The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-21

porch. He spoke coldly, but not with
harshness, and came in a lettering, absent
way down the steps into the garden. He
was man with large, gray, worried eyes.
face unhealthily pale and a consumptive
stoop of the shoulders.
At his words Mrs. Maynard put her
hands over the child's ears, and, while she
still preserved her STOPPING attitude, cried,
IN plaintive protest:
ooh Eghertl Before the child You've
always till now been at leas. little cir
cumspeci in your blasphemieS -
"Blssphemy is an affair of geography"
said Maynard, with lazy satire in his
American voice. Among the Turks Won
could make bonfire out of Bibles and not
cause the faintest possible shock. Here in
London you could do the same with
korans and hardly person would stop to
look twice"
His wife shuddered, and drew Sylvan
closer 70 her breast. She was q woman,
this Georgina Maynard, who had lost
her looks early in life. A sweet, tail,
cglantine OF an English girl when May
naTd had married her so brief { time
ago, she was now prematurely aged,
with threads Of gray IN her golden hair
and pathetic droop az the corners Of
her mouth, bat yesterday, IS il were,
the rosiest of little neshly Cupid-bows.
She had been the daughter Of a coun-
try parson. dwelling not far from Cam
bridge, whittier Egbert Maynard had
como full Of youthful ardor 10 pursue a
course Of chemistry and physics. Maynard
was Massachusetts man, who had been
graduated high a Harvard Soon after
this collegiate success IL his native land
he had fallen heir 10 q moderate inheri-
lance left him by an uncle, almost the last
81 his living relatives. Until chance
brought him face - face. one day. with
6eorgina Selwyn. he had never dreamed
that love could slip lis glamoars between
himself and the stout resolve 10 pack his
mind With scientinc lore at one OF the
greatest universities on earth.
Some men wade into love, getting dcerer
and deeper, IS Indifference grows desire.
Some men plunge into i ike diver from
a wharf Egber5 Maynard took the latter
coarse, and almost before he knew i he
had told tale Of passion to the last woman
whom he should ever have dreamed of
making his wife The dominant i, .iuer,e
oi GeorglDa'S being Was religion. She had
no a2inooy2nt piety such As cynicisgn often
sneeTed 81 her father for possessing. but
since childhood she had set her spi~it IN
tune with strong faith, and her ado-e~
swiftly found that he must either Woo
her c-oaked with deceit or not az all
MAYNARD vas man who had long aeo
fecolled from orthodoxy. he believed
IN nothing bus science. and stood amazed
al the very idea Of his ovn caY,as,itv to t.q~e
Tor girl whose prayers ard church-roinps
were the resnant forces OF her exiStente.
hypocrisy. however, soon came fatally
eaSE u hlu3. treQrgIna'S beliefs clothed
themselves With that same Sh9nins. Tissue
Of Soo7ery which invested the turn of her
waite wrist or the curves Of her stiIl pearl.
lsF throat he wanted her Just q she was,
sad u &lnoro0S bstCe0 Of dISpleaSing her
ne Feoksessly forgot the gravity Of his own
falsehOodS
BQt her Esther, hedged in BY what be
Aoataeo IS the most aut0Eratie ccuSsrva-
tlSIns, became such keen bore 70 him
9oTng tie term oi cogrtship, that one DAY
ne halleG with secret relief the calamity ~
the old parsons abrup; death. Mavnsri's
lass year IS the university had Just then
ended GeoTglna had suddenly been made
&p ornhan and one dowosless 70 the decree
~ panurT. IAsS tact expedited the mar
ease which IN amy case would 0ow shortly
Gafe occurred
ana miserable marriage = had proved
1ae bride awakening WAS Inevitable: Is
AaS also cruelty specify, The very Wor,}
R Ocl h2d long been z horror IL her
sac was oew callS5 Upon 81 nlcet thar aor-
10Y, pa.pa2.e 4ad persistent ~ almost
every S2ep size t,soS- Some women might
have iovel a huSeand al tie more dearly
szeeaGsc t1lslll0Si00 had thus xouShlv ham
uie4 h&sl, GAeTc are feminine afectiarS
fAlaS laae sc3.-cre4tlye eGtrgy 81 re-
FS3f WtleA Us EAe the WAY lts rFeur-ezlt
grass heals she raw EaSh IT. = meadow.
~. siaa vs. uot wrought oi taat
Sl9N. Size kNre Asynar. tao 1savs. and by
tniN i1ase her soNe had grown IS autunnst
IS 4tF safek. o saNe taese hAheS from the
Nknet4as hil9at IS her husbands iDa-
p-SSy Was alike hor purpose aad her