Show aa T THE photograph H i H LH by MOLLIE MOLL JE MAT MATHER ER copyright 1322 western newspaper New paper union janey sat looking nt at her adored friend why she asked impulsively do you never have your picture taken moille Mol lle I 1 have not seen one in the house and you would jancys eyes ft ere caressing make such a lovely picture miss mollie deming spinster smiled no one would value my photograph unless it might be Y you oil she replied my aly relatives would doubtless write polite notes of appreciation ft ihen hen they received them and relegate them ther nto to some gome corner you know better than that janey jeered she jumped to her feet anyway I 1 want a picture and I 1 am going to have it you look especially ively I vely today like some sweet ess lady with your soft crinkly white hair ind find our true blue eyes poor ioor terry will he be glad of a job ile he really should have been an artist in the city sentiment holding him here alone prevented mollie deming laughed when she and the girl jane were at home again terry posed me so many times and was altogether painstaking that WS his efforts should be rewarded with success she said you looked janey mused so pretty and sort of wistful sitting there dolliel 1 do you know that is the way your eyes always impress me by their wistfulness tell roe me please did lit you have an unhappy love affair I 1 wonder so much about you at times I 1 suppose because I 1 love you I 1 would be your confidante mollie the older woman gazed tenderly thoughtfully into the eager young face upraised to hers people would tell you your own owl mother may have told you janey that I 1 vas vi as in a careless unthinking way noted years yeara ago for my conquests it was at the time considered clever to daunt ones captivating power and I 1 well avell well there were many young men who com came e to my uncles home arid and L I 1 uncles ward nard and charge played a merry game of hearts with them all my own heart ever untouched la ili the game some day I 1 hoped to find my true trite love to marry and settle down to a life of devotion and T when lien he came my own love I 1 knew him knew him instantly by the thrill of joy that filled my das and he loved me that I 1 did not doubt why doubt the sincerity of this man when others had been sincere I 1 think I 1 lived in a dream miss mollies Mol lles eyes were misty across the years still iier her voice trembled its sorrow 1 I live on in that dream of the past she ended sadly jancys hands went out to her he died then she questioned your lover 11 1 I almost wish that I 1 might tell you so mollie hesitated no she added for the first tittle time I 1 will speak the truth it was thought that john douglas like others had been jilted but one knew and after john disappeared this friend of ills hla came and told me the truth it was as I 1 whom john douglas had jilted heartlessly and with a purpose the mend friend said that he had been instructed to tell me that john deliberately planned my punishment as lie he had deliberately and oh so skillfully acted ills his part ile he was charming in manner you see and well known for his winning way with women so coming to our small town and hearing of my merry never way may care flirtations john doug as confidently and successfully planned the retaliation of winning my iny own heart to cast it as carelessly away but this I 1 could not guess us its he be held me close in his arms and bade me goodby until tomorrow 11 tomorrow Tu morrow he promised gently 1 I will come back to aou QU Tou tomorrow lorrow my iny dearest watch tor for me so through all the tomorrow I 1 have wilt watched elied and waited aud and have lived how nv wearily airily no one oie may know my punishment when janey framed her friends photograph and placed it upon her dresser she was waved moved stressfully later to hide that thai same photograph uway imay for the sadness of mollies Moll lea pictured eyes had a provoking trick of bringing quick tears to her own that man inana I 1 exclaimed janey con call temp fancy being true to the memory of sich a creature then one ony day as laney baney ente entered red unannounced miss mollies Mol lles sitting loom she faced a pic picture tive aud and the iho two central figures filing UM tho picture continued happily of her presence it was fatel the up ill nian man was saY 19 ml even in her astonishment jitney responded sympathetically to live sinz sincerity erIty of that voice when I 1 thought unit alint I 1 lud hod utterly lost you moll molle e when the never ceas ill ing longing brought me hack back to this ol 01 old town to view aann if only in ill secief bour face 1 cuirle cime that hint photograph la in terrys window you hoille had only forgiveness in the sweetness of your expression had only grieved appeal in your eyes so I 1 am here dearest for that pul punishment lish I 1 would have inflicted upon you has lung long lieen been my lily own janey closed the door ali noiselessly elesely el essly behind her and when alien site she ills ns again in her own room she a gny gay tittle little song bong as shy she searched ched out her friends picture tire and it 11 upon phd drebber dr esber |