The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-27

!, GRANGE LAPsEs OF A
LOVER.

Low En-.
# before there was time for me
distinct impression, that ugly
If eynicism had disappeared.
!, was a shadow | myself cast upon
+ assured myself, and once more
i .semed to me like a clear. calm
If melted snow from the noun
81 can see to the pure white
If the very bottom thought |.
[,orv there was, but only the mys-
4 If wonder at the apparition of
beauty and purity in such a
IA as mine. True. from time to
1 there showed at the surface or
Ersly outlined in the depths, forms
npely out of place in those unsul-
waters But | either refused to
m refused to trust my senses. |
fixed ideal of what woman
Ihn be: this girl embodied that
lf you'd only give up your cigar
nj remember saying to her when
we're a little better acquainted,
BID be perfect
NJ made an impatient gesture.
hit" she commanded almost an
"You make me feel like hypo.
\ You tempt me to be a hypocrite
not be content with woman as
is-a human being? And-how
M I-any woman not an idiot-be
4 for twenty-five years without
tping-a thing or two? Why should
man want it?"
Because to know is to be spattered
! tained," said |. II get enough
people who know, down town. Up
HI want a change of air OF
'rse you think you know the world,
YOU haven't the remotest concep-
Of what it's really like. Some,
I Is when I'm with you, | begin to
! mean and--and unclean. And
feeling grows on me until it's all
bn do to restrain myself from rush.
away
BE looked at me critically.
EYou'ye never had much to do with
ben, have you?" she finally said
PLY in musing tone.
j wish that were true-almost,' re-
N !, on my mettle as a man, and re.
ling not without effort the impulse
make some vague confessions
stingS disguised as penitential ad-
3sionS-after the customary mascu.
fashion.
lhe smiled-and one of those dis
ftlng shapes seemed to me to be
Pting lazily and repellently down
~ out OF sight. "A man and
|lan can be great deal to each
r., believ=,' said she; can be-
Frled, and all that-and remain as
Fage to each other as if they had
FER met-more hopelessly strang.
here's always a sort of mystery"
Paceded, 81 suppose that's one of
lhlngs that keep married people
krested."
|le shrugged her shoulders-she
IN evening dress. recall. and
e was on her white skin that in.
r. transparent blush tinge one
/ on the new snow when the sun
pes out.
|ays'ery" she said impatiently.
FFles no mystery except what we
EeNes make. It's useless-per
" useless she went on absently.
fare the sort Of IA man who, if a
rl cared for him, or even showed
l4uSnip for him by being frank and
al and natural with him, he'd pun
ler Tor it by--by despising her
smiled, much as one smiles at the
H. Oh a precocious child to prove
Is Methuselah in experience.
4 you weren't like an angel in
PEARSON with the others I've
P''n said /, do you suppose
Y care for you as | do?"
"a" my remark irritated her, and
Fuc'ed 1t was her vanity that was
aueu oy my disbelief in her knowl.
Vi HE. | hadn't a suspicion that
uuft and alienated her b. slam
L III her face the door of friend
ana frankness her honesty was
ns her to try to open for me.
my Stupidity of imagining her not
4 y" IKE the other women and the
mad known, but a creature apart
class apart, | stood day after
"pns az that very door, and Won
NJ" ! could open it, how pene-
even to the courtyard of that
H. citadel. So long as my old
\ ,'ueu belief that good women
moFe than human and bad
r. "" less than human had influ
'aa me only to a sharper lookout
a''ns with the one species OF
|6 au ! then came in contact with
Itr a,lu 10 me resulted. but on the
@ sood-whoever got into trou
I,t 1'ough walking the world with
r. anu sword arm free? But when
b. ,ue spell of Anita Ellersly.
'eS 'he 'superhuman goodness
Ia. my theory down out of the
A anu made it my guardian and
Ia really, it's a miracle that es
Rrr rom the pit into which that
con pitched me headlong. was
N ~ a.ent with idealizing only her;
'" W seeing pOod and only good