Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-01-06
Copyright l&6, by the Curtis Publishing Company.
 Copyright, 1908. by Robert w. Chambers.

It ratner nlce of her to remember this. She inspected the ensemble without visible Interest for few moments. The wind fresbened from the sea, flut. tering her veil. and she turned toward the east to face 1t. In the golden splendor of declining day the white sails of yachts crowded lendwaM on the last leg before beating westward 1 into Blue harbOr. \ small white cruiser steamiHg south left mile long stratum Of rose tinted smoke hanging parallel to the horizons plane. The westering sun struck sparks from her bright work.
 i They had turned their backs to the tandem. The grooms looked after i them, standing motionless at the i horses heads.
 ! Mir. Siward this is too fine to miss" she said. 'I will walk as far as the headland with you. Please smoke If you care to-"
 1 The breeze blown conversation be- came fragmentary, veerlng as capri ciously as the purple wind flaws that spread across the shoals. But always to her question or comment she found in his response the charm of freshness, of quick intelligence or of humorous and idle perverslty which stimulates without demanding.
 Once, giancing back at the house where the T cart and horses stood, she said that she had better return. or per haps she only thought she said it, for he made no response that time, and a few moments later they reached the headiand, and the Atlantic lay below, flowing azure from horizon to horizon under d universe of depthless blue. And for long while neither spoke. With her the spell endured until con. 1 science began to stir. Then she awoke, uneasy. as always, under the shadow of restraint or pressure until her eyes fell on him and fingered.
 A subtle change had come Into his face. It's leanness struck her for the first tile-that and an utter detach- ment from his surroundings. somber oblivion to everything and to her. | How curiously had his face altered! How shadowy 1t had grown, etfacing the charm of youth in it,
 The slight amusement with which she had become conscious of her own personal exclusion grew to an interest tinged with curiosity.
 The interest continued, but when his silence became irksome to her she said so very frankly. His absent eyes, still clouded, met hers unsmiling
 T was thinking of men knew-for example, man who through genera tions has inherited every impulse and desire that he should not harbor; 0 man with intellect enough to be aware of it, with decency enough to desire decency. What chance has he with the storms which have been brewing for him even before he opened his eyes on earth? Is that square deal?"
 The troubled concentration of her face was reflected now in his own. The wind came whipping and fiicking at them from league wide tossing wastes. The steady thunder of the sea accented the silence.
 Turning to the sea, he had become engrossed in his own thoughts again, and again she was first curious. then impatient, at the ease with which he excluded her. She remembered, too, that the cart was waiting; that she had scarcely time now 10 make the train.
 She stood irresolute. inert, disln- clined to bestir herself. An inborn aptitude for drifting. which threatened to become talent for indecision. had always aIternated in her with sudden lmpuIsive conclusions and when her pride was involved in decisions which sometimes scarcely withstood the anal ySis of reason.
 Physically hea.fhT. mentally una watercd. seuyimenial!y ncredulouS, totally ignorant of any master passion and ccnyrnIiona,l- drilled her beauty and sweet temper had carried her eas .Iy on the fro.hy crest 0: ntr first sea son eve. tae eligible and Ineligible anke, leaving lcr at LenoX rather ,iTrd and ''rcajhiess g.ri in love with pleasure aud tie word which treated aer 90 wei.
 The Ira.'i Os I-- mother abroad had mace l.;c's Impression upon her. her ua,4n. Na5.ir Be.relher. having cared for lc. si.s,r.. her fathers death. when she was ten years old So. although tle s"dnIal of he- mothers self exile had Leen ia a measure condoned by a iar,ly marriage tS t..c nan for whom sh. baI ief. everything. her daughter hal grown '3a ignoralt of any partic- Lar feeling for mother she could s,1rrety remamher-
 However she wore black and went nowhere for the seroad winter. during which time she }earncl q great deaf concerning tbe uucDnveati8nal procliv- itjes of the v0mrn "f her race and family. enoIGh 70 impress her so seri- oTsly that o1 an exaggerated impulse she had raEln 10 oEge of her character. istic decisionS
 That derisf"n was tp lreak the un sayo-y rr~gri st che first juStiHabie opportunity. and tEa opportunity csHe Tn tue shape of tgIarrtar as thoggh vedIo,k X were arfszIIy the sanctuaTy which an alarmed na.i@n p-eteEsIs it to l,e.
 Now spT,raar hiaz the threshold of a third and last Seassu and having put sway her zIunnSt Hs-snIsEleSs rnussra- Iuc there had stolen into her sense of