REGINALD'S RETURN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 92, 11 January 1908, Page 11

REGINALD'S RETURN.

.... « ■■■.* ' "I think," he said, rising as the clocK struck'twelve; "that I had better bp. p,oing." Pocahontas Foindoxter drew a deep sigh, and there was a wist fulness in iier fawn-like oyes that/caused him for a. moment to hesitate. ' ' "Twite within an hour he had started to say something, and then checked himself a* if 'fairing to proceod. • "I am sorry," sho said, in trembling tones, "that timo has flown so quickly. It seems' asAf you had only been here a few minutes." "Yes," replied Reginald Rutherford; "tim< always seems to fly when I am with you, but 1 hope that somo timo—that some day I —that it will not always bo ——" Sho looked at him eagerly and waited wlieH ho paused. "When I came here this evening," ho resumed, "I had something that I —good nightj Miss Poind ester." "Good' night," she said, with a note of sadness in her rich musical voice, ' I hopo you will not havo to wait long for a car." Ho turned at tho door and his lips, parted as 'f ho had decided to say tho words that were struggling for utterance, but bo did not speak, ana after ho had gone Pocahontas sank down on the stairway. Sho put her hands over her face, and hor form shook as if with deep emotion. A iftonient later she heard him coming back up tho stops; and when ho knocked gently at tho door sho flew, with gladness in hor heavt, to open it. "I guess," he said, stepping into tho hall, "that I re got the wrong umbrella."

Thon sho slammed tbo door after hi ra and went to bed, convinced that ho was' not worthy of her lore.-Chicago "RewdHerald, -