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THE BROAD AX.
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WHO CHANGED FIRST
Every one told Amy that Dick was self
ish. Her mother told her so. sighing, and
adding a kindly hope that "this" might
change him. Her elder sister, who was
married, told her tho same thing, adding
that all men were selfish, so it didn't make
much difference which one a woman mar
ried. Her brother told her so soofflngly,
and even Dick's mother said:
"I'm afraid you'll And Dick a bit cap
tions, dear. I suppose we'vo spc-llnd him
a little; but, of course, you'll be only too
glad to dcrote yourself to making him
happy."
And Amy smiled and sighed and blush
ed very prettily, which was a way she had
at 18.
They had been engaged for about six
months when Dick felt that hisnatlvo vil
lage did not afford sufficient scopo for bis
talents. He would go to New York, be
announced, make a great name and a
large fortune for himself and return to
bear Amy to tho metropolis later. Amy
wept when he went away, and sang her
ballads with a sob in her throat for weeks
afterward, and worked diligently on her
household linens, and wrote Dick long
letters In reply to his brief ones.
In about a year Dick wrote her that he
felt that their engagement had been a mis
take, insinuating that a larger life and
more brilliant opportunities than sho was
fitted to share awaited him. Then Amy
gave up her ballads entirely, and put away
the household linens, and wept in the soli
tude of her room every night. She told
him In the abandonment of her grief that
she could never change, and that if the
time ever came when ho wearied of tho
applause of the world and the glitter of
life and thought longingly of her he
might come back to her, sure of finding
her the same.
Amy's tears had blotted that testimony
to her own constancy, and for months her
sobs would not let her sing any song with
"come back" in its refrain. Even Dick
was moved and put the letter away, where
he might refer to It whenever his self es
teem needed bracing.
When Miss Annesley refused him, he
read it and thought of going back to Amy
at once, but pride forbade. Besides ho
didn't care enough for Miss Annesley to
make her rejection a blow requiring im
mediate soothing. When he was dis
charged from The Monthly Merrymaker,
he came very near returning to Amy, but
a position on The Magazine of Culture re
stored his contentment somewhat. So
for two or three years he did not really
need Amy.
Yet he was conscious when he met with
the snubs and failures he could not avoid
In a great city that her sweet air of un
swerving admiration would have been
balm to his wounds; that he needed her
belief In his powers to compensate for the
utter indifference of the great world. And
when even the pursuit of pleasure palled
upon him he began to long for her to bring
him comfort and happiness.
One night, when the world bad been
unusually heartless, when he had been
Ignored socially by scene one and snubbed
professionally by some one else, and when
Miss Annesley's successor had been as un
kind as Miss Annesley herself, he wan
dered into a theater where a farce was
playing one of the farces where the play
is a peg upon which variety "artists"
hang tholr"speclalties."
He yawned through it far awhile. Then
a woman came out and sang a ballad a
ballad of Amy's a Scotch song he had
not heard for six years.
He went home and read her letter again.
Then he went back to the village he had
not visited for so many years. He was
happy in the thought of the joy he was
going to bring to Amy. He hummed the
song joyously:
Ye basks and braes o' bonny Docn.
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
How "" ye channt, ye little birds,
Ati I sae foil, see foil o care?
He fairly whistled It as the train rushed
along, and he pictured Amy sitting in the
twilight singing to nun again.
He found her sitting in the firelight,
humming. She was plump and placid,
and her girlish sentimentality had changed
to matronly sweetness. She was waiting
for the minister, whom she bad married
and who, as she explained, bad consented
to live in the old home "because of moth
es.' She wanted Dick to wait to meet
the mlnlfiter and see the baby, who was
taking a late afternoon nap. And she
was honestly pained and surprised when
Dick raved at her treachery and stormed
about her fickleness.
"But; Dick," she protested, "you
changed first." m t m
"Changed?" cried Dick. "If I had.
changed, would I be here?"
Always afterward he attributed his fail
ures and his failings to the fact that his
life bad been blighted by a woman's falsi
ty. And he giined much sympathy from
credulous young girls because of his sad
story. Amy of the ballads became more
or less famous as a sort of "belle dame
sans merci," and Dick's awst succeflsfal
book had'for a heroine a sweet faced girl,
with a sad voice and soulful eyas and no
seal discernible elsewhere, foritteaTery
ill wind that cannot beraadete flysesae
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