Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-03-28
they faced each other, their heads

close together.
But since last night" Rachael
added, smiling after "a moments
thought. Il know I have a friend. I
and the whole world begins to talk.
that one person will not misjudge me.
and one person will not mtsupder-
stand"
~S'only that"" he asked. She raised
her glorious eyes quickly, trying to
smile, and it brought his heart to q
quick stop to SIZE that they were
tbrimrning with ~..tears:s
only that?" she echoed. my dear
Greg, after seven such years as I
have had as Clafence's wife. that is
not a small thing!'.
Their hands were together now
and he felt hers cling suddenly as she
said:
"Don't-don't let me. drag you into
this, Greg"
This IS what I want you to be-
lteve," Warren Gregorytold her, that
you are not his wife, you are nothing
to him any more And some day,
some day you're going to be happy
A wonderful color flooded her face;
she gave him a look half-frightened.
half-won. Then with an almost in
audible Goodnight" she was gone.
Warren Gregory stood watching
the slender figure mount the steps.
She did not turn to nod him a fare
well. but vanished like a shadow into
the soft shadows of the doorway. Yet
he was enough a lover to find consol.
alton in that. Rachael Breckenridge
was not flirting now, forces tar great.
er than any she had eve known were
threatening the shallow waters of her
life, and she might we'll be troubled
ana afraid.
"she is not his wife any more
Warren Gregory said, half aloud, al
he turned back to his acar. from
now on she belops to me! She shall
be mine!'
Chapter v.
From that day on a bright under.
current made bearable the trying
monotony Of her life. Rachael did
not at Z once recognize the rapid
change that began to takr.plare- in
her W feelings, but she did realize
that Warren Gregory's attitude had
altered everything in heE.worldsssHl
half In earnest; but it. a such de.
licious flirting. it was ~half-earnest-
ness SO wonderfully satisfying and
sweet. %'
She did not see him every day,
sometimes she did. not see him TO,
two or three days, but no twenty-four
hours went by without a message
from him.. A day or, two after the
troubled Sunday on which he had
driven her home she stood. silent a
moment. in the lower hall.s one hand
licious Freesia lilies. the fingers 81
the other twisting his ,card.s The
little message scrubbed on tie card
meant nothing to other eyes;; s331ust tht
two words Good morning." but In
some subtle way they signified to hel
10 morning in 4 wider sense;.tA dawn,
ing OF love and Joy and peace In hel
life. The next day they met-and
how wonderful these casual meeting.
anaong 4 hundred gay; uasesinxxelk
her, = little hour whose dramst1e And
emotional beauty w1s eihan61d-rath,
er than spoiled for them both whsl
Clarence and Billy aud soma friendl
came In to end It.
4. On Thvrsday. the q octcg4Inan. dc,
l!vsred into Mrs. Brsckenridss's hand
Ia package which provsd[tosAe O. Hftll
.bookson -Browning ..of which hs hat
spoken TO her. On the fly laaf m,
wrtttsn b tbs donors small, tn,
handwrittng, r. from q. The va,
caponsacch1." Rachael put the booi
on her tsds!de tAblA. and wore jpnl
colors all day for the .gtyar's sake
Greg. she Thought with q fluttefihl
heart, was certainly taking thing,
with rather q high. hand. Gould 4
be posstble,l could 1t be possible. tina
The cared for p woman ut last. an
was she. Rachael Brecksnrtdse.
neglected wife. . pennilese5 dspenden'
upon IN unlovtng husband. that womi
an?
Ha~lf-forsottsA emotions Of tIrl
hood began to stir within her: oh.
lflushsd, smiled, sighed Ut her oWr
thoughts. she dreamed. and came be.
wtidered out Of her DREAMS, like
child. What Clarence did. what Caro-
did. mattersd no longer; Nh, Racht
ael. again had the center o. the stage
WA6tss flayshzEThe saH1eSonS D,
lsEsunsss.s IN. essss. ~ y!ll:.ess a,!