The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-28

suppose 1 grant that-Wh0'S = TO Dlame !.
do for argument"
You are lover and a fortunate man.
You have in Isabel a woman of character.
Mark you! These wiles and seductions
on the part of women were forced upon
them. ! admit that they have been forced
to use them In defense for million years.
Had they been our physical superiors un-
questionably the lying graces would have
been ours. At the same time 1t doesn
help me. l can't trust such past-masters
In deceit, albeit they deceive me to my
good"
But Mason Is brought into close asso-
citation with Rose, and being a man of
naturally fine instincts albeit turned
cynical, he comes to regard with unsus-
pected admiration her extraordinary
imagination and regal potentiality of
character. 1t was after this acquaint-
ance with its new revelations had taken
hold of him that Mason. talking again
to the same friend upon the same theme,
soliloquized rather than argued:
Il manage to live here and support
this fire, which is my only extravagance.
l keep the establishment going, and liz
tie more. Ill anticipate the usual argu-
ments. Suppose. for Il little while, 1t would
not increase expenses. 1t would not do to
bring woman here, 1t would not be right.
When children came-and | should hope
for children-they should have a home in
the suburbs; don't believe In raising chill
dren In n fiat. That would mean an es-
tablishment which would take every cent
/ could hook onto. and it would mean that
the whole glittering fabric would be built
on my own personal palm"
But she might earn something-you say
she Is a genius"
She is, that's the reason she'll never
make money. Holding the view | do,
could not require her to toll. l do not be-
lieve marriage confers any authority on
30 Ia nd my
there"
''Perfectly-and agree with it, to linn
tied extent. of course"
Going back, Therefore, do not believe
l can assume the risk involved. I'm not
capable Of twenty years work at my pres
ent rate. I'd break down, some fine day,
and then my little home. upheld upon my
Atlas palm, would tumble. No, l can't
take the risk Besides, her career is 10
he considered. l don't believe l can af-
ford to let her marry me-"
That's mighty kind Of you." Sanborn
dryly remarked.
her adviser | think / must interfere and
save her from the power of vivid i'm
agination and abounding vitality. You
see. there are great many considerations
Real love, l must repeat, would no,
consider"
II wish you wouldn't repeat that: i,
does you an injustice. The animal passion
oi youth Wou!o not consiuer. W ltn youth
1t Is marry-marry, even II within the year
you are picked up by the patrol wagon, a
vngrant in the streets. The love of my
time is not so needless nor so SELFISH 1t
extends to the question of the other party
to the transaction"
''Then."' Mason resumed. and his tone
was cynically humorous again, there Is
the question OF the possible woman.
can't give her mp. There she stands in a
radiant mist always just before me like
chiIlhnn1 /
promise any woman to love her until
death. ! don't know as 1t would he safe
10 promise II even to the woman with
glamour, Another might come with n
subtler glory, and better fitting glamour,
and then
,What then?
1T would he all 70 with the first wo-
man he said With gravity of tone
OF "hich the words gave no hint.
Sill, fu,.tbor IN N.cop savs.
" '
THE woman in my thought is moving
past me like 4 queen-s'i,lendih. supple, u
smile OF conscious power on her lips. the
light of success in her eyes. It's terri
bic temptation, ! admit. this power 10
stretch out my hand and stay her. Ii
makes my, blood leap. but my sense of
Justice VIII not permit II. | shall let her
pass on, beautiful and rapt."
ITO marry some confounded p!n-head,
who will make her domestic animal,
and degrade her into my wife. gents.
Possibly. However, my respo7 sibility
ends when | say goodbye"
Don't shirk-lont shirk.
Mason turned on him. His voice lost
such n slorious creattre mass him I'M.
harmed and free?"
Why. yes, certainly. But the world OF
msrrvHsbe must marrSHnrd She Ia on.
titlad 70 more cnnsidcra .ion. You'ye got
tn look ahead to tbe finn a when she reuret :
the lack Of husband and children
IAN buf it's n frightful thiny S,,born
to arrest that girl, to make her wife
and mothcr. to watch her grow distorted
etjffaned heavv Win chiId-b,arinw nrs
rer 70 sec @ her lass % me in or,er that ! may
remember her, 1.-the radiant, rovinp like
music and licht ;"
",That,s fine Mason bonor vou for
that snjrit' said Sanborn. dcenly moved
"Rut vn,, must remember that ,ha wo.
mans nature moves on from This beauti
f,,I state you've described 50 well NOT
merely viilino,v hut eaperlv Half Inc
g,ri.s low which yn mon 500 in bor faca
t. 10 s,n,,a ~ ont,ninntad mothnrhno5
If The ciri knew she vas ,n ha o,waws
vo,,ng and chiid;sb her you,h onl be,uty
I;.o',i5 hn Of ~ ,,ni,,a 10 w. a. T.; NC :, -
wG",d sn oG OF ana no Vne 10 nep IF Is rhe n
on1 ,orJ,,ions which ~, ,La tbo h.,,,tv GO
radi,nt nov" "N' ''-''''' '''e "'' ''
"Ai, of which maro,v r,eaps sba moLes
tho hast Of an ;rres;stibIa and TIA yjc' In,
mate and cannot control. Therefore !
say it is sorrowfu, business to hew down
n temple or tear iily 10 pieces
IN.-Thc Conquered.
So much for the mans view. Now
for the Womans:
As the winter deepened Rose narrowed
the circle of conu;iest. She no longer
thought of conunering the word; 1t came
10 the olCstion of winning the approba tion
of one human soll. That is. she wished to
win The approbc lion of the world in order
that Warren Mason might smile and saw.
"Neu doneT'
SIZE diJ not roach this state of mind
smnotblv and eaaily' ON the contrary. she
had moments when she rebclled at the
greatest gOou in the world to her. She re-