College of St Marys of the Springs - Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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AL A+s-3u+a+.u+x im. Amiuafp-fra xfm-.a.+s-mm Ask arm+M + u Am xmas Iunderstand why you feel towards me the way you do but please, please forgive me, even though I never see you again, for many things have changed since I left school. After leaving you on the steps that day, Mother handed me a telegram telling me to come home at once. I left the next morning and upon reaching Greenfield found that our home had burnt to the ground and my idolized father, mother and little brother had per- ished in the flames. So please accept the ruby, which I think is really yours, and even though you cannot bring yourself to Wear il, let it be 35 6 lHiiSman- to make it easier for you to forgive. Your always devoted, Phyllis. Many, many times the voice faltered during the reading, and then Miss Tremont, open- ing a Small box disclosed, to Aida, the most magnificent ruby she had ever seen. f Oh, exclaimed the girl, isn't it a beauty? Why didn't you ever show it to me be- ore? Because it reCallS SHCI! painful mCm0I'ies that I can't bear to look at it. But to con- tinue my story. That night asI read this note, I shall never forget it, every feeling of anger, every unkind thought seemed to leave me. ltried every means of locating Phyllis after I left school, but all my attempts proved fruitless. However, never do I allow a day to pass that I do not offer a fervent prayer that I shall see her yet. But now it's time for my little girl to retire. just one request, aunty. Please allow me to wear this ring tomorrow night? Oh, no, exclaimed the aunt. But she was too late to seize it, for already Alda had slipped the ring on her finger and was flashing it in the dull, red glow of the fire. Please aunty, for it just fits, and Miss Tremont, unable to resist the girl's pleadings, consented. ' Alda, upon reaching her room and scanning her programme for the next evening, dis- covered that she needed another recitation for the closing number. What should she give? She sat down, for an idea had come to her, and taking a pen and paper, she wrote hurriedly for an hour. When she had finished, she read what she had written with evident satisfaction and smiling to herself, said. Won't aunty be surprised when she hears me recite her girlhood stor ? - yF or Alda possessed something of her aunt's literary ability and the recital of the story had moved her so deeply that she wrote with unwonted power and tenderness. IV It was the evening of Alda's recital, and as Wick Grey scanned the headlines of the even- ing paper, his eye caught the following- Tonight! At the Hartman! Miss Webb makes her appearance in public. There was something familiar in the name. It called up recollections of a face whose sweetness had haunted him for four years, so that when his mother entered the room, without waiting to retum her greeting, he asked eagerly, Mother, have you an engagement for tonight? No, dear, why ? Well, I see in tonight's paper that Miss Webb is to give an elocutionary evening and somehow or other I should like to attend. I...et's gol Will you ii Certainly, if you wish. , 18