Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-04-27
The
Scenario Lover
By WILLIAM FALL

they traced what he felt sure was a
note to him. Thinking to surprise
her, he drew nearer, and suddenly the
large writing on the sheet seemed tc
rise up and assail his eyes. With hurt
horror he read:
Dearest Ted: OF course love you.
Why doubt me? AS long as live, I'm
yours"
He waited to. read NO further, but
fled to the stockroom, where hidden
behind the bales and boxes, he fought
ont his trouble and decided upon a
course of action.
"NIy little Madge, whom / trusted
with my whole SOUL" he greaned. Her
falseness seemed impossible
Who this fellow Ted was he did not i.
know. 1t was enough that the girl
he loved, and who had promised to
marry him, was writing such a letter
to another man.
At last he clenched his hands, and
setting his teeth, went into the private
Office Of the manager. Six weeks ago,
he had been offered a position on the
road, one that would pay him much
better salary, and had refused, not
wanting to leave Madge. Now he was
glad TO go, and Immediately, too. With
in two hours Of his reading the begin
ming OF that fateful note, he was on
the train to take up the work of one
Of the commercial travellers who had
suddenly been taken sick. -
Jack did not stop to say goOd-by to
Madge, nor did he write her, for he
felt that the less said the better.
perhaps If I get away this hurt
will STOP" he told himself; but al
| though he kept busy and in his labors
| turned night into day, sending back
| SO much business that the firm be-
lieved they had secured the model
salesman he could not forget Madge
or her thousand and one appealing
| ways. 1t was all the harder because
she kept on writing to him, In the
same clear, flowing hand that had
| penned the fateful confession Of her
love for another, begging him to let
ner know the reason for his continued
! silence.
Tom, his chum, wrote him that
Madge looked i'll.
Things looked, black to him, al
though he had made such a success in
business way that the Office sent
for him. to come home and make a
| contract with the firm, and although
he would have rather remained away
forever, Jack obeyed, and once more
found himself in the same city with
Madge.
Being a salesman now, he managed
4 - 1T
ager without going out among HIS old
associates, and so avoided Madge al
though a sight Of her sunny hair
\ through the open doorway turned him
sick at heart.
His business outlook was extremely
bright, much better than he had dared
to dream OF for years to come, and
yet it was very heavy heart that he
carried with him into the little motion
picture theater, where he sought a
few moments Of relaxation later on In
the evening.
YEARLY he made his way to the
corner seat in the box where they had
always sat.
Listlessly he followed the story OF
the film. There was the usual quarrel
between~two loves, although he reflect
ed bitterly that neither had his cause.
Suddenly he Strengthened up. The
lover received letter from the girl
with whom he had quarreled, and it
was photographed on the film.
Dearest Ted: OF course I love you.
Why doubt me? AS long as l live,
Pm yours"
AS on former OCCASION Jack
stopped to read no further. He recog-
nized the clear, flowing hand. 1t was
] Madge's penmanship, that he knew,
but he also understood that It was
: never written to living person. The
thought famed through him that there
must be some heart-healing explana-
ton. Realizing how his cruelty must
have hurt her, he turned to leave,
when in the seat by his side where
she had sat so often was-Madge.
Instinctively his hand reached for
hers, and in the tender pressure Civ.
en- and returned everything was for
gotten and forgiven.
81 saw you here" she whispered
land came here to sit by you"
"Darlingl How, though, did they
get that letter? I saw you write it,
he confessed, though not Intentional
ly."
81 wrote the scenario Of the photo
play" she said with proper pride
They forgot the audience, sittins
there together again in the happiness
of their love, and he bent over ant
whispered:
''We'll be married tomorrow so 70,
can go out on the road with me.
Madge nodded happily. "Of course
for as long as I live, I'm yours" sh'
murmured, and this time the word
carried Joyous message to him.