The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-03

SCFuIdDle SHllleI as Sne neSIleQ 1nLo US warm folds.
 Despite the chill atmosphere, the general discomfort, she fell into re- verie as she leaned idly against the theater door waiting, and when the waiting was over it was to the upper most thought of those that had poss- essed her that she presently gave ut- terance.
 How quaint for you and me to be driving about together in a hansom" 'Very"-dryly. We conform most scrupulously to the dictates of the fashionable world. We neither go out together nor stay in together; we see as little of each other as possible We are am odel couple" Tt might be-better-if we were not. There was something unwonted in her tone, in the whitening of her lips and the restlessness of the small bare hands almost hidden in the big sleeves of his coat. He looked at her curiously. Did you enjoy the piece?"
 "'The piece? Oh, yes, as well as most pieces" Her voice was weary. T did not see you there"
 No, I stood most of the time-almost under you box. Do you think in the long run the heroine came to love the fussy photographer with whom she consoled herself?"
 No. He was a refuge, that wasall, She spoke of him as a good little man. 'Well-I don't quite see"
 She wouldn't even have thought of his stature if she had loved him." Wouldn't she?" inquired the man whose six feet two of length was but i'll accommodated in the half of a han som cab, and faint smile fitted across his face.
 No, and she certainly would not have troubled to correct herself if she had chanced to refer to him in such terms"
 "I don't follow your argument, Sue,
 "she would be sure of herself, of his dignity and her own recognition of it under all circumstances that she would not always be on guard against forgetting it-always jealous lest some outsider should ignore it."
 And" her companion pursued with slow deliberation, 'do you-since you are such a student of human nature suppose she confded entirely in her good little man; told him how near she came to wrecking her life?"
 Possibly-probably If so it is certain he wept over her woes and quite failed to see she had been wrong, because, of course, in his eyes 1t was unthinkable she could be. Had he not been little -p
 "Well-had he not"
 "it would have depended on the measure of his greatness whether she told him or not"
 "Sue-he turned on her with an ab- rupt change of subject-"why did you marry me?"
 Why"
 "Let me have the reason, once for all, be the consequences what they may. The question comes between me and my every though, and I can find no answer to it. You don't spend money like other women of your class-you care nothing, apparently, for the luxur- les 1t places within your reach-"
 You think 1t was for your wealth! You think that'
 But what then, what else, since 1t is certain you do not, and never did, love me?"
 And if it were true! Did you not need my title-my connections-to- to-"
 Furnish my plebeian gold and cloak my obscure origin?" he concluded as she broke off sobbingly. "Is that what you would say? Has the result justi- fled the accusation, Sue? Have made use of these things, altered my life, in any way?"
 They said"
 If they said anything but that loved yau with all my heart and soul and strength, sue-with every fiber of my being-the ylied."
 He was staring straight before him, his face stern and set, and for a mo- ment two destines trembled in the balance.
 Then, "Is the past tense inevitable?" she whispered Have not you too be- lieved what they said?'"
 Her hand touched his, to be instantly covered, clasped in grip that was answere enough.
 Then 1t is not Jack nor another%
 Are you great man. Edward2" His eyes searched hers and drew con- tent from their clear depths.
 Perhaps, if there were need. But there is none"
 NO, there is none. Edward the fog is lifting"
 And the sun Is shining" he said.- The Tattler