The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-08-09

temporarily at least. IL I were you-un.
til you feel in the right mood.
Falck was so impressed with the
change his old rival had undergone
since he last saw him that for awhile he
could not think Of q word to say. Brun
looked rosy and we'll fed, and all traces OF
past dissipat. N had vanished. He seem.
ed 10 have settled down with lazy resig-
nation j.. his comfortable nest and to be
content % sl''ft on his wife the responsi.
bility o.. making his living. There was
n luxurious elegance in his dishabille
end something Of the grand seigneur in
his languid politoness. He received
Falck as a pasha might have done a
client TO whom he owed some slight OBJ
legation He did not seem in tho least
surprised. but the instinct Of good man
ners which was a second nature to him,
forbade him to show that he was annoy
ed after the first moment Of unpleasant
interruption If he had been Jerome
or % Meissonior, he could not have pre-
sonted a more artistic appearance His
soft. wavy hair had been permitted to
tache exhibited bold curl which was
nothing if not artistic. He wore a loose
brown velvet jacket and wide light
trousers, and negligently knotted
bright necktie encircled an excessive
ly low collar, displaying an amount
Of neck which seemed positively i'm
modest. Whatever his deficiencies MAY
have been as knight Of the brush, il
was not to be denied that in point Of
costume he could scarcely have been
improved upon.
After having offered his guest cigar
Inc sat down and began TO talk about
art and the trials of the artist in this
Mammon worshiping land with a So
norous yolubihty which filled his wife
with delight She glanced every now
and then at Falck with radiant intelli-
gence, as if to challenge his admiration
She was obviously disappointed at his
refusal to be impressed, and it became
clear to him that the kindness for him
which filed her heart suffered diminu,
tion during the interview. She was yet
80 completely absorbed in her husband
determined solely by their attitude to-
ward him. She OWNED in Falck's mind
"a remnant Of the old antagonism, and
she read in his somewhat stiff reserve q
spirit of criticism which she would have
liked 10 resent. But, after all, she could
afford TO be magnanimous toward one
who had loved her so well and suffered
so much for her sake
1t was, however, n relief to both HUI
da and her husband when Falclz rose to
take his leave They asked him to stay
TO dinner, but were not sorry when he
declined. They babe him farewell with
an amount of cordiality which seemed
to imply that il was his going rather
than his coming which delighted them.
IL would have been superhuman if he
could have conquered the feeling Of bit
terncss which filled him at the thought
of leaving them together--the woman
he loved and the man he hated and de.
tested-in their fools paradise He fan
cied their delicious privacy, emphasized,
as it were, by his departure, and his
own loneliness seemed doubly bleak and
chilly since he had this glimpse Of a
bright and warm domesticity His soul
seemed somehow TO have caught cold,
and at the prospect Of the long and
dreary years that stretched out before
him little icy shudders crept up his
spine
He thought as he walked down the
silent street Of his first sermon on the
tares among the wheat, the moral OF
which Hulda had ohsi'~-
THE END.