The Springfield herald., 1919-06-27

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| ISPRINGFRLD, BAcA &C
thSF this.pecnIritA that under
|odainary ydreumshhcesSwhe In
the presence of other young men
stH cppld,tYlk, Yithrentiser free
dom ana without Restraint or
te@ssrrasspept.s bun 'eYhee) An
James presence she seemed
more Or Jess abasbed, and aslight
crim,on a,waya -oyerspread hei
K aturss on meeaing hin. AZ y Y
1t was in this state of affairs
that iJaHes made atrangenents
to take himself to other parts of
the compass he had seen in
II + th5n2 h Ans sAs %" u T. thsif ssiT
hod les. HE greaR aRambition Just
now was to see sofne of the
great world, and he thought TO
he gone two or three years and
then to Return. y.
Always his thoaghts Vent To
Belle :.,.pE n.pon O. bis Se5grn and never le
for q moment did be. think OF
any other possibility than that
shswoald some day, be his wife.
He never probably, put it in so
many words, even r. kImSslf, nut
sucS are bis feelings ,Eand the re
is no douoEif he had foreseen
any other fesult he would have
remained al home instead Of go.
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For thraSyears1 James was on
the wing --ssepeing-heres and
,rhsre,for ! monthnnsso ssmore
to- teplenish his till, and then
wheeling afsto ,-ome pf'the 9th.
er glories pflthe ~orf 3D.. ! he. en-
joyed him4 FL hugely rubbed pb
against all 3kinds and shades of
people, was last becoming some1
what metropolitan and~like the
great multitude in his address
and mannety, but there was not
withstandihx not day nor hard
.ly,sn=heur that he didn't think
of Belle zKearney. and with q
gov of, feeling that told Of the
ihabpihesAthat would be in; store
for bm il He future. III .zs,,t
HE TecefNd letters regularly
from Thie, But as lie had never
gone with Belle there had been
nothing said about her in his
letters for nSarly two years He
never Askeda about her lest his
feelings for her might he betray-
ed. or feeling that the girl he
IlpAed vas bot subject for epis-
tolary gofsin "
So from the time .hes left home
until two years later he had not
heard a word of Belle Kearney.
What he heard then mads his
blood stand still in it's circuit,
and his hairato push ont from his
head. BelleEahadabe Been married
nearly a Wear, and bouncing
boy had just besn added to- the
twain that God bad joined to-
.getheN and made one flesh.
What Jared him more was that
she had not married any of those
he would ever had fear Of being b
rival, but green back woods
boy. a gawas and gump with a
big nose and mouth, and awk.
ward to tfths last desl es.( }. ii y,
For daysa james went about in
a dazed, semiconscious state,
hardly noticing and scarcely re
Was going on around
hi hiilaigas.i.a.B .Buts3s was young and
sanRuine;=and endowed with a
reason and jndgment that could
conhter his feelings whenever
he Chose to ts SO.
Then he fellsto philosophizing.
Belle he knew to be an orphan
and to have &en adopted in the
family of JohhKearney. Every,
body srpposA her tos=be the.
daughter of one of Mr.. Kear.+
ney's brotherS and that was I'll
that was evek thought or said
about it. shs was delicate in,
health, the faasily that adJpied
her had all it apuld do to take
care, care Of itself and 50. James solil-
oquized, Belle concluded that she
had better parry Joe SINNERS
H., L