The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
j am not paving you enough attention?'

] am not paying you enough attenuon!
1T amounts to that
''Thcn I'll tell Jcphson to so on with
out me-
ooh, no; I have things donp for me
spontaneously or not at III. Love
prompted is an actor splutH.ing his
Ines
Not long after this conversation. and
while Katherine was still in mutinous
frame d Of mind, she was thrown from
an injury sustained by her two skilled
| London specialists diagnosed her case as
cancer and told Katherine's husband
| that she could not live longer than Two
| years=-possibly not SO long.
| John Spurrier's first thought was to
hide Katherine's danger from her, to
surround her with every happy device
| that could cheat her Of pain and
| brighten the time left her. lie thought
she knew nothing. But he was mis-
| taken She had listened at hidden
| door when the doctors We're talking 70
! him and overheard their VGraict.
| She felt loathinE and horror OF
herself and was yet possessed with
| fierce determination to get inc most
out of the short span or time remain
J ing to her; to drain the JOY or Ire 70
| the dregs, IL it must be so. She tod
4 her secret to no one except Barbara
/ Durrant, who was her devoted friend,
/ her help and comfort when she could
/ find no other.
/ AT this time fate throw in Katherines
/ way al instrument to her hand, a Cap
tain Scvd with whom she played until
! her game very nearly recoiled on llcr
/, head and that of her husband.
1 Fortunately, before 1t was quite 100
! late Barbara Durrant went to John
Spurrier, opened his eyes to his wife's
danger and avertcd catastrophe. IN
the meantime the doctors found out
their first diagnosis to be mistake,
i and told katherine that she might look
forward to life, not death, as she had
| been led to think
4 With the new turn of affairs she was
reused to clear perception and to a COM
prehension of her injustice to her hus-
band; to a knowledge how poor and
vain man by comparison had tenn
porariy caught her fancy. and served
as her plaything in her desperation
Miss Crichton" goes on apparently
to the working out of the personality
with which X eightley endowed her in
babyh6od. But the reader who has
known her under Mr.. Thurston's
auspices is permitted to believe that
, she will do so with 4 very different
idea of John Spurrer's manhood than
she had before her time of trial taught
, her to know him truly.
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! publishers. PIP. AL. $l,5o.
{ story of the Middle West, in
4 which the family of John Glenn, Eng
q lishman and unsuccessful speculator
$ are tho principal boo, people
or John Glenns children, one Is q
! boy, who dies in early boyhood. Tho
e OTHER two are girls. Linda, the eldest
) Is material ana extremely selfish. She
forsnkcs her father ana the younger
sister to live with q rich aunt, who
q adopts her. After while she fulhls
= the ordinary destiny of woman, anG
a is heard of no more, except in an Incl
:. dental way
- 1t Is Dora Glenn, the Younger sister
n After the death of her little brother sh,
r, goes to Il Western college. Tie de.
h scription Of her life here, the ,friend
y ships she forms, and the training sh,
y gets take UP several well written chap
u tcrs Of the novel. Before She finishes
q her collge course the death OF hc
J: father leaves her virtually alone in til,
world her sister being entirely scpa
- rated from her by difference OF socia
= conditions and inclination.
y Doras impulsivrness OF tenperamcn
- and kindness of heart hotray her int,
~ an unfortunate association with fcl
g. low student named Vance Sterling.
as ~ lie writes poem entitled "rhr
1G dences Of unusual talent. This pocr
M is supposed to be inspired by Dor
q. ana addressed 10 her, II leads to close
~ ac9uaintanceship and intimacy. In tn
~ Hha ne two are married. Dora arousinj
he 70 70 ~ knowledge of her mistake whe
II Is too late.
a. At,er a brief and unhappy marie
~ Llte tho death of Sterling leaves Dor
Tree to repair her first error and mar
'as ~ sceund Time the man she has reall