Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-05-29

door, and, q, little n8ure Spfang out.
David started forward. The carriage
ing him all he desired. She was run
ming up the steps. when he boldly
stopped her.
excuse me-" he said. II have to
tell o something. Do o remem-
Der me
The little girl studied him, arrested
in her dancing night upward. Five
years may be a long space, OF a very
short one, and surely the five years
years than those from five totem. AT
sixteenI a boy may have become a
man, but a child of ten is surely a
child. There was little to recall the
ragged boy of five years before in the
neatly-clothed youth who challenged
her memory. David Noel dressed as
q man. 1t had not occurred to him
that he could be considered of less
than that estate. She was too young
to criticise the cut or ~fineness of his
dark grey suit. Her glance passed
on his unchanged grey eyes. upon the
enduring energy and power of the
strong young face which had claimed
her baby attention. .
why, why-you are the shivering
boy!' she exclaimed in swift recog-
milton. :
"And you are the little princess
he answered. =
Her ed-brown eyes laughed ur-
prise at the title. then she looked
down. .
"You have shoes now" she APP
proved naively.
YES"
There was a pause. The boy gazed
at the small creature before him, a
dull spot Of color snnouldering in his
swarthy cheeks. He felt an actual
suf1ocation as the flood Of deep, slow
ly-accumulated thought surged and
pressed against the barrier Of his
habitual reticence. and found no out
on the stone rail of the steps. a-
You've been to q party" he ques-
toned, rather hoarsely.
She glanced at her pale blue chif-
fon frock. visible through her half
opened o of dark velvet.
"Only to my dancing-lesson. Do you
like to dance. boy?"
II don't know. Do you want me to
learn?"
oh, if you want to-" Surprised,
she poised on one small foot in a blue
kid boot; and smiled ~engasingly.
Il want to learn whatever you want
me. to know" He moved nearer, his
eyes fired by strange lights. He was
himself unconscious of the force that
made powerful his stumbling, made
quate speech. II found out who lived
in this house. so I know who you are.
Your people are rich. You have had
things; you always have to have
things I never even heard of; but Ill
find out about them and I'll make
money to buy them. I'll give you a
better house than this one. I've seer
,,'houses-I've worked on a boat since
that day, and seen places-Yucatan,
the Argentine, BRAZIL" He made u
vague gesture. Tn going away
again today, but I'm coming back
when you're grown up. I made up
my mind when you CAV me your
shoes. Will you marry me, princess.
some day."
Astonished, but with a %ten-year--
considered him, her curly head tilted
aside.
Yes" she consented serenely. 'if
g~randmamma will let me. I like you
better than the boys I know"
you will not forget?"
II don't forget" she treasured him.
Then will you keep this to re-
member me by? 1 bought 1t for yon.''
She readily held gu her little
gloved hand for the package he Of
fered, but with a swift aud unboy-
like passion he placed his hands on
her shoulders and, STOPPING, kissed
her childish mouth mouth as cool
and unconscious of. life as the red
flower it resembled.
"I'l come for you,'' he promised.
This time it was he who fed. leav-
ing her standing there all amazed and
rosy. So, if the first gift was hers,
the second was his, but again it was
he who carried the magic away with
him.