New-York tribune., 1909-07-11

these days
NO not one"
That's good, I-er-suppose YOU know that
James dead
door and crossed the room the fireplace and stood
with one arm resting on the manteplece- l read
the interesting fact, but as l am not hyPocT1tel
didn't put mourning. But, please We won
talk about lane Lantier, John 1t is subject can
trust myself to speak upon. Death does loI away
sanctify.
itv begins One should always speak well OF the
dead
IF that is TO be accepted as a fixed rule, She
flung back at him. we shall have to start white
washing Judas Iscariot at once and cease to teach
history in our schools have yet to hear Of anyone
who is anxious to canonize Nero or beg a halo toT
LuCretia Borgla.
"Oh come. | saw That's piffle" he retorted,
with a short dersiye laugh That's carrying an
argument TO a ridiculous extreme
1t usually IS when 1t presumes TO contradict
and kicks the crutches from under any Of our lame
And mems wives " he threw back at her. are
pretty good hands at that sort OF thing, s,-Alcklng
@They have to be, they get 50 much praetie,e
with their owni Bur please!' She gave her shoul,
ders twitch and threw back her hand and drunIned
with her fingers on the mantelshelt Is It neces-
sarv to 20 on like thisI We didn't meet, did We
simply to talk fireworks ike the people IN Dolly
DialOgue'
well YOU beganic: Ididn'tl"
She gave her head tvitchng, birdhke movement
that seemed to be responsible for the shaky httIe
ratified It out Oh. yes of CCl;-1e-4 began 1t sne
agreed sarcasticaly That one of the things one
has to admire in a man-his beautiful consistency,
his splendid loyalty to the tenets OF his fathers
lord II was the woman" She laughed again, and
swung r1und laying the other arm, too. along the
shelf and stood there, like a human cruclf%'
looking down at him with eyes II DIM reproach
Anything else that | began:
Pretty nearly everything-for me, he made re-
DIV his voice and his eyes sinking. Every sorrow
every iovl | didn't know what It to live. until
| met YOU | didn't know what Il was to gT1eEe
until knew YOU Yes, YOU began everything,
and-you ended everything-for me-
He got UP suddenly and walked over TO the win
dow and stood there with his back to her looking 81
lently down the quiet street and turning over
the loose his trousers pockets so that they
made a little jngling sound. And. somehow, She
hadn't the heart or the courage 10 speak.
7 ETS chuck II and talk about something else ne
IL said facing round abruptly. What about the
boy Any choice yourself, regarding the school:
No; that usually rests with the father, doesn
it-with a boy
PERHAPS it does. don't know haven't any ex-
perence The other little mite was girl, YOU know
Her ewes closed suddenly and her face went white
as ivory DON'T" She said III wrung voice
There things too sacred, too holy
can't think OF it vet.
His head sank until his chin touched his chest
Pm sorry, Kit he SAID contrtely. 1t Just my
blundering way. | shouldn't have done It for the
world if | had thought!
Il know. She answered: but that's where all
our troubles began.-you never did stop 10 think
There It's over. What was 1t YOU were asking
About the-er-boys school; No l haven't any
Choicc" "
Something in the air Of indifference with which
she alluded TO the child contrasting strongly. as It
did with her anguish at the bare mention OF that
other chid-gone from them in the very month
that it had been given struck Lanter as being al
most callous, and It both shocked and amazed nm
The boy ne repeated. " hat s a curious way
for his mother allude to him, ism IT What ms
name,
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