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""Why have yon never let Tom Mei ^?th know you were living- so near bj thiess than a hundred miles-when ?fcas alwiys liked and admired y? %hove all i^e rest of mankind? I knc %b&t he has tried time and again feear of you, but the other men wro $fcat they knew nothing, that- it w thought you had gone abroad. I hi fcieard of you, and so has ne seen yoi hsme in the. Rouen papers-about tl ^White Caps' and in politics-but 1 Nvoald never dream of connecting tl ^lattv?le Mr. Harkless with his M totrkless; though I did. just a little. : ^fc vague way. I knew you, of cours Vhen you came into Mr. Halloway ?tecture the other evening. But wt . haven't you written to my cousin?" .*Rooen seems rather far away 1 *aae,'T be answered quiefTy. Tve bee ^feere only once, half a day on busines Except that I've never been much fa 'Sher than Arno-and then for a conve: TQoa or to make a speech-since I can &ere." ^Wicked," she exclaimed, "to shi Soorself up like this! I said it was fin to drop out of the world, but why bav ^06 cot off your old friends from "you *Srhy haven't you had a relapse no^ 3uxd then -and come over to hear Ysay iptay and Melba sing, or to see Mam fcteJd or Henry Irving, when we hav <hs.d them? And do you think you'v ^esa quite fair to Tom? What righ ^sad you to assume that he had forgot ^ea you?' >*Oht I didn't exactly mean forgot * ^en,** he said, pulling a blade of gras ^ and fro between his fingers am ?ttat?ag at it absently. "Ifs only tba ? &ave dropped out of the world, yoi <fcaow. They rather expected me to d< -% lot of things, and I haven't don? "t?eta, ^Bssibly it is because I am sen "^t??^e^hat I ??ver let Tom know. Thej *?j?p?3C*t?? 'me io amount to 'something r3ttt I don't believe his welcome woulc less hearty to a failure-he is z Jgoott heart." . ^^IP??Soier she cried and clapped bei 'toads ?and laughed. v*^!m really not very trayic about it r&aogh $ must seem consumed with ?Sf pity," he returned, smiling. "It is '?aajy that 1 have dropped out of the ^rorld -while Tom is still in it." w*C*opped out of the world!*" she ?S??Bd. impatiently. "Can't you see -^Wtfre dropped into it? That you" *3uost night 1 was honored by your *?j??fcse or' my graceful mode of quitting ' "^&ad ?o you wish me to be consist? ?ate .she retorted scornfully. "What %?sames of your gallantry when we *fclsSi?e by reason?" ^?^Crue enough; equality is a denial of **?nd ^r^?-^ge is a denial of equal iS^F"? 1 doa/* 3rke that at all." She ^txraed a serious, suddenly illuminated i$sce Ajpon him and spoke earnestly: ?*"?fs my hobby. I should tell you, and ^tu tired of that nonsense about 'wom? eai alway? sounding the personal note.' <$t should be sounded as we would ^?cmnjl it. And I think we could bear ^2*e ioss of 'privilege' " He laughed and raised a protesting Stood. "But we couldn't" -No, you couldn't It's the ribbon of ^naperlorirr in your buttonhole. I know l?verai women who manage to live *?w?thout men to open doors for them. **nd 1 think U could bear to let a man '?pass before <me cow and then or wear ^a?s-b?t ic an office where I happened U ^3?, and I could get my own ice at a ?? stance. ? think, possibly with even less ^fJtass and seramb?e than Tye sometimes f?%) ^iahserred in the young men who have >4oae lt fer me. But you know you ^".woold aerer let us do things for our gg *&e&vs. nc matter what legal equality **3aSgbt be declared, even when we get ?^praspjQ?ation for our taxation. You 'never be able to deny yourselves giving us our -privilege!' I hate bein^r 'halted on! i'd rather do things for *Sfce *was so earnest in her satire, so .fc?U of scorn and so serious in brr mean fcsg, and there was such a coutrast be 'tsreen what slie said and her person? al**? booked so pre-eminently the pretty *a??rqaise, the little exquisite, so essen '?aify to be waited on and helped, to "?are cloaks thrown over the dampness ^?HT Ler to tread upon, to be run about %xr-he could see half a dozen youths leashing about for her ices, for her car t^age. for her chaperon, for her wrap. dances- that to save bis life he *Os?i?d not repress a chuckle. He man ^stgec io make it inaudible, however. <*ct? tt was as well that he did. "TL understand your love of newspa J?5Pfcr Tvork." she went on less vehement S^T., feet not less earnestly. "I have al %?c^ys wanted to do it myself, wanted immensely. I can't think of a mon1 ^?3tSKina-tiJig way of earning one's liv And I know I could do it Why you make the Herald a daily?" Uk? liear her speak of "earning one's $3?r.?ag" was too much for him. She the impression of riches, not -^alt? tyj the fine texture and fashioning Vj? .ber garments, but one felt that lux fasses-had wrapped her from her birth. $5fe h?? oot had much time to wonder ?^^haijslie did in I'lattville. It bad oe curred to him that it was a "little that she could plan to spend any e: of time there, even if she had j Minnie Briscoe at school. He felt ; she must have been sheltered and ted and waited on all her life, could not help yearning to wait on He answered inarticulately, some day," in reply to her question then fell into outright laughter. .'I might have known you wou take me seriously," she said, wit] indignation, only a sort of wistful] "I am well used to it I think it is cause I am not tall. People take girls with more gravity. Big pc are nearly always listened to." I "Listened to!" he said, and felt j he must throw himself at her : j "You oughtn't to mind being Tita j She was listened to. You" ! She sprang to her feet and her < ! flashed. "Do you think personal c j ment is ever in good taste?" she c fiercely, and in his surprise he alu fell off the bench. * "If there is thing I cannot bear, it is to be told 1 I ara 'small!' I am not Every one i isri't a iriantess isn't 'small.' I de personalities. I am a great deal c five feet a great deal more than t -r "Please, please," he said, "I didn'i "Don't say you are sorry," she in rupted. and in spite of his contrit he found her angry voice delicious was still so sweet hot with indig tion, but ringing, not harsh. "Dc say you didn't mean it because " didi You can't unsay it, you can alter it and this_is_the_way I must member youl Ah!" "She "drewlh ' breath with a sharp sigh and, COY ing her face with her hands, sank bi upon the bench. "I will not cry," ? said, not so firmly as she thought s did. "My blessed childi" he cried in gn distress and perturbation. "What ha I done? I-F "Call me -small' all you like," s answered. "I don't care. It isn't th; You mustn't think me such an i: beeile." She dropped her hands frc her face and shook the tears from b eyes with a mournful little laugh. I saw that her fingers were clinch tightly and her lip trembled. "I w not cry," she said again. "Somebody ought to murder me. ought to have thought-personaliti are hideous" "Don't! It wasn't that" "I ought to be shot" "Ah, please don't say that," she sai shuddering. "Please don't not even i a joke, after last night!" "But I ought to be for hurting yoi ndeed" She laughed sadly again. "It wasn fhat I don't care what you call me. am smalL You'll try to forgive me fe being such a baby? I didn't mean anj thing ? said. I haven't acted so bad! since I was a child." "It's my fault, all of it I've tire you out, and I let you get crushed a the circus, and" "That!" she said. "1 don't think would have missed the circus." He had a thrilling hope that sh meant the tent pole. She looked as i she meant that hut he dared not le himself believe it j "No." he continued, "I have been S' i madly happy in being with you tha I've fairly worn out your patience. I v haunted you all day. and I have" "All that has nothing to do with it,' she said, with a gentle motion of he hand to bid him listen. "Just after yo: left this afternoon I found that i cor.:? ?ot stay here. My people are goim abroad at once, and I must go win them. That's what is almost makin.. mt3 cry. I leave here tomorrow morn lng." He felt something strike at his heart In the sadden sense cf dearth he Lai no ;?>.c:ilshuient that she should be ruy such agitation over her d^partur L'ocj a place she had known so lit: I md friends who certainly were uo .ir: o'' her ??fe. He rose to his fee> ind. resting his arm against a syca ..(?re. stood staring away from her a r'-'ing. She did act move. Then .... a long silence. He had wakencv! ?nly. Thc skies had been sar .?Mr*\ the sward emerald. Plattvill? ;i ._.::.::\'-jt of romance, a city of euchau. .??..at and now, like a meteor burned . .a! in a breath, the necromancy fei :iway and he gazed into desolate years i'lie thought cf the square, his dusty ?tice, the bleak length of Main street, .i* they would appear tomorrow gav?> him a faint physical sickness. Today .1 had all been touched to beauty. H. i;::d felt fit to live and work here a thousand years-a fool's dream, and the waking was to arid emptiness. II<' >i:or.M d:'1 now of hunger and thirst in this Sahara. Ile hoped the fates would let it be soon, but he knew they would not; knew that this was hysteria, that in his endurance he should plod on. plod, plod dustily on, through dingy, lonely years. There was a rumble of thunder far out on the western prairie. A cold breath stole through the hot stillness, and an arm of vapor reached out be? tween tiie moon and the quiet earth. DHrkness fell. The man and girl kept j silence between them. They might I have been two sad guardians of the I black little stream that plashed un ? seen at their feet. Now and then a re ! flection of faraway lightning faintly : limned them with a green light. Thun der rolled nearer, ominously. Tue gods were driving their chariots over the bridge. The chill breath passed, leav? ing the air again to its hot inertia. "I did not want to go." she said at last, with tears just below the surface of her voice. "I wanted to stay here. I but he-they wouldn't-I can't" "Wanted to stay here?" he said hus- i kily. not turning. "Here? In In? diana?" "Yes." j "In Rouen, you mean?" "In Plattvii?e." "In Plattville!" He turned now. as? tounded. "Yes. Wouldn't you have taken, me on the Herald?" She rose and came to? ward him. "I coi id have supported myself here if yen would, and I've studied how newspapers are made. I know I could have earned a wage. I could have helped you make it a daily." He searched in vain for a trace of rail? lery in her voice. There was none. She seemed to intend her words to be taken literally. !*I doift understand." he said. "I don't know what you mean." "I mean that I want to stay here: that I ought to stay here; that my She sprang to her feet, and her eyes flashed. conscience tells me I should; but I can't and it makes me very unhappy. That was why I acted so badly." "Your conscience!" he cried. "Oh, I know what a jumble and puz? zle it must seem to you!" "I only know one thing-that you are going away tomorrow morning and that I shall never see you again." The darkness had grown intense. They could not see each other, but a wan glimmer gave him a fleeting, misty view of her. She stood half turned from him. her hand to her cheek in the uncertain fashion of his great mo? ment in the afternoon. Her eyes, he saw in the flying picture that he caught were troubled, and her hand trembled. She had been irresistible ia her gayety, but now that a mysterious distress assailed her, of the reason for which he had no guess, she was so adorably pathetic and seemed such a rich and lovely* and sad and happy thing to have come into his life only to go out of it. and he was so full of the prophetic sense of loss of her. it seemed so much like losing everything, that IK found too much to say to be able to say anything. He tried to speak and choked a little. A big drop of rain fell on his bare head. Neither of them noticed thc weather or cared for it They stood with the renewed blackness hanging like a drapery between them. "Can-can you-tell me why you think you ought not to go?" he whis? pered finally with a great effort. "No: not now. But I know you would think I am right in wanting to stay. I know you would if you knew about it: but I can't I can't. I must go in the morning." "I should always thinly you right" he answered tn an unsteady tone, "al? ways." He werA over to the^ bench, fumbled about for his hat anet picked it up. "Come." he said gently, "I aa* going now." She stood quite motionless fer a full minute cr longer; then, without a word, she moved toward the house. He went to her. with hands extended to Lind her. and his fingers touched her sleeve. Together and silently they found the garden path and followed its dim length. In the orchard he toucbed her sleeve again and led the way. As they came out behind the house she detained him. Stopping short she shook his hand from her arm. She spoke in a breath, as if it were all one word. "Will you tell me why you go? It is not late. Why do you wish to leave me. when I shall not see you again?" "The Lord be good to me!" he broke out all his long pent passion of dreams rushing to his lips as the barrier fell. "Don't you see it is because I can't bear to let you go? I hoped to get away without saying it I want to bi alone. I want to be with myself and try to realize things. I didn't want to make a babbling idiot of myself, but I am. It is because I don't want another second of your sweetness to leave au added pain when you've gone. It is boeause 1 don't want to hear your voice again, to have it haunt me in the lone? liness you will leave. But it's useless, useless. I shall hear it always, just as I shall always see your face, just as I have heard your voice and seen your j face these seven years, ever since I I first saw you, a child. at Winter Har ? bor. I forgot .for awhile. I thought it j was a girTl had rha<le~up~ oift <YT my i own heart hut it was you all the time, j The impression I though: nothing of i then; just the merest touch on ruy ? heart, light as it was, grew and grew , deeper till it was there forever. You've j known me twenty-four hours, and I i I understand what you think of me for speaking to you like this. If I had known you for years and had waited j your respect, what have I to offer you'. ? couldn't even take care of you if you w?nt iliad as I and- listened. I've no excuse for this raving- Yes. I Lave." Ke snw her in another second of lightning. a stuhlen, bright one. Her back was turned to him. and she had talton a few startled steps from Lim. "Ali." Le cried, "you are giad enough now to see me gol I knew it. 1 wa ni? el to spare myself that. I tried not to ;e :i hysterical fool in your eyes." He ruruod aside, and Lis Lead foll on Lis breast. "God kelp me!" Le said. "What will this place he to me no?/?" The breeze had risen. It gathered force, it was a chill wind, and lhere rose ? wailing on the prairie. Drops of rain began to fall. "Yet; will not think a question im? plied in this." Lo said, more campos'd !y. but with an unhappy laugh at him? self. "I believe you will not think in? capable of asking you if you care" "No." sLe answered. "I-? do not love you." "Ah, was it a question, after all? I yen read me better than I dc. perhaps. Sut, if I asked. I knew the answer." She made as if to speak again, but words refused her. After a moment. "Goodby." be se. id very steadily. "I thank you for rh charity that Las given me this little rinu-\vi;h you. It will always be precious tc me. I shall always be your servant." Ills steadiness did not carry him ro the end of ids sentence. "Gc* ti? ghe started toward him and stopped. He did not see her. She answer: ci noth? ing, but stretched out her hand to him and then let it fall quickly. "Goodby." he said again. "I shall go j ont the orchard gate. Please tell them j good night for me. Won't you speak to j me? Goodby!!! j Ele stood waiting, while the rising I wind Mew their garments about them, j She leaned against the wall of the j house. "Won't you say goodby and tell j rbe you can forget my" S!ie did not speak. "Xor he cried wildly. "Since you don't forget it.' I have spoiled what might have been a pleasant memory for you. and I know it. You are al? ready troubled, and I have added, and you won't forget it. nor shall I-nor shall I. Don't say goodby! I can say it :*br both of us. God bless you, and ioodby, goodby. goodby!" ile crushed his hat down over his .wes and ran toward the orchard gate. For a moment lightning flashed repeat? edly. She saw him go out the gate ,tnd disappear into sudden darkness. 3<? mn through the field and came out m the road. Heaven and earth were revealed again for a dazzling white second. From horizon to horizon rolled '.louds contorted like an illimitable rield of inverted haystacks, and be? neath them enormous volumes of blu? ish vapor were tumbling in the west, advancing eastward with sinister swift? ness. She ran to a little knoll at the corner of the house and saw him set his face to the storm. She cried aloud Lo him with all her strength and wouid aave followed, but the wind took tte words out of her mouth and drove her back, cowering, to the shelter of the uouse. Out on the road the lashing dust ?ame stinging him like a thousand net? tles. It smothered him and beat him so that he covered his face with his sleeve and fought into the storm shoul? der foremost dimly glad of its uproar, yet almost unconscious of it, keeping westward on his way to nowhere. West or east, north or south, it was all ono to him. The few heavy drops that fell boiling into the dust ceased te come: the rain withheld while the wind kings rode on earth. On he went in spite of them. On and on, running blindly, when he could run ai all. At least the wind kings were company. He had been so long alone, irhere was no one who belonged to him or to whom he belong d. For a day his dreams had found in a girl's eyes the precious thing that is called home. Oh, the wild fancy! He laughed aloud. (To Be Continued.) TtitfsPills will save the dyspeptic from many days of misery, and enable him to eat whatever he wishes. They prevent SICK HEADACHE, cause the food to assimilate and nour? ish the body, give keen appetite, DEVELOP FLESH and solid muscle. Elegantly sugar coated. -- Take No Substitute. FOLmHON?THLAR Gores Colds; Prevent*; Pneumonia Weall Hearts Are due to indigestion. Ninety-nine of every one hundred people who have heart trouble can remember when it was simple indiges? tion. It is a scientific fact that all cases of heart disease, not organic, are not only traceable to. but are the direct result of indi? gestion. 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