Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 16 April 1895 — Page 4

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3.11a now ny lovea ner ins nre woniu show. He loved her for her sweetness, for her womanliness, for her .strength. He had need of her. Would she not come to him? And then of a sudden as she listened it came home to her that the man was Harold Denver, and that she was the woman, and that all (rod's work was very beautiful—the greensward beneath her feet, the rustling leaves, the long orange slashes in the western sky. She spoke. She scarce knew what the broken words wore, but she saw tlio light of joy shine out on his face, and her hand was still in his as they wandered amid the twilight. They said no more now, but only wandered and felt each other's presence. All was fresh around them, familiar and yet new, tinged with the beauty of their own new found happiness. "Did you not know it before?" he nsked. "I did not dare to think it." "What a mask of ice I must wear! Itcnv could a man feel as I have done without showing it? Your sister at least knew." "Ida!" "It was last night. She began to praise y-u, I said what I felt, and then in an instant it was ail out." "But what could you—what could you see in me? Oil. I do pray that .you maj7 ii.t repent it!" The gentle heart was ruiiL.l ami its joy by the thought or its own unworthiness. "Repent it. I feel that 1 am a saved man. You do not know how degrading this city life is. how debasing, and yet how absorbing. Money forever clinks in your ear. Yon can tliink of nothing else. From the bottom of my heart I hate it, and yet how can I draw back without bringing grief to my dear old father? There was but one way in which I could defy the taint, and that was by having a home inlluence so pure and so high that it may brace me up against all that draws me down. I have felt that influence already. I know that when I am talking to you I am a better man. It is you who must go with me through life, or I must walk forever alone." "Oh, Harold, I am so happy!" Still they wandered amid the darkening shadows, while one by one the stars peeped out in the blue-black sky above them. At last a chill night wind blew up from the east and brought them back to the realitks of life.

"Oh, Harold, I am so happy!" "You must go in. You will be cold." "My father will wonder where I am. Shall I say unythyig to him?" "It you like, my darling. Or I will in the morning. I must tell my mother tonight. I know how delighted she will be." "I do hope so." "Let me take you up the garden path. It is so dark. Your lamp is not lit yet. There is the window. Till tomorrow, then, dearest." "Till tomorrow, Harold." "My own darling!" He stooped, and their lips met for the first time. Then as she pushed open the folding windows she lieavd his quirk firm step as it passed down the graveled path. Alain}) was lit as she entered the room, and there was Ida, dancing about like a mischievous little fairy, in front of her. "And have you anything to tell me?" she asked, with a solemn fare. Then suddenly throwing h-r arms round her sister's neck: "()h, you d'-ar, dear old Clara! I am so pleased. I am so pleased."

CHAPTER VII.

"VKXIT TANIJKM FJ-XIOTAS." It was just three days after the doctor and the admiral had congratulated each other upon tho closer tie which was to unite Iheir two families, and to turn their friendship into something even dearer and more intimate, that Miss Ida Walker received a letter which caused her some surprise and considerable amusement. It was dated from next door and was handed in by tho redheaded page after breakfast. "Dear Miss Ida," began this curious document and then relapsed suddenly into the third person. "Mr. Charles Westmacott hopes that he may have the extreme pleasure of a ride with Miss Ida Walker upon his tandem tricycle. Mr. Charles Westmacott will bring it round in half an hour. You in front. Yours very truly, Charles Westmacott."

Tho wliolo was written in a large, loose jointed, school boyish hand, very thin on tho up strokes and thick on the down, as though care and pains had gone to the fashioning of it.

Strange as was the form the meaning was clejtr.enough, so Ida hastened to her

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room and liau hardly slipped on her light gray cycling dress when she saw the tandem with its large occupant at the door. He handed her up to her saddle with a more solemn and thoughtful face than was usual with him, and a few moments later they were flying along the beautiful smooth suburban roads in the direction of Forest hill. The great limbs of the athlete made the heavy machine spring and quiver with every stroke, while the mignon gray figure, with the laughing face and the golden curls blowing from under the little pink banded straw hat, simply held firmly to her perch and let the treadles whirl round beneath her feet. Mile after mile they flew, the wind beating in her face, the

trees dancing past in two long ranks on either side, until they had passed round Croydon and were approaching Nor-

wood once more from the farther side. "Aren't you tired?" she asked, glancing over her shoulder and turning toward him a little pink ear, fluffy golden curl, and one blue eye twinkling from the very corner of its lid. "Not a bit. I am just getting my swing." "Isn't it wonderful to be so strong? You always remind me of a steam engine." ""Why a s: eani engine?" "Well, because it is so powerful and reliable and unreasoning. Well. I didn't mean that last, you know, but—but— you know what I mean. What is the matter with you?" "Why?" "Because you have something on your mind. You have not laughed once."

Ho broke into a grewsome laugh. "I am quite jolly," said he. "Oh, no, you are not. And why did you write such a dreadfully stiff letter?" "There, now," he cried, "I was sure it was stiff. I said it was absurdly stiff." "Then why write it?"' "It wasn't my own composition." "Whose then! Your aunt's?" "Oh, no. It was a person of the name of Slattery." .. "Goodness! Who is he?" "I knew it would come out. I felt that it would. You've heard of Slattery, the author?" "Never." "He is wonderful at expressing himself. He wrote a book called 'The Secret Solved or, Letter Writing Made Easy.' It gives you models of all sorts of letters."

Ida burst out laughing. "So you AG-, tually copied one." "It was to invite a young lady to a picnic, but I set to work apd soon got it changed so that it Would do very well.

I written it, it seemed so dreadfully stiff

that I had to put a little beginning and ea.l of my own, which seemed to brighten it up a good deal." "I though.t there was something funny I about the beginning and end." "Did you? Fancy your noticing the difference in style. How quick you are! I I am very slow at things like that. I ought to have been a woodman or gamekeeper or something. I was made on I those lines, but I have found something now." "What is that, then?"

"Ranching. I have a chum in Texas, and lie says it is a rare life. I am to buy a share in his business. It is all in the open air—shooting and riding and sport. Would it—would it inconvenience you much. Ida, to come out there with me?"

Ida nearly fell off lier perch in her amazement. The only words of which she could think were. "My goodness me!" so she said them. "If it would not upset your plans or change your arrangements in any way." He had slowed down and let go of the steering handle, so that tho great machine crawled aimlessly about from ono side of tho road to tho other. "I know very well that I am not clever or anything of that yort, .but still I would do all I can to make you very happy. Don't yon think that in time you might com:.' to like me a little bit?"

Ida gave a cry of fright.1' "1 won't like you if you run mo against a brick wall," said she as the machine rasped tip against the curb. "Do attend to the steering." "Yes, I will. But tell me, Ida, wliethor you will come with me." "Oh, 1 don't know. It's too absurd! How can wo talk about sucli things when I cannot see you? You speak .to the nape of my neck, and then I have to twist my head round to answer." "1 know. That was why I put 'You in front' upon my letter. I thought that it would make it easier. But if you would prefer it I will stop the machine, and then you can sit round and talk about it." "Good gracious!" cried Ida. "Fancy our sitting face to face on a motionless tricycle in the middle of the road and all tho people looking out of their windows at us." "It would look rather funny, wouldn't it? Well, then suppose that we both get off and push the tandem along in front of us." "Oh. no this is better than that." "Or I could carry the thing."

Ida burst out laughing. "That would be more absurd still." "Then we will go quietly, and I will look out for tho steering. I won't talk about it at nil if you would rather not. But I really do love you very much, and you would make me happy if you camo to Texas with me. and I think that ner-

Slattery seems never to have asked any ^ne benighted male had come^in from one to ride a tandem. But when I had

haps after a June 1 could make you happy too." "But your aunt?" "Oh, she would like it very much. I can understand that your father might not like to lose you. I'm sure I wouldn't either if I were he. But. alter all, America is not very far off nowadays, and it is not so very wild. We would take a grand piano, and—and—a copy of I Browning. And Denver and his wife would come over to see us. We should I be quite a family party. It would be jolly."

"May have it." said he, "for lite?" Ida sat listening to the stumbling words and awkward phrases which were whispered- from the back of her, but there was something in Charles Westmacott's clumsiness of speech which was more moving than the words of the most eloquent of pleaders. He paused, he stammered, lie caught his breath between the words, and he blurted out in little blunt phrases all the hopes of his heart. If love hail not. come to her yet, there was at least pity and sympathy, which are nearly akin to it. Wonder there was also that one so weak and frail as she should shake this strong man so, should have the whole course of his life waiting for her decision. Her lc-fl hand was on the cushion at her side. He leaned forward and took it gently in his own. She did not try to draw it back from him. "May I have it," said he, "for life?" "Oh, do attend to your steering," said she, smiling around at him, "and don't say any more about this today. Please don't!" "When" shall I know, then?" "Oh. tonight., tomorrow—I don't know. I must ask Clara. Talk about something else."

And they did talk about something else, but her left hand was still inclosed in his, and he knew, without asking again, that all was well.

CHAPTER VHL SHADOWS BEFORE, tgg

Mrs. Weitmacott's great meeting for the enfranchisement of woman had passed over, an lit had been a triumphant success. All the maids and matrons of the southern suburbs had rallied at her summons there was an influential platform, with Dr. Balthazar Walker in the chair, and Admiral Hay Denver among his more prominent supporters.

the outside darkness and had jeered from the farther end of the hall, but he had been called to order by the chair, petrified by indignant glances from the unenfranchised around him and finally escorted to the door by Charles Westmacott. Fiery resolutions were passed, to be forwarded to a large number of leading statesmen, and the meeting broke uj with the conviction that a shrewd blow had been struck for the cause of woman.

But there was one woman at least to whom tho me :iing and all that was connected with it had brought anything but pleasure. Clara Walker watched with a heavy heart the friendship and close intimacy Avhicli had sprung up between her father and the widow. From week to week it had increased until no day ever passed without their being together. The coming meeting had been lie excuse for these continual interviews, but now the meeting was over, and still the doctor would refer every point which rose to the judgment of his neighbor, lie would talk, too, to his two daughters of her strength of character, her decisive mind, and of the necessity of their cultivating her acquaintance and following her example, until at last it had become his most common topic of conversation.

All this might have passed as merely the natural pleasure which an elderly "man might take in the society of a:i intelligent and handsome woman, but there were other points which seemed to

Clar.i to give it a deeper meaning. She could not forget that when Charles Westmacott had spoken to her one night ho had alluded to the possibility of his aunt uarrying again. He must have known or noticed something before he would speak upon such a subject. And then again Ju-s. Westa'cott had herself said that she hoped to Change her style of living shortly .and take over completely new duties. Vv hat could that mean except that she expected to marry? And whom? She seemed to see few friends outside their own little circle. She must have alluded to her father. It was a hateful thought, and yet it must be faced.

One evening the doctor had been rather late at his neighbor's. He used to go into the admiral's after dinner, but now I he turned more frequently in the other direction. When he returned, Clara was sitting alone in tho drawing room reading a magazine. She sprang up as ho entered, pushed forward his chair and ran to fetch his slippers. "You are looking a little pale, dear," he remarked. "Oh, no, papa I am very well." "All well with Harold?" "Yes. His partner, Mr. Pearson, is still away, and he is doing all the work." "Well done. He is sure to succeed. Where is Ida?" "In her room, I think."

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