The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-05-11
.rope and ..AnerIca


seeming unconeern, for she had not
the right to mourn even II she knew
be we're dead. he had made no claim,
had asked for no affection, had writ
ten no word 10 her but what all the
world might read. Once a week she
made q little journey up the Hudson
10 see how her church was coming on,
and at first Katherine accompanied
her, but now she went alone. Rather
Inc was too honest girl to pretend
an interest where she felt none. She
could not talk OF architecture when
she was thinking of a man and his
fate. At first she had been querulously
impatient when no second eommunlca-
ton came. Her own letters, she said,
must have reached him; otherwise they
would have been returned Later dumb
fear took possession OF her, and she
grew silent, plunged with renewed en-
Hrgy into her books, Joined technical
school. took lessons and grew paIer
and paler until her teachers warned
her she was OVERRIDING 1t.
Inwardly she resented the serene Inn.
passiyeness OF her friend, who consult
"a calmly with the architect upon oc,
easlon about the decoration OF the
church, when mems liberty was gone
and perhaps their lives. She built IN
within her mind a romance OF deyo-
hon, by which her lover, warning in
vain the stolld Engllshman. had at last
been involved In the ruin that Drum.
nlond's stubbornness had brought upon
them both and unjustly implicated the
quiet woman by her side in the re-
sponsibility Of this sacrifice. Once or
twice she spoke with angry impatience
of Drummond and his stupidity, but
Dorothy neither defended nor excused.
and so no open rupture occurred be-
tween the two friends, for quarrel
cannot be one sided.
But with a woman Of Katherine's
temperament the final outburst had to
come, and 1t came on the day that the
first furry OF snow fell through the
still mir. capering in large fakes past
the windows of the fiat down to the
muddy street far below. Katherine
was standing by the window, with her
forehead leaning against the plate
glass, in exactly the attitude that had
been her habit In the sewing room at
Bar Harbor, but now the staccato OF
her fingers on the sill seemed to drum
dead march of despair. The falling
snow had darkened the room, and one
electric light was aglow over the dain-
ty Chippendale desk Mt which Dorothy
sat writing II letter. The smooth. regu-
La flow of the pen over the paper
reused katherine TO frenzy of exas-
peration. Suddenly she brought her
cllnched fist down on the sill where
her fingers had been drumming.
my Godr' she cried. How can you
sit there Ike an automaton with the
snow falllngY"
Dorothy put down her pen.
"The snow falling?' she echoed. II
don't understand"
"of course you don't. You don't
think Of the drifts in Siberia and the
two men you have known, whose hands
you have clasped, manacled, driven
through 1t with the lash of Cossack's
whip
Dorothy rose quietly and put her
hands on the shoulders Of the girl, feel
ing her frame tremble underneath her
touch.
katherine she said quietly, but
Katherine. with nervous twitch of
her shoulders, flung on the friendly
grasp. e>--,---, -,4x4sss,.- --ss.4sa---
Don't touch mel" she cried. Go
back to your letter writing. You and
the Englishuan are exactly alike I'M
feeling. heartless. he with his selfish
stubbornness has involved an innocent
man In the calamity his own stupidity
has brought about"
katherine. sit down, want to
talk calmly with you.
Calmly! Calmly! Yes, that is the
word. 1t Is easy for you to be calm
when you don't care. But care, and
/ cannot be calm"
What do you wish to do, Rather
ineT
What can dot am a pauper
and a dependent, but one thing am
determined to do, and that is to go
and live in my fathers house"
IF you were in my place, what
would You do, Katherine?'
II would go to Russia"
What would you do when you ar
rived thereY'
IF l had wealth would use It in
such campaign Of bribery and cor
ruption in that country of tyrants that
! should release two innocent men. I'd
hrst find where they were; then I'd
use all the influence possessed with
the American ambassador to get them
set free"
The American ambassador, Kate,
cannot move to release either an Eng
lishman or a Russian
I'D do It somehow. l wouldn't sit
mere Ike stick or a stone, writing
letters to my architect
Would you go to Russia aloneg
No; should take myffather with 4