The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-05-06

see, I'm a-rescuing you from the bot
tom OF the alphabet and bringing you
up to the Gilbert plane. where am
more accustomed to you, and under
stand you better. Is this dependency
due to the departure OF the Conster,
nation and the fact that she carries
away with her Jack Lamont, black
smith,
The long sigh terminated in a woe
full Yes,
THE ship that has gone out with
him we call she. II he had eloped
with a real she. then wearing the will
low or singing II, however futile,
might be understandable. AS 1t Is !
see nothing III the situation TO call for
a sigh
That IS because you are a hardened
sinner, Dorothy. You have no heart.
or at least II you have 1t Is untouched
and therefore yon cannot understand.
If that note in your hand were love
missiye instead of a letter from your
lawyerA you would be more human,
Dorothy"
The hand which held the paper crum-
pied 1t up slightly as Katherine spoke.
Business letters are quite necessary
and belong to the world we live in,r
said Dorothy, glow of brighter color
suffusing her cheeks. surely your
acquaintance with Mr. Lamont Is OF
the shortest"
he has called upon me every day
since the night of the bail" maintained
Katherine stoutly.
well, that's only three times"
'tonly three! How you talkl One
would think you had never been
schooled in mathematics. Why. three
is magic figure. You can do plenty
of amazing things with It. Don't you
know that three is mineral OF loveY'
Il thought two was the number"
chimed Dorothy. with heartless mirth.
Three" said Katherine taking one
last look at the empty horizon, then
seating herself in front of her friend
three is a recurring decimal 1t goes
on and on and on forever, and II you
write 1t for thousand years you are
still as far from the end as when you
began. 1t VIII carry you round the
world and back again and never d.
minish. 1t is the mathematical en-
blem of the nature of true love-"
as 1t so serious as all that, Kate, or
are you Just foollng again?' asked
Dorothy. more soberly than heretofore.
ttTJau ha cnntran 70 .x,ot, 81
spoken? He has done nothing but
speak. and have listened-o oh, so in.
tently and with such deep understand
ing. He has never before met such
woman as and has frankly told me
So"
q am very glad he appreciates you,
dear"
Eyes, you see, Dorothy, am really
much deeper than the ordinary wo-
man. Who. for instance, could find
such beautiful love smile from
book of arithmetic costing % cents as
have unearthed from decimal frac-
tons? With that example In mind,
how can you doubt that other volumes
of college learning reveal to me their
inner meaning? John presented to me
as he said goodby a beautifully bound
copy OF that celebrated text book.
Saunders Analytical Chemistry with
particularly tender passages marked in
pencil by his own dear hand
Rather bewildered, for Rates en-
preston was one of pathos. unrelieyed
by any CLEAN OF humor, Dorothy new
ertheless laughed. although the laugh
brought no echo from Katherine.
And did YOU give him a volume Of
Browning In return?"
mo, didn't. How can you be SO
unsympathetic? Is 1t impossible for
you to comprehend the unseen link
that binds John and me? 1 rummaged
the book store until found a charm
ing little edition OF 'Marshall's Geolo-
gists Pocket Companion covered with
beautiful brown limp Russia leather-I
thought the Russia binding was so In
spirational-with a sweet little clasp
That keeps 1t Genealogical Of our
hands at parting. On the iyleaf
wrote, TO ]. l., In remembrance OF
!. Z. y g Sing conversations yilhr
ms friend, K. X 1t only needed an
other X to be emblematic and political,
a Renaissance of the olden times.
when you people Of the south, Dorothy.
were making 1t hot for us deserving
folks in the north. / hadn't time to 60
through the book very thoroughly, but
found many references to limestone.
which ! marked, and one particularly
choice bit Of English relating to the
dissolution and reconsolidation Of vari,
Gus minerals / drew paraIlelogram
around in red link. A friend Of mine
in a motor launch was good enough to
take the little parcel direct to the Con-
sternation, and have no doubt that at
this moment Jack is perUsing It and
perhaps thinking Of the giyer. / hope
It's up to date and that he had not
previously bought copy"
"You don't mean to say, Kate, that
your conversation was entirely about
geologvYs