The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
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Rx Annelh MORGAN.

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the experience doesn't really make one q
happier and better being?"
'It depends upon what you mean by
happier and better" There was a tinge
of defiance In Miss Harlow's voice, which
she tried to conceal beneath a frankly
cheerful smile.
The unexpected appearance Of Wesley
Graham While she stood on the corner
waiting for a homeward-bound lcar had
rather disconnected her. She had reso-
lutely discouraged his attentions for the
past six months and had not seen him
for several weeks.
1t was the wilted, weary time of day
when wage earning women are not apt to
look their best. Despite the fact that
Miss Harlow had long put vanity under
her feet as out of place In a woman striv-
ing to make her mark In the world, she
felt q distinct veXation that Graham
should meet her just now.
His argument, too, annoyed her. He
seemed to take delight in showing up the
modern woman In pathetic instead OF
glowing colors.
Miss Harlow pulled vaguely at her
disheveled veil and wondered II any SCOT
spots spr.nkled her shin.
Her ignorance regarding this was not
a ynonym for bliss, and when Graham
swung upon the packed platform of the
crowded cable car beside her she was
guilty of taking q surreptitious glance in
to her mirror.
Reassured, she bravely pursued the ar
gunent.
Happiness" she persisted, Ignoring
possible listeners in her earnestness, 'is
not conducive always to ones best de-
velopment. I mean happiness as the
world understands It,"
She chung to the doorway for support
as the car swung round q corner. rigidly
Ignoring the encircling protection OF Gra-
hams arm.
What do you mean when you say
that?" he demanded. Are you sure that
you know what you mean?"
"Of course I know" she replied quietly,
though with spirit. IT mean that even a
strenuous life OF unceasing toll and eff
fort, unbrightened by romance or pleas
ure, Is. because of the larger life that
goes with it, far preferable to an exist
ence of purely selfish happiness. Women
are seeing that today as never before.
Absolute independence Is the prerogativs
OF the modern woman. She refuses. to
lean. She does not nave to lean"
AS the words left her lips the car again
rounded a corner sharply. sending the
helpless passengers lurching against each
other.
Her rigid attitude was OF no avail this
time. Before she knew 1t she swayed
Into the curve Of Graham's
steadying arm.
On the instant her eyes met his fully.
A startled moment of silence followed.
Then Miss Harlow seized the broken
thread Of their talk with a desperate and
visible determination. 1t was as though
she had in that moment mentally faced,
fought and v%anquished an unseen enemy,
Graham watched her features merciless-
ly as she hurried on with her positive as
sertions and declarations, but she would
not allow her eyes to meet his.
Her manner grew yet more distant when
he left the car with her and started to ac-
company her homeward.
AT the door of her boarding house no
startled her with an abrupt questions:
Are you always going to discourage me
this way2 Aren't you ever going to give
me any HOPPER"
Taken aback by his straightforward
ness Miss Harlow uttered a half gasp.
While her swift upward glance caught
the look in his eyes. "Goodby," she said
hurriedly.
Il expect an answer. Won't you send
me some word?' he persisted.
Perhaps" answered Miss Harlow. Tho
yielding in her own voice alarmed her.
She hated herself for being sorry when
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gled at her heart 80 she fastened up
stairs to her room.
A new and powerful realization was
forcing Itself upon her with q marvellous
ins.stence. The poignant sweetness of It
e~nwrapped and thrilled her. It was the
memory of that startled moment In the
crowded car.
er able to ignore that memory. But she
was strong, as the new woman invariably
g. and her we'll trained will, accustomed
to combat, leaped now to assert itself.
This Is folly" she muttered. and not
to be encouraged by even a thought. with
a larger life Of usefulness stretched be-
fore me, such a consideration Is OUT Of
the question:"
But the argument between heart and
head waXer more earnest yet. despite her
efforts to silence 1t.
After dinner she sat out on the stems
in thed damp, sweet spring dusk and All
sently Joined in the conversation of other
boarders. Her thoughts followed an I'm
dercurrent of their own.
TT is folly. You must Danish II from
your mind" said reason,
but l cannot forget It. The memory
clngs to me so. How do I know that r
ought to Danish it?" protested her heart
"Because 1t is weakness-the primal in
stlnct OF the feminine to lean on some
thlng stronger for support The new
woman does not lean. She does NOT bava
o lean"
Her very words! Spoken at the thresh-
hold Of that golden moment when the
touch or Graham's arms had thrilled her
The memory surged over her now. nor
could reason beat 1t back. She knew at
last that the shelter Of those arms meant
more TO ner than all her glittering dreams
OF Independence and achievement.
side by side with how ,teio.
ness me specter faced her of a lifelong
ambition trembling to its ruin. Rut re
specter did not dismay her.
AS his wife" came the final plea Of her
er destinyT' s"
After a time she went upstairs TO her
room. singing softly under her breath
a. ner oesk she sat writing a letter. II
round Its way to mail box on the cornar
tnat light: In it was the message for
Tho Street Wrongly Named.
YOnkerS Statesman: Churoh-.-