San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-03-16

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she could not realize life without him.
But he kissed her, and went to town to
feel himself tossed about atom no one
noticed, and dreamed of her and missed
her, and wished for her companionship.
When he found employment and had
miserable room for home, he one day
went to that home, and there was Sa-
lone. After all, he was not so glad to
see her.
Grandmother dead" she said, In a
sort of triumph, land there's nobody to
keep me away. I've come to stay"
But this could not be, and so he told
her, and she hung her head.
The woman of the house was ap,
pealed to, and Salome went out to serv.
ice, her half days of weekly outing al.
ways taking her where she could see her
sole friend. When he was 1s he was
pounding parchment in an attorneys
Office.
"Be a lawyer" she said, and he
blushed with vanity.
MAYBE you'll be Judge" she said,
dilating, and he laughed at her.
"The president" cried she in glee.
But he did read Law, and began to
find that Salome was beneath him. She
may have understood, for she left the
kitchen for the factory, and took to read
ing infammatory literature. Yet her as
sociations We're not as his-how could
they be? 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 so 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 young, ford
ly dressed man with her.
She was cool and quiet, and how pref
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 a
Judge experienced another psng 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 it 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 mer'
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. $50
that don't make any inferiority."
81 believe you'll marry him" he burst
cut.
HE has asked me to-" said she.
"And You will marry him"
do you want to marry me?"
They looked into each others eyes, and
he, whipping himself into 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 care" he shout
ed and left her.
He had never seen her from that day
to this. He did not know if 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 her
come to him, but he would not go to
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 a
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 been
phenomenally calm, and the daughter
that had been born was his idol. No
wife could have been better and truer
than his had been; no woman could
have more carefully brought out of a
man the good that was in him. There
was not a moment when he might re-
gret any step he had taken since his
marriage.