The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-10-18

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she finds an opportunity TO win the do
mestic felicity she has missed She
has talked the matter over with me in
every aspect, and she confessed to me
she is glad of the chance to seek hap
piness In her native land.
1T is all such a sacred thing to me.
wish you knew how I dislike to ad.
init the public into this sanctuary of
my heart. One thing wish distinctly
understood--not for worlds would I
give this story were 1t not for the coli-
ditions which force me TO clear my.
self IT is because OF misapprehen-
sions, gross errors in the statements
given out, that | consent to lay bare
my experience | am doing this be-
cause ! think it only justice to myself,
to my friends and family and TO the
Earles. | will say that with this un-
derstanding | am grateful for the op-
portunity to clear myself.
In the first place, there has been no
deception Of any sort about this en-
tire affair. / knew from the first that
Mr.. Earle was a married man. ! knew
1T, and the friendship that sprang up
at the very beginning was not il friend
ship that violated the knowledge of his
marriage to another woman
Then the friendship was a matter
of your first meeting?"
Eyes, will confess that a mutual
understanding sprang to life at our
first meeting. AS soon as we had
talked with each other this bond of
sympathy was established
1T was love at first sight. then, was
It not?"
"No, mol should not call 1t that.
The real understanding came after
ward. This immediate comprehen-
sion or sympathy, or whatever You
choose to call it, was not of romantic
nature-not then. You see. I did not
permit myself to think Of him as other
than friend under those circum-
stances"
"Then when did you permit yourself
to consider closer friendship
"Not until he had told me of his un-
fortunate domestic affairs, not until
he had revealed to me that he and his
wife longed for release from each
other; that they could not be happy to-
gether. Even then strove to reunite
them"
when did you first meet Mr..
EarleT
ABOUT two years ago Our interest
In settlement work in New York
brought us together. Our sympathies,
our tastes, our activities, were in har-
mony We seemed to be at one in all
our IDEAS He understood me. l un-
derstood him. That was alive un-
derstood each other"
when did the acquaintance ripen?"
"Not until within recent months.
not really until we took the trip to
Europe-my brother and land found
ourselves, quite by accident, on the
same steamer with Mr.. Earle That
was this last June. When we arrived
In Paris, Mr.. Earle stopped at the
same place where my brother and
stopped, and we saw him often We
went motoring together and took long
tramps together, my brother accom-
panying US most of the time. We all
three spent most enjoyable season in
each others society,"
"Mr. Earle speaks of the psycholog-
ical moment when you realized that
you cared for each other observed.
'4When was it, Miss Kuttner?'
"Oh, can't tell you that-it Is too
sacred. That shall never reveal All
can say is that the revelation came
to me quite unexpectedly and with
sweeping certainty one day"
At the new, thrilling tone In her
voice ] looked up quickly. Her face
had grown luminous. Her eyes, for.
merly so steady and controlled, radiat-
ed swift glory. Her entire being
seemed exalted. Then she spoke in a
husled voice, with her eyes on the
mountain that lay veiled in mist
at was a wonderful understanding, ("
she said.
Speaking OF the time when the de.
cision was made that left Earle's hap
piness in her hands. Miss Kuttner
said
1T was one week after had been
in the Earle home. had made every
effort to reconcile the two. I begged
them to make one last trial--to see ear
nestly If they could not adjust their
differences. did everything in my
power to this end. 1 talked to each
separately, and l talked to them to-
gether. urged and pleaded. But one
night--it was Saturday night, or rather
Sunday morning, for it was o'clock
or after Mrs. Earle left her room and
came upstairs to mine. She sat down
by the bedside
Julia, 1t is no use,' she said. 4
can't do 1t. 1t is impossible. We can.
not be happy-we cannot. Why should
we try any longer? Love cannot be
forced. 1t must come of itself We
are hopelessly out of sympathy. Listen
Julia. You understand him. You can
make him happy. want you to prom.
Use me you will
I'VE sat there In the dark talking II
all over. as women talk In the silence
of the night, and that hour decided 1t
There was no longer any battle, any
doubt. There were not two paths any
longer she had taken the choice from
me-"