Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-12-19

as the lovely flowers that spangled the
garden plat just beyond the gateway,
with shining eyes and fiuttering smile
emphasized the sincerity Of her words.
You mean regarding my appoint
ment as president Of the villageT"
asked Cressey Randall
Eyes" she answered, but unevenly
now. Il just learned Of the honor so
unanimously bestowed, so greatly de-
served"
"May come in for few mo-
ments n asked Randall, and Anice led
the way to shaded garden seat.
Il shall not accept the position ten
dertl,n he said. 81 have come to
speak to you three words. Then am
going away and we shall never meet
again. That is best--it is the only
way--I love you"
Into the bonny face of the beauti-
f1l girl there flashed an expression of
overpowering agitation Then she
crimsoned. her glance fell and with
bowed head she listened to the
strange addendum, to the words that
swept away the joy the preface had
brought.
"When came here a stranger, two
years ago" recited Randall, Il found
a welcome, encouragement-fri
Oh, most blessed of ALL found you
No one asked as to my past. / was
given honorable employment by the
kind-hearted people | was treated as
a trusted and cherished friend. 1t
reused all my manliness and graft
ttde. Step by step have been adj
vanced. honored, until every link. of
my old life broken and forgotten,
vas new being in a new world"
"Your old life?" involuntarily muir
INJURED Anice, fearing she knew not
what.
Eyes. To you only can ! speak Of
it, because love you, because you
have been the guiding impulse of my
life. came here from five-years'
sentence in an eastern penitendary
and the charge against me was
proven
The girl did not shrink from him.
Her frame quivered. her hands
clasped more rigidly, but into that
angel-like face there cane an express
sion of plying sorrow ard sympathy.
Il was the adopted son of a man
of wealth, Robert Leeds" continued
Randall Il repaid his generosity by
becoming member Of wild, reck-
less set, and one morning after wine
party. where gambling was intro
duced, awoke In a strange hotel
with everything a blank from the mid
night previous Before the day was
over l was arrested, accused of hav-
ing given check bearing the forged
signature of my benefactor | had no
remembrance of having signed it. NV
own uncertain statement condemned
me. My patron disowned me, and 1
was sent to prison. When my sem
terce expired tried to get as far
away from my old life as possible.
fancied that two years of repentant,
manly effort to redeem myself had
blotted out all that past Yesterday
upon the street / passed man l rec
ognized. He was the lawyer who
prosecuted me. is my benefactor
pursuing ME because of resentment
or from a mistaken sense of justice2
/ can remain here no longer. I have
sinned and / must suffer and atone
for it. I am going away, and ] have
to tell you that l do so, loving you,
and that the mere memory of your
helpful regard for nue. will never fail
to keep me safe in the straight path"
Her eyes were fun of tears. both
hands were clasped within his own.
Suffer? but not alone. Atone? you
have done so nobly already. You
must go away? Them win go with
you !"
You mean"
"That no true woman who reads
your soul as / do could fail to love
you all the more after your brave,
open confidence. would glory IN
sharing with you burden long since
made light as ali. in the sight OF God
and his holy angels. True heart and
redeemed soul, would go to the ends
OF the world for you. with your
One hour later when Cressey RAN
dali entered his office, the life cur
rents were momentarily chilled as he
found seated and awaiting him the
man whose unexpected appearance
had warned him that his double life
was about TO be exposed.
"This is Mr.. Randall" spoke the
lawyer, rising. II come on a mission
from Mr.. Leeds"
''The purport Of which I can fully
surmiss, interrupted Randall. LET
us waste no words. / have satisfied
the law"
''You mean TIE law has martyred
you" responded the attorney strange
". "Six months since the man who
really forged the Lees check, dying.
confessed lis guilt. Mr.. Leeds, old
lonely. has been seeking you every
where. / bear the message from him