believe? And he fell to planning
with Celia just how he should tell the
story; and this led to his bringing out
a number Of letters and papers that
would be worth while showing as
credentials, and every step of the way.
as Celia got glimpse after glimpse in
to his past, her face shone with Joy
and her heart leaped with the assur-
ance that her lot had been cast in
goodly. places. for she perceived not
only that this man was honored and
respected in high places, but that his
early life had been peculiarly pure
and true.
The strange loneliness that had sur
rounded. his young manhood seem
ed suddenly to have broken ahead of
him, and to have opened out into the
glory of the companionship Of one
peculiarly fitted to fill the need of his