The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-05-21
Maybe You'll be judge" she said,
dilating, and he laughed at her.

ollhtlnB, AMI ne hAuB leu ~ hSEs
"The president" cried she in glee.
But he did read laE, and began to
6nd that Salome was beneath him. She
may have understood, for she left the
kitchen for the factory, and took to read
ing inAammatory literature. Yet her as
sociations were not as his-how could
they beG She knew Haunting girls, her
every day co-workers; he saw well
dressed serious men every day Of his
life. She knew few rules Of syntax,
while he was daily studying the faults
Of his tongue. He felt his superiority,
but argued that it would be cruel to
show her that he did.
He tried not to see so much Of her, and
It puzzled him that this irritated him,
the more no that she made no effort to
see him.
One day he met her when he had not
seen her for weeks, and was resolving to
look her up. There was q young, horid-
ly dressed man with her.
She was cool and quiet, and how pret-
ty she looked to the eyes that had missed
her these weeksl The lawyers clerk
knew that he had made her realize their
relative positions. She introduced the
stranger, calling him with an accent,
mister Dunlap" He who was to be q
Judge experienced another pang and con-
siderable contempt for Mr.. Dunlap. He
was angry with her too, and after few
words left the couple, conscious that the
gaudily attired fellow laughed at the
shabby professional struggler. After a
few days Of vague restlessness he told
himself in fit Of inspiration that 1t was
his duty to go to Salome and expostu'
late with her for associating with people
who were not good enough for her.
"You mean Dunlap" she said quietly.
"Why amt he good enough for me?'
He is vulgar, loud in dress" an.
swered the poor lawyers clerk. in a
mean coat and leaky boots, ''and he has
no education"
Neither have l." she retorted. 80
that don't make any inferiority."
II believe you'll marry him" he burst
out.
"I1e has asked me to-" said she.
"And you will marry himY
do you want to marry mel"
They looked into each others eyes, and
he, whipping himself into a fury, tried
to make himself believe that she had
treated him badly, while his conscience
told him that the bad treatment had all
been on his side, and that his neglect
and i'll usage had driven her to assert
herself in the only way she knew Of.
MARRY him for all l care" he shout
ed and left her.
He had never seen her from that day
TO this. He did not know II she had
married; he only knew that he never
came across her.
At first this silence irritated him. but
he was not the one to give in. Let heI
come TO him, but he would not 60 tc
her to see blame in her eyes, and by
seeking her make that blame righteous,
Then he went deeper into his work
grew cumulative Of the men around him.
He refused to think Of Salome, and
dreamed Of her at night.
When he was thirty and over, with 9
small clientele, he met the lady he mar.
ried two years later. Her social position
was irreproachable: she was companion
able, sympathetic, even tempered and
wealthy. His married life had beer
phenomenally calm, and the daughter
that had been born was his idol. Nc
wife could have been better and trueI
than his had been; no woman could
have more carefully brought out Of q
man the good that was in him. There
S.,oa rot m ,navnant ,.,ba,, he y,n;vhk -
gret any step he had taken since hii
marriage.
Before that Well, scarcely regret.
He had done his share Of foolishness
but then "the man who has never been
d fool be sure will never be wise man.
Still, association is much, and when q
man is 80 years Of age he may be said
to have reached his perihelion, and will
look behind him at the path up which
he has come. Men Of so having made
Q success Of life, earned the acclaim oi
the world, nicely provided with the
goods Of the gods, not unfrequently in
cluding q lovely That's" often think Of
the lowly home Of their childhood,
which has been anything but a refresh
ing memory while ambition beckoned
from the heights; frowsy boys will b
affectionately remembered, extravagant
"reminiscences will begin, monuments in
native towns will be thought Of, and q
tender desire to lie at last in the humble
coolness Of the green old churchyard
beside the perhaps neglected mother
and father.
The judge was past 90 years Of age
There was life his wife knew little Of
life his wife and child would smile at
IL they knew of it. His fingers were
white now and soft, no longer gnarled
from hard manual labor, and his tongue
volubly took up the language and made
1t sonorous or simple as he willed.
Was 1t vanity that now and then made
him wonder IL there were people in thai
village who recognized in the ''puisne'
Judge the hard scrabble boy Of long agol
Did the place look as it used tor Why,
he believed, he was sure, he knew every
foot of the ground, could find all the old
landmarks even now. And then the
little girl Of that far of timei II had
been calf love, to be sure, but, let him
acknowledge it or not, he had loved her
as he had loved no one since. For had
he gained another love like hJrs? Had
he not loved her when she stood before
him and asked him If he wished to mar.
ry her? Had he not so wishedH Had
he
What nonsensei It had all been boy.
ishness, veritable childishness. She was
probably o grandmother by this time,
the consort Of Mr.. Dunlap.
Dunlap! Had the name Of the accused