South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 326, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 21 November 1920 — Page 28

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THE MEMENTO By 0. Henry

" N'TI.VTT.r KP.f'M i a ; : ! r.f nud;" r.( s ;-g. ' r a ;: rr. y-iitr.g. w ri th irir. t:i t narlatlns i:k a lot of v, ;M s J:x'J -n on :; If ycij mrn i lav h Oh. how I bl .1 ? M, with th'.-Ir t "U th ir r;i'ly t., in r ,o !i of 14! Well. I'm bout m. slf, "I had two up. nd I rut r, T 1 1 i r : ir ou j-j j n i u c n am I I. im? hundred dollars th" s la? th" f FlVCfl j rst o of ! I wor.t ov r ori Lor.K' Island and villa that four.fl th 'Vr wa FWOftSt litt! callM Foundport, rieht on th wattr. I was Intr to spend th summer there, and ftudy up on elocution, nnd try to gi a cla in the f ill. Then was n old widow lady with a cottago near the beach who mptlmcs rent ed a room or two just for company, end ph took rn in. She had another boarder, too thy Reverend Arthur Lle. "Ypi, ho was th" head-liner. You're on. Lynn. I'll U-ll you all of it in a minute. It's only a cue-act "Th fr Hin ho walked on. Iynn. I felt myself goir.:; the first lins h pok-. he had me. 11 was different from the men lr. audiences. Ho was tail and pllnj, and you never heard him corne in the room, hut you felt him. H hd a fare like a picture, of a knight and a voire. lik a 'cello solo. And his manners! "L.ynn if you'd take John Drew In hi best drawing-room scene and rnmpar the two, and you'd have lohn arrested for disturbing the peacp. "I'll ppare you the particulars; hut In ie? than a. month Arthur and I wo enaflred. He preached at a little on-night utand of a Methodist church. There was to be a parionag th eize of a lunch- , wagon, and hens and honey-suckles Mhen we were married. Arthur used to preach to me a pood deal about Heaven, but he never could gt my mind quite off those honeysuckles and hena. "No; I didn't tell him I'd been on the tage. I hated the business and all that went with It; I'd cut it out forever, and I didn't Me any use of ntlrrinsr things up. I waa a pood girl, and I didn't have anything to confess, except being an elocutionist, and that was about all the strain my conscience would stand. "Oh. I tell you. Lynn, I vra happy. I earn? In the choir and attended tho aowinff society, and recited that 'Annie Laurie' thing: with the whistling stunt In It, 'in IV manner borderinar upon the profcHPional.' as the weekly village paper reported it. And Arthur and I went rowing and walking1 in the woods, and clamming-, and that poky llttlo villa pre seemed to rne the best place in the world. I'd have been happy to live there always, too. If "Dut one morning old Mrs. Gurley, the widow ladr got gossipy w hile I was helping her etrtr.g beans on the back iorch. and Legan to ! Kush information, as folks who rent ut their rooms usually do. Mr. LvIh was her Idea of a saint on arth and he was mine. too. She went over all hia virtues and graces, and wound up by tellln? me that Arthur had had an extremely romantic love-affair, not lunpr before, that had ended unhappily. Pho didn't seem to be on to the detail, but ehe knew that he had been hit pretty hard. He was paler and thinner, the said, and lie had some kind

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pake of the od box that desk in his 1 fly Hi a liitie roswn be kept baked in his study. " '"f ra! times. ' siys 3h. 'I'v Hofn him gloomerln' ovc that box r.f rvtT.i:'!--. and he. always locks It up right away if anybody comes into the routii. "Well, you can Imagine how long It wa before I rot Arthur by the wrist and led him down stage and hissed in his ear. "That s imo afternoon we were lazyir.p around in a boat anmn; the water-lilies at the edpe of the bay. " 'Arthur.' pays I. 'you never told me you'd had another love affair. Hut Mrs. Clurley did,' I went on, to let hlrn know I knew. I hate to hear a man lie. " H-fore you came,' paya he, looking mo frankly In tho eyo, 'there was a previous affection a stronsr one. iince ymi know of It, I will be perfectly candid with you.' . " 'I am waiting, fay a I. " 'My dear Ida.' aya Arthur of eour.so I went by my real name, while I was in Soundport 'this former affection wan a spiritual one. In fact. Although the lady aroused my deeprHt sentiments, and was, as I thought, my Ideal woman, I never met her. and never Epoke to her. It wa an Ideal love. My love for you, while no less ideal, is different. You wouldn't let that ;vme between us?' '"Was sho pretty?' I asked. " "Sho was very beautiful,' said Arthu r. " 'Did you eee her often?' I asked. " 'Something like a dozen time,' says he. " 'Always from a distance?' pays r. " 'Always from quite a distance, says lie. "'And you loved her?' I asked. " 'She seemed my ideal of beauty and Krace and soul,' says Arthur. "'And this keepsake that you keep under lock and key, and nuon over at times, is that remembrance from i her?' " 'A memento, says Arthur, 'that I have treasured.' " 'Did phe ?end It to you?' " lt came to me from her, rays he. 'In a roundabout way ?' I asked, says he, ouiai mil. i iiuimauvui! 'and yet rather direct.' "Why didn't you ever meet her?' I asked. 'Were your positions In life so different?' t " 'Sho Arthur. was far above me,' says 'Now, Ida, he goes on, 'this is all of the past. You're not going to be jealous, are you? " 'Jealous!' says I. 'Why. man. what are you talking about? It makes me think ten times as much of you as I did before I knew about it.' "And It did. Lynn if you can understand it. That ideal love was a new one on me, but It struck me. as being the most beautiful and glorious thine I'd ever heard of. Think of a man loving a woman he'd never even ppoken to, and being faithful to Just what his mind and heart pictured her! Oh, It sounded great to me. The men I'd always known come at you with either diamonds, knock-out drops or a raise of salary and their Ideals! well, we'll eay no more. "Yes,- It made me think more of Arthur than I did before. I couldn't be jealous of that far-away divinity that he used to worship, for Orianlc iron Is like the Iron In year blood and Lke the iron in spinach, lentils and aoplea. If may be had from your druggist under the nam 9 of Nuxated Iren. Nutated Iron representj organic iron in such highly condensed form that one dose cf it is estimated to be arrroxl rcately equivalent (in organic irbn content) to eating one-half quart of spinach, cce Quart of green vegetables or half a dozen apples. Over 4,000,000 people annually are using Nuxated Iron. It will not injure the teeth nor disturb the stomach. A few doses will oftent commence to enrich your blood. gle yea' new strength and energy and quickly reTita'Lxe wornout. exhausted serres. Your money will be refunded by the c&sufae-, turns if yon do not obtain satisfactory results. Fewarecf substitutes. Always insist oil fcaviof' genuine organic iron Nuxated Iron. LockfsC theleturi N.I. ÖQ every tablet. Atalldrexjistj.' a '

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T was point? to have him myself. And I bepan to look upon him as a faint on earth. Just as old lady Gurley did. "About 4 o'clock this afternoon a man came to the hou.e for Arthur to ko and s1 somebody that was ick anion; his church bunch. Old lady Ourly was taking her afternoon snore on a couch, so th .t left me pretty much alone. "In pafsins by Arthur's study I look ed in. and naw his bunch of keys hanprinpr in the drawer of .his deck, where he'd forsrotten 'em. W1I, I gue.s we're all to the Mr. Hlue....rt rr.- nn.l tVinr. fin't v. tvn1

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I Imagined one or two thlr.es It might be. I thought it mUht to ;i dried rosebud fche'd dropped down to him from a balcony, or inaybo a picture of he r ho'd cut out of a'm.icrazlne. she l inc: so hiyh up in the world. "I opened the drawer, and thfro was the rosewood casket about Ihr size of a gent's collar box. I found the little key in the bunch that fitted it. and unlocked it and raided the lid. "I took one look at that memento, and then I went to my room an 1 packed my trunk. I threw a few thine: into my prip, gave my hair a flirt cr two with a side-comb, put on my hat, and went in and gave tho old lady's foot a kick. I'd tried awfully hard to ue proper and correct language while I was there for

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about to walk. I'm ir.i; away fr 'in here and I ow.. you tl-:ht dollars. The expressman will call ftr my trunk.' "I handed her the ni'.-nev. "'Dear m Miss Croby: says she. 'Is anything wrong.' I thought you were pleased here. Dear me, young women are so hard to understand, and so different from what you expect 'em to be.' " 'You're damn right,' rays I. 'Some of 'em are. P.ut you can't say that about men. When you know one man you know em ; 11! That settles the human-race question.' "And then I caught tlu 4:35 oftails

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c..il unlimited: and h re I am." "You didn't tell mo what was in tho bo:;. Loo," 5a id Miss D'Armando. anxiou 'y. "One of those y How s:! garurs that I used to k;. k !f my log into tho audience durinc tb.it eld vaudeville suing act of mine. Is there any of the cocktail left. Lynn?''

CHARGES COAL FOR ALLIES IS STOLE ROTTERDAM. Nov. : 0. -Thousands of tons of German coal, intended for some o' the entente nations, have Vie en stolon whi'.o rn routo down tho lthin and smueclM into Holland on barg:?, 5-iys th" Rotterdam Courant. Only a part of the coal was N0 uaslc

unloaded at th allied depots, and the rfst. covered with stor.es, wat ri -jght dow n the river to Holland, sajs the newspaper.

0E MA FAILS TO OBEY STRIKE CALL CARDITF. Wales. Nov. A million of the coal miners of On it I'ritain participated in the tnko. but there is at least one who did not obty the union call to c,uit work. He presented himself for work at a South Wales pit wher CO men were employed keeping the colliery In order. Ho wont down for his soven-hour shif;. cut coal, put it 1". a tub and took it to the pit mouth !incle handed. !

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