The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-01-15

time: l had to have the new frock
in order to give the days lessons.
That did not leave enough to buy
the doll. Then | saw the prize doll.
But | did wrong Abel said that |
did wrong. You thought lightly
Of mel
Il did notl" Her gaze across
the dusk compelled him to full
truthfullness. 1T was not that
but you told me that you were not
a professional dancer. | thought
you We're laughing at me, deceiv-
ing me for some reason, for no
mere amateur ever danced as you
do. ] lost my temper. Tonight |
came to ask your forgiveness"
My father taught me, ever
since | was a baby. | told you
that l did not dance upon the
stage
"Yet you could win a fortune
there" he suggested.
My father forbids it. He prom
Used my mother. She was an
American. IL think she hated
his dancing"
The resentment had left her
voice. Her hand still in that OF
the slumbering Arloff, as she sat
in her low chair, she regarded the
younger man with grave security
in her position. Noel ventured to
lean across and lay the florist S
box on her knee.
"Tou took the flower last night
will you take these? And |
have something more to say. The
House of the Little Shoes"
He fancied that a tremor shook
her. She wore a dress of some thin,
pale yellow fabric, that left bare
her slender young neck and arms.
In that light, she gave the glim-
mering effect Of a figure Of ivory
and gold. Noel's excited impulse
hardened into deliberate resolu-
ton.
"The house is NINE" he said as
calmly as he could. II built it. |
told you yesterday morning that |
wanted to help you win the doll
because you looked like a child
who had been kind to me. | built
the house-and my life-for that
child! I was a boy of the streets,
an orphan poor, ragged, untaught
and wild as a little animal. She
was born to everything delicate
and fine and luxurious; but it was
stamped on my mind that she was
to be my wife. Remember that |
had not a child's mind, never hav-
ing had a childhood, as that word
is taken to mean gentle things. l
loved her!"
Rosalind Arloff neither turned
aside from his eyes o moved. The
dimness Of twilight was like a thin
veil between them. blurring sight.
yet Noel OWNED in her a CULVER
ing sympathy of excitement. Oh,
he had decided wisely! There
could be no Earring regret when
this girl drifted like a dancing leaf
through the rooms made lovely for
Constance. Al the worst, there
could be nothing harsher than the
vague memory Of a dream.
because she had been reared
&c weess!lth 7 set myseilff TO gain
money he slowly continued,
"That was the easiest tack. Be
cause she was dainty and fastidi-
Gus, I trained myself out Of speech
Of my class into the speech Of hers.
I learned to dress as would the
men she knew, to carry myself as
they would, to play the sports they
would play. Because she was pitt.
full and good beyond the custom Of
children, / lived clearly and dealt
honestly with other men and
women.
Call this took time. l was II
years old when / met her. This
spring I came back, hoping to tel
her what I tell you, and to ask hel
to go home with me; home, to the
, house that has two little shoes
carved at its gate, because of he,
two little shoes that she once gave
,ime."
"Yes7" the girl breathed.
II found that she had married 8
year ago"
After a long interval Rosalinc
Arloff sighed with an odd pa
tience.
"You know her name, then?'
she questioned.
Eyes. That was easily discov.
cred by a few inquiries in the
neighborhood of her home. A fam
lily Of that position was vel
known"
HWho was shei"
There was no reason why BIZ
should not answer the query
After an instant s consideration
Noel did SO.