The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-07-06

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| The pretty little psachcs-and-cresu
wife 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 inquirIngIy toward the golden
haired vision In pink.
II think It's perfectly DREADFUL" sho
| exclaimed. Don't you, Dick?"
"Of course. What is III" hs 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 tribe. Then he said:
Il don't know what you mean"
He said that aloud. To himself he
kept muslng. y wonderf
Didn't you read III" queried ahe. In
dicating with delicate fore1nger an
article In tho paper. 'Thig Afferton
divorce case. you know. Just think
II you can.-o a mans DOING anything
like that. don't believe . man could
ever have loved q girl and then-Oh.
it's shocking! And they hadn't been
married year; were hardly out of
their honeymoon-like us. Dick"
Carver shook his head deprecatingly
and ndgefed at his smoking jacket
and then remarked:
who was the other girl? Chorus
orr
Then you did read itg"
No er-~why, FL glanced at the
headlines. 4
The big purple eyes across the table
were becoming dim with an opales-
cent mist
"Oh-h-h, Dick, Dick," Tier voice
was wavering dangerously Are
many men like that? You seem to-
oh. you aren't surprised. you aren't
shocked--Dicki"
why. you silly dear" Carver
laughed, jumping to her side and fold
Ing her tenderly in his arms Nom
sense! Why. you Just said yourself it
was our honeymoon. You don't know
how much ! love you. girl | could
not begin to tell you. Just this mora
Ing was telling Jack Trent what real
happiness was like. Jack seemed sort
OF down and out with the blues.
told him he ought to get married
ought to get little -mife like mine
Jack always wanted me, 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
yer happily, returning the pressure.
Next morning, rs he was being
whirled officeward on an Il limited, he
reheaised 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
be would never even speak to Malzie
again He had Just been out for
good time occasionally. He had meant
no harm. surely no disloyalty to the
pretty little pesches-and-cream wife In
the suburbs: But from now on. there
vas to be no Msinis. no reunions with
che boys-nothiAx.
All day Carver kept thinking Of the
waiting wife. He left early a. possible
thst afternoon, aa4 after visiting eE,
confectionsr Tor = box of her favorits
and horist for bunch
* heF ad0red red roses, he was on his
way back 'tV izef, imp atisnt q he never
bsfore had bssn to- clasp her again in
his smbrace.
He bounded mp the steps three At
= time. He meant to rush IL and
surprise her. But tho door WAS
locked HIS face fell He had not
thought OF the possibility of her ab-
sence Doubtiess she did not look
for him 20 soon. She never had failed
to meet him before. He put down
the candy and flowers found his key.
unlocked the door. How lonesome the
rooms seemed! Il
He gazed around, wondering some
what His eyes fell upon a letter
lying on the library table. He picked
1t up and found It addressed to him
in her writing His brow wrinkled.
Il wonder what the devil"
In q moment his eyes were skim
ring rapidly over the lines OF large,
distinct characters. This is what the
lines said:
Dear old Dick: I'm awfully sorry,
really / am. You will never know how
much It has panied me. But don't
love you Somehow that sounds blunt
and cruel but 1t 10 the truth. don't
suppose ever loved you, though
used to think | did. Perhaps 1t was
your fiery way Of making love that
caught me. Anyway. want you TO
be happyoh, very. very happy.
Dick. know l shall be 50 as soon as
we can arrange matters honorsbly and
quietly. must always have loved
Jack, and he. am sure. has loved
me always, though has been perfect
brick since my marriage and as stsll
As brick, too. When am Mrs.
Jack Trent. know I shall be happier
and I know you will be Just as happy.
You men are so inconstant, you know.