Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-01
p XIV.

T. LIE OIL LI4SA4S0
"1 hope you may always be as hap
py as you are kind!"
David Noel started awake next
morning at dawn. with that sentence
ringing as clearly in his brain as II
it had just been spoken beside HIM
He looked incredulously around the
empty room before he was satisfied OF
the trick his fancy had played him:
She was not there. the girl who had
SO gently answered his gross rude,
ness that first night. Why should
she be there? He had outworn even
the patience of a princess.
Noel sank YEARLY back on his Pill.
low. The night had stripped him OF
his last arrogance. 1t was not that
Rosalind had escaped out of his
reach. With the resources in his
! power, he knew hat he could find
her. But dared he try to do so?
The humility of the boy in the
street had come back to him, too late.
How could be plead faithful love who
had denied and insulted her? And
what else had he to offer; he knew
better than to suppose his wealth
could sway the girl who had left the
Bruce household to toll in a dane
n -school for Vasili Arloff's bread:
And yet she had cared for him In
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that mere charity? Surely he had
not read awrong her eyes in the mo-
ment when they and his w were
alike uncovered?
Yet she had gone from her home
to avoid him, and by Anitra's hand
had consigned him to the bitter pun
ishment Of knowledge of his great
mistake. Could her fight have any
other meaning?
With a low exclamation. Noel
started erect. When she had wish
ed him happiness on the first mig.
of their meeting after the dance, he
had already told her of the House
of the Little Shoes She must have
known him from that, Joined with
Bruce's letters to her. She must
have known that he had loved her
image-and she had wished him hap
piness. But happiness Meant her
self!
self-confdence and hope came
flooding into his head. What if he
had offended a second and a third
time? Surely it was not in vindic.
tiveness, but as a sign of possible par.
don, that she had left him the doll
When had she been wantonly cruel;
Cruelty it would have been to taun1
him too late with the knowledge that
she was the lady Of his dreams.
Noel struck the bell for Benito sc
that it pealed a clamor of haste an6
assertiveness. 1t was SO early thai
nc n else was awake. With a ri.
OF to the street alone.
He meant to go first to the dane
~ing-school where the exquisite
daughter of vasili strove to teact
some of her grace to duller mortals
AS he called a taxicab, he remember
ed Anitra, whom he had twice un'
CALAMITY deserted the last time afte1
despoiling her Of her bracelet and tn,
magic shoes. Suppose the doll hat
some further message unnoticed in hi!
agitation of the previous afternoon
the answer to his letter? 1t must b.
so! Why had he not seen that be.
fore? He again ave the address Of
the old house near Washington
Square.
No one hindered his entrance. HI
observed this time that the black
walnut stair-rail, broken by his fall
had been mended with some cheap
new wood painted dark. That wa.
how he had tried to patch his owr
romance, and luckily failed, hi
airnless search for a wife. What 9
self-sunicient cad he had been.
The door of the apartment stood
open. AS Noel strobe in, a slight fig
ure came from the room beyond. /,
was Rosalind Arloff, with the doll In
her arms. She halted like an arrest
ed sunbeam on the threshold. Thu
morning brightness was all about her
in her shining hair, glinting in her
wide eyes. Uniting warmly her pure
pallor.
oh" she faltered. "ohw
All the way there, Noel had been
planning with desperate anxiety what
he would say to her when she was
found. What words he would choose
to hold her while he made his plea
for pardon and another trial. He
had not forgotten his two dismissals
Now he met her frightened gaze anc
was beside her with a movement a.
unprecedented as a drawn breath
To her he went, catching both he
small fair hands and resting his tiret
eyes against their cool softness.
"Rosalind," he said. ut is the beg