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Alford, raising her eyes in surprise to her daughter's face, that looked like a red moon through the mist of savory vapors rising from the ample cooking-stove. "I don't understand you. Why should not your brother's classmate add to the pleasure of our Thanksgiving?" "Well, perhaps if we had expected him, if he had come in some other way, and we knew more about him "
Adrien bent nearer to the picture under examination; then he said quietly: "Where two such lights cannot discover the truth, who may? I agree with you, Alford, and so I do with you, Colman.
You, of all others, should know that there are wounds besides those which will bring men to this hospital." Tears rushed into her eyes as she faltered, "You could not have made a stronger appeal." "You will write to me often?" "Yes, and you cannot write too often. Oh, Alford, I cannot wish you had never seen me; but it would have been far, far better for you if you had not."
Inside, Silvey's glance took in the prostrate figures of Sid, Red Brown, and Perry Alford, who were packed so closely together in the enclosure that they could scarcely move, then roamed listlessly past John with his insignia of office, out to the sunlit fence and railroad tracks. Red yawned wearily. "Hurry up and do something, Sil." "Where's Skinny?" asked the president. "Down town with Mrs.
In providing this chance of relieving a little pain, of preventing a little suffering, you help me, you serve me, you comfort me, as no one else could. And, Alford, if you are wounded, come to the hospital where I am; I will never leave you till you are well.
"How different the captain's face is from what it was before the attack," Thaine thought, as he recalled the moment when Clarke had talked with Lieutenant Alford. And then the image of the young lieutenant's face, so full of life and hope and power and gentleness, swept vividly across his mind. "Who is it, boys?" Clarke called to the soldiers with the stretcher.
"Oh, Miss Alford, please do not judge yourself so harshly and unjustly," interrupted Stanhope. "Oh, dear!" sighed Elsie, "I'm so sorry for what happened last night. We all might have had such a good time." "Well, then," said Stanhope, demurely, "I suppose I ought to be also." "And do you mean to say that you are not?" she asked, turning suddenly upon him.
Alford led the way through the outer office; and the two clerks writing there saw nothing to awaken the slightest suspicion. The superintendent's cottage stood on the road leading to the mine and somewhat apart from the other buildings. On the opposite side of the highway was a thicket of pines which promised cover until one plunged into the unbroken forest that covered the mountain-side.
She saw that, whether misled or not, he had been governed by the best of motives nay, more, by the spirit of self- sacrifice in its extreme manifestation that he had been made to believe that it was her only chance for health and life. Still, in her deepest consciousness he was but Alford Graham, the friend most loved and trusted, whom she had known in her far distant home, yet not her husband.
But, as you say, nature is strong; and although I have tried to satisfy myself with a hundred things, the mother in my heart has never been content. I hoped, I prayed, that you and Grace might become my children. Alford, I have been learning of late that I am a lonely, unhappy old woman. Will you not be my boy? I would rather share your sorrow than be alone in the world again."
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