The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-15


~'I brought fair ability, energy, ambi-
2ion, decent position, means of com
Portable life and an unblemished name.
Everyone said wasn't a bad Sort and
more than all, brought deep, true, pas
6ion9te love"
Said the woman: 81 brought beau
&y''-her statement was splendidly true
--"youth, physical purity-to which you
do not lay claim" He bowed. Per
,haps little else, for it was generous of
you to marry the daughter Of an undis-
charged bankrupt"
"What have we got out of our mar
uiage?" continued the husband. Let
me speak. OF course the honeymoon
was failure. Poets and novelists"-
the spoke btterly-"tell wicked false
hoods about honeymoons. They are
never wholly happy, unless, perhaps,
when it's the wife's second honeymoon.
After that, three months of exquisite,
almost mad JOY, then four months OF
happiness, followed by three of con-
sentiment. ending in year of gradually
Increasing misery"
III tOuiNt lnt nOhtg iiiOOh N~' - 1900
are" she answered. "rhe next three
months were happy, the following four
not bad, the subsequent three indiffer-
cent, and the year was intolerable. You
got more out of the business than l, for
you put more in. Alas, had not the
mad loves capital, and yet"
"And yet" interrupted the man, mis-
tAH
capital, and the beautiful mad love has
gone, and [, who once would have died
for you-more than that, would have
lived dlsgracefully for you--am content
20 dissolve partnership, willing that we
should part as friends"
Content? William?" she asked
-"'Tell me, what do you regret mostY"
II regret my bankruptcy" he said. Il
began our partnership with what
iShonght a splendid, inexhaustible fund
OF love. look back to moments of hap
piness beyond description, and now
am insolvent in love. After all, | be-
1ieve," he continued, with pleasant,
manly smile, 81 believe that 1t is bet
ter TO have loved and lost even If it be
the love and not the sweetheart that
one has lost Do you regret nothing?
What clings to your mind?'
She shook her head.
Come, you should tell me. There, on
Eise table near you is the deed of disso-
1ntion. the separation deed-it hasn't
even been engrossed on parchment, but
ss 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
Alps. In quarter of an hour, Mr.. Haw-
kins, the lawyer. will be here to witness
the execution Tell me-"
She shook her head again-her splen-
did head, regular in feature, delightful
an complexion, crowned with gorgeous
suburn hair, illumined by deep, large,
violet eyes.
@'You regret nothing"
With sigh she answered: IL regret
uhat you have cast your pearls before
me. regret that have misprized and
Cost your love: that l gave you little
in return. | regret that my very in
ability to return your love truly has ir-
ritated me by making me feel your
debtor; that feeling of irritation has
made you miserable and me miserable,
too
Il did not use the word regret quite
in that SENSE" he answered. II meant
Is there nothing you look back to Of
Roappinesss that yet lives in your mem
%orFS'
She put down the fan that had fiut-
cersd in her tender hands, and, with
Ralf q smile. half blush. she an
severed, '"rhere was one thing one
moment. that | regret"
21e rose and walked up and down the
e5ahtly furnished room. everything in
which was a note In a dead love song.
"A year ago to-day we were at Eta
piles. you recollectT
At was for economy l went because
It was ridiculously cheap and very
pretty and hated Boulogne."
L remember how we wandered
about how, alas, we Quarreled in the
pine woods, or, to be exact, quarreled
and YOU suffered, and the splendid sea
shore. where | said bitter things, be
cause my friends were at TrOuville and
i Al the little quiet Paris PLACE, and you
were sad and silent"
"My dear" he interrupted, 81 was
greatly to blame"
Hush! You must not interrupt
Then one day we took a boat-a clumsy
Ooat--and sailed out despite the warn
sngs of the fishermen. | didn't care