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jsjcs m www'' J ji g Wtf r ""r"" wl"vj'"y?M her into his arms, kissed her not "once but several times, then ran away, leaving her gasping, but happier than she had hqen for sev eral days. m The crux of the trouble had been, reached the night before, when there had been a dance td which all of her set had been in vited. It was the last she ex pected to.attend before-their mar riage, and so Helen had looked forward to it eagerly. Ted was to' come for her at nine, and he had dressed very carefully, pin ning on the blush roses-he had sent her, after kissing them with girlish tenderness. However, al though she was all ready a little before nine, Ted' did not come. Nine grew to ten, then eleven, and finally twelve, and still she waited alone and m vain, and worse than all, she received no message of ex planation. Finally, frantic with imagining all kinds of accidents, she had thrown herself, all dress ed, on her bed and sobbed herself to sleep. In the morning he had telephoned her, "asking her to meet him at the park entrance,, and when she arrived at the ap pointed spot she found him hag gard, sleepless and with tumbled clothesj He offered her ,no -ex-. planation, except to say that busi nesshad detained him. Still, she loved him with all her girlish heart, and as she sat tKere,in the sweet, early spring air after he had left her, feeling alone as though on a desert island, she realized that she was beginning to understand more of her wo jnun's nature to make excuses and- forgive without knowing why. At last, when the gloaming of the spring evening wrapped the world in its cloud, with trembling fingers Helen dressed .for Ted', her heart beating so rapidly that she could scarcely get her breath. Long before eight she was ready for him, but it was after nine be fore she heard his ring and ran to let him in. Somehow she could not reproach him, he seemed so tired and worn. His eyes were deep wtih fatigue and ring en circled, and so- she only put her arms up and drew his head down, saying gently : ' "My poor boy," how tired he looks; come, sit'down and rest." "You darling!" he whispered, and for a moment he rested his aching head on the little shoulder lovingly offered tor his support, and then he broke-oat with: "Thank God, it's all over," and drew her closer to him. All cur iosity suddenly left Helen. No longer was she a petulant girl, jealous of her rights, but a strong, courageous woman, with a deep trust in the integrity of the man she was going to marry, and she laid her firm, cool hand, on his burning one so confidingly, that he raised it to his lips before he began : v v "I wonder, Nellie, if I were to ask -you -to keep on trusting me without any explanation, you'd do ft?" Without any hesitation", she re turned: "I've been thinking about that picture, Ted, and I believe the " -A , -i. Jrt ",. '"itiumTiyr'''' " !' - - fcJ