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Updated: July 25, 2025
"You sent me a cablegram which said, 'Please cancel engagement. Naturally that had but one meaning for me you and Jim Willowby had got the better of your difficulties, and were going to be married. In the capacity of friend, I received the news with rejoicing. So I cabled back 'Delighted. Soon after that came a letter from Jim to tell me you had thrown him over. Now, why?"
In another week they landed at New York, and each went her own way. Signe Dahl took the first train for Chicago. "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away." Job 1:22. The news startled the young city of Willowby from the Honorable Mayor to the newest comer in the place.
They were often wild, but Rupert managed them without doing any "licking," the usual mode of discipline. He now wrote to his sister Nina, and told her that he was located for the winter; that he expected to get back to Willowby, but not for a time. So the winter months passed. Rupert studied his own lessons when he was not preparing for his day's work.
They walked up towards the hill that they might get a good view of the farm, and when they turned, Dry Bench was before them. The trees had grown, but otherwise it was the same scene that he had looked upon many and many a time. The memory of a particular morning came to him the morning when Miss Wilton's horse had run away. Miss Wilton had never been heard of since she left Willowby.
No one knew; Rupert himself did not know; anywhere for a change; anywhere to get away, for a time, from the scenes and remembrances of the valley and town of Willowby. At dark he rode into a village at the mouth of a gorge. Lights gleamed from the windows. A strong breeze came from the gorge, and the trees which lined the one stony street all leaned away from the mountain.
He was the last person in the world to whom she would have voluntarily turned for help. "Don't be startled by what I am going to say," Cheveril said. "It may strike you as an eccentric suggestion, but there is nothing in it to alarm you. Young Willowby tells me that it will take him two years to make a home for you, and meanwhile your life is to be made a martyrdom on my account.
The railroad company had found a shorter route to its northern main line, and it had been decided to remove, or, at least, to abandon for a time, the road running through the valley. The short cut would save fifty miles of roadbed and avoid some heavy grades, but it would leave the town of Willowby twenty-five miles from the railroad. Everybody said it would be a death-blow to the place.
Will you put your freedom in my hands for that two years? In other words, will you consider yourself engaged to me for just so long as his absence lasts? It will save you endless trouble and discomfort, and harm no one. When Willowby comes back, I shall hand you over to him, and your happiness will be secured. Think it over, and don't be scared. You will find me quite easy to manage.
Worth, the landlady, responded to his knock, and said that Virginia had gone out for the day. She was, however, to give him this note if he called. Rupert took the paper and turned away. He would find her at some neighbor's. He carefully broke the envelope and read: Dear Mr. Ames: As I have accepted a position to teach in another state, I shall have to leave Willowby tomorrow.
Had she altogether expected so prompt and obliging a reply? Some weeks later, on an afternoon of bleak, early spring, Evelyn wandered alone on the shore where she had bidden Jim Willowby farewell. It was raining, and the sea was grey and desolate. The tide was coming in with a fierce roaring that seemed to fill the whole world.
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