Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-20

Yes, she sobbed. I've hated you and myself, Why don't you tell me it isn't so? I'll believe it-I don't want to hear the truth. I know you don't love me, Harvey. But just say you don't love her."
 What kind of middle-aged maudlin moonoshine is this, anyway" said I. Let's go back to Junior. We've passed the time of life when people can talk sentimentality without be- Ing ridiculous" That's true of me, Harvey" she said miserably, "but not of you. You don't look day over 40-youre still young man, while T." She did not need to complete the sentence. I sat on the bed beside her and patted her vaguely. She took my hand and kissed it. And I said-I tried to say it gently, tcnderly, sim cerely: People who've been togeth- CT, as you and I have. see each other always as at first, they say" She kissed my hand gratefully again. Forgive me for what said" she murmured You know I didn't think it, really. I've got such a nasty disposition and I felt so down, and-that was the only thing I could find to throw at you"
 "Please-please!" I protested. For give isn't word that I'd have the right to use to any one"
 But I must"
 went on, that you were in love with that other man when I asked you to marry me- I might have taunted you with it, might have told you how I've saved him from going to jail for passing worthless checks"
 This delighted her-this jealousy so long and so carefully hidden. Under cover of her delight I escaped from the witness stand. And the dis covery that evening by Doc Woodruff that my sons ensnarer had husband living put her in high good humor If he'd only come home" said she, add ing: Though, now I feel that he's perfectly safe with her"
 "Yes-let them alone" I replied. "He has at least one kind of sense-a sense of honor. And l suspect and hope that he has at bottom common sense, too. Let him find her out for himself. Then he'll be done with her, and her kind, for good"
 T must marry him off as soon as possible" said Carlotta. 'Tll look about for some nice, quiet young girl with character and looks and domes- tic tastes" She laughed a little bit terly, You men can profit by expe- rience and it ruins us women"
 Unjust" said I, but injustice and stupidity are the ground plan of life"
 We had not long to wait. The lady, as soon as Junior reached the end of his cash, tried to open negotiations Failing and becoming convinced that he had been cast off by his parents, she threw aside her mask. One straight lOOh lutO Ter real COunte0- ance was enough for the boy. He fled shuddering-but not to me as I had expected. Instead, he got a place as a clerk in Chicago.
 Why not let him shift for himself for awhile?" suggested Woodruff, who couldn't have taken more trouble about the affair if the boy had been his own. "A man never knows wheth- CT his feet were made to stand on and walk with, unless he's been down to his uppers."
 q think the boys got his grand mother in him." said I. Let's give him a chance"
 Hell make a career for himself yet-like his fathers" said Woodruff.
 That. with the sincerest enthusi- ssm. But instinctively looked at him for signs of sarcasm. And then I wondered how many successful" men would, in the same circum- stances. have had the same curiously significant instinct.