The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
THE EVENING STORY
Their New June.

!
| 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 petition to be filed in
| an action for breach OF promise. and
| his levity evidenced his distaste of the
| task.
F'lippantly he quoted from Mrs.
| Browing's immortal sonnet, which the
| incautious defendant had incorporated
| in a letter destined to be an exhibit in
| the case.
love thee with love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, 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 If 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 it.
| Sanborn laughed, thanked her for
completing the quotation and finished
outlining the petition. Afterward ne
remembered and a day or two later,
daintily bound volume of the Porta-
daintily bound volume of the Portu-
desk was Sanborn's card. That was
the beginning.
Love came quickly to both of them
and scarcely year elapsed until Katn-
crime Denton was Katherine Sanporn.
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 deteriorated TO
| the typicaily masculine. He became
! brilliant in manipulation of the laws
intricacies and was made a regularly
retained counsel to number OF i'm
mense and important corporations. his
| days at the office were hlled with tne
| law and the evenings at home felt the
dominating influence of ambitions pas
sion. .
! Instead of the dreams of sweetheart
DAYS everything was subordinated to
the quest for legal success. ana TO
Katherine came the thought that even
| in his profession ideals had been de-
throned and new gods set up for ador-
alton and devotion. For Sanborn was
at his best when plotting a corporation
Intent of the statutes.
| I'm losing the man I married" she
cried to herself in the solitude or neg
lected wifehood. Hes slipping, Slip
ping, and CANNOT prevent A.
hold him."
| With disbursement 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 a brilliant
|
wealth, but these were not desirable TO
| her. >,
sSometimes-Tm not quite happy"
she told HIM falteringly one i nIgnt "heh
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 it. and
because there was only the two of them
| life grew lonelier and lonelier until in
a moment of desperate alteration she
| fed his house and left 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 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 for
| mer employment.
She thought of nursing and it SEEM
ed a 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
private sanitarium under the direction
of a kindly old physician who had
known and loved the girl since her
earliest days in New York. Wisdom
had come to him with years, and he
knew that few months of the seclu-
sion sought would bring clearer vision.
| At the first shock Sanborn was nigh
| to insanity. That his Katherine was
| disconnected he had not believed. Yet
in her note he saw what they had
missed because of his money madness.
Right, she was million times right
he told himself bitterly. and could he
| find her again they would begin to-
gether at the start, and, please God, go
| this time Alright. But search was I'M
availing.
! Then came the breakdown, COM
plete, miserable, and the physician pre-
scribed the sanitarium where his wife
was learning the rudiments of nursing
| Sanborn was put In room In a part
of the building where only the gradu-
ate nurses were usually allowed, con-
| her housed Dwight.
| The physician installed her in a
room adjoining Sanborn's and explain
| ell enough of the situation to the nurse
| in charge to secure her as ally in what
he hoped to accomplish.
Hang your medicines. want Kath-
| crime. Do you hear? Get heri' she
heard one morning in commanding
tones She started, listened again TO
his voice in delirium, then peeked
cautiously through a half opened door.
! He was hardly recognizable, this
sallow-faced patient with sunken
| cheeks and bullying eyes. With a
quick little cry of pity and love she
| ran to him.
| Dwight! Dwight" she sobbed,
| "here's Katherine. Here, dear, don't
! you know me?"
go away, you're not Katherine.
| She left me. I've lost her and 1
want her. God! I want herl" And
tears came to his eyes as they did to