The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-05-27
THE CASE OF
THE CARVERS
By Frank Hurburt O'Hara
Copyright, by Daily story pub. Coz

Nife of Carver dropped her evening
paper with murmur of dainty horror
Carver raised his eyes from the sport
ing page of his own daily and turned
them inquiringly toward the golden
haired vision in pink
81 think it's perfectly dreadful" she
exclaimed. Don't you, Dick?"
"Of course. What is it?" he asked,
smiling.
Just to think of mans being so
inconsistent and false and-and cruel"
young Mrs. Carver went on.
Carver's smile faded. His eye
brows lifted trifle. Then he said;
81 don't know what you mean
He said that aloud. To himself he
kept musing, II WONDER"
Didn't you read 2" queried she, in
dicating with a delicate forefinger an
article in the paper. This Afferton
divorce case, you know. Just think
If you can!-of a mans doing anything
like that. don't believe a man could
ever have loved a girl and then--Oh,
it's shocking! And they hadn't been
married a year; were hardly out of
their honeymoon-like us, Dick"
Carver shook his head deprecatingly
and fidgeted at his smoking jacket
and then remarked:
"Who was the other girl? Chorus
or"
Then you did read it?"
"No-er-why. IL glanced at the
headlines"
The big purple eyes across the table
were becoming dim with an opales-
cent mist.
"Oh-h-h, Dick, Dick" (Her voice
was waveriDg dangerously Are
many men like that? You seem to-
oh, you aren't surprised, you aren't
shocked-Dick!"
why, you silly dear" Carver
laughed, jumping to her side and fold
ing her tenderly in his arms. Non
sense! Why, you just said yourself it
was our honeymoon. You don't know
how much l love you, girl. could
not begin to tell you. Just this morn
ing was telling Jack Trent what real
happiness was like. Jack seemed sort
of down and out with the blues.
tOiu nC ou6ut " 6Cb
ought to get little wife like mine"
Jack always wanted me, I guess,
even away back when we were chill.
| dren. And he made game fight,
didn't he?"
She laughed softly as she pressed
| his hand.
But he didn't get you!" said Car
40 ive hn
Next morning, as he was being
whirled officeward on an l. limited, he
rehearsed many times the days of his
courtship and then the marriage and
their honeymoon, and after that, the
home life together, and he vowed that
he would never even speak to Maize
again. He had just been out for a
| good time occasionally. He had meant
no harm, surely no disloyalty to the
pretty little peaches-andcream wife in
the suburbs. But from now on, there
was to be no Maize, no reunions with
the boys--nothing.
All day Carver kept thinking of the
waiting wife, He left early as possible
that afternoon, and after visiting g
confectioner for box of her favorite
bitter-sweets and a florist for bunch
of her adored red roses, he was on his
way back to her, impatient as he never
before had been to clasp her again ii
his embrace.
He bounded up The steps three a
time He meant to rush In ant
surprise her. But the door was
locked. His face fell. He had no
thought of the possibility of her alb
sence. Doubtless she did not lool
for him so soon. She never had faileC
to meet him before. He put dow
the candy and flowers found his key
unlocked the door. How lonesome tn,
rooms seemed!
He gazed around, wondering some
what. His eyes fell upon lette
lying on the library table. He picke'
it up and found it addressed to hin
in her writing. His brow wrinkled
81 wonder what the devil
In moment his eyes were skim
ming rapidly over the lines of large
distinct characters. This is what tn
lines said:
Dear old Dick: I'm awfully sorry
really am. You will never know hoy
much it has panied me. But | don
love you Somehow that sounds blum
and cruel, but it is the truth. | don
/ suppose | ever loved you, though
, used to think | did Perhaps it wa
your fiery way of making love tina
caught me. Anyway, | want you t
he haDny-Oh very. very haDDN
y Dick! know | shall be so as soon a
: we can arrange matters honorably an
quietly. | must always have love
!. Jack. and he, l am sure, has love
g me always, though he's been perfeo
: brick since my marriage and as sti
: as a brick, too. When / am Mr.
. Jack Trent, | know | shall be happie
and know you will be just as happ.
You men are so inconstant, you know