Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-28
C. O5e =O MASQUERADE:II}[ ua ,herine Cecil Thurston.
 Author of The Circle. Etc.
....,5t ,ma I5o4. bq Harpcr,e Brothel.

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 IT, Ta1c1iC1 her i'll silence as she .oorad out the tea. and the thought
 Ed his mind that it was incrcd- g%,,. long since Ire bad seen woman
 ..le over d meal. The deftness of Te fingers till2d him with an ulfan1ll- sr half mquisitive wonder. So inter @stiu,s was the sensation that Wben sbc held his cup toward him he di4h { 3rne.lidteiy see 1t.
 Z '.non.l you want any She smiled Saltle.
 zs1ro started. embarrassed Hy his own .,,liness. sl'm afraid I'm dull,' he Said. Eve been so
 z5 .,so keen worker in the last week :' Sss1,or :, moment he felt relieved. Then,
 2 fresh silence fell, his sense of SSs srLwar.lncss returned. He slipped his ~ and ate a biscuit. He found bin- s.wf wishing. for almost the first time N some of the small society talk that eS me so pleasantly to other men. He g3Sat that the position was ridiculous.
 olanccd at Eyes ;iverted head and E1d his empty cup upon tie table.
 "A most at once she turned, and their res met.
 AJoln." she said, do you guess at s1l why I wanted to have tea with yspt'
 4lsHe locked down at her. No he anaid honestly and without embellish- bnent.
 Tbc c,lrtness of the answer might I've displea>ed another woman. Eve oemcd to take no offense.
 T had Il talk with the Fraides to- Aay" she said. "a long talk. Mir Hrade said great things of you. things Hwn,ldn't have believed from anybody 1nf Mr. Fr:l,.e She altered her posi- Inn :iI5, looked from I.,dcr's face back Into i.lt fife.
 III t..ok ;t step forward. What . Mln .s:' lie s:'I. He was almost I'M ...e,l ae f,.p e;a' lra. ;Horti;nate atis faction that wrllri up a her NotlS
 z7eOh. ii3~tn't t,l y.,il.' ST" l;.,i2 led : GHte "i;ut .ag i:iAe surprised him.
 e paused slipped ler tea tEcn looked
 aeain with ;i change "t expression. sUohn >ltc said more seriously, I Tre is one point that sticks |: little Wn this great change last:" Her
 @ WAS direct and cyeM. wonder . direct for d woman. 1.oder
 0slIt It came to him with a cer forcc that beneath her remarkable ' I'm might possibly lie a remarkable ' facter It was not a possibility ! t6t had occurred tO him before. and ! Ec1llSed him to look at her a second ! & In the new light he saw her ! uty differently and it interested | H differently. Heretofore he had {, M inclined to class women under heads idols, amuscmcntS and Entrances. Now it crossed his that q woman might possibly fill Der place-thc place of q com u are very ~hcptical." he said. pokiug down at hcr.
 did not return his glance. "I
 have been made skcptical," she i. she spoke the image of Chilcote 1 Through his mind - Chilcote, ir- e, vicious, unstable-and a quick
 QSSiOn for this woman so inev-
 V ahackied to him followed it. & unconscious of what was pass his mind, went on with her Sub-
 Den We were married,' she said
 l had such q great interest in U such a great belief ill life. 1 ked ill politics, and 1 was marry @e of the coming men-everybody Xou were one of the coming men. 6ely felt there was anything left tor. You didn't make very ar " love, she smiled. but l think Forgotten about love. l wanted 4g so much as to be like Lady married to d great man." She
 then went on more hurriedly:
 While things went right; then
 things went wrong. You got
 our nerves
 VI changed his position with -ns of abruptness.
 hlsconstrued the action.
 z5 SC don't think want to be
 eable, she said hastily II
 Iii only trying to make you and why-why l lost heart'' hk know" Loders voice broke luntarily. Things got worse, Ill worse. You found interier-
 seless. At last you ceased to husband"
 M week ago. She glanced up
 Absorbed in her own feel
 l'e had seen nothing extraor- ln his words.
 hers I.oder changed color.
 lie most incredible thing in the She said. It's quite incred- yet can't deny it. Against
 feaSoh' all my experience, all iilation, seem to feel in the something of what I felt at sile stopped With an embar-
 u.h It seems that. as if by
 n4S been picked up where
 It SiA wears ago Again sine