The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-01-13

tiny never written such letters to her?
Why was he not eloquent like Roger
there. She had begun TO call him
Roger" She became Il bit scared
then, for she was Il true and dutiful
wife. She aud Blocker had exchanged
very few letters In their counting days.
Perhaps he would have written just
as well as FortcScuc if he'd had the
opportunity, she thought. Aud then.
In II sudden roaliZa Ion OF her folly and
perhaps Of some subtle aud hateful
sense OF dIsioyalty. She went to An
MES house ard wrote II long letter to
Fortescuc IN which she begged his
pardon for during" him Into II corfc-
spouGencc that must. appear deccitfrl,
f,uit,rss and even lmpiliting wArh
Slic, Beatrice l.andup,' admittrd. ~
she now must. tina; she wa, n married
woman, whose husband was the best
man on earth" She cSprcicd tnHr ~ :
Tong and sc'f.lclrcru, letter would
put hnal stop 10 his ledrrs. but at'cr
Il week. Gu.'iug which she did not ~.
cure for amy letters ut thr w,ntp".
she asked Arnic 70 "S2c il there VAS
any ding There wctr Eve!
~. too" wrote Roger For s"r". INV
married. My vie is he culud,ri' Il
or al yif,uc, brau,y o"d iutrligcns.
hu, -" Ard then h. launched iu,r q
subtle ana g:acsid,y worried dis
course to the effect that Mrs. For,cs-
cue was not wholly satisfied with
him" That she didn't understand
him. that he could not blame her, but
that in seeking a correspondence win
Mrs Landon.' he had only tried af,lr
that impcrsunnl and. lie thought, UNI
selfish. qualification which comes of
the spiritual and mental commerce of
two kindred souls. 1t was very fine.
said Annie and Chloe. and the latter
almost shed tears ms she declared posi-
lively that she would make no answer.
And so the affair stopped.
1t was about two weeks later that
Mrs. Blocker began to perceive n
mighty change in the behavior of her
husband. He had become so consid-
crate, so confidential so tender, so
assiduous in his attentions 20 her that
she felt like II girl again in the woong
days. But after tea one night he said.
with sudden embarrassment:
"Chloe. | know you'll laugh, but l
did n very queer thing this summer. |
answered an 'ad' of some woman who
wanted to correspond with n moral
aud intelligent man Of sympathy"
Blocker, getting white and rea ly to
faint.
Don't get angry, Chloe" lie said
quickly. installing her fright for rage
Il never signed my name; but honest
now, for awhile | thought my core
spondent must be--YOU. i
ayes. yes. Curtis! You thought
she was almost choked with terror.
II thought it might be you. and l
was almost sure when she-hcr name
was Beatrice I.andon'-adm'ttcd that
she was married woman. told her
that l. too. was married. and " oil
Chloe, I thought TINT would put end to
it. but what do You Think"
what, Curtis"
"Why, she came right back: said she
didn't believe me. Insisted thar no
married man ever praised his wife as
l had done and-inclosed her plcture!
Her picture"
eyes. Look" He pulled out pho
tograph and showed the fair face of
Annie Cuthbert,
And now Mrs. Blocker doesn't
know what to think OF her friend Miss
Cuthbert. but they've kept the secret
the three secrets Curtis never let
Annie know that he knows. Annie
never ''let on" that she took up the
Fortescue correspondence where Chloe
let 1t drop, and Chloe has never told
her husband that she was Beatrice
Landon." But she is fonder of him
than ever, because he did praise her,
oh, so eloqucntly in those letters
John ii. Raftery, in the Chicago Zee
ord-Ierald.