The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-04
EVENING STORY
The Course of True Love.
BY LILLIAN HALL CROWLEY.
Madelir Drisko was really the han

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Madelir- Drisko was really the hap
Piest girl on earth, and why shouldn't
she be? She had everything to be de-
sired. including youth, beauty and
love.
The latter had come into her life
only recently, and the gods had moth
ing more to bestow on her.
Madeline's home was in New York,
but she, with her brother and widowed
mother. had gone to Honolulu on a
business and pleasure trip combined.
She loved the beaut; sui islands of
Hawaii; the marvellous climate: the
sea, the sky, and the mountains. There
was the most gorgeous scenery. She
loved the picturesque natives and the
plaintive music the5 played on the
ukuleles. 1t was all very wonderful
to Madeline and she was charmed with
the place.
81 should love to stay here forever."
she exclaimed rapturously to her
mother.
The indulgent mother smiled but
shook her head. I'VE can't remain
here always. This is only a memoir
able holiday"
Then Madeline met Hereford Lang
| don.
Herefords parents w.re from New
England, but he had been born in
Honolulu. His father had large BUSH
ness interests there, Ind Hereford was
his right-hand man.
Certainly fate had toen very good to
Madeline in bringing this gre f love
| into her life in this most romantic and
| beautiful country. Her mother and
brother. tho lSath to have her settled
so far from New York, were delighted
with the young man. He had every
quality to make their loved one happy
Followed delightful days of love and
sunshine-then came the quarrel.
! a
are most. lovers Quarrels. Hereford,
astonished ana heartbroken, tried to
explain, Madeline, proud and angry,
refused to listen. Hereford stumbled
! home in the moonlight with his brief
! dream of love destroyed.
| Madeline nursed her pride and
would not send for him. Then Mr..
| Langdon sent his son on trip to an
Iother island to be gone a week.
| Hereford held to the hope that
| Madeline would be in a 1enient mood
| by the time of his return.
| She. not hearing from him, became
| angrier than ever and would not listen
to the promptings of her naturally
generous heart.
Several days after Herefords de-
parture, which was unknown to Mad
| cline, Tom Drisko received a, telegram
calling him to San Francisco on ur-
gent business. They left at once.
There was no. time for Madeline to
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inclined, and she thought she wasn't.
On the way over to San Francisco she
had more time to, think over the fool
| ish quarrel She wished she had let
Hereford explain. The remembrance
| of his grieved look and his sad eyes
hurt her conscience and kept her
| from sleeping.
81 will find a cable from him when
we land" she said to herself This
thought was a source of great consola-
ton, and she began to be almost
happy.
When they arrived at San Francisco
and found no word from Hereford. she
was angry at herself for having capt.
kNlated even if Hereford didn't know it
Il Hereford had lived on the hope that
his sweetheart would reIent and lei
him explain when he returned. which
he knew he could do if she would only
listen.
The blow fell. The Driskos had left
days before and there was no word fol
| him. Many times afterward, when he
would have been glad to again bes
Madeline to listen to- him he did not
know how to reach her as the family
had planned to travel in Mexico.
Then came the entrance of the
United States into the war.
i Hereford. strongly patriotic always
had an additional reason for enlistins
his country first, and thereby 6
means of forgetting his lost love II
work, the more dangerous the better
\ Madeline had been. on a feverisf
round of sightseeing and pleasure il
a vain endeavor to forget. To lose
remembrance was impossible. and she
begged her mother to return home
On the way east Mrs. Drisko asked hel
children to stop off at Gettysburg
with her.
) my dears," said she the day after
they arrived at the hotel, this is the
anniversary of the battle of Gettys.
burg, when your grandfather was
wounded. We will take a taxi and &C
to the very spot on Little Round Top
Mrs. Drisko was overcome with
emotion when she viewed the beauti
full landscape, the peaceful wheatfield