Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb-Jul 1911)

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LOVE'S AWAKENING 67 and before she had left it meant another wire to Jewel calling off his visit. He felt like a coward, but Violet was near and Jewel seemed very far off. There was wire trouble and it was not until Jewel, stealing from home, had eagerly paced the station platform, that the telegram was given her. Dave Allen saw the droop of her shoulders and hurried to her side. "Bad news, Jewel?" he asked with sympathy. "Don't break down, little girl; don't break down." "I'm not going to," she declared between sobs, "but Jim promised to come and then he telegraphed that he couldn't." " Perhaps he couldn't," urged Dave, generous to his rival, but Jewel shook her head. "We were going to be married. He could come if he wanted to. It's some girl." As Jewel turned toward 'home, the tears would not keep back. Dave took her in his buggy, and with his strong arm about her, he offered consolation that he sought to make brotherly, but which none the less had a touch of his hopeless love in it, and Jewel found it very comforting. He came again in the morning and together they sat upon the porch. Hiram, seeing them, smiled to himself, for Dave always had been his favorite. The rural delivery driver came down the road in his rattling buggy and dropped a letter in the Graham box. Jewel ran to get it. "It's from Jim," she announced, with flashing eyes, as she perched herself up on the top step to read it. It was a long letter and between the lines Jewel could read many things, for Jim had written it late the night before when he wras still smarting under the thought of Violet's answer to his proposal, — "Why I didn't know you cared for me that way, Jim. I'm so sorry." It was a plea that had worked before, but Jim knew that he had been tricked, and in his eagerness to get back what he had lost he said too much. With flaming cheeks Jewel folded the letter and tucked it into her pocket. Dave rose awkwardly from the steps. "I guess I'd better be getting along," he said slowly, feeling that he was in the way. "Must you?" asked Jewel in a voice that she tried to make careless but which told it's tale." • ' I don 't have to until you send me, ' ' he announced, as he took his seat beside her. "Will I ever have to, Jewel?" "Not unless you want to, Dave," she said with a blush, and her father, coming suddenly upon them, smiled and gave his blessing. He had always had faith that his little girl would find true love some dav. And she had.