El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-20

BY BARRY PAIN.

thing funny, as il you were writing on
of your penny books. and hate you mos
when you re like that. One of these day
am going 10 take a holiday. l shall e
into some big lonely field and tell all tn
truth about myself out loud
Can l come too
"No. My whole life here in London il
one enormous lie, and l hate it. l tel
lies to influence peoples opinion of me.
tell lies to spare the feelings of others.
tell lies everywhere and always. 1 bought
a veil this afternoon, and l told six lie.
while l was in the shop doing it. 1 count
ed them. I'm sick of society and conven
tons and everything. Be thankful you're
not woman
| Il am
Men don't love the truth, but they car
tell it if they like. Women are naturally
| good, and they adore the truth, but they
are never allowed to tell it. 1 should like
to reconstruct all our customs and ways
| of life. I've got ideas. / often think OF
| things that would surprise you. You
think l am rather little fool, that I'm
not serious and that / only care for
amusements. A stupid butterfly-that's
| your idea of me. It's all wrong, of course
One of these days you may think differ
| emily. But it doesn't matchmaking
| matters"
ITO come to the point, who is he ~
| You can't think how unspeakably tired
| I am. i don't want to go to this silly
theater, do you?"
Not in the least"
"Shall we give the cabman the tickets
one for himself and one for his horse?
| / suppose they would have to let them
in if they had the tickets. wouldn't they ?
That horse would just look lovely sit
~ m hn IA Il no
cry in the pathetic passages. Did you
ever see horse cry?
''To return to the subject of discus
sion, who is he? And why didn't he ask
you to marry him?"
Idiot He did, and 1 refused him.
It's quite time l got married. 1 wonder
how many seasons I've been through.
know I'm dead tired of London anyhow.
I might have accepted him. We got on
beautifully together. He recognized that
/ had serious side. He had such a SYM
pathetic voice, too. and eyes that seemed
to-
"Omitting his eyes and his nose, why
did you refuse him?''
How could any girl marry a man
whose name is Jiggins? 1t sounds as il
it came out of a comic paper. It's an i'm
possible name. l would sooner be dead
or live in the suburbs than be called Mrs.
Jiggins.''
Wouldn't he have changed it?"
Il couldn't ask him to do that. He
never seemed to notice that there was
anything wrong with his name. He had
always been like that, and / suppose he
had got used to it. 1t must be some
thing like being born dead. Even when
he proposed to me he never apologized
for his name, and it was a beautiful pro-
posal, too-one of the best have had"
What did you say?'
Il couldn't tell him that / was refus-
ing him because of his name, could 1? 1t
would have been too cruel. So I told
him didn't love him. We were talking,
and went on from one thing to another.
| don't know how these things happen.
for 1 had never meant to tell him any
lies. but l believe / gave him some idea
that there was a secret tragedy in my
life. 1t seemed to suit with his way of
seeing the serious side of me-"
Did you go into detailsG'
Il said had been secretly engaged and
the man had died in Egypt. 1 almost be-
ievcd it myself while l was telling him
it."
Il don't see what the trouble is You
did not want TO marry him because his
name was Jiggins. Therefore you re-
fused him. What's wrong?"
"Everything's wrong. His name isn't
Jiggins any more. An uncle. his moth
er's brother. died and left him everything
on condition that he took the name of
Lansdon. which l adore. And he's done
it.
And now you want to bring him back
again. But you can't explain away that
little romance
That's not the worst. He's going to
marry Adela Price. who's the most abom-
Unable cat know A man tells his wife
everything. He'll tell her the story I told
n
There was lot of il, much more than
have told you. She will know absolutely
for a fact that there was not a word of
truth in IL. because we used to be friends
once. and then she got to know every
thing about me. When she hears about
that secret tragedy. she will just sit down |
and laugh till she dies of it. and then she |
will go round and tell everybody else. |
can see her laughing now, with a mouth |
like the slot for newspapers in the post |
office. The only thing 1 could do would |
be To get him away from Adela. But |
then l shouldn't marry him myself now. |
1 would have married him if he had been |
LanC,ion when he was Jiggins."
But now there are complications?
still l suppose I must get him away |
from Adela.''
Leave Adela and Jiggins Lanydon |
alone. You say that a man tells his wife |
He doesn't. And some of |
the things that he never tells her are his |
failures with other wom-
en-. Your secret tragedy is safe enough.
Adela Price will never hear of it"
Elsa reflected upon this for a moment.
What a mercy it isl she said, "that |
men are SO abominabl vainp'-Black
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