Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-02-24

dinner in fifteen minutes. see
Rupert coming to help me, now.
| We're starved to death and some
tired. BY the way. George shouted
over Is me that he would be in AS
soon as he got the Duplex canned for
the night, and to order a few dozen
and a couple of hams fried for him.
Would you attend to it on your way
in2"
II surely would" Gerard answer
ed. tho great gentleness Of his tone
What do you want ordered FOR
yourself?"
Anything. and plenty Of it,
Gerard did not smile as he went
into the building. He-too would ave
given much to spare Corrie Rose the
memory Of that october. mornings
fault From all the punishment ex,
cept that memory ne had Sheltered
him, further aid no one could give.
But because he loved Corrie, he
climbed the hotel stairs in slow 40
straction and failed to perceive the
limousine that came up before the
Mercury Titan, and, stopped.
He was standing by q table in the
empty parlor of the hotel. when the
door opened, and closed. = Thinking
sc me other guest had entered, he did
not turn from the letters he was
reading. nor vas there any further
movement or demand upon his at
| tention. That which slowly invaded
his nsciousness was a summons
more delicate than sound, a faint,
! distinctive .flower-fragrance that pro-
claimed one Individual presence
EIayia Rose was in the room; he
knew it before he swung around and
saw her standing there.
The shock hat leaped along his
pulses was less. of hope than Of re-
newed pain.
she moved a little forward
Against her dark velvet gown, under
her wide velvet hat. her soft. earnes'
face showed Whitley lustrous and ir'
radiated, her beautiful eyes dwelt or
: his.
II never knew" she said, her cleal
voice like rippled water. Your let
!. ter, the night before o went away
never came to me. J. never knew yOl
had sent for me. until last month
, The movement that brought Ger
ard across the room was as nakeui,
passionate as the incoherent sim
! plicity of her speech
' You never knew? Flavia, yo'
: would have Gomez
+ II would nave come: l wanted t.
come long peloIs, "HAie sou
e They had waited a year on tn
verge of thai moment: it wa
d enough to touch one another in thi
s security of understanding. There wa
i no question between them,-no doub
d now that they saw c other face
face: all their world lowered int
e light and fragrance, present n fu
ture one dazzling marvel.
= ~ py,f o+ .H aaf thew DIRE " e slight
!, apart. gazing at each other with a
: incredulity Of such happiness, bot
Flavia's little hands held in the fri
clasp of Gerard's left. NAnd the
gradually awoke amazement tbs
they could ever have been separate,
" who were SO closely bound together.
r. my dear, my dear. you knew
- this happen to u.s.?
= How could I knOw2 You ha
did I need to? 1 thought the We,
- stones in the fountain arcade mu
have e it. And / trusted Rupe
with the letter; he sA3d he had give
a its to you. hi even brought an q,
"po you blame him." she quick
NJ defended. He told you that he hs
! Egiven it to Miss Rose: he meant
Is isabel, who claimed IT,"
q Your cousin7s, What had i to {
Is with her? Why shouldn't have wri
s ten to her? Have written tn.
ia Flavtai.
q The tears rushed I her eyes.
~ your letter-Allan. IL hi
n known that message was for mo,
Iwould have gone back with Rape
to you that, evening. But Isabaf t0t
ly Il, for some 81 she expected
al nessase from you, that nleht.