The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1922-03-09
THE PHOTOGRAPH
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BY MOLLiE MATHER


1aney sat looking at her adored
friend.
Why" She asked impulsiNely. do
you never have your picture taken.
Mollie: | have moi seen one i'll tbs
house. ana YOU would" .laneyS eyes
were caressing, make such Il Lowell!
picture
Miss Mollie Deming, spinster, smiled
Ne one would value my photo
graph, unless il might be You. she
replied My relatives would doubt
less write polite noles "f appreciation
when they received them. and rele-
gate them to some aforementioned cor
nvr."
You know better than that .Ianey
jcered.
She jumped to her feet.
Anyway, | want picture and am
going te have it. You look especially
lovely today, like some sweet shepherd
eSS lady. with Your soft crinkly white
hair, and your true-blue eyes. Poor
Terry will be glad OF Il job. He realty
should have been an artist in the cilH.
Sentiment. holding him here, alone pre-
vented
Molie Deming laughed, when she
and the girl Jane were at home again.
Terry posed me so many times and
WAS altogether painstaking, that MS
efforts should be rewarded with sue
cess. She said
| ..N.. oil nnlJSrI so
prctlN. and. sort of wistful. sitting
there Mollie. Do you know, that Is
the WAY your eyes always impress me.
nv their usefulness? Tell me, please
| did you have an unhappy love affair!
wonder 50 much about you at times
suppose, because | love you. wonio
be your contidante, Mollie."
The older woman gazed tenderly
thoughtfully into the eager young
| face appraised to hers.
People would tell you-your own
mother may have told you, Janey--tiiat
| WAS in Il careless, unthnkiug way,
noted years ago for my cOnqueStS. u
was at the time considered clever To
haunt ones captivating power. Ana
well. well, there were many young
men who came to my uncle's home.
and /. uncle's ward and charge, played
n merry game of hearts with them
all. my own heart ever untouched in
the game. Some day, | hoped TO find
my rue love, TO marry and settle
down To a life of devotion. And when
he came. my own love, l knew him
knew him instantly. by the thrill OF
10y that filled my days. And he loved
me. That | did not doubt. why
doubt the sincerity OF this man, when
Others had been sincere? / think
lived in dream" Miss Mollles eyes
were misty, across the years, SUI
d. her voice trembled its sorrow. Il live
on in that dream of the past" she
erded, sadly.
Ianev's hands went out to her. HE
died them" she observation-disclosures
Iuver:"
II almost wish that might tell You
so. Mollie hesitated.
No. she added, for the first time.
will speak the truth. 1t was thought
that John Douglas, like others, had
been Tilted But one knew, and after
John disappeared this friend of has
came aud told me the truth. 1t was
Il whom John Douglas had Tilted,
heartlessly, and with purpose. HE
FREUD said that he had been instructed
to tell me that John deliberately
planned my punishment. as he had
deliberately, and oh, 50 sklllfnliN'
acted his part.
He was charmin. III manner, you
see. and we'll known for his winning
way with women. SO, coming 10 our
small town, and hearing of my merry
ne>er-may-care tlirtations, John Doug
AS confidently and successfully planned
tire retaliation of winning my own
heart. to cast it as carelessly away
But this | could not guess, AS he held
me close in his arms and bade Inc
goodby. until tomorrow.
".romorrow,' lie promised gently, !
will come back to you. Tomorrow
my dearest, watch for me-
$50, through all the tomorrow ! have
watched and waited; and have liNe'
how YEARLY no one may know-in!
= punishment"
When Janey framed her friend
i, photograph and placed it upon hel
dresser. she was moved distressfuill
later to hide that same photograph
away. For the sadness OF Noble
!, pictured eyes had a provoking trlc'
+, of bringing quick tears to her own.
THAT man. exclaimed Janey con
!, tcnptously. Fancy being true to tn
memory Of such creature
Then one day, as Janey entered TIL
announced Miss Mollie's sitting room
j, she faced picture. And the 'w'
:. central figures facing the picture con
:, tinued. happily, oblivious of her pres
: pnce.
III was fate the distinguished az
pearing man was saying, and even II
her establishment Janey responds
;, ,ympathetically to the sincerity Of tina