The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-28
SECOND TNSTAITlIENT.


TOP was a bulky one, i'm
closed i'm large manila envelope,
addressed TO her husband lon
a wOman's handwriting. Within 1T were
q photograph. hdlf-d0zen or more
faded viOlots. a note written upon heavy
gray paper. and q large number OF
closely written sheets which had cNi-
IDENTITY been hurricdly torn from diary
Casting the yfoIgts from her as though
they had been polluted, the woman
seized the Photograph. and holding DC
beneath the light regarded 10 With Bit
ter inteutuese. 10 was the photograph
Of q woman of some tweuty--iN or eight
years OF age. with strong yet extreme
IL attractive features; the face oval
and triHe thin, the eyes large. dark,
and fun OF witchery, tho mouth sensi-
tive and somewhat wistiul I'M expression.
the face Of woman who possessed !zt
no gsmaU degree that mysterious and
magnetic charm which, intangible MS
the spirit of life itself. yet mdnifeSts it,
self with dynamic force iR an human
relations, to didereutiale IFS possessots
from the commonplace The woman in
the chair Eazcd long and SLIGHTLY at the
photograph. the intensity of her emo
lions showing itself i'm the nervous bit-
ing OF the under lip so characteristic
OF. her when emotiorally aroused "Aou
devfl. you thin-faced, lying devil, she
exclaimed I'm impoteut raEc. then crush
ed the picture into a shapelesS mass and
threw il from her onto the floor. For
a rpoment she grasped the arms OF
the1chair in silent fury, her face SET
In hard lines. then seized the letter end
began 10 read 81.
New York. October IS. 19-.
Oh. my dear. my dearest dear, how
little e seems you have understood OF
all that I said last night and how great
" ] had hoped that you would under
stand all, In doing what I have done
I-rhnnot bear 20 think that you. of all
people In the world. should think me
cruel. heartlcss. selfsh-those were tie
things you said, dear
! have told you what lies before us,
aud II seems YOU will not understand
and syet I know that you must There
IS bit one way. I have written you
naGy~ letters. and spoken TO YOU many
times. from my heart. In my little BOOK
Of thoughts did not think ever TO
have-you read it. but now it seems best
that YOU should. so I have torn out the
pages. and am sending them to YOU.
Read them. and destroy. them, dear.
and If you do not understand then ]
cannot hope that you ever will do
not want you to come to Philadelphia
Gaod-by. my dearest, and may Gods
blessing be with you always Yours.
80 ELEANOR.
Places Letter
Listlessly Upon Table.
Tho woman placed the letter Hstlessly
uuon the table-what she had read
somehow seemed different from what
she had expected 20 read, though just
what she had expected even she could
not perhaps have said. She took up the
folded sheets Of the diary, and began
10 read them slowly, one ty one, her
face pale, eagerly tense, Yet betrayne
q slightly puzzled expression. as though
she were oppressed with a sense OF
mystery. Of something Intangible, be-
yond her comprehension.
The entries IN the diary had been
made al irregular intervals. and were
not dated-they were evidently but a
careless jotting down OF Impressions, Of
thoughts, OF experiences, often unim-
portaut. frequently cOntradictory-wO
un0tfEEaUNS OF NlllEe AT tF7tt Nt-lt' AA.itttl'
and -material experiences which in the
aggregate form the Kaleidoscope Of life
Monday.
I took Judge RocSwood's letter to Mr..
HoIbrook today; ne viii take my case
7 am glad that this is so. for he Is one
Of those men IN whom one inEtinctively
feels confdence-I liked him at once
The Judge tells me he IS married. which
is not at all surprising. and 7 should
think his wife would be aDsurdly fond
Of him The trip down town was
wretched-en0uEh snow fin the streets, ]
should think. TO last nicely through
June. didn't suppose there was SO
much IN all the heavens above. but
then, II couldn't have come from the
other place. I got back TO the study
looking like little Christmas tree, and
am 20 see him again on Wednesday
Burroughs has returned THE Quest
again, and wants different ending. Ir
future 7 think ] shall submit him "A nice
select collection Of cndincs. and after Doc
has picked out one he likes write "a
story 20 ft &c. r. would save time
editors are a queer lot
I have been busy all the evening get
ting together Duncan letters 20 take
70 Mr.. HoIbr00Ir fer1orrovy-e r-i--I4+'f-1
experience IT, seems queer that mar
rlsEe should bo made So easy, and the
other thing so very hard. Sometime
[ think IL is ike a -at-trap-the way ir
Is so entcinEly attra-tive-aud there