The Washington herald., 1911-01-29

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osE afraid. am proud and humble the same
I time that man like you should for me.
B But you have too much money. There's where
my abominable common sense steps in. Even
II we did marry you could be My man-my lover
and my husband. You would be Your moneys man.
! know am foolish woman but l want my man for
myself You would not be free for me. Your money
Possesses YOU taking time. your thoughts your
every thing bidding you here and go there
DO this and do that Don't you see? Perhaps it's pure
Stiffness. but feel that love much. give much
give all. And in return. though don't want all.
want riuch--and want much more than your money
would permit you give
And Your money destroys you; it makes you less
and less nice. am not ashamed to say that love
YOU because | shall marry you. And l loved
you much when did not know you at ALL when you
first came down from Alaska and first went into the
olic. You my hero. You the Burning
Daylight of the gold dgGings. the daring traveller
and miner. And you looked it. Il don't how any
could have looked at you without loving you
then, But you don't look it
'rIclsc. please forgive me for hurting you. You
wanted straight talk and giving it you. All
these last years YOU have been living unnaturally.
YOU of the open, have been coopns yourself
up in cities with all that that You
the same man ut ali and Your money is destroying
you. You becoming something different. some
money and your life doing it. You know it, You
haven't the same body that you had then. You
are putting flesh, and it is not healthy flesh. You
are kind and genial with me, l know, but you are
Kind and genial TO all the world as you were
know more about the most insignificant parts of you
then. You have become harsh and cruel. And
know. Remember, have studied you six days
week, month after month. year after year, and l
than you possibly love do you love this busi-
III your heart and thoughts. but it is there in
face 1t put its lines there. l have watched them
come and grow Your money and the life it compels
you lead has done all this You being brutalized
and degraded. And this process only so on and
on until you hopelessly destroyed'-
He attempted to interrupt. but she stopped him.
herself breathless and her voice trembling.
NO, no; let finish utterly. l have done moth
ing but think, think, think all these months, ever
since you came riding with me. and now that have
begun to speak l going to speak all that have
in me. l do love you, but cannot marry you and
destroy love. You are growing into thing that
must in the end despse. You can't help it. More
than YOU know of all Of The cruelty is not only
ness game. This business-and it's all perfectly
useless so far as you concerned-caims all of
VOL l sometimes think it would be easier to share
you eQuitaby with another woman than to share
you with this business. might have half Of you at
any rate But this business would claim not half
of you but nine-tenths Of you, ninety nine hun
dredths.
.Rememb"- the meaning Of marriage to me is not
to get a mans money to spend 1 want the man.
You say you want And suppose I consented
but gave you only one-hundredth part Of me- Sup
pose there was something else in my life that took
the other ninety nine parts and furthermore, that
ruined my ngure. tnat put pouches under my eyes
and crow's-fc- in the corners that made unbeau-
tful to look upon and that made my spirit unbeau