The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-11
AN END TO ALL THINGS.

When they parted he had fallen at her
| feet and kissed the hem of her dress.
How ridiculous a demonstration 1t ap-
| peared to him to-day, and yet he dread
ed to meet her again She had treated
| him atrociously he had considered at
| the time. Englished, she had amused
| herself with him, and then given him
| his congo She was a married woman
and he had been boy.
| He recalled every incident Of the fare
well, A youthful passion 1t may have
been, but-he could not dispute 1t even
not was a passion that left its mark.
There had been Il conservatory OPEN
ing out Of the rooms she occupied. 1t
was In the conservatory that he had
made himself the most absurd-there,
and for moment at the piano, at
which she had seated herself indiffer-
emily, and where he had knet to her
like lover in THE London Journale."
She had stroled along, shifting at the
flowers, saying cruel things to him in
her new and careless voice, and he had
followed her wistfuly like whipped
dog, pleading to be readmitted to favor.
A spray of fern that she had dropped
had been captured by him passionate
ly-she had touched 1t in their last mo-
ments together. She shrugged her
shoulders with eneer, and his eyes
filled at her cruelty.
what do you suppose there was In a
boy like you to hold woman like me?"
she had asked
1t was the harshest thing she could
have said, and he remembered that at
that he had broken down altogether.
Good heavens how preposterous he had
been-how wrongly he had gone to
work always being pathetic and re-
proachful! ST la jeunesse cavait, 81 la
viellesse pouvait,
However it was over. He had not |
found balm for his wound in six
months as she had prophesied, but in
nine years he had married, and forgot
ten her existence entirely until it was
recalled to him by the sight of her |
name In the visitors hst.
Now the recollections rushed back at |
him, and while he laughed at his former
self as fool, he was conscious of a
strange tremor at the prospect of see
ing her once more.
He loved his wife sincerely Twelve
months ago he could have contempla-
ted meeting Mrs. Jernyngham with
out misgivlng. But he had been mar
r.ed twelve months The time had not
lessened his love, but it had naturally
dtspelled the romance. After all to be
IN love" with a woman Is & greater
safeguard against others than to love
her" He was bound to acknowledge to
that he was frightened at the
thought of seeing Mrs. Jernyngham
again. He had, as a matter of fact,
avoided the Casino since he knew she
was in Dieppe.
He put down his paper, and looked
across at Nellie reading a Tauchnitz
novel. How pretty she was and how
What would she say could
she divine his present mood? Sinless
as 1t was, it would cut her to the
heart. Bah, he was fool-why should
hat make him afraid to venture out of
doors! He was not fond of her still--of
course he was not
The Tauchnitz novel dropped to Mrs
lap.
What are you thinking about, dar-
ing?" she asked.
l was thinking how charming you
ook IN that frock, my dear he an
'ered. He preserved the habit of MAX
ng graceful speeches to his wife. Gym
cal bachelor friends said he forgot
7ho she was-that it was the force of
habit
She shook her head doubtfully. s
There was nasty black wrinkle be-