Putnam patriot., 1908-08-14
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 s,eamer's ran aad regarded tie cIfy with # frown He hated the water. z0 ibe distant pler promised relief from the disquiei be always fe!t wi4eu be vas on slip. yet every beat of fhe powerful engines. every revolution pf the huge proIeliers that pushed the na.e of tbe liner into fbe sery iri<zle Of q summpr rain. brought him uearei 10 the dreaded dreariness Of bls own home
 With an almost self commlxeration be looked back upon the last few months and contrasted tileIr briiliaucy with the fife that lay before hiin. and his soul reyOited at tbe thought of re- turning te take ID fbe dull monofouy Of b.- home life he had always known
 Presently they would dock at the pier 1here would be the usual diff eulty with the customs which seems fo be reserved for the American citizen The carriages wogld be waiting and n little sl5lie be would find hittseif Lefore the Somiper bro~pstone prison that in earlier dase had stood to him for all that was elegaut and refined
 Jean. Iis wife would come ouf on tbe high sfoaft II ihe sound ef tbe eaf= rlagr Sl4F would offer her check 10 he kIs=ed she Wsuib Hsk fl h. had had I pieasaBt ifip Aad ihen she would foi bow him iHio tiIe house md. with the closing of tiir ,leot would be shut oni all fhr social possibilities of the past
 Nothing hoNeTtr could deprive hlm af tfe thought fiiat he lad lifed fof oucc For six weeks ln London he had dwcil ID q fairy laud nf faney He had hiugital will tneu and women of ID. world and almost he had learned so say sMY turd= aad Your grace with eHl feeling h9z tHees Vtat n tbc frai- izatian fhaf He @us speaking to ] men. her pf thr nntilfy
 During eiH' .eaf Jest passed be had accomplished ! triumph ef eng neefIug aIIt. hfI f4zateu The EeIflzH mazfetz ri fheif oeu effft fhey nd GiseH np ihe problem Nhah ta GfabHm had strsued sif nir enough aH9 @Hra be hrd aes eauplisHrd liti result he had become T nalieual hero fer il day 1he Amerf ran eounv had diped bim. and he had heeh pfeseHied ta fhe kiuE. abd h. hal received msns invitations ta country hetlse parties. uil part af the fairy sr~ss
 Graham hna married curly. and as soon as he iefi eeilege h. had plunged info his work With never I thought of play This had been his first real va cHlion. md he had mingled III English seciefy with delight that was wholly unworthy of his country and his gen ius
 He had had no lime for society In his own iund heWuse the work that made him Mhal h. WIS had prevented relaxation Then tao, Mrs Graham proud ef Ills achievements. hlId hern content tp sbaH hi5 isaiafian and find reward for bef fsnu#rlatt7H ef seeieis ia thp pi 4#uae of eema iae fieu his p4lh ihe heaaHeA petty oafes of daily lie
 1ean Ind grown somewhat steat wHh the rHs sias ef fbe te4f= aHd ftas eemnieSIm which haa Heea hef gfeaf= rst ehrm h her giflhaal had faeed Al first whitr ahr nj Gmham d missed Het fof a tiiHr bun u ihr end he .Nas glad she hnd mol eome
 He coniraNel her piaeid content with thc fcVerish briilmncy of the NO. men he had met and be kHeW thal ihey aud she never ronld haee mixed For the ntsi tlme he felt an actual dissatisfaction With Ills wtfe and wishs ed that she mtshi he u1ore like these butterfly ereatMes
 A hc thought of them while the car ftagc rolled uptown he feit mofe and more a disiasJe for tbe wife awaiting him mud when sue eame to the dot to greet him he eonfrastcd the pnrily neore In lis sol,er dees~ with the sten ,lorpess nf Che smarly gawned women II titie whe had unused themselves tS eurulne the bead Of the clever Amefi
 an for rrw weeks
 Yet Geah8Ht wits astanishca tn hnd lha; he was glad te see lean tler kiss af geeefias was less peffunetoly ghan O. had au'lelpatel There had bern one mament abroad that nav hc would itse fo farsrt II WAS Il q hatl The lghfs, The uHstc and x SteaaseF punch han he was used te had ali eeae te AlS bead
 For eHe aeitieas moment he had heia i slender. yielding figure in hls arms. The next instant Lady Eleanor had accepted the impetaoas enbracc as Il graceful excuse for ending q boy. isA aintaliaa that pnauiSed "a grow snbaerassinglA serious Instead oi merely amusing The memory ef that kiss haa net heen pleasant to Graham. for he was clean minded man. and he had shuddered at the brink upon which he had found himself
 He followed Jean up tho narrow stairway. contrasting 1t with the great staireases he had seen abroad. aud even with the contrast il did not seen "a te as mcan as he had imagined
 Ills room WIS is though he had left il tue day before There were matches on the mantel and some of the cigars hc liked hest X haok aud reading light werr by the bead es the bed and his slippers laid out beside The lounge
 Graham was of mcthodical mind The pri4n orderliness ef the room was in contrast te the hotel rooms ln which he had spout the gNater part.o q year, and II pleased him to haze things lust IS he WtShrd thein t0 he This he had not found even ID the country houses whenr he haa visited Some of hls dis quiet vanished 10 give place 10 a sense Of satisfaction. and the frown had left hls faee when he went down to the library. where tAe recent man was waians his atauilan