The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1897 Page: 3 of 6
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ONE HOUR S CHAT.
Helen Beekman.
WO young men
were seated upon
the wide porch of
a seaside hotel
chatting of things
past and present,
and Anally gliding
into confidential in-
terchange of expe-
riences, unmindful
of the fact that
they were within
•arshot of an open window,whose close
blinds were deceptive, inasmuch as
they kept out sight but admitted
sound.
One of the men, Roy Somers.had late-
ly returned from a three years' sojourn
abroad, and had accidentally met at the
dinner table his old college chum and
dear friend, Robert Blake, a young law-
yer rising in his profession. Of him I
will say here that he was yet young,
about twenty-six or seven, a good look-
ing, manly fellow, with a handsome
income. Now let him speak for him-
self.
Lying upon a wide lounge, just under
the window of which I made mention,
was a little figure hidden by an Afghan
Over this face was a perplexed shadow,
and more than once the pretty lips
murmured:
"Oh, how mean, how wicked It is
to listen. But I must hear! I must
hear!"
The friends had discussed current
topics until, as I have said,they became
•confidential, when Roy said, rather ab-
ruptly:
"I heard some gossip about you as I
passed through New York."
"Yes? I did not know I was of suffi-
cient Importance to be a subject for
gossip. What, if it is not a secret, did
you hear?"
"Tell me, first, if you are engaged to
be married?"
"No."
"Short and not particularly sweet. I
heard then that you were engaged to a
hunchback, a little monster."
The face on the other side of the win-
dow grew white as snow, but Robert
j /
THOUGHT SHE WAS DEAD.
Blake gathered his brow in a heavy
frown.
"Don't be angry, old fellow!" his
friend pleaded. "I was foolish to re-
peat it. I might have known it was
false, being well aware of your fastid-
ious love of beauty."
"False, yes! But I would give all I
own to make it true. You have heard
the gossip, shall 1 tell you the truth?"
"See here, Bob! I've made a rness
somehow. Do forget it."
"Look at that!" said Robert, open-
ing a small velvet case he took from his
breast pocket. "Tell me what you
think of it!"
"It is beautiful! Lovely; One of
the few faces one may call angelic."
"And mind and heart are as beautl-
\
face."
e it. The expres-
et as.a babe's."
1 her a little mon-
ful. as 'angelic' .is th
"I can easily beli;'v
si on is pure and swe
"Vet you just ca'
stcr."
"Bob! Yot' c mT.i • mean that she,
the original of this minihtr.ve, is de-
formed.''
"Yes. She0\vas crippled in childhood
—by me."
"By you!"
"She is a connection of mine, a step
child of my uncle, and when we were
children we spent our summers to-
gether, as I was a yearly guest at Owl's
Nest, my uncle's place on the Hudson.
She was the sweetest little fairy at
ten years old that you ever saw, but I
was a great, hulking boy of sixteen,
and did not understand how delicate
she really was. I actually believe I
was in love with her then, hut I was
at the most awkward age for such sen-
timent, and I covered my actual ador-
ation by teasing her. We were on
the hill behind my uncle's house,where
there was a steep declivity, and I was,
as usual, half romping with her, tax-
ing her temper by my hateful manner,
when somehow, heaven knows how un-
intentionally, I pushed her over the
edge of the hill, and she fell down to
the foot. When I reached her she was
white and senseless, and I thought
dead. Oh, the long agony of that walk
when I took her in my arms to the
house, staggering into the room where
her mother was and putting her into
her arms, only to rush away for a doc-
tor. I was a murderer in my own eyes,
and for days while she lay between life
and death my misery could not be de-
scribed. It was some comfort that
she lived, but when I 'Was tola that the
injury to her spine would be a life-long
deformity, then, boy as I was, I made
a solemn vow to devote my life to
her."
The "little figure on the lounge quiv-
ered convulsively, the tiny hands
pressed each other closely, and only by
a great efTort did the listener smother a
cry of pain. Presently the deep, man-
ly voice resumed the story.
"I was sent back to boarding school
before May (did I tell you her name
was May Talbot?) was able to see me,
and from school I went to college,while
my uncle and aunt were in Germany,
trying the baths for their darling. Ev-
ery letter was a torture for me, yet I
longed for them, watched for them, and
shed bitter tears over the record of the
suffering I had caused. But it was ten
years before I saw May again. I went
abroad when they came home, but cir-
cumstances prevented a farewell visit
to Owl's Nest, and I remained, as you
know, in Italy, on account of my fath-
er's health. Do you wonder. Roy, that
I was a reserved, morose boy at col-
lege?"
"Reserved, yes, but often very sad,"
replied his friend, "but never morose.
Many times I longed to ask for your
confidence, but there was something
that told me it was too deep a sorrow
you were hiding for any Intrusion."
"I ccuUl not talk of it in those days.
When my father died and I planned to
return to my home. I renewed my
self-exacted vows to devote my life to
May, but—do not despise me, Roy—it
was with an added misery and pain.
Remember, I had not once seen her
since the day when I carried her home,
after my hand bud ruined her young
life, but I knew that she was deformed.
I was a young man. in the full vigor of
health, and, while my conscience told
me very plainly that 1 owed my life to
May Talbot, ray heart shrank from the
only way in which I could offer it.
Common sense spoke very plainly. On-
ly as my wife could I give to May the
tender care, the love, that might throw
some gladness into her life. And I, like
a coward, thought of the long misery of
my own life tied to a deformed woman
that 1 did not love. So I came home,
a slave in my own idea to my duty,
and resolved to wear my chains brave-
ly. It was summer weather again when
I went to Owl's Nest, and, to my sur- j
prise, the house was full of guests, i
most of them young people. I think j
that May must have gathered some- |
thing of my intention from my letters,
for she was no longer a child, and suf-
fering had made her womanly even be-
yond her years. I only guessed this
from her manner., I had expected to
meet a frank, cousinly welcome, for
our correspondence had been like that
of an affectionate rother and sister,
but May was dignified and even chill-
ing in her greeting. It was ,-;oon evi-
dent to me that .she was tryins to
thrust other Indies who were ln-r gi'esta
upon mj care, and to avoid me as lar
at possible."
"But was she repulsive, Bob?"
"Repulsive! She was far from that,
my poor darling. Feeling her deform-
ity, as such sensitive natures do feel
any personal defect, she had a morbid
idea that she was hideous, and yet a
craving to be loved, if she could not
be admired. Governed by this wish,
she had cultivated a naturally fine in-
tellect by constant study, poring over
books when other girls of her age
would have been seeking pleasure in
flirtations or amusements. With a
sweet, pleasant voice and a good ear
for music. She had cultivated a mu-
sical taste till she was wonderfully pro-
ficient. and her singing was a pure de-
light to her friends. But for me she
never sang; she never played; never
chatted as she did with her other
friends, and avoided me so persistently
that at last a horrible fear took posses-
sion of me. In spite of her natural
sweetness of disposition, her affection-
ate letters, I feared she had never real-
ly forgiven me, but was too generous
to let me know the truth." „
"H'm! Not an unnatural fear. But,
my dear fellow, when you found your-
self so persistently snubbed, why did
you not leave her? You had done all
your conscience required."
"But not all my heart desired! One
day, when she was more gracious than
usual, I made her a downright offer of
marriage. She was furious! She said
I insulted her! Nothing could con-
vince her that I was not trying to make
amends for the past, at the price of my
own happiness. From hot indignation
she became pathetic, asking me how I
could so wound her, finally leaving me
in tears. To say that I felt like a
brute gives but a faint, idea of my sen-
sations. I left Owl s Nest the same
day, trying to comfort myself by iv
own virtuous intentions. But, Roy. I
love her. I love her with all i^e
strength of my heart. Her deforrJ'ty to
me is but a touching reminiscence of
the tenderness I owe her, and which 1
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convince her of this, how to overcome
her morbid horror that I am unwilling-
ly devoting myself to her service, I do
not yet know. But I am resolved to
try. Surely such deep, sincere love as
mine must at last win its way and force
her to believe in its truth."
"You have my best wishes. Come,
shall we ride?"
So they strolled away to order their
horses, and May Talbot threw off the
Afghan, to stand before her mirror,
and once more compare her little
crooked figure with the thought of oth-
er women's symmetry.
But into the blue eyes had come a ra-
diance that made her whole face joy-
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piness as her life had never known
before. For she loved her knight well.
"My dear," said a matronly lady,
presently entering the room, "who do
you think is here? Robert Blake! I
met him as we drove up to the porch
steps. Tell me, darling, will it be
painful for you to see him? We can
go away if it is."
"No, mamma. I want to see him."
But she made no explanation. She
met him in the evening promenade,
when, leaning upon her stepfather's
arm, she slowly walked on the beach.
Her smile, her soft words of welcome,
invited him to remain beside her. and
soon he was alone with her, the older
gentleman pleading fatigue.
They were alone, though hundreds
passed and repassed in the public
promenade. Her voice was low, yet
he heard it above the roar of the break-
ers, when she said:
"Robert, I am afraid I was very un-
kind to you, last month."
"Very unkind, my darling!" he said,
all ltis love In his eyes, as he looked
into her face.
"Will you forgive me?"
"On one condition only; that you are
kind now, and will promise to be my
wife."
"1 will!" she said, gently, "your true,
loving wife, Robert, for I love you with
all my heart."
""As T love you!" he answered.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, September 10, 1897, newspaper, September 10, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115351/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.