Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-30

AS MI. ana MIS-. 1r1nSham- Iam1nS StrOlled
next morning along the beach, after bathing,
they turned, their invariable practice
in the direction of the Casino from which
gay remnants futtered and there came the
crash of the band in the opening number of
the days program. When they had come
within few feet of the entrance they halted
for an idle survey of the scene The constant
cloud-shltt overhead was perpetually chang
ing the color OF the from green to blue
from purple to bronze, as if a great shadowy
hand at intervals swept its sleeping surface
with magic touch. The beach was a rain
bow of summer parasols and marvelously
brilliant dresses; the murmur of movement
subdued, like the droning of bees among
flowers; the music from the Casino a softly
undulating waltz measure; the atmosphere
was holiday.
Mrs. Tringham- Tamms turned suddenly:
I'm going back to the hotel. | forgot, I've
some letters to write"
Very WE'LL Arthur answered, "I'll Join
you little later. | want to hear the band
So they parted. And Mrs. Tringham-
Tamms, making her solitary way back to the
hotel, seemed determined somehow and her
glance was directed straight in front of her,
swerving neither to right nor left, as if fixed
on some definite, distant goal, which it was
her unfaltering purpose to gain.
The same evening, to her husbands COM
plete surprise, she told him she was starting
for New-4ork next day on some particular
business that might detain her for several
days more. To his repeatedly expressed de-
sire to accompany her, she responded:
oh, no, Arthur. It's not at all necessary.
You know | travelled a good many years alone
before met you, you know-and as you're
enjoying Beachcombers SO much, as you said
last night, | couldn't think of dragging you
away"
Arthur made no further protest.
The 'widowman as a certain school of
hctlonists describe persons in Arthur's state
of temporary conjugal bereavement-was in
a reflective mood which not operating to
exalt his private estimate of himself In his
solitude the bald cold facts of his position
osition he had deliberately made for himself
out with exasperating clearness. He found
practicable to f1atter himself upon his marital
his powers of self-deception would
vail to placate wounded amour propre-the
was borne in upon him that he was not a
led person. He had married for money solely
imply-there had not been a suggestion of
ing except convenience in the contract
now his wife suddenly and unexpectedly had
ed an independence of personal action which
him disagreeably conscious that he was only
Tringham-T amms' husband
, bell-boy brought a note to the Tringhan-
IS apartment. Arthur received and read it.
days had passed since his wifes departure,
e felt no unwillingness to accept an invitation,
ally when it seemed to promise a bit of adj
re. In less than five minutes he knocked
, door of the suite of rooms occupied by Mrs.
ls-Slosson.
r. Tringham- Tamms,' said that woman, as
If, announced by the servant who had an
! 1.
wifes bette foir of the Beachcomber Casino
Tringham-T amms, l can only plead my
eye as an old woman who might be your
er in excuse for having taken the unconven-
course of introducing myself. l asked you
me and see me because / felt sure you must
nelly. young who, while sur
ed by the gaieties and designations of water