The Gavelyte, December 1909
THE GAVELYT~. father. "It seem~,'' tmi d her father, "that he bad gotten a lit I J,. careleRR while in college and when he c:ame back he was threatening all :ortR of things :1!!ai11, t sHne fl:'!low that, s 0 emed to h,tv<:> gotten the wor~t of ttim in a love affair. He seenwd so rest!Pss that hi:-; fat he•· sent him out to the camps. While out there he ran aero~ a mission . choul and found a girl t e·ich ing th ;re who had been a cl<1ss mate in colle~e. He has been .a fre– quent vi itor at the mis ·ion si1 1 ce and has bPen making a man of him elf." Bet Ii turned white and a lump aro e in her throat which wa hard to keep down I.Jut finally she was a\Jle to tell her fatht>r he was going to bed and suiting the actiPn to the word she left the room :ind going to her own room Bhe threw herself on the bed and wPpt like a child. After a time she became quiet and lwgan wondering which one of the girls it could be that wa~ away out there in those mountains. Gertrude wa in Chicago when they left and s he ha d hPard shortly after they :::ame to ioux Falls that he was going aw.iy on a trip with her aunt. 'he had not heard nnything about her , ince bnt it could not be Gertrude. Before long ·he began longing for Will, thinking Mc Pil waR gone and it h~11l been a year now since she pr.omised to give him his answer but he had not come for it. o he tried to give him up and her thonghtR turned to Will. ... h& die! not know where Will was anrl how did he knu.v where ::-ht> was. Maybe he has found some other girl and o the. l' t hunght' ran 1 hrn her head . .._'he thought every one who loved h,·r an,! whum she l11v ... d had pa:-SPci out of her life. \Yith these thoughtR ~he bPg,rn crying ;-1gai1, ar.d c-1 iPd IH'i ::;p]f to sl~Pp. Chapter \'I. THE '.\E\\' IlOCTOH. Scott was met, in the Drpot, at 't Louis by his . ister. He \YaR glad to get home. He made friend::; in school and had had a good limE' but he wa::; one of the kind of people to whom nature ha. been specially genrrou '. Providence had placed him where everything went to make a care-free man. He was smart in collegP and if lw had tudied he could ea ily have been at the head of hi· clas but nothing worried him. He had all the money he wanted yet you would not know it. E\·erything was comfortable but that wa as far as he went. , o he was not lik Reth and Gertrude, who felt as tho they had hac all
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