| Show TWO TIVO SUITORS colonel Elz egbert elibert bert you have dona M ino a the honor of aking mo me to lie bo y your our wire wife and it la Is ue cenary you should know something of my y past six years yeara ORO ago when I 1 was r atch til c 11 arid and before befaro ny my parents lied I 1 was tile tho betrothed of guy wilson tile tho soil of UD an aristocratic family during his t to europe my father filed leav ing mo me penniless unil und I 1 win tom coill belted pelted to to KO go out into tho the world and ehria my own living I 1 liu hit letters lct lori from guy for a linao telling irle ine ile ho uns to return then suddenly they ceased altogether I 1 him belll and perhaps tit ays bleull alit most I 1 cien profit ise you ii honor and abid respect so bo spoke agatha dodwing llad to lo the tha man who hail had lust just proposed 0 ID o her ile iio hail had been very kind to tier her in the hosrof hour of need till mid she could nut prove r 0 u 1 grateful colonel egbert po 0 k veo nt ill h her er longingly us as tit hoBi salil silil if your heart 14 an others it can never tin bo mino mine I 1 will KO go find and flu fand ouy joy wilson no mitter where lie ho may bp be and bring arli him here you shall know then if tile tho old lovo love II 11 VPS a and nd chooro between us I 1 will abide by ilia result rosult 11 do Doa its ayou you think best beat she said hopefully 0 pe rully und so they parted lie ho to find the man who wn wai to nuke or I 1 in ar ills existence for many months did till colonel kg L g bort bert search through europe 1 hut 1 1 t i in n ile ha found no trace of tile 1 niss alda inan at length weary or of ilia cimo dirt o he be took benin again for america what was wag ills his delight to find on tile steamer the very man he sought guy allson readily fell la in with will tile the and together they rep repaired alred to agatha redwings Red Rod wings house there the man inon stood confronting her guy wilson nod and elo kaat gaut colonel ekborg like a greek god la in ills his stateliness colonel colone I 1 egbert chiert was wag tile first to speak lie he crossed the room hurriedly and began hurriedly to speak the words lell fell from lit ahli lips as live coals oil might have rallen fallen from his hands ai if they soared and burned la in dropping Ai agatha ratha I 1 have come to ib make you bleat and happy I 1 met this manyour one ona love upon shipboard accidentally I 1 learned from him the injustice yun you had done him of the injustice ho he has done delta you all years there hin has been a great mistake I 1 t lie ile haq im loved you ile ho has been truo true to youl iut liu lie thought you cast him off do not think of me do not pity file die I 1 nut nin glad and goil is ti iilo tile 1110 an in s aument I 1 in ili restoring to you your own owl take him till binl lie ile happy nuu find tiny heaven an bless you both tin ho was turning to logo go when a word recal re culled ed him charlibel Char charlie liel the word was tremulous lo 10 Us IL was a picture for a painter these two men so unlike waiting for the decision deci alon of this lovely blonde head wag half drooped upon her heaving breast while her hinds hands were lightly locked before tier her agathal it was guy any wll wit son sons voice that broke the ilia silence now flow the rarely modulated voice so ao like ilka a strain ot of exquisite ausle the voice ehe la had so ao loved so dougl 0 to hear agatha havo have you no vord ot of welcome forone for one who has been it a wanderer for your sake tho the blonde hend lifted ilia blue eyes rested full upon iiii handsome face why eliy was waa it that perfect face hid had no charin for her that modulated voice no spell perhaps sho alto rend read ills his soul null knew that it lacked I 1 lie ha essence of true manhood naan hood at all ii venta she was conscious const loua that the ideal hero of her dreams was mir fading I 1 fit n I 1 into real mail lefoie her bertho the effeminate man whose elegance still and offended tier her whose perfectly modulated gonei annoyed tier her because they lacked the ring alne of strong manhood and whose woeful weakness of character fremed stam upon every classic feature IV the dinati she ahe wasted her Ii arts love upon Lovo no only her er dream 1 she lied had loved him only in and now that he stood blood before tier her again tile the scales fell from her deyss and she felt for hi him in a 11 of almost repulsion her aylis turned to colonel egbert Et crt and rested there hungrily huner lly through nil all lili pallor and haggardness the strong fratia t face stood out like a rock in tho the mist ufa ills breadth of might of arm ini ill pressed hir her anew with power find ills passionate love find strength of thrilled tier her like a wave she fult full her heart swell full to bursting with a 11 n new pw sense ense of linking arnd love W hs ha 0 putt putting iniz her away from hlin him robbing robb ig tier of the ilia rook rock upon which she leaned and tier hur but it 11 reed she felt tier heart lying dying within her nt fit tho the thought thouR ht site she forgot forfot every I 1 ili ng the ilia presence of guy all and gliding across berosa tho the room clasped her arms about col antl eggerts Kg Eg rheita herts neck oil oh cried do not leave or I 1 shall sh till did I 1 love you you ou charlie sod and no otherl it wai ablit all ti mistake I 1 know my beart now if I 1 w for tho the farst oliue I 1 know what lovo is do not po away do nut leave me ine charlie Char charlielo liell like of H ake man oily guy too took k mi ills hat flat and hl dep departure arturo without waiting for farewells tho the next train bore him back to now new york it II wag baj a bitter defeat d e feat and it cumilla tine ling exper experience lence but he deserved it lie ire had been a coward in tile tho hour hagatha oA gatha redwings Red wings greatest paa test need tile aliu conse louines that site was still beamut beautiful rui find will wag after by stirred him with a desire to re afu her and the thought of taking takane her almost from tho the firms of it other amii loot zest to hla his wooing n hut but tier wo niana matits oye eye road reail tho the weakness of h his 14 soul and that before it was wag too title late colonel egbert folded her to his bis heart ai tile door loor closed upon guy wilson alldon will aich such rapture as aa only wong inen know who after loni long wa biting biln biln tho the woman of their soil god hem youl lie ho cried in a ah ake and help me cna to tio be worthy corsuch and crown your lit fill joy 11 arid and tili im haq ileen been and Is answered the iho glad years KO go by binding inive and closer tile tho two hearts that truly beat as ad one |
