The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-07-04


why we're not both heartbroken?
We ought to he, you know. Hasn't it
occurred to you as odd that we're
not?'
Aren't we:- she said' with rs5er
elaborate indifference. "
"Personally, I'm Eot-Eot a bit.
was at first. Fer "a hours l was aW-
fully hard hit 1t isn't nice trick to
play man, you know. to bot with MS
best friend a fortnight before the we'd
Ging?"
1T was. perhaps, better" she sug-
sested, than boiling fortnight after
the wedding
You couldn't expect me- he pro-
tested, ito see it in that cold blooded
and philosophical light. No. don't
mind admitting that at first I was
awfully hard hit. Then l thought OF
you
Thanks" Her tone was dry. did
the thought of ME comfort you?'
"Well-I-though you'd be aWfully
hard hit, too,' he explained rather
,amely.
so was at first she admitted in
cautiously.
There was a pause. She forgot to
torture the gravel.
How long he inquired delicsteiy:
"did it l;\t?"
"It?"-
THE first agony" he said, with SOL
emnity.
A smile crept into he- eyes.
"About-about "a hours-and half
minute she confessed.
81 told YOU" he said triumphantly,
that it was worse for you than 1t was
for me-"
BY half a minute she retorted'
Then
"Well?" he murmured.
"Ch. then l remembered you. But
that didn't she added hastily, con
sole me in the least. 1t made me
worse"
"Worse!" :,
81 had to be sorry for you, as well
as for myself. Don't you see!
Her tone was a shade impatient. he
reflected for moment or two.
IF I'd known that" he said at last'
'it would have made my recovery
much more rapid. should nave 1eit
it my duty" there was touch OF
laughter in his tone-''to avoid giving
VOL more cause for distress than you
had already. l should have felt that
"a hours of despair were exactly Is
hours and SO minutes too long. Il
suprose," he hinted, that we must
concede the other minute to blighted
Affection
wouldn't it be more truthful" she
suggested, "if we conceded it to-pro-
priety?'
81 shouldn't have dared to mention
propriety." he replied gayly, but
can't deny that l thought OF It.
After all, they didn't want us. why
in the world should we pay them the
undeserved compliment Of continuing.
under such unpromising circumstances
to want them?"
81 shouldn't have been practlcal
enough to put such an admirably SEN
sible idea into words" she returned,
smiling at the handle of her parasol,
"but l must admit that it did occur
to me-"
1T would have helped me eno''
mously," he declared, ''if l could nave
supposed it possible that you might
think like that"
1T seems to me-" she returned, not
without an attempt at condemnation,
that YOU really weren't in need OF
any help. Your recovery was quite
rapid enough as it was. If it isn't
the direst heresy to.say so, I'm begin
ming to wonder whether you-whether
YOU ever cared for Angela at all"
IF it isn't the most confounded i'm
rertinence on my part to hint at such
a possibility" he confessed softly, I'm
on the point of asking myself whether
we were-perhaps- absolutely des-
olated by the fact that they olon /
want US.
Her head dropped little. There was
laughter in her eyes.
IT'S quite too extraordinary she
said, "but the possibility is in the act
of occurring to me, too."
He moved a shade nearer to her on
the garden seat.
There was something wrong some
where" he reminded her. "What was
it? We weren't able to hold them, you
know. We didn't know the reason at
the time, CT we should of course have
set the Door things free. We didn't
realize, either of US, that we couldn't
hold them because we ourselves cared
for-well, say, other people"
Other people?'
Say you-and me-" he suggested
vaguely, 81 for you, and you for