Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 9, 1914, Page 6

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Outside the katydids trilled an an- swering refrain. The air was heavy with the fragrance of roses that clambered over the low walls of the cottage. The house, built of hewn logs, sat in the center of a wide stretch of lawn To the right stood a grove of oak and elm, poplar and maples. To the left ran an apple orchard warm with the blush of early ripening fruit. The woman at the piano rested her hands on the keys and sat for a mo- ment in silence. Then she rose and going to a door looking into a room at the back called softly, “Willlam!” “Well,” came a deep response. “May I come in?" “Certainly, my dear. ways welcome.” He laid his pen aside and held out his hand to her. “What is it, little sweetheart? Lonesome, eh? Never mind. 1 shall be done with this work very soon and then we will have a long play spell.” You are al- “Don’t write any more tonight, | dear.” She trailed her fingers softly through his tangled hair. “It's so beautitul out of doors. Take me for a stroll under the trees.” “I can't stop until the book s done. The proofs are all here and I must change this ending. When the book is off for good, little one, we will have a long vacation.” “It is always so,” she said, with a disappointed sigh, “and it will always be. The book! The book! You care more for any one of those secribbled pages than you do for me.” He glanced up at her with a half smile, expecting to see a laughing de- nial of her words in her eyes. But she turned away and went back to the piano. Through the doorway he watched her for a moment and then bent again to his work. How different was this from the married life she had dreamed of. She y young, pretty, fond of friends, ure, music. Before they were married they had artists and littera- teurs for their associates and the hours had been bright with wit, repartee and song. Now they had been for months in this secluded spot, with hardly an old friend to pay them an occasional visit. He must not be interrupted in his work. When the book was done they would have time enough for en- joyment. In his absorption he did not miss the society of friends, but she had not this needed concentration to fill her hours. Her heart cried out for sympathy and love, for the touch of nature that makes comrades of two souls, for that answer to the animated heartbeats of a conscious being, out which life is as a dry well desert. She had looked forward with delight to the time when she should be her husband's confidant, when the people of his creation should be her people, known to her almost as soon as to him, so that she should have a sort of partnership in them, and some- thing to do with giving them to the world. She had planned to be his helpmeet, his inspiration. She had seen herself suggesting a lesser chanr acter for a tale, adding a word or a phrase, contributing a witticism. Buat into that world she had found no en- trance. It was a kingdom with but room for one, and she was farther away from it now than when they were married 12 months ago. It her husband took her into his confidence concerning his literary pursuits it was to read her a page here and there, and that in such an unaccented as to leave it almost mean gless. He saw she found no enjoyment in these pe- rusals and gave them up altogether. Night and day he thought of his work and she grew more and more_lonely. vith- in a way She did not doubt his affection for her, but she could not be satisfied | with an occasional caress or a gentle word, as the whole expression of it. | One day, at the little station near their cottage, she met Ralph Farns- worth, and the instant look of admira- | tion that came to his eyes was not dis- pleasing to her. She had grown so | weary of solitude that another being i out of their old world was gladly wel- | comed. He was staying with a rela- tive in the neighborhood, he told her; his physician had advised the country; but for his part he hated it. He did not go away, however, but planned | many ways of meeting the pretty wife | | of the author, who found no time from his books to entertain her. She was | too much of a woman not to know il’arnsworth remained because of her. | She did not admit it to herself, yet | down deep in her heart she was i pleased with the admiration she had luwakened in this man of the world, ; with his air of weariness toward | everything. It was something to have | power over one who had seen every- | thing and despised it. She was so | much alone that he found little diffi- I culty in meeting her and she began to look forward to those meetings as a rightful release from the changeless round of everyday life to which she | had been subjected. He was so ready | to offer every attention, to anticipate ;her lightest wish, to discover what | | was pleasing or interesting to her and | make that the subject of his study | that the companionship ripened fast. | Tonight she had been unusually :Innel_\' and depressed. The days of | | | | her girlhood came back to accentuate the lack of friends and confidants. | Two brothers and a sister had made & | lively household, in which there were | few hours of loneliness. Now sheI was forced to find entertainment within herself and she found the task | , Was burdensome. i The stillness of the house, accentu- | ated by the steady scratching of the | tireless pen in the other room, op- pressed her. She went to the window | and looked out. The moonlight fell soft over the landscape. Down at the farther end of the orchard a small red light glowed and disappeared to glow again at regular intervals. She could see a shadowy form moving backward and forward under the trees. Down | there she knew was conversation, ad- miration, sympathy. She glanced into the room where her husband sat writ- ing. If only he would give up his work for this evening and talk with her! She pulled a rose from its stem and went softly in to him, putting one arm about his neck and laying the blossom on the page before him. He did not look up, but with a hurried gesture pushed the flower aside and bent over his work. She felt how ut- terly she was out of his life and turned away with clouded eyes. A few min- utes later she was going slowly down the dewy path under the orchard trees toward that glowing end of a cigar. “Dear little woman,” he soliloquized, tenderly. “I might have told her, but I wanted the surprise to come when the work i over so that there will be no interruption to our enjoyment.” He bent again over the pages. He did not hear the rustle of his wife’s BOWn as she returned to the house and ran hurriedly up the stairs. Nor did he see her as she came down with a small portmanteau and her cloak. She paused at the door and threw a hurried glance into the room where he was, still at his desk. Then she glided away in the moonlight. An hour later the book was com- pleted and, with a sigh of satisfaction, the author pushed the pages from him and picked up a letter, of which the seal had already been broken. He drew out the contents from the en- velope and, opening the narrow blue sheet, disclosed a check. “Two thousand dollars months in Burope for pre study,” he solfloquized. shall see someth of the world under favorable circumstances, sweetheart. Too bad I couldn't tell you when you were In here just now I couldn't have kept the secret a moment if [ had spoken. We will make up for this long imprisonment It must been dreadfully dull for you to loneliness.” He went the ”y..‘ check in his hands ind a smile or contentment on his face. and six ition and “At last we have I'm used through rooms, Passing the open door he paused to look out into 1 the moonlig Overhead the stars looked down upon nature, se rene, fra- | grant, sweet, Suddenly out of the | stillness leaped the cry of aloco | motive. It was the night express for | the city. He smiled to think that be- | fore another night had passed his | Wife, for whom he had worked so . faithfully, would be with him aboard such a train on their way to the Of romance and history the puffing land There came of head for the engine as it gath- inother h human t. 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