The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1902-02-18
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BY II H- IANCAsTER.

Copyright, lel. by Daily story PUB. CO.
! could scarcely realize that il va.
indeed Dexter Boyton who came bacl
TO me after that summer cur Of town
He had been such a blithe. light
hearted fellow before re went away
Whistling over his work singing
snatches OF operas on the stairs. smok.
ing one cigar in two weeks and always
ready with cherry word
Now he went about grave. pre-occa-
pied The same straight. steady iooa
out Of his eyes. but behind il some
thing it hurt my heart to see.
+ pondered much over the change
Why had his clear flexible whistle
become a mononnous dead level Of
sound2 Why had ne ceased singing
and taken to smoking incesscnliy.
Why. in short had my care-free. light
hearted boy leaped IN one brief sum-
mer into stern. unyielding manhood
Was it love or money?
assured my wife that 10 was money.
did it because ] wanted to save the
boy.
Let even the hest Of women suspect
a wound Of the heart end She wll drop
the probe Of her curiosity into the
ugly hole until the helpless sufferer
sweats with agony.
There is this difference between men
and women as REGARDS the past. a
man viii bury the dead love, tramp
the earth down nard in the now-made
grave and go on his way. But a
woman can never quite say 1t is
dead" For the rest OF ne life she
must spend precious hours trying to
galVanize a corpse It may be that
love never really lies in a woman 5
heart I don't know. Blt was glad
that had put Molly On d false scent
about Dexter.
She was so pleasant in her own
bright easy way; talking politics and
literature whenever 7 dragged Boyton
home with me for sociai evening,
that by degrees the boy began dro1-
ping ii of his own accord a1 he had
been wont 10 do hcfo-e he went away
for that summer out of town. Only
once in the six months that followed
did Molly make a single bad break
had been urging her to decide upon
her summer trip. when sic turned to
Dexter.
where did you summer last year.
Mr.. Boytong"
/ saw the boy vince, 1T Molly was
looking az the fire ana turning her
wedding ring around sal around in a
way
AT Grayton." Dexter replied briefly.
"GIayl0ng That Sounds cool and
comfortable. What s1rt of place is
itgr
oh. a little country place
Without Telephone bells or milk
carts or col iCstones? see. By the
way. Edward, you win have 20 see the
man aaout our teierhone. 1t IS shock
ingiy ont Of order"
WHAT'S rrous4 I asked. IS relieved I
as / iance- dexter was at this turn
cf tie conversation.
30 A.s MNA- MAMtt At.aA NaaaA yea &
called re 10 tolay I heard my best I
friend around the corner telling my I
best flcal ac7css she stresl that I
was the st4ri-ist woman ln t--a ana I
couldn't see a thing when * W1s r.sAt /
under my nose S1ch th.ass arc cal /
culatld 10 sEake ones faith IN friend 4
ship ana I really think tie telephone
man ought 20 see 70 it,
We both laughed and Dexter arose
TO so.
by my word. Morton. = he said when
followed kin iato the haii. 'that wife
lf youIs is iae swestest-souled wom-
in tha. ever lived ana he laughed
-galn q his CID happy way.
did not dare to object les. ] should
.alse her suspicious. 50 Molly went
iway r0 summer az Grayton. .ezviag a
.erribly empty place in our big busy
lty. she was q be gone only a month.
lut ye s0ds. what a long one it was.
I left Dexter in charge q the once
md went TO meet her train a fun hour
lefore It was die. I hoped she had