The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-09-02

lived. Why shouldn't we be married
right away, then" said he, and then
will feel sure Of you; and | won't
claim TO be your husband until come
back?' Well, We talked it over, and
he had fixed it all up so nicely, with
a clergyman all ready in waiting, that
we just did it right there; and then
Frank went off to seek his fortune, and
went back to pa.
The next l heard of Frank was that
he was in Montana, and then he went
prospecting in Arizona, and then
heard of him from New Mexico After
that came a long newspaper story
about how a miners camp had been
attacked by Apache Indians, and there
was my Franks name among the
killed. l tainted dead away, and l was
very sick for months after. Pa, thought
had a decline, and took me to half
the doctors in Frisco. Not a word of
news came for a year and more, so
that l never doubted that Frank was
really dead. Then Lord ST. Simon
came to Frisco, and we came to Lon
| don, and a marriage was arranged, and
| pa was very pleased, but l felt all the
time that no man on this earth would
ever take the place in my heart that
had been given to my poor Frank.
| Still, if 1 had married Lord ST.
Simon, of course I'd have done my
duty by him. We can't command our
love. but we can our actions. l went
TO the altar with him with the inten-
ton to make him just as good a vile
as it was in me to be. But you may
imagine what | felt when, just as |
came to the altar rails, | glanced back
and saw Frank standing and looking
at me out of the first pew. | thought
it was his ghost at first; but when
looked again, there he was still, with
kind of question in his eyes as if to
ask me whether | were glad or sorry
to see him. | wonder | didn't drop.
know that everything was turning
round, and the words of the clergymeu
were just like the buzz of a Lee in
my ear. | didn't know what to do.
Should | stop the service and make a
scene in the church? | glanced at
him again, and he seemed to know
what l was thinking, for he raised his
finger to his lips to tell me to be still.
Then l saw him scribble on a piece of
paper, and knew that he was writing
the way out l dropped my bouquet
over to him, and he slipped the note
into my hand when he returned me the
flowers. 1t was only line asking me
to join him when he made the sign to
me to do SO. OF course never doubt
ed for a moment that my first duty
was now to him. and l determined to
do just whatever he might direct
When | got back | told my maid
who had known him in California, and
had always been his friend | ordered
. her to say nothing, but to get few
things packed and my ulster ready
know | ought TO have spoken TO Lord
st. Simon, but it was dreadful hard
before his mother and all those great
people. / just made up my mind tC
run away and explain afterwards.
hadn't been at the table ten minutes
before | saw Frank out of the window
, at the other side of the road. He beck
oned to me, and then began walking
into the Park. | slipped out, put or
my things, and followed him. Some
woman came talking something o,
/. other about Lord ST Simon to me
7 seemed to me from the little | hearc
+, as if he had little secret of his ow,
before marriage-but I managed t.
i. get away from her, and soon overtool
, Frank. We got into cab together
! and away we drove to some lodging
he had taken in Gordon Square, an,
j., that was my true wedding after al
= those years of waiting Frank ha,
:, been prisoner among the Apaches
had escaped, came on to Frisco, foun
!, that | had given him up for dead an
u had gone to England, followed m
, , there, and had come upon me at las
on the very morning of my secon
o wedding
J. Il saw it in paper" explained tn
= American. 1T gave the name and tn
:, church, but not where the lad
lived"
i Tomorrow-The Adventure of tn
{ Noble Bachelor, concluded
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