When Ada thought about it, she re
membered a handsome, manly man
with light brown hair, a fine, clear
cut face and a pair of wonderful grey
eyes that had looked into hers one
day, and she wondered why she could
never forget. Why did that memory
forever haunt her?
As she sat, dreaming of the past,
before the fire this morning, she re
called the day before Thanksgiving
seven years ago when she had first
seen Eugene Nelson. It was on the
train as she was coming home from
school to spend Thanksgiving Day.
She was looking at the handsome
young man on the seat just across the
aisle and wondering who he was when
he turned and looked at her and
wondered who she, the pretty girl in
the jaunty uniform, was. Their eyes
met, and Ada blushed and turned to
look out of the window.
She was surprised, when the train
reached Wilton, to see that he stop
ped there, too. She almost forgot to
think about him in the joy of meeting
her father, but as they were going to
the buggy she heard somebody say,
“That’s the new doctor that’s come
to Wilton.”
When Ada came home for the
Christmas holidays she spent two
days in town with Madge Overly, and
at an entertainment one night she met
Pr. Nelson. He said he already
knew her, and she felt like she had
always known him.
The next June Ada graduated and
came home, a happy, dreamy, light
hearted girl.
