Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-05
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yyE stood for moment looking at
A Xiv with frozen eyes, the tears wet
- nim cSeeks; then she said broken
festtGSa' eMnS 10 only you hadn't made it
IL
worse BY telling me a ie'
pnt Mh sbe had gone, and to the For
pu' ,gnnter standing alone in the
.nS .s.n II seemed as II already ne conld
aluet shn ootes OF his FOOLS Paradise
l1rs mars was no sleep for the Fortune
Ia aus, that night he paced his room
nnsss,r, torn with despair and mis-
MI Tho moonlight was merged into
sH,,.ht and the birds were twittering
VI. another in the garden outside. .,
yno ansned his window wide and
a h nrt over the dewy lawn and
~ % river beyond with hsggard eyes ne
S,d never believed in love ne hau
rrSrn @ that it should never touch ms
M and yet here he was. imprisoned
Ar II, chained by it hand and toot'
Unable to escape. ,,
''vy Whatever happened he could never
!. tbe same happy go lucky soul again;
rhst day, when he sat on the stiie anu
a"n,sd auuS tbe eight and twenty shillingS
bIs pocket, had marked a division IN
w Ilrtii Iii then poverty had been a thing
\ which to joke and .vagabondage
~. hut now he would gladly have
so, His right hand for decent record
nd an honorable livelihood.
Irc loyed Anne Harding with every
mai of his heart. and he had nothing
y oFer her In return for all she had
.jvsn n him: not even his name, not
pvsn his unstained honor.
The Fortune Hunter dressed and
r.rt out into the garden long before
EhS bousehold was astir. tiptoeing down
bS stairs for fear Of rouslng any one.
.nd as he unlatched the door and
,,snn4d out into the fresh air. the
SoIrbt came to him that 1t would be
better for hlmself-and for Anne. too
4 he took the road again without a
backward glance, and walked out Of
kr life as suddenly and strangely as
\. had entered it.
She would forget him. and her pride
Nonld HELM her; in time she would look
hack upon those few days as bad
l,sam that had slipped into the past.
He stood back on the lawn and
ooked up at the house. At his own
window. wide open, and with the old
Fashioned yellow rose nodding against
(he wall: at Anne's room. on the other
Tide Of the house. with the blind ha IT,
nwn and an edge Of lace curtain stir
ling In the morning breeze. and re-
Fulsion Of passionate feeling swept
through bis heart.
She loved him he knew it more surely
ban anything else in the world. Vaga-
botd and worthless as he was, she loved
lin, and il he left her now it was
hrowing her into the arms of another
nan. HE shall not have her-he shall
pot" be said as he turned out into
he road, walking fast as If to escape
kome unwelcome presence that followed,
boxing neither to the right nor the left.
Through all the years his luck had
|sd; II had never deserted him when
nost he needed It. He could not believe
lhat It was to desert him now.
Something would turn up; some mir
fce would happen to straighten out the
hopeless tangle. Not that he deserved
not that he deserved anything of
PIE, but simply because he could not
imagine an existence in which he must
separated from the woman he loved.
She had waited for him ten years
ne had trusted him when nobody else
ad trusted him; her happiness was
bound up in his.
You're up early this morning, Mr..
nlth' said grating voice close be-
ds him, and the Fortune Hunter awoke
sln start from his thoughts to find
ernie at his elbow.
ne slackened his speed and laughed.
,es-i,m used to being up with the
aNn, l can't lie in bed and sleep like
Dy% nv people can" he answered casually.
me old man looked at him with
earehlng eyes. Guilty conscience, ell ?"
asked calmly.
No'-the Fortune Hunter met his
s'e steadily--"not more than usual, :"
aaaed II suppose we all get an
V%Ck OF 1t sooner or later"
re'nie was StrOlling slowly behind
s,, @ " 80 we're to have a wedding. !
ear he said presently.
d6s s, Fortune Hunter smiled wrvIv.
rWH' you've heard that. have You -
.ae 1Id man looked up at him. "You
mean M I've heard wrong?" he asked.
Ntte silence. "''' was
NJ. SIlte romance, Mr.. Smith" Fer
~ SAD then, "you coming back ofter
s,.,.y NY years and finding Miss Harding
"1!Sns for you" '"H
ane Fortune Hunter stood still
c.,,.t ,LOot here" he said bluntly. "I'm
,I ,ISy NY we'll aware that YOU know
INA s.out s. me- and the fact that I once
M ssve Even years. I heard you announce
N ron ~ the inn down tho road but
aria hSu =, talnk I'm in the very leost
,ooo0, ot you, you're mistaken. and tbe
,G' ~ you you realize it the better.
,s,niu dne pest part of my life witbort
tyuo yas asI now to deal with men Of yonr
sns.h Shd u I'd been in the least afraid
,SuyIIssins you could do TO in;urs '%m n,a
Orr ~ have troubled to stop thar
sooS Sae,,, ma. 20 long MS YOU understand
ssyIns sothinE:' - And he sauntered M
and %S Trt, od Fsrnie staring after hin, n"
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swords r,i.a StSt when he was mcasnrIns Inc
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