Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-10
1 BACHELOR HUSBAND
BY RUBY NJ. AYRES
Author OF Richard Chatterfon,"E Etc.
Copyright. 1880. bv W. J. wott q CO.

and laid her hands, palms upward, OH
The pnlmist spoke then, for the first
time. to Marie.
'If you will kindly wait outside,
mademoiselle," she said. She spoke
with n slightly foreign accent, but her
voice was soft and musical.
Marie went reluctantly. She would
like to have heard what Dorothy was
i told.
1t was only few minutes before
Dorothy was out again, her face flushed
and her eyes bright as IL with un.
shed tears.
"It's all rubbish" she said harshly.
when Marie eagerly questioned her.
"As II anybody believes in it Are
you going in? Very we'll, be quick.
III tell you nfterward what she said
to me.
Marie went bnck into the tent. She
had taken of her gloves and slipped
her wedding ring into her pocket. The
palnist had addressed her as made.
moiselle, and she was curious to know
IL she would still believe her to be un-
msrri when she had examined her
hands
She laid them palm upward on the
velvet cushion. and the woman opposite
took them IN her soft clasp. smoothing
the palms with her foredngers and
peering into the little lines and creases
for moment without speaking. Marie
watched her curlously. Her first
nervousness had lost itself in interest.
She almost startled when. quite sud-
denly, the woman began TO speak in n
low, clear voice.
! You are very young. but you are
already wife. You have married a
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: IL blind And because he is blind he
has let your love waver from him to
the keeping of another. You are proud
You have wrapped your heart about
with pride, until You have sti6ed its
best affections. and persuaded yourself
that You do not care"
She ran her slender fingers along a
faint line at the base Of Mnrie's fingers.
You started with dreams--alas. so
many dreams-and they have forsaken
you one by one. But they will come
) back And ehc raised her dark eyes
suddenly 10 Mnric's pale face. ~
. little patience and they will come back
drcams no longer, but reality. You we're
meant 10 be happy wife and mother,
my little lady, but something has in
l tervcned-s something has fallen across
your life like big shadow, and for II
little the sunshine will be blotted
out g.,
She broke of, and for a moment
[ there was. silence, Then she went on
again, more slowly: "It you will
= allow your heart to govern your head
: you can never 60 far ast 2y--it Is only
now, when you arc tryius to stthe all
: that your heart would say, that the
I shadows deepen.
i She smoothed Maric's hands with her
I soft fingers.
d You have money--muCh money,
she said. But your friends are few
! You are shy. and you do not make
- friends easily. . ! There has beer
e one great moment of danger in your
e life-I cannot tell you what It was
q but ] can see the sea in your hand
and agnln in tho future | can see much
. water. it will come agair
d in your life. and it carries on its bosom
u trouble and many tears, and
C She looked again into Marie's face.
y "You are trembling, madcmoisellc,
she slid In her soft voice.
IS Marie smiled family.
q Il was nearly drowned once sh
~ said ~ can never forget it,"
IL She drew ter hands away. Il dom
" think I want to hear any more" sh
said.
,; She paid double the fee and went t.
% join Dorothy.
"Well:" Dorothy questioned hardly
"a Marie shvercd.
1T was rather eerie." she said
s But ] don't believe in II. Shall W
u go homer" i
3: othy asked as they drove away to
81 gether. "She told me that l had ha
one disappointment in my life which
II | ChoulA ~ Sh
g laughed. 'She wns right, too. No
a that believe in fortune telling
,,' Marie hardly listened. She wa
,, thinking Of the palmist's soft voice nnt
/ the touch Of her hands as she had said
y II can see the sea in your hand--anc
again in the future ! cnn see murl
ri water. 1t will come again in your life
10 and il carries on its bosom troubl
- and many tears.
~ She was not superstitious, but th'
q words haunted her.
Troubles and tears. Surely she hat
70 had enough of them.
% She wished she had not gone 20 tn
q bazaar; ehe wished with all her hear
ID she had not gone to tho palmist.
- "You started with dreams
,e alas! so many dreams-apd they hay'
d forsaken you ono by one. But the!
|. will como back A littlo patienc
It and they will come back; dreams 1T
&c longer, but reality"
She aat up with n little determines
ne laugh.
re- FITS all rubbish don't believe
IL word of it," sho told herself, ''Sh
Of only said It because she thought /
p, would please me-
er "Ware just dying for some tea
re Greyson," she told the maid who nd
mitted them. II hope you've son
lGG for us"
ID "Nliss Chester IS having tea now,
I'd the girl answered. "There is a lad
q with hcr IN the drawing ropm-a Mrs
u Ileriot"
AZ Marie stood still with a little shock
She had quite forgotten that Chris ha
eaid Mrs. Heriot would probably call.
~ CHAPTER KIN
Il. IT ieYs aim. and love him, and iov'
Mt Oa heart my love goes wellinE Ger Il