Catoctin clarion., 1895-11-21
SEPARATE n.


ssl11gW is usual, believe he said, before
sS dissolying partnership to take &C
counts. Let's see what we each brought
into the firm
YOU begin.' she answered.
u brought fair ability. energy; ambi-
ton, a decent position, means Of COM
Portable life, an unblemished name.
Everyone said l wasn't a bad sort aud
more than all, l brought deep, true,
passionate love-
Said the woman, u brought beauty
- her statement Was splengidly true
youth, physical purity, to which you
do not lay claim He bowed. 'Perhapa
little else, for it was generous of you to
marry the daughter of an undischarged
bankrupt
What have we got out Of our mar
riageT continued the husband. Let me
speak. OF course the honeymoon was
failure: Poets and noYe!ists' ts'-he
spoke bitterly-tell wicked, ridiculous
lies about honeymoons. They never
are wholly happy, unless, perhaps, when
it's the wife second honeymoon. After
that three months exquisite, almost mad
joy, then four months Of happiness. fol-
lowed by three Of contentment, ending
in year Of gradually Increasing misery
OF course the honeymoon was fail
ure,' she answered. Tne next three
months were happy, the following four
not bad, the subsequent three indiffer-
ent. and the year intolerable. You got
more out of the business than l. for you
put more in. Alas, I had not the beau
tiful mad loves capital, and vet
And yet,' interrupted the man, mis-
understanding, you have wasted that
capital, and the beautiful mad love ia
gone, and !, who once would have died
for you-more than that, would have
lived disgracefully for you-am content
to dissolve partnership, willing that wa
shall part as friends
Content? WillingT She asked. 'Tell
me, what do you regret most:
u regret my bankruptcy. I began
our partnership with what l thought a
splendid, inexhaustible fund of love.
look back to moments Of happiness be-
yond description and now am insol-
vent in love. After all, believe that
it is better to have loved and lost even
if it be the love and not the sweetheart
that one has lost. Do you regret moth
nothing? What clings in your mind!'
She shook her head.
Come, you should tell me. There on
the table near you is the deed of disso-
luton, the separation deed-it hasn't
even been engrossed on parchment, but
is printed on paper. At the end are
two seals. We execute the dissolution
deed by putting our fingers on the seals
The partnership was executed with our
lips. In a quarter of an hour Mr..
Hawins, the lawyer, will be here to
witness the execution. Tell me-
She shook her head again-her splen
did, regular in feature, delightful in
complexion, crowned with gorgeous
auburn hair. illuminated by deep, large
violet eyes.
YOU regret nothing?
With sigh she answered: Y regret
that you haye cast your pearls before
me. Iregret that have misprized and
lost your love; that I gave you little in
return. Iregret that my very inability
to return your love truly has irritated
me by making me feel your debtor;that
feeling Of irritation has helped to make
YOU miserable and me miserable too.'
u did not use the word regret quite
in that sense he answered. u meant
is there nothing that you look back to
Of happiness that yet lives in your mem
oryT
She put down the fan That had flut-
tered in her tender hands, and with half
smile, balf a blush, answered.: There
was one thing, one moment that l re-
greet
He rose and walked up and nown the
dantily furnished room everything in
which was note in dead love song.
"A year ago, almost to the day, GER
tainly tomorrow, we were at Etaples,
1T was for economy I went, because
it was ridiculously cheap and very
pretty and how hated Boulogne.'
u remember how we wandered about;
how. alas, we quarreled in the lovely
pine woods, or, to be true, l puarreled
and you suffered, and the splendid sea-
shore, where said bitter things be-
cause my friends were at Trouville and
l at the quiet Paris PLACE, and you were