The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-08-22
cElAPTER KlI.-contInued.

GFadualls he came Ito tnderstand3
that her determined alton not to marry
him was Influenced by something.
stronger than a mere personal shrink.
iilg frona false marriage. She would,
not marry because sherwould not take
selfish happiness at the expense lof.
her mother and those that depended
Oh her; but more than that, and deep.
e she would not by Q rash promise
add one more to the marriages TINT
end IN Fafniregret or divorce.
Gfaduallya too, he came to under
stand more fun what she had meant
by saying that II they were made for
each other they would ind 1t out with
out promises and il not, It were a
thousand times better they should
drift apart And as he came to UNDER
stand an element Of reverence min
BIed With his love for her, deepening
aud intensining it
He himself would not have ques-
toned; He would gladly have mar
Red rchim tswonld not have been,
lest bpta discrimination. But that.
they were. not 10 marry did not t r
be him. WY should he ask more Of.
d Ioye that proving the, fulfllmens
81 All the longing Of his boyhood and
yohfhs it was Transforming him
iniIid. body ana soul. His frame,
whichlhad been tall, spare, and loosely,
hi BEGAN ITO fill and settle into
Six hgtEl his Step became firm and
q,iiek his head took a frmer poiseesI
a,oye the square shoulders; even his
eyes shared In the metamorphosis-
tliey lost their dreamy, pleading look
ana became alert, laughing, and full
q Happiness and a strange power that
seemed nolonger to ask, but to com.
inand help and sympathy from all
Who met their glance.
Something Of this change Derring
hiniself recognized. He knew that he
MS alive glowing in every fiber; but
ne was less analytic in. his happiness
man In his misery; he did not see
tliat his oyerHowing vitality commun.
eateds Itself to everyone with whom
e came In contact. It was only when
sofie one spoke. Of the change that he
knew that IT was being marked. He
exuited ii his hsart that no one
GUESSED thefcause.
was settled down and working
Eith d ylgor Of which he had not
dreamed himself capable. Everything
bent before him. He felt within him
self power to conquer the world
should itsstand in his way Sometimes
he clenched his hands and stretched
hts arms to their fullest to give outlet
p the play impulse that could not ex'
1anst itself in work
IN his inner life, too, a change, less
efceptible, but no less real, was TAX
lng place Sight and hearing we're
opened to new beauty. Music had
become to him medium of soul
speech; and the sordid city streets
With their overhanging clouds Of
smoke started to picturesque life and
beauty q
long archway with a slant OF sun
shine at the farther end--an Italian
wondaI stealing into the shadow, 9
huge bundle on her back and coloret
kerchiaf about her head stil
his pulses like an old painting. The
lnsIghtiy process Of building, with til
debris Of mortar, bricks, and lath
s.iihed artistic value as his eyes tool
n tie grouping Of Che men at worl
around the mortarbeds+sthe soft
ly.whlteof the mortar, the dull red
ltte on orange of the shirts upon thu
supple or stolfd figures Of the men
Sitii Tie play Of muscle beneath
sometimesit was a single figure, tina
might have stepped from Ram
brandt icanyas, appearing for minute
and disappearing in the shifting
crowd Always. everywhere, Their
Vas beauty until Berring, seeing I
longed at times to relieve hi
oRefcharged senses by a loud cry-s'
wonderful, so oYerpowerlng, had thl
baahtysof sthpsworld become. &
Und0tbtsdly much Of this quicken
insight Was due to the thought g
Helen. Who was never for q tilotnen
absent from his mind vhateye
work was enga ing iii hand 81 brain
Deep below Il al was q eonsc lousneA
Of her exstehce, IKE a second ege
onIr fhnuahnd times dcarer an