Show i t. t A L. L I. I V t U ory 8 y Q 0 1 j or T 1 i BY G s IF Mallard Billiard won was sitting on a i i nuh In the rho railroad station smoking i 11 t cigar and looking At hi his wife and andt 1 t who tyke slowly lowly walking daughter wail wel w r up An and down Iho tho platform wafting I y for tor the he train And they w wore were r tn Indeed ed worth looking at nt The fie girl Irl was exceedIngly exceed exceed- beautiful with her hr largo large blue blueeyes r eyes oyes her smiling Up lip and golden hair t 1 fl n which hung in n a heavy braid down lown hei back Though rhou h her face faco was waR still that of 0 a child who resembled her mother very er much and no one could coul have doubted relationship for a mo- mo I ment M. M I. I n Ballard was sitting silling thinking of oC thi these se e two beings at Rt the same name m time limo constituting hi lib his only Joy Jy an and hl hi only Buffering T n year before he Ill had married listening only to fn o hi his heart which her h b T r e w it ordinary beauty had captured and entirely overlooking the fart fact at that she did not lIot bring him a sou O He had hud loved as WI In a dream made himself her lave slave and ami tried to fulfill tier her wishes oven even before she Abe could tell him and amI ha had no other thought than to make matte her leer absolutely happy and hoping that she in turn would h learn lun to love him as much as he loved 10 liar her But 11 he hr was doomed to a terrible dis- dis I Tho The year after their marriage ran away with a n cavalry CA captain whom she hc only knew V because he Ill used he-used used to pass PEU their windows ever every day It was a terrible blow to Ballard Dalard who had at ot first thought that he could nut not survive c It It and he lie was on the verge of death for rl nt nearly three months but butas as IS soon noon a aA hi hi- wax was on his foot feet again fl Tr r he made it his only aim I in life UCo to find the man who had ruined his hs happi- happi nes nei I One Oue e enios as 1 he was iras sitting alone I in tn his home his wife came back no so o changed that ne h hardly recognized 1 her He tried to e dux-e tier net away but she bej besought be- be J j s sought ug 1 him to 10 forgive her and so great u I. I was his iia love that chat jt if ne needed ded vel very little 1 u w to pt ad him thai ohe really reaU not the Ow Our on to 10 bla blames mf r vr sine since that thai dit In hc r really tried to 10 make him forgive her by b being a n amodel amodel model wife in every ery way She had bad learned the difference between tween the true truelove truelove truelove love of pf a husband and the passionate love of or a lover After ACter a few w- w weeks ls everything In the Ballard house hOUR was an as If It nothing had bad happened and arld the husband had bad al almost almost nl- nl most l' l succeeded In making himself forget torI forget for tor- get when the birth of ot a. a daughter I again agan tore tort open the thc wound Th The child was wa th the daughter of the r and this thought became intolerable to him though he tried wits all his en energy en- en energy ergy not to think nl of it He lit lm l fully full forgiven hl his bis wife but bill butto ut to have ha In hl his house houlle this child of or anI an- an I r other rind and to be expected by cv every ry one oneto oneto oneto to treat it lilts Hka hl his own without thinking think ing of the che real father was almost more than ne ae t could stand For ten years roars he had borne it it Man Many a at time he sat gut t of an evening studying th the features feature of ot hla hilS daughter to c cee if it Bh she resembled the officer although al- al al although tho l though h u It was not necessary to do db so so for tOI she ht It vas Us a true Image imag of him nor not only fn in h h. h hr heI r r features but al also o In b her r ways waits At times when hn this resemblance became became be be- came too ton strong he saw laW r red rd d clouds be bey before fore his eyes and ho he lived In the continuous continuous continuous con con- I be-I fear lest he should do harm to the girl who though Innocent was wn the cau cause caune of ot his terrible suffering Iila HI Ill wife suffered d even more mOle because because be be- cause he her mother mothel heart felt this hate of the man against th the child which the child chillI was entirely ignorant of In vain she he tried to bake him think of nt oth other r things but when whenever ver she thought that she hud had succeeded In hl convincing him himor of or his injustice to lo the child whom m everyone o admired and who loved lovid him dearly Ily the AA same aslen lon of Md aridness II I returned to his Lace face and oft n It II w MT I j only with the greatest difficulty that that he controlled himself while waiting waUng for tor Sho lie train the child grew Impatient and left her m mothers mother's th side tide to pl play platy r with witha a z hoop and nag a running down the c platform wh when n th the thA hoop suddenly tell fell down on 11 this the track crack Without stopping to think thAnk the child chUd ran after ater it it n not t no noticing to- to j ing that the express train was as just tl titan then n coming BI around und lit the curve cure at a n speed of ot at least leash 30 31 mIles mile nn h hour ur The mother who saw V the daughter cried out aloud and Ballard who recognized rec rec- rec- rec her hl voice rol raided hi head at AJ ata a glance ho ha saw the saw the w whole hole situation and realised that what he had bad wished for during ten years was about to happen happen hap hap- pen without any fault of hi his and his hL i fir first t Impression was one of great Joy But it was only tor for a fraction of a second then h he hr was 8 up and antI rushed toward to ward the track The express S train which was not noi I supposed d to top stop at this station came I thundering by and anti everyone everone expected 1 to find 4 Jwo wo vo mangled bodies on tho the rails ralls But as If b by a u miracle hart hari I Just Ju t In hi time limp pushed th the child Mid out ont of oC tier tho lit v. v vat at and luth hull hat fali n d' d ilu 11 u im I r. ff I the slope lope on n tho the other aldo of ot tho the trad where the tho girl had fainted from feat foar Nothing else had happened I Slowly lr he now no walked back bael across 1 the tract track carrying the girl girt In his arms ann i ito Ira to his wife wafe who stood leaning against the wall of the station nation looting looking with t I I staring E eyes S. S aa as it If she eha could not belie be- be lie what he she saw I II I He U. placed the h child In lit her bpI arms arm and ant while she h sh didn't know how hew in to e ex- ex pres her gratitude she Rhe stammered softly Oh Oh Antonin how rv nobly bly you acted in risking your own 11 life Ufe a to save In my daughter Tie IIo smiled a little as aa he replied Let 1 us u say y our daughter I think I have the right to t way IY so go now |