The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-03-06
A DREAMER OF
DREAMS
By JESSIE E. SHERWIN
Copyright. 1890 western Newspaper Union


was no wonder, as they wandered hand
In hand across the velvety sward and
the very birds seemed to MARBLE the
ioveliest melodies for their enraptured
ears alone. that Evan Reese and Mri-
am Wayne felt that the world was
made for them alone and that life was
all of love and happiness.
Sweetheart mine" murmurcd Evan,
sit will not be long before we shall
have our own little home in the most
beautiful spot in This most beautiful
paradise. We have reveled in star
shine and flowers. and bird song and
perfumed breeZes, and poetry. and
dreaming. The practical calls now, hut
memory will sweeten and halow the
golden days we have passed amid
these lovely scenes"
She clung 10 his strong arm and
leaned her fair golden head lightly on
his shoulder in a vision seraphic the
rapt smile on her face, the ecstactic
| glow in her eyes revealing the pure
| soul within. He was all sincerity and
| honor, she lovely bud, just expanded
| into the full flower of radiant girl
hood. The pretty village nestled in
golden haze beyond the end of the
valley. They had paused at the emf
| hence of a gentle slope, gowned with
| Towering trees and commanding a
view of alternating dale and brook for
miles acros the sun-gilded expanse.
Il have secured an option on the
site here, just two acres spoke Evan,
land the owner will hold it for me in
definitely. When l go back to work it
will be rare happiness to prepare the
| plans for the bungalow. AS progress
| will send the first outlines to you,
| to accept or alter at your will. Two
years is not long, and by the end of
that time, with hard work and econ
| nomy, l shall have sufficient TO build
the little nest that shall echo all day
with your merry song and laughter"
| Dreamers of dreams, alas for their
sublime faith in goodness one in the
| other, in the smooth, even materiali-
zation of their hopes and plans Evan
went to Chicago from the little village
where he and Miriam had been born
|
! distant relative, who made a bust
ness of purchasing commercial paper
on small capital.
Z He was Adam May, and he had a
customer named Rupert Warren,
broker, who borrowed on a limit of
ten thousand dollars. always on
4 special and reliable collateral One day
when Evans employer was away War
rem entered the Office in great urgency.
J 1.-THE full amount" he said. There
! are the usual securities" and so reg
! ular and reliable had been the dealings
I of Warren with the house that Evan
;. simply glanced at the securities. saw
they bore the usual name, midland"
gave a check for ten thousand dollars
and entered the transaction upon his
books.
1t was the next morning that rumOr
flew about in business circles that
Rupert had absconded, leaving nothing
but debts. Then Adam May made
discovery that crushed him. Warren
had foisted on him not securities in
the Midland CONSTRUCTION Co, a pros
j, porous concern, but those of the Mid
land Building Go. "a stock jobbing
promotion whose stock was not worth
the paper it was printed on. OF course
he blamed Evan, and the latter cen
sured himself for not examining docu-
ments more closely. The loss of the
money crippled May, but honest Evan
Reese came to his relief.
"Mr. May" he said manfully, "tke
loss is due to my carelesSneSs. will
work for you until the amount is paid
up for my simple board and lodging.
The rest of my earnings viii go to a
fund to recoup you"
1t was the only way of honor. and
Miriam, with a sigh, with ten years
hard servitude before them, gave up
j, all her bright dreams and urged him
to the noble sacrifice.
Miriam found employment in
store in the village, Evan lab0re1
nights at extra work, striving to re-
duce the great debt he was obligated
to pay. Those two met only once q
year, and then only one afternoon, for
the hours of work were daily precious
to them. 1t was just at the beginning
of summer two years later, however,
that a weeks vacation carie for both
at the same time.
4 He had grown older and more SER
Gus. The roses in Miriam's checks had
faded somewhat. but sublime faith one
in the other was as bright as In those
olden days when they had roamed and
dreamed, as they roamed and dreamed
now.
They sat on the green sward I'm the
shade of some bushes near to the site
where the dream house had never been
built except in their fancy. There was
strain of sadness to their. mutual
, coming together, they glanced over the
plans for a little home framed when
JOY and youth gilded all the future.
at may he years. but we viii not
give up our hope" spoke Evan tender
i ly.
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