Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1908. Secrets of Happiness. chill dining |away for the last time he had given USANNE TAFT was eating »d drinking cocoa alone at end of the big in the high, cheerl - Cedar | her one the keys to the side door. room of on street. She ha her full sho held the thu Hav Winter and the hand d cup to her in wil After | ents’ friends, e to had m d bou hot youl Her oldest brot mainta gether come. her sister to Mr. G she had auction ¢ ceeds see 3 plish a new syst there in dull ol " Helen written Perhaps i ue. event she had an ex he old house on their d it any more. A new kind of drug stor a service and friendly attitude widl efficient management and buying- power of a great modern organization. | If she wanted to sce them she must go | where they were. toast | She arose from the table and ' going one | to the window looked at the old house next door. When John Boyd went “You might want to go in there for| that | something, some time,” he had told | lips | her. “You are welcome to books or | th a | anyfhing else you may want.” John did | Boyd was the last Boyd of all and the She | house was his. He had left it just as it to | stood except for a few gifts to his par- | And he had sold it just | the |as it stood—furniture. hangings, china | died |and all. The contents were old-fash- foned and not very valuable, for nothing nade | new had been bought during his moth-| er's latter years. Yet to Susanne it was filled with the most precious furnish- ings of all—memories of John’s youth and of her own. She wished to bid | | farewell to them while there was yet | 1 | ime. She took the key from the sideboard drawer, where it had been undisturbed | since John gave it to her almost five | years ago, and, leaving her breakfast | nfinished, she put on her fur coat and | er hat and went out of her house, | ind by the walk to the side door of e Boyd dwelling. (A storm of sleet | st night had e’ footing treacher- o no snow. The lock yielded eas her key, and she en- tered into the sitting room, which had | been the scene of so many happy gath: erir It was not this room or the dini room beyond or the great double parlor: he wished to see, but a little room on | the other side of the house which the | Boyd boys, John and Ernest, had called | their den. Ernest was dead now and | novody knew where John was, except | that he was a wanderer on the face of | {the earth. She hesitated before the door of this little room, then opened it, and, trembling with emotion, looked | within. A faint smell of tobacco smote he: in the face. The shades were down | ut she could see even in the dimness somebody had sat in that deep | ir before the fireplace where a fire | had certainly been lit. Upon the table | stood an old-fashioned kerosene ]flmpi by which somebody had been reading. | A book lay face downward beside the | lamp. She lifted it and her glance fell upon a well remembercd page in “Au- cassin and Nicolette.” She had given John that book on his birthday long ago. It was as if he had spoken to her. Vi s if he were there in that acred room with her. had | She put away the possibility that the ught And in | agent had probably brought there the cuse | purchaser a night or two before and ac- | that they had lit the fire and hunted up the lamp and sat there discussing .- Whelan "3 Drug Stores e combini | over her s er | nothing, really.” | visit with him, ame last night and spent the eve- the whys and wherefores of their bar- gain. Was not- the little volume proof enough of John’s presence? She pressed her lips to the page and then sinking slowly into the deep chair she laid her face on its arm and wept, she who had believed all her tears were shed. The loneliness, the futility of her life and love passed over her in a devastating flood and she wondered if she could go into a future that seemed to promise no i.ore than the past had given. Presently she lifted her face, dried her eyes and, taking the little book, went out, closing the doors softly behind her one after the other until she came to the outer doo hich she locked. In a moment she was at_home. The fire was making itself felt, her canary want- ed his breakfast, her flowers needed watering. There was a meeting of the woman’s club that afternoon, at whi she was scheduled to speak, and a sew ing bee for the hospital that evenings. The telephone bell was ringing. It was Mrs. Millard asking her to entertain the Ladies’ Aid the following day. “You are the only one of us all who has room enough.” It came to her that too many threads were attached to her; she could not break them all without vital agony to herself. “Ni guess T'll stay right here. I'm needed. Maybe nowhere else could I be useful,” she thought. that moment_somebody knocked | ‘Without ceasing to | primroses _she | t the side door. pour water on called “Come in!” Then as hesita- tion_rather than neighborless seemed to follow upon her words, she called expected. She looke and saw a man tanding upon the threshold of the room. After ward she regretted the breakage of the old majolica pitcher, but then she could only realize dizzily that John Boyd stood before her. She shook hands with him, she gave him a chair, she d _th n pitcher. “It's g in the den. In fact, I fell asleep nd did not awaken un#l daylight. Then I went down to the hotel, where I had intended to stay, bathed and brea ted and hurried back up here to see you.” He smiled, winning a smile from her in return. Few women are ever so happy as to see their boyish sweethearts in the men who return after many years, but Susanne saw that John Boyd had scarcely changed. “I've come back to stay,” he answered quietly. “Why, what—what put that in your head?” she asked. “You, From a darkened room I watched you last night, sitting here in this lighted one, sewing, the same Susanne that I realized suddenly I cannot live without.” “But I am a left-over, John.” Every department is under the direc. tion of experts—and the selection of ®oods is made by our technically educated buyers. “So am L" He came and stood be- @ide her, looking down into her face. 've nobody but you. I want you very much, Susanne.” She didn’t tell him that she had al- ways wanted him. She didn’t tell him | that she had been in the room so full | of memory and his presence and that as long as she lived the little volume | of “Aucassin and Nicolette” should be her dearest treasure. And he didn’t tell her that upon returning to the room | he had smelled the familiar perfume she always wore and had found in the chair a small tear-wet handkerchief embroid- All Silk Chiffon from Toe to Top ered with her name. Thus each had a secret from the other, but they were secrets that made for happiness. Mean- while they had plans to make for a long and blissful future. ‘THE END. (Copyright, 1928.) The Cascade Tunnel of the Great| Northern Railroad through the Cascade Mountains is the largest in the United States. It is 8 miles long and will shorten the transcontinental trip by 50 miles. 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