Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-07-26
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was answering. "Oldish and tiresome. {
When you leave shall go straight on
up to bed"
I'D like toto see your room ;
where YOU live said l. more to my
self than to her.
Il sleep in a bare little box" she
replied with laugh. Its like cell.
A friend of ours who has the anti-germ
tad insisted on it. But my sitting
room isn't so bad"
"Langdon has the ant-germ fad,
said l.
She answered Yes" after a pause
and in such a strained voice that
looked at her. A flush was just dying
out of her face He was the friend |
spoke of" she went on.
You know him very well?" asked.
We've known him-always," said
she. II think he's one of my earliest
recollections, His fathers summer /
place and ours adjoin. And once--L
guess it's the first time | remember !
seeing him-he was a freshman at
Harvard, and he came along on
horse past the pony cart In which
groom was driving me. And IL
was very little then-I begged him to
take me up, and he did thought he
was the greatest, most wonderful man
that ever lived" She laughed Queerly.
when say my prayers, I used to
Imagine a god that looked like him to
say them to-"
echoed her laugh heartily. The
idea Of Mowbray Langdon as god
struck me as peculiarly funny, though
natural enough. too.
absurd, wasn't it?" said she. But
her face was grave, and she let her
cigarette die out.
81 guess you know him better than
that now"
"Yes-better," she answered, slowly
and absently. "EIes-anything but a
god!"
"And the more fascinating on that
account" said l. Il wonder why
women like best the really bad, dan
gerous sort of man, who hasn't any re-
spect for them, or for anything"
said this that she might protest
at least for herself But her answer
was a vague, musing. II wonder
wonder"
"I'm sure you wouldn't" protested
earnestly, for her.
She looked at me queerly.
"Can | never convince you that In
Just woman?" said she mockingly
"Just a woman, and one man witt
your ideas of women would fly from.
81 wish you were!" ] exclaimed
''Then-Td find it $3.50 impossible u
st-~ YOU up"
"sShe rose, and made a slow tour
the room, halting1 on the rug befor
the closed fireplace few feet fror
me. sat looking 1t her.
AZ an going to give you up" sal
at last.
Her eyes, staring into vacancy. gre
larger and intenser with each loni
deep breath she took.
Il didn't intend to say what II
about to say--at least, not this eve
ing" | went on, and to me 1t SCENE
20 be some other than myself who We
speaking. Certain things happene
down town to-day that have set me
thinking And shall do whatever
can for your brother and your fathe
But you-you are free!"
She went to the table. stood the
in profile 10 me, straight and slend
as a sunfiower stalk. She traced q
silver chasi. in the lid of the Gigs
cite box with er forefinger; then $
took a cigarette and began rolling
slowly and absently.
please don't scent and stain yo
fingers. with that filthy tobacco, SO
rather harshly.
And only this afternoon you We
saving you had become reconciled
my vice-that you had canonized
along with me-wasnt that 20
phrase?" This indifferently, witht
turning toward me, and as If she We
thinking of something else.
so | have" l retorted. But
mood-please oblige me this once.
She let the cigarette fall into
box. closed the lid gently, lear
against the table, folded her ar
upon her bosom and looked full
me. I was as acutely conscious OF
every movement. of the very com
and going Of the breath at her .
trils, as a man on the operating "a
Is conscious Of the slightest gesture
the surgeon.
"You are-suffering. she said.
her voice was like the flow of oil u
a burn. Il have never seen YOU
this. / didn't believe you capable
--of much feeling
could not trust myself to sps
If Bob Corey could have looked In
that scene, could have understood
how amazed he would have been!
what happened down town
dav.s she went on Tell me,
may know"
I'm tell you what ! didn't IN
ten minutes ago. I'd tell any. hui
being said /. They've got
strapped down in the press. At