South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-08-31
BY Dinah Maria MuIOck

I borne in secret was beginning 20 tell
on him The knowledge that Guy
was so far away and Maud not hap
! py had is effect on Ursula Grow
\ ing old myself I was obliged 10
stand by and watch the two loved
I best on earth growing old even moro
rapidly.
There came a day when there wa
nc more news froIu Guy. Our fears
/ increased with the weeks. Then We
I received a letter saying that ne anG
his partner were 10 sail in few
days time from Boston. For some
/ reason not explained the letter was
already two months old Had they
really taken the ship Guy named
they mould have been in England
some weeks ago. Inquiry at Lloyd's
/ revealed no such ship as having
/ crossed the Atlantic, though a small
vessel of that name had foundereG
I i'm the " est Indies. Had Guy and
/ his partner sailed for England b
| this round about route, IL was stlit
possible that they had been rescued,
ana might be on the way home.
: So for more months we waited In
I a hope that gradually became no
/ hope. For the first time in my
I knowledge Of her the strong. COM
petent Ursula began to have days
/ OF not coming downstairs. She
never complained. she never spoke
OF Guy; she was only tired. John
/ with his secret and she with hers
seemed TO withdraw each into q
still place where they were alone
with God. 1t was a quiet tune,
even il a sad time; but 10 me 1t was
the end.
Then one day a stranger appear
ed, tall, bearded, tanned. II was
| Maud who saw him first. Begging
him to be seated, she told him she
would send her father. ''Dut Maud,
don't you know ne? I'm Guy
He had come back with his part
ner. who was now known as William
RaveneI. For John and Ursula it
was the 10y which let's the servant
depart in peace Guy having out
lived his poyish passion for Louise
d'Argent, he and Edwin met as
friends. Maud and William Ravenel
found each other in that happiness
in which a difference of 90 years
does not count
We went one day into the old beech
woods at Enderley. where 33 years
earlier John and Ursula hoj vowed
themselves TO each other. John had
come with us; Ursula Kept her
room. Not even the bliss Of Guys
return gave her back her strength
It was a pleasant afternoon with
the young people all about us. John
Law down upon the grass. his hat
pulled over his eyes. How cold IL
! has grown" Maud said, towards
sunset. II think we ought to wake
father"
But John did not wake. While
sleeping he had been called. 1 went
home TO tell mis- wife.
We carried him into the old farm
house where he and Ursula had met.
There at 10 that night she came 70
him. How she came do not know.
How she who had not walked for
weeks had found her way hither
what strength helped her to stand
there as she did stand, upright and
calm. I do not know. All ] can say
is that she came. that she talked to
her children, babe them never forget
their father, and asked them to
leave her for a little while alone
with him.
We closed the door. sitting on the
stairs outside Ii might have been
for minutes, it might have been foI
; hours. IT was Guy who at last Went
in.
, She was still in the same place
by the bedside, but half lying oil
the bed. Her arm was round her
husbands neck. her face nestled
close 10 his hair. They might have
been asleep. One of her children
called her. but she neither stirred
nor answered. Guy lifted her NJ
tenderly-his mother widow
But she was not a widow now.
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