The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-17
THEIR NEW JUNE,
1t Came With the Reunion After
Both Had Suffered.
BY MARIE sYLVRsTRE.


unusual product of a workaday great
city, yet was she an exception to her
sisters. In years she was twenty-five
when Dwight Sanborn first knew her.
and, added to physical attractiveness,
was an indefinable something that re-
minded you of Dresden china or dain-
ty, delicate silks-something alien to q
strident, Jostling world of dollars and
duns.
Miss Denton was a stenographer In
the law Office where young Sanborn
worked after graduation from the law
school and where he subsequently
earned junior partnership. In the
first days Of apprenticeship to the law
he remembered more of Browning
than Of Blackstone and quoted the
philosopher Kant to the neglect of the
legal Kent.
1t was similarity in tastes that first
brought the young people closer than
stenographer and employer. Sanborn
was debating a petition to be filed in
an action for breach of promise, and
his levity evidenced his distaste of the
task.
Flippantly he quoted from Mrs
Browning's immortal sonnet, which
the incautious defendant had incorpo-
rated in a letter destined to be an ex-
hibit in the case:
81 love thee with love seemed to lose
With my lost saints. l love thee with the
breath. Smiles
The rest escaped him.
"Smiles" he repeated, in an effort to
remember, when Miss Denton inter-
rupted:
"smiles, tears Of all my life, and II God
choose
i shall but love thee better after DEATH"
The repetition was impersonal, of
course, and the young lawyer let es-
cape him the repressed tenseness Of
the tones which told of sympathy with
the heart that gave the sentiment Of
the world and more than that for a
man who could inspire 1t.
Sanborn laughed, thanked her for
completing the quotation and finished
outlining the petition. Afterward he
remembered, and a day or two later
a daintily bound volume of the Por-
tuguese sonnets reached Miss Denton's
desk with Sanborn's card. That was
the beginning.
Love came quickly to both Of them
and scarcely a year elapsed until Kath-
crime Denton was Katherine Sanborn
Courtship days were dreams Of accom-
plishment and development of higher
ideals they believed they wanted to
realize.
But, while the woman loved and
lived and dreamed, the man deteriorat-
ed to the typically masculine. He be-
came brilliant in manipulation Of the
laws intricacies and was made a reg
ularly retained counsel to a number
of immense and important corpora
lions. His days at the office were
filled with the law, and the evenings
at home felt the dominating influence
Of ambitions passion.
Instead Of the dreams of sweetheart
days everything was subordinated to
the quest for legal success. And to
Katherine came the thought that even
In his profession ideals had been de-
throned and new gods set up for adora-
ton and devotion, for Sanborn was
at his best when plotting a corporation
craft through mazes that baffled the
intent Of the statutes.
"I'm losing the man / married." she
cried to herself in the solitude Of neg
lected wifehood. Hes slipping Slip
ping, and / cannot prevent it, cannot
hold him"
With establishment came unrest,
with unrest rebellion. To the woman
It seemed that all that life held worth
while was being taken from her. She
was envied as the wife of q brilliant
man, one destined to acquire great
wealth, but these were not desirable
to her
"Sometimes-Pm not quite happy"
she told him falteringly one night
when he remarked her apparent i'll
ness.
Nonsense, little girl! We're getting
along famously," he told her.
you are" she answered duly.
well, it's for us both" was his re
ply, but it did not satisfy.
For three years she endured 1t, and
them life grew lonelier and lonelier
until in a moment Of desperate aber-
ration she fed his house and left a
note bidding him not to seek her.
At first she was In doubt where to
turn. She had little money and felt
sure she could secure a position as
stenographer and that a few weeks
would enable her to regain her old
time cleverness in the calling. Then
she reflected that Sanborn would nat
urally seek her in the field of her
former employment.
She thought Of nursing, and it seemed
haven. To forget ones own griefs
in comforting others in distress ap-
pealed to her. A fortnight after her
flight she was a student nurse IN q
private sanitarium under the direction
Of q kindly old physician who had
known and loved the girl since her