The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-06-21
WHEN A MAN MARRIES
The Novel from Which the Play Seven Days Was Made
BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
Author Of and The Man in Lower Ten
Copyright. The sAferno

never see him again. PefNefSeiy enough,
did none of those things, With my face
still flaming, with burning eyes and
hands that shook. / made belated even
ing toilet and went slowly. haughtily.
down the stairs. My hands were like ice.
but I was consumed with rage Oh,
would show him-that this was New
York. not Iquique; that the ROOF vas not
his Andean lakeland.
Every one deliberately ignored my alb
/ sence from dinner. The Dallas Browns.
Max. and Lollie were at bridge: Jim was
alone In the den. walking the floor and
biting at an uniighted cigar; Betty had
returned TO Aunt Selma and was hysteri-
cal, they said. and Flanagan was in
deep detection because / had missed my
dinner
Betty is making no end of a row."
Max said. looking up from his game,
because the old lady upstairs insists on
! chlOroform llniment Betty says the
smell makes her i'll"
And she can inhale Russian Gig
arettes," Anne said enyiously, land gaso-
line fumes without turning hair. / call
a revoke, Dal; you trumped spades on
the second round
Dial flung over three tricks with very
bad grace. and Anne counted them with
maddenlng deliberation.
Dial. Max; he viii cheat IN the score II
he can. Kit, don't have another clam
while / am in this house I have eaten
so many lately my waist rises and falls
with the tide
You have stunning color, Kit" Iol-
/ lie said You are really quite superb.
Who made that gown
Where have you been hiding. du
kleine?' Max whispered. under cover of
showing me the evening paper, with a
photograph OF the house and a cross at
the cellar window where We had tried TO
| escape. If enc day in the house with
you. Kit. puts me in this condition. what
will a month do?"
From beyond the curtain Of a sort OF
aleove, lighted with a red-shaded lamp.
came hum OF conversation, Bella's
cool, even tones and a heavy masculine
voice. They were laughing: 7 could feel
my chin go up. He was not even hiding
/ his shame.
Max" I asked. while the others clam
| ored for him and the game, has any
one been up through the house since din
ner? Any Of the men?"
He looked at me curiously.
/ only Harbisen,l he replied PROMPTLY
Jim has been eating his heart out In the
/ den ever since dinner; Dial PLAYED the
| Sonata Apassionata backward on the
/ pianoia-he wanted TO put through one
| OF Anne's lingerie waists. on a wager
4 that it would play a tune. PLAYED craps
/ with Lollie. and Flanagan has been
| washing dishes. Why"
Wei. that was conclusive. anyhow. I
/ had had a faint hope that IL might have
/ been a Joke, although II had borne ALI the
! evidences or sincerity. certainly. But it
was past doubling now; he had lain IN
wait for me at the landing and had
! kissed me. me. when he thought I was
/ Jimmy's wife. Oh. I must have been
very light. very contemplate, IL that was
/ what he thought OF met
/ / went into the library and got book.
/ but il was impossible 10 read with Jim
my lying on the couch giving vent TO
something between a sigh and a groan
every few minutes About II the cards
stopped. and Bella said she would read
/ palms. She began with Mr. HARRISON,
! because she declared he had a wonderful
hand. fun of possibilities. She said he
/ should have been a great inventor or a
/ PLAYWRIGHT and that his attitude to wom-
/ en- was one Of homage, respect, almost
! reverence. He had the courage to look
at me, and If a glance could have killed
he would have withered away.
When Jimmy proffered his hand she
looked at il icily. or course she could
| not refuse, with Mr.. HARRISON looking on.
Rather negative" she said coldly.
The lines are obscured by cushions of
flesh; no heart line at all. mentality
! small. self-indulgence and irritability
very marked
Jim held his palm up to the light and
| stared at II.
'Gadr' he said Hardly safe for me
TO go around without gloves, is it?"
1t was all well enough for Jim 10 laugh.
but he was horribly hurt He stood
| around for a few minutes. talking 10
Anne, but as soon as he could he slid
away and went 70 bed. He looked very
| badly the next morning, as though he
had not slept, and his clothes quite hung
on him. He was actually thinner But
that is ahead of the story
Max came to me while the others were
| sitting around drinking niEht-caps and
asked me in a low tone II he could see
| me In the den: he wanted to ask me
| something, Dai overheard
ASK her here" he said I'VE an
know what It is. Max. Go ahead and
Wen coach you
viii you coach me7'' I asked, for Mr..
| HARRISON was listening
1.-THE woman does not need it, Dial re-
torted. And then because Max looked
angry enough really 10 propose to me