The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-06

telegraph Hubby to shelve him until
you are gone"
Not for the world, my dear re-
piled Alice. ITO the contrary, l look
forward to seeing Sterling Jenner
again with unaffected interest And
anyway, l wouldn't think for a NOM
ent of dislocating your-pians"
Mrs. Parsons glanced sharply at her
sister, but the girls face was as bland
and vacant as that OF sheep.
Mrs. Parsons was absolutely correct
when she said that the time had been
when Alice would have leaped with
heart and body, too, at the sound of
Sterling Jenners coming, because at
that time Jenner not only told her
that Calico. Copernicious and all the
rest of the astronomers were wrong
and that she, Alice, was the true cen
ter of the universal system, but she
knew that at the time, at least, he
thought something of the sort. She
was the center, the great attracting
power around which he revOlved. She
not only took certain stock in the pro-
extent of her womanhood. There had
been months of agony and hiding on
her part of deferment and excuses
on his,-and then when under the
mantle of her lies sac had ventured
home again it was to find that the
man she had suffered to loosen the
girdie of her honor had found some
one else as the subject for his love
experiments and the new center to his
universal, but shifting system Of at
traction. In her retirement Alice
Greer had learned many bitter things,
but none so bitter as was her discov-
cry that Jenners new lodestone was
her own sister.
Alice doubted at first if Isabel was
traitorous both to her sister and to
her husband, but as time went on with
opportunities for Watching the double
bitterness was borne in ON her that
there was not only faithlessness, but
that with it absolutely cruelty went
hand in hand.
Mrs Parsons drove over with her
sister to meet the guests at the rail
phasis kept Alice by her side when
greeting the arrivals. So it was that
she saw Jenner flush as he took
Alice's hand.
believe, me-" said the man, Il
should not have come had | known
you We're here-unless | had secured
your permission"
Parsons overheard him and she deter
mined to watch closely to see if any
effort were made to put new life into
dead ashes. But she might as we'll
Rave watched the Sphinx, kodak in
hand in an attempt to snapshot a
smile, as to surprise any tell-tale act
or word on her sisters part. In her
quest for signs Mrs. Parsons even
went so far as to risk comment by her
pronounced attentions to Jenner, but
there came no sign from Alice. SO
one night, it being then just half past
eleven. she went into Alce's room
for a sisterly goodnight chat-and in
the course of it said casually but des-
perately:
Mr.. Jenner? People will notice the
difference between your attitude now
and that of last year. Don't you really
care for him any more?"
Alice Greer turned from the dress
ing table where she was brushing her
hair-and half turning so that she
looked at her sister through the veil of
it, said: "One has to be careful about
attitudes, you know, in these days of
the Pharisee abroad and sisterly
waIchfulness at home"
Mrs. Parsons pricked up her ears
do you mean that Mr.. Jenner
shares in your caution?" she asked
''Oh, Isabel" replied Alice, throw
ing back her hair. really l could not