The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-11-11

around for you to come in. You don't
come.
"Then ! went and asked your sister-Pd
been too proud to do it at first She opened
my eyes-she showed me what they all
thought and felt about unexpectedly your
mother.
"Then went out and got drunk in
earnest-I'm yelling you all Of i, Glory.
i lost my job; then one day l sat down to
look the thing square in the face l said to
myself, You're a nice one, you arel No
wonder your wife left you'll Do you blame
her? Suppose it'd been the other way,
you'd have been plumb disgusted, wouldn't
you? What makes you think you could do
anything and she ought to stand for it9 that
she 1oOWd stand for it?
"What makes you think that2' I said
to myself. Now / said, what are you
going to do1 Are you going to quit decency
altogether and just be hog3 Are you going
to show everybody that she was right2 Or
are you going to be man2 You let on to
her in the beginning that you were a real
man and she believed you. You better
prove it, hadn't your Do You think you
could prove it, you damned fool2' said.
"Honey, by some God-sent chance you'd
hit on the right way to wake me up. You
showed me what it was to lose the thing
you do care for for the thing you don't care
for. For year / looked for you and
couldn't find you, because you see hadn't
any idea where to look and began to find
out what an almighty big country this is.
Then stopped to take stock of things.
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saw | wouldn't have anything to give you
ii did find you. Well, | fell in with fellow
named Bryson who was going out to Cali.
fornia to grow oranges. He had some
money and | didn't, but he wanted me to
go in with him, and did. We got some
groves and, Lord, how we did work. He
wanted to marry rich girl, and he was
proud and wanted to show 'em, and-you
know what l wanted. Say, we just had
to make goodl All the time was trying
every way | could think of to find trace
of you. / even put advertisements in the
papers. suppose you didn't happen to see
any OF emp" wistfully.
"No," said Glory in very low voice,
81 didn't see any of them"
"Time went on" he resumed, "and
things began to come our way-we began
to have e'noney in our pockets. But all the
same was feeling pretty Blue. l didn't
know what you'd done. You might have
got a divorce and married some other fellow
in all that time-say, honey, you didn't,
did you?" ss,s
"No," she whispered. lssss's!s}S t}ss
He wiped his forehead.
81 didn't know, you see. So one day
started oot again. / was going to find out
if it took every bean had / couldn't tell
you all Of it, but one day got to talking
to travelling man in San Francisco. While
we were standing there, a woman passed,
and kind OF looked around to see her good.
"I'd sort of got into the habit of looking
at all the light-haired women to see if it
was you Interested in blondes2' he asked.
And said, We'll, kind of, and he said,
We'll, up in Seattle at Hathaway & Eatons,
they've got peachl Not one OF your fly
ones-believe me, she's real lady. For
looks and style and intelligence, she's got
all the society danes beat city block
II asked what her name was, and he
says, miss Mackan.' l guess / looked
kind of funny, for he grabbed me by the
shoulder and yelled, What's the matter,
MANI are you sick2 l said, Say, you're
going to have all the oranges you can
eat the rest of your life, but l can't
tell you about it now-I got to catch a
trainp"
He laughed little.
"Think of CHANGING on it that way after
all that searching!"
She had sat almost motionless during
his recital, not looking at him; her fingers
still turning the pencil she had held at his
entrance.
Are you going to try me again, Glory2
I've got home down there in the sunshine
waiting for you. The oranges are ripe now
and the poppies ere just flaming across the
fields. That country always made me think
of you'll guess that's why like il SO well
the sky and the oranges and the sunshine
all blue and gold and dreamy. And,
honest to God, haven't touched a drop
since that day | quit for good"
She did not speak, but she rose as he did
and stood before him. He did not try to
touch her.
81 don't know whether you could ever
feel the same, but I'd sure try to make YOU.
And, Glory-why, Glory, I've often thought
II l could just take you in my arms like l
used to--it would lust have to come back to
you
Miss Mackan looked straight and deep
into her husbands eyes.
"You better try it, Jim, and see," she
breathed with tgemulous smile.