New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

N'y We often did: but she said she was very nfed'
as tS' '.ook her home and told her goodnight at 'ne
door MN room she took off her things through
IN n, .cs~s Oh. why had she done it-why mad
blnulf had ske1 If only she had not persisted thdV
Shc t-,, If she had admitted at once that II was was
It W." IN, had only confessed that she ala say tmngS
noI ,.,ss,, ncrvouSly, Just as he had nphed' 'ha'
thouE tsb She had always had, and for which she
Il YT"tnys suffered, thing against WmCh Sie 0oh-
n"u n"I. Struggled and never quite oVercaine
s%I. bc foid him all this, he would have understood
li"u sN o., to1n her. All, she knew that he would
ana NY i,sv he had not believed her. scorching
Sh' - through her when she thought OF how
SlaIN ~ had released her hands and walked TO the
a3uP,N i rovy cravcly he had said, "Thcn Wintred,
|ino"N, ' I am sorry" And he knew he had not
was 49, He had said that only to save her from
9eeI .l..arce from involving herself more and
more , ,,., s,,cb , noodless futile false
ANY NJ F.. q called Unexpectedly about ten, and she
hoo'. . .,o For several days she had not been
was '' .r. nights had been restless and waketu.
Wen a. -rs morning she had slept very late. And
b'' s rose So early, to her this seemed an indo-
a. ,..-s+ .'0thfal thing. Painfully confused al
u, -..f She said She had been riding, and was Just
e:...+ ~ her habit when he Camc-that was why
t, t.r+ him waiting. As she so often rode IN the
sae -a- H. .t,. excuse had come ghbly. 1t had not
.,.,,tt out: the words came OF themselves to hide
Ha I cd nothing at the time; and it had not oc-
nc t~ that he doubted her. She had thought
M --o-. until ne brought 1t up tonight. And his
" . ,oryoectci accusation had startled her into
,'r;I She had been panic stncken-there had
se,,l.- tf I'D, Known For she felt now he would
+ have ,roken on mere surmiSc. Had there been
'',..L;.., IN her .rucarancc or manner to make him
,.l. t. 49, no. been out, And yet how could he be
s rr'oss he inquired Of the clerk or bellboyS; And
t. would never -,"op 90 t1al. go
Sine, ....- engagement he had been calling every
..-r..- .. t..r Sometimes he would spend the
.,.. ..... her. and sometimes his work prevented
I. R... r. 'ways gave her the hour between tour
rf fin. Artuow with 4ngulshed suspense she waited
t- .r.. ...- -hc next day
WI. would j, be like What would be his atti-
w ...t .wha, would be- her own' Her whole future
t-,... MIGHT depend on that hour She lived over
. ...~. One moment she would feel the utter
.... ..,.. .f ever ..Dte~,Ing the truth to him now,
s .- ,e .r. would feel that at any cost she must;
.t. ...-.. n. entered she would run to him and
..n # a' .a. III his arn--teI nm now from a chd
. -f .r,...- rlman..i. how her vivid imagination
. --. Ter on % jr.athcss rccitals Of fanccd hap
Hon her parents lad unwisely encouraged rather
than f-onned upon his trait. She could suI hear theiT
.,t;.r.-af -Wr. wonderful imagination. "A
..-... writer som. t.y" And how this romancing had
-r,r dung e.. her I'm the form of cXaggcrations-oi
-.r,- telling -,.hing quite accurately always adding
,rore-. or effect and OF always eXlncalng
r.-..r- from .. awkward or difficult position by glib
.rf.. t.-....uM But worst of all the utterly
..t.,. AMI needless uu-clthS she told for no purpose
whatever except u--,o1-ly TO fill in embarrassing
...r... .- .-. .e conversation.
Could .r him aI this uo1c' If only she had told
him ~ .... when he asked her He had made it 50
.,.f .- ..en. But She had refused the chance and
.irt,r r.-...ad in her statement. And now-could
.aci.. -.. on 10 tell him H0lgl
And .-- would wonder if he could be SWe-how
could lively ku01r that She had no, ridden that
.~-;r ....r ill., might he not be forced 10 give her
.1. f.-. .. .re doub,2 Oh, if She could only carry
.t- ..- she could only make him be'ie,e this,
..ev-.- newer again to tell him anything bu, the
elc. .... .-c.h
B... She had augiislcd herself into q fever
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