The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-07-24

ncT SlulcTOOlu, IT'S lt Sulloocu. iahihl
this as a sign of his release, he gentl!
broke the thread of Miss Carolyn's In
quistiveness and went out 10 the rea
platform for n breath OF fresh air anC
surcease from the fashery of neatl!
balanced tongue.
When II was quite too late TO re
treat he found the deep recessed oh
servatlon platform of the Nadia occu
pied. Miss Brewster was not In hel
stateroom, as he had mistakenly per
suaded himself. She was sitting In
one of the two platform camp chairs
and she was alone.
81 thought you would come If only
| gave you time enough" she said quite
coolly. did you find Carolyn very
| persuasiveT
81 thought you had gone TO your
stateroom. hadn't the slightest idea
that you were out here"
"Otherwise you would not have
come? How magni1cantly churlish
you can be upon occasion, Howardw
She pushed the other chair toward
him. "Sit down and tell me how you
have been enduring the interval. 1t is
more than year, isn't it,"
yes; IA year, three months and elev-
en- days" lie had taken the chair be-
side her because there seemed to be
nothing else TO do.
How fundamentally exact you
are" she gibed. But asked you
what you had been doing"
He spread his hands. Existing, one
way and another. There has always
been my work"
"'All work and no play makes Jack
dull boy" she quoted you are
excessively dull today, Howard. Hasn't
it occurred to you?"
THANK You for expressing it so deli
cately. 1t seems to be my misfortune
to disappoint you always"
YES" she said. quite unfeelingly.
Then, with swift relapse into pure
mockery: "How many times have YOU
fallen In love during the one year,
three months and eleven days? The
charming Miss Dawson
You might spare her even IL you are
not willing to spare me. You know
well enough there has never been any
one but you, Eleanor; that there never
will be any one but you"
What pityw she said I'm mock
sympathy.
THAT l can't measure up TO your re-
quirements of the perfect man? Yes,
1t Is a thousand pities," he agreed.
mo; that isn't precisely what
meant The pity is that l seem TO you
TO be unable 10 appreciate your many
excellencies and your-constancy.
Il think you were born to torment
me-" he rejoined gloomily. "Why did
you come out here with your father?
You must have known that was
here"
Not from any line you have ever
she retorted. "Alicia Ford
told me; otherwise l shouldn't have
known"
"still You came. Why? Were you
curious?"
"Why should be curious, and what
about-the Red desert? I've seen
deserts before"
Il thought you might be curious to
know what disposition the Red desert
was making of such failure as l am"
he said evenly. II can forgive that
more easily than / can forgive your
bringing Of the other man along to be
an onlooker"
Herbert, you mean? He is a good
boy, nice boy and perfectly harmless.
You'll like him immensely when you
come to know him better"
You like himT he queried.
How can you ask when you have
lust called him the other manp"
Lidgerwood turned in his chair and
laced her squarely
Eleanor, ! had my punishment over
year ago, and l have been hoping
'ou would let it suffice. 1t was hard
enough TO lose you without being
to stand by and see anoth-
r man win you. Can't you under
tand that?"
She did not answer him. Instead
he whipped aside from that phase of
he subject to ask a question of her
wn.
Whatever made you come out here,
Iowardr
ITO the SUPPLEMENTARY of the Red
BUTTE Western? You did"
"Ridiculousp'
ut is true"
Prove 1t. IL you can, but you can't"
II am proving it day by day, or try.
lg to. didn't want to come, but you
rove me to It,"
Il decline 10 take any such hIdeous
nsponsibility," she laughed lightly.
nd then. with calculated malice:
Howard, If you were only as brave
$ you are cleverl Why can't you be
man and strike back now and then?"
Strike back at the woman 1 love?l
m not quite down to that. I hone.
ven If / was once too cowardly TO
.rike for her."
Always that! Why won't you let
lie forgetT
because you must not forget. Lis
N. Two weeks ago-only two weeks
so-one of the Angels-er-peacem
s stood up In his place and shot M