The Cordova daily times., 1919-12-20

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Like one In happy dream Miss Adriana put on the things and pres ently Delmar came In wearing his eve ming clothes.
 Would she go with him to see the play the young people of the town were giving. "A Rose of Old Dixie"
 With her face like the dawn Miss AGriana watched the players. Iva Ellsworth was the Dixie Rose, a witch ing heroine; Paul Nelson, her lover. Iva played her part with briliancy, but Faults heart prompted his acting. It was fervent, real.
 Delmar's mind was torn with inde. cisiOn. But near the end of the play he looked at the little lonely woman beside him. for the time pathetically happy, and quite suddenly his mind was made up.
 "Auntie," he said abruptly to her when they were again in her living room. twill you let me come live with you2 Mother doesn't need me; she's going to be married soon to Dr. Ash ley Wyatt. We'd he company for each other. If you'll let me I'll move my desk and other things over tomorrow"
 Miss Adriana'S happiness of the eve ming, compared with the new joy, was as drop of water to the ocean.
 That evening Iva Ellsworth received bouquet of pink carnations and a note that asked her to pardon the writer for breaking his promise to call, and begging her to accept his congrat- ulations on the success of the play.
 'I didn't get what I wanted for dare, in the face of things, to ask for it."
 For several months the world held no happier creature than Miss Adri- ana. Then she observed that Delmar had occasional fits of abstractedness, unnatural to him. Gradually 1t dawned upon her that he was troubled over something.
 "Where is that pretty Ellsworth girl now. Del, do you know?" she asked him tentatively one morning early in December.
 He started at her question, and she noticed with a sinking heart that the paper he had shook little.
 Bryce Garth told me yesterday Paul Nelson was married" he answered her, "and though Bryce didn't know to whom, I-I think it must be to Miss Ellsworth. auntie."
 Later in the day, searching for a lost cuff button of Delmars, she came upon a picture of the girl.
 "He loved her-he gave up asking reasoned, ito make a home for me, And now he is grieving for her!'
 As the weeks passed Miss Adriana paled under the weight of her secret trouble. Delmar became uneasy for her, and few days before Christmas sent her to the nearby city to see one of his friends, fine young physician there.
 That afternoon while crossing the street to the railroad station Miss Adriana felt herself caught and pulled back just in time to escape being run over by heavy truck that came around the corner. The girl who saved her helped her to the ladies sitting room of the station, but when her train came a few minutes later she was too shaken and nervous tC Isattempt to board it.
 ."Oh, what will Delmar think when don't cOme!" she exclaimed.
 "Delmar!" The pretty girls cheeks grew a deeper pink, and Miss Adriana knew her to be Iva Ellsworth.
 My nephew, Delmar Halstead, with whom I live in Review" she explained
 "Why, Review is only twenty-five miles," cried the girl; "pll telephone him and he can come for you in an automobile"
 When she came back Miss Adriana's lips trembled over a question.
 "Are yOu-are you married, my dear?"
 When Delmar came Miss Adriana was able to smile in wan gayety at him.
 "Where is the lady that saved you? P he asked presently as he knelt beside C-- '' ''' - " ~ --------