The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-27
PRICE OF A TRUTH.

L lllOL OI IL L llC J. LIZ
Maxwell Bernard was man who dali,
and hourly presented himself-all uncon
sciously-to his moro cynical friends as
living curiosity by reason of the fact thai
no was in love with his wife. 1t Is Ger
tainly not very heinous offense in tht
abstract, even at this end of the nineteenth
century, but In the particular set to which
Maxwell Bernard belonged 1t was not con
sidered quite proper to show such marked
attention to the woman who belonged ia
you. Such things were left for other men.
True, Mrs. Maxwell Bernard was young,
| accomplished and beautiful-beautifu in
calm, statuesque way that rendered her
/ to tho many quite inscrutable.
There was one man who claimed to
know her secret heart. That man was her
husband. Perchance there was another
who thought he had even u greater right
but that is another story
Of all the cynic friends who shrugged
their shoulders and sighed for man they
deemed mistaken perhaps the one who
est drawing, laughing eyed, indolent Joe
Chesney-Joo Chesney, who was supposed
never to trouble about anything at all, and
whose life was apparently one long and
badly sustained effort to escape from worry
and boredom. But II some Of those who
claimed to know tho INDECENT ono had but
scratched below the surface they might
have found warm hearted creature.
whose caustic laugh did but hide some
better things of which he WAS half
ashamed. But they did not take the trou-
bic to scratch. and they did not know or
find the better man,
Years ago, before Maxwell Bernard had
succeeded unexpectedly to fortune. and
before Joe Chrsnev, the intlolcnt, had been
called to the bar these two men had been
mt school together and had ponc toqethcr
at Oxford, the one filled, even ut that time,
with passionate hope that homiuht sol,s
tho great problem called lifo and mako of
it a better thing for himself and others.
tho other ]azily and carr,,sslv nlniring
him. but launching even then. in his Inv.
ish cynicisnl, at his friend and at all his
friends airy castles,
So they kent the old hoyiSh hund intact
having rany thinys in common and n
great, unrxprcsscd devotion for coch a; hcr
Mt nil timrs-n devotion thnt was porb,ns
weakened on tho one side when Bernard
married. but which never syvrrvrd nm ,bn
othcr, for all the careless laughter of the
cynic Joe
But n man Is most blind TO thnt which
most concerns himself and is peurrn,lv tbn
last to learn Of an imnrr,liny trngrdv
Will. nil thr world vhu lnr,y thrm ritin5
tho man ard bnmrd tbn wifn ard wis,
ncrinpIy cop,,,.d lin. Irifn's nnnn With tho
namo Of another man. Maxwell Rrrnurd
knew nothing of it all and lived ON in his
FOOLS uuradi,ss blind ia all tbinys
But Joe Chcsn.v had hoard NJ If enl
Joe Chesucy, dcsuite his uhilosoIhy WINS
troubled for his friends snkn INK nh
losonhy had tau,ht Lim1n Tool; ON al, mon
and thinys Tiphtlv and to H., rlr.,n1 with
their ynunriot MS n child il n,a,,r1 ultb n
nnrpct show If h,1 t,urht him ton n
drrnrr INSIGHT into huunn chorn,.tnr and
L,,,,., ,,.nnI.,,o.., $500
"Jt's mt s,1rnrisfn.6s bo p,rr,,ur,d T.,
himself when he b.nry III, s,,,Inl tr,,
cling mpdtativplv Mt his fair mn.t,cho
"sbe,s the snrt cf woman bn ,yn,,IJ ,n,.
or nrnhe Mt 1ho dcrths If nonr cid MIS-
charac,rr-thn sort Of brutr tbnt Cnlv~rt
Is touchrs her Mt once MT I'm sorry for
moor old Max I'm xiii him W. nj.
wnys 50 drs,rrotr1,, in onrnnst n,,nI,
believe that if tIn nrovrr,,i,l honvaniy
yisitunt a,rcurc1 in Tho A1,,nr,. and t"iJ
lir, Ln ,vh,ildr,t 1li,,a Il h,,I WV
50 sujntIv Wbnt,s ,n hr ,,,nny lIu. 'YI H."
domestic virtnns Il, .r.,.,iro1 Of tL, ,;.l,
of n shock ar shall she have hon lo.snng
The latter would In thr mora cn,ynrio,,+
And smncEs nr oriyiunli,,-but II vn,,lJ
unsrt nnnr nId Nav oh =, rri,,,L, ~ ,,,,,
err,nt youtb why will y, n,nrr,sT
Tha result If hi. c,,,tntinr va. tLo+ ho
decided ia warn his friend II, b,d nntb.
inc Inf =, f,rIing az c,.rto,,,,,t fnr ttn,.,,
man II IL oniy- fair m sn,. ,h,t sim ,i1
NOT cntrr intn his cnnsiI,r,tio,s I'
thourbt onIy nf tLr frirrI ,rhn Lni hann
his friend tLrn,rh MI hi, ill., ';,no ,ha
DAYS That thnv I,al ,r,,,InrnG viii nn ,"o
around necEs, in the old school playing |
fcldS'
Inc two men met in faNorilo Tstau-
rant, with balcony outside its windows
oN'i t"'N'lS 'ic 'r""u'" ana NOISY street. |
''N '',S"'S "ts' 10y NM strangely hcrV- |
Jus anu epOhr ou, Ii'''c' b'rhhFu' Iof MS
p"t', WIS IL the nisn"S' F'1'li'!c spirits.
'o'' olu boy ne cAcialllIru 1T last |
loi's ''Es' you are mo-, yourself Come ,
''H your o!u lf!thu an about 1t. II she |
coy or woes VIC Jn7' pm VI my youth fear |
~ zen MS lover VINO Is sAeT What Is sheT |
I'll ih''
Joe r""''u hi,h%li ana smiled across |
'he l'h'o al ms friend. Your thoughts |
run f'eF IN me same groove Max. Are
mere no "thrr 'hings save women In this |
me VI ours 1,n'S l'' ho!'l no ia'ror, RULER
H"hIrt To our lips, to drain II we WIFI Is |
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