ment that she would see him there had been so intense that she.
now felt greatly disappointed. " No! of course he isn't here.
How silly I am," she thought; but as much as she tried to dis
credit the feeling that he was near she had an overpowering desire
to scan the faces of the crowd.
She had assisted her mother to remove her wraps—when look
ing to the left she saw a person who unmistakably was Harry
Burdette. A bronzed and bearded face had changed him some
what. Traces of manful struggles were there, but the same in
dependent and conquering spirit of former years remained. She
had oftened pictured to herself this meeting. How she would fly
to him when they met—but now doubts flitted through her mind.
" Had he been faithful to his promises ? She had not heard from
him since that eventful night. No! she could not speak." An
angonizing moment followed. He passed near them. " Was he
not going to look up ? " " Yes! he too was searching the crowd
with his eyes." Their eyes met. Her's questioning, appealing,
loving and faithful. One glance told him the whole story, and
in an instant he was at her side. " Oh, Harry! I thought you
were never coming," she said with a joyful little sob. Taking her
hand in his and oblivious of the presence of her mother and the
stares of the throng of theater-goers, he gazed tenderly into her
eyes and said: "It has been an eternity to me, Cornelia, but I
have won all I sought and more, too. I was on my way to claim
you," then there was silence—that silence which is caused by
Cupid when he opens the templed gates of Mutual Love and
closes the flood-gates of speech.
Iv.
"One New Year's and Another."
The old bell on the tower of the County Court House " rang
in " two important hours in the life of Harry Burdette. It
sounded the first important hour when he set out to win Success
impelled by proper motives; and five years later it chimed the
second, on that New Year's day, during the ceremonies by which
he Was made the happy husband of Cornelia Osmont.
Rondeau.
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Which I've deferred to this late date;
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