The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-12-26

Lik0 one Ia D EnAVpy Urc0m MIHS
Adriana put on the things and pres
entity DeImar came In wearing his eve
ming clothes.
Would she 20 with him to see the
play the young people OF the town
we're giving. IA Rose Of Old Dixie"
With her face like the dawn Miss
Adriana watched the players. Iva
Ellsworth was the Dixie Rose, a witch.
ing heroine; Paul Nelson, her lover.
Iva played her part with brilliancy,
but Paul's heart prompted his acting.
1t was fervent; real.
Delmar's mind was torn with indie
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
you? Mother doesn't need me; she's
going to be married Dor to DIR. Ash
ley Wyatt. We'd be company for each
other. If you'll let me I'll move M
desk and other things owe tomorrow"
Miss Adriana's happiness of the eve
ming, compared with the new Joy, was
as a drop Of water to the ocean.
That evening Iva Ellsworth received
a 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.
II didn't get what / wanted for
Christmas" the note ended. II didn't
dare. in the face of things, to ask
for 1t" ~~~s>-~sE~xssssxsssxssss~.~.
! For several months the world held
no happier creature than Miss Adri-
n Then she observed that Delmar
had occasional fits of abStractednesS,
unnatural to him. Gradually ii
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 hat the
paper he had shook a little.
Bryce Garth told me yesterday Pau
Nelson was married." he answered her
"and though Bryce didn't know tC
whom, II think it must be to Miss
Ellsworth, auntie."
Later in the day. searching for 9
lost cuff button of Delmar's. she came
upon a picture Of the girl.
HE loved her-he gave up asking
her to marry him." her troubled mine
reasoned. ito make a home for me
And now he is grieving for her."
AS the weeks passed Miss Adrians
paled under the weight of her secre'
trouble. Delmar became uneasy fol
her. and a few days before Christmas
sent her to the nearby city to see on
of his friends, a fine young physician
there. ----->-~~
That afternoon while crossing thu
street to the railroad station Mis-
Adriana felt herself caught and pulled
back just in time to escape being rul
Y e BY. Z heavy. truck that cam
around the corner. The girl VIII
saved her helped her to the ladies
sitting room Of the station, but whel
her train came a few minutes late
she was too shaken and nervous t
attempt to board it. -
"Oh, what will Delmar think when
don't GOMEZ" she exclaimed.
"DeImar!" The pretty girls cheek
grew a deeper pink, and Miss Adrian;
knew her to be Iva Ellsworth.
"My nephew, Delmar Halstead, wit
whom l live in Review she explained
"Why, Review is only twenty-fv
miles," cried the girl "Ill telephon
him and he can come for you In al
automobile"
When she came back Miss Adriana'
lips trembled over a question.
"Are you-are you married. m,
dear?"
When Delmar came Miss Adrian'
was able to smile in wan gayety a
him.
"Where Is the lady that saved you?
he asked presently as he knelt besid