Putnam patriot., 1909-06-25
THEIR NEW JUNE.
It Came With the Reunion After
 Both Had Suffered.
ey MARIE syLvEsTRE.

sisters. In years she was twenty-two when Dwight Sanbcrn first knew her. and. added to physical attraetiveness, was an indednable something that re- minded you of Dresden china or dain. ty. delicate silks something alien 10 a strident. jostling world of dollars and duHs.
 Miss Denton was a stenographer in the law office where young Sanborn worked after graduation from the Jaw school and where he subsequently earned a 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.
 IL was similarity In tastes that first brought the young people closer than stenographer and employer. Sanborn was dietating q 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.
  the ineautious defendant had fncorpo rated in letter destined to be an ex- hibit in the case:
 '.I love thee with a love seemed to lose With my lost saints I love thee with the
 breath. Smiles
 The rest escaped him.
 "Smilesr he repeated. in an effort to remember. when Miss Denton inter rupted:
 Smiles. tears of all my life and if God
 choose
 shal but love thee better after death.'.
 The repetition was impersenal. 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 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 Sanborns card. That was the beginning
 Love came quickly to both of them, and scarcely 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 reg ularly retained counsel to number of immense and important corpora tions. 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 piloting corporation craft through mazes that baffled the intent of the statutes.
 "Pm losing the man I married" she cried to herself in the solitude of neg lected wifehood "He's slipping. slip ping, and cannot prevent 1t. cannot hold him."
 With disillusionment came unrest. with unrest rebellion. To the woman 1t seemed that all that life held worth while was being taken from her. She was envied as the wife of brilliant man, one destined to acquire great wealth. but these were not desirable to her
 "Sometimes-Tm not quite happy, she told him falteringly one night when he remarked her apparent ili- ness
 Nonsense. little girl! We're getting along famously." he told her.
 You are.' she answered duly
 "Wen. it's for us both" was his re- ply. but it di6 not satisfy.
 For three years she endured it. and because there were only the two of them life grew lonelier andmonelier until in a moment of desperate aber- ration she fled his house and left q 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 position as etenographer and that few weeks would enable her to regain her old time eleyerness in the calling. Then she reflected that Sanborn would nat uratlv seek her in the field of her fermer employment
 She thought If nursing. and 1t seemed a haven. To forget ones own griefs fin comforting others in distress ap- uealed 10 her A fortnight after her flight she was a student nurse In private sanitarium under the direction of 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 a few months of the Sc elusion she sought would bring clearer vision At the first shock Sanborn was nigh to insanity. That his Katherine was dIscontented he had not believed Yet in her note he saw what they had missed because of his money madness. Right-sha, was a million times right, he told hiInseif bitterly. and conld be fna Ter asain they would begin to- uethe- af inc start and please God. go this uass aright But search was unayailing.
 Then cams the breakdown. complete.