The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-08-01

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and reasonable"
Not too reasonable, please said
|. with an attempt at her lightness.
"A reasonable woman is as trying as
an unreasonable man"
but we are going to be sensible
with each other she urged, like two
friends. Aren't we?"
we are going to be what we are
going to be- said |. We'll have to
take life as IL comes"
That clumsy reminder SGT her to |
thinking. stirred her vague uneasiness |
in those strange circumstances to ac-
| tive alarm. For presently she said,
in a tone that was not so matter-of-
course as she had tried to make 1t:
| Wen go now to my Uncle Franks.
! He's a brother of my fstSsrA al
| ways used to like mia best--and still
do But he married woman mamma
| thought-queer. They hadn't much,
so he lives away up or the West Side
One Hundred and Twenty'seventh
street
The wise plan, the only wise plan"
/ said |, not so calm as she must have
thought me, lis to go to my partners
house and send for minister"
Not tonight" she replied nervous
ly. Take me to Uncle Franks, and
, tomorrow we can discuss what to do
. and how to do it,
) Tonight persisted. I'VE must
: be married tonight No more uncer'
1 tainty and indecision and weakness.
| Let us begin bravely, Anita"
Y Tomorrow" she said. But not to-
t night. must think it over
n Tonight" | repeated. Tomorrow
g will be full of its own problems This
is to-night's.'
e She shook her head. and saw thai
II the struggle between us had begun
IS the struggle against her timidity ant
e conventionality. No, not tonight
lie This in her tone for tinality.
W To argue with any woman in sue
circumstances would be dangerous; I
argue with her would have been fata
To reason with a woman is to Hattie
her into suspecting you of weakness
and herself of strength. told tn
chauffeur to turn about and go slowl
IN town. She settled back into he
corner of the brougham. Neither
us spoke until we were pnssin
Grants tomb. Then she started OF
) of her secure confidence in my ODE
fence. and exclaimed: This is NJ
the way!" And her voice had In
the hasty call-toarms.
NO" replied, determined to pu
! nj w
| our future shall be settled tonight
That in my tone for finality.
A pause. then; 1T has been s.
. tied. she said, like child that fee
vet denies, its impotence as 1t strl
giles in the compelling arms of
father. Il thought until few m
utes ago that really intended
marry you. Now | see that didn'
Another reason why we're not goi
to your uncles," said |.
She leaned forward so that l CO.
see her face II can not marry 20
| she said II feel humble toward
for having misled YOU But 1T is |
ter that you-and I-should hi
found out now than too late"
|, 1T is too late-too late to go bac
| "Wouid you wish to marry a won
- who does not love you, who 10
some one else, and who tells you
and refuses to marry youY she
tried to concentrate enough scorn
her voice to hide her fear,
II would" said l. "And SHAH.
not desert you, Anita, when your
age and strength shall fail
carry you on to safety"
81 tell you l can not marry
she cried, between appeal ana
mand. There are reasons
not tell you. But If | might,
would-would take me to my unc
can not marry you!"
That Is what conventonality
YOU say now" | replied. And tn
gathered myself together and
tone that made me hate myself
heard it. added slowly, each
sharp and distinct: But what
conventionality bid you say to-mo
morning, as we drive down cro'
when Fifth avenue, after a night In
W brougham?"
There could not see her. for she fell
that into the darkness as sharply as
me had struck her with all my force
lated in the face. But | could feel tn
came feet of my words upon her
ty In Full fifteen minutes of that Il
+ fine fnl silence before she said: Il
hands go where you wish" And she 81
in tone that makes me vince
" recall it.
t she called my partners address
me to through the tube. Again that I
e, but ful silence, then she was tryil
choke back the sobs, A few VIC
lily IN caught: "They have broken m!
vas TO they have broken my Will
Now My partner lived in big,
hanged stone houss that stood apart and
handed a noble view OF the IL
elbow and the Palisades. 1t was,
main, a reproduction OF a Frenc
against teau and such changes as the
slisten' tect had made in his model we