Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-29

"There's another side" he began.
She brushed the words away. I'm
not telling you this to invite a de-
Tense: merely that you II know The really vital thing
is to come She said these last words with such blaze
in them and her white face he answered her with look
of confusion Il found Celia had talent for drawing
By earning extra money able send her to Paris.
While was with your mother correspondence was
sheltered under envelops belonging to my publisher.
followed her to Paris I've made her my charge She
is going to be successful, and I've grown love her
dearly She spread out her hands, "And SO,
of Celia!' She stood up here and came close to him.
Her eyes had such big conclusive charge in them that
words burst from him before he was aware of it.
"You-know!'
ayes That followed shortly after You remember
getting letter from Seton the night before he fled in
disgrace if the earth had gulped him? He advised
you to go with him. 1t very clear why. He could
see how the other members of the firm might have
chance but you the chief trustee of the puroined
estate were to his words, in up the neck,
than am There of this sort, the
language OF confederate"
He the uselessness of anything but truth @Where
did you find it,? he asked in bitter breath as he moist
ened his lips nervousy: Il thought tore it up
ave brought your old desk with us when we went to
live near the prison. The letter was torn but most of
it there and it had stuck behind of the drawers
Plumbing about it one day. pulled it out" A dreary
smile over her face. at then that my head
aches began and as much as | could kept away from
you.
He waited, expecting burning retrospect in words to
rise before hm,-he wound, the shock, the agony and
then the slow eating hour by hour and day by day of the
bitter bread of disllusion she knew him for what he
was,-a weakling in honor, liar in love, thief. But
she said nothing of the old suffering that he knew
have been for she had loved him deeply and trusted
him absolutely
"Do you wonder why didn't tell you then?' she
asked in a voice that slow, dreamy.
yes he said, rousing himself, @why didn't you?
And his curiosity becoming sharp 1why didn't you
give your true reason for going away?'
ANow we have come to the vital thing spoke Of
didn't want your mother to know, she said simply
"But you might have told me-
mo; for you would surely in some softened moment,
have told her.
aBut," he fatered @that would have cleared YOU to
her"
"And l didn't want to be cleared to her. Her voice
had exataton in it. "You don't understand vet?" she
asked in wonder at is this: covered up every trace
of Celia, of the fact that you paying justly for your
crime criminal experiments with other peoples
money-call it what you hke-just to spare your
mother let her come gradually to doubt then to
abhor me-just to spare her. Now you know
a see' he said quietly, and after pause added,
"That was kind of you But and into his throat there
came fullness of tears that brother to the
sweet mercy of her eyes, she will know now Yes,
she will KNOW
"She is to know' said Janet each word like the
blow of malet steel.
"How it be heped?' he asked in amazement.
"You will give your reasons"
mo" she smiled, "you will give yours. In Western
State my desertion will be enough to free you from
Use that"
But what there was of manhood in him lifted its head.
@You think III accept this cloak let you bear the edge
of this? | know nstnctively that my mother judges
you severely Am going to remain silent now and let
her hate you?" He looked misery that elevated him
her eyesthose eyes that by the shedding of secret
tears had been made to clearly. Il base
that he added in breath.
Janet went close him and laid her hand his arm.
Hugh she said and her voice held the penerat-
ingy notes he had heard @n everything else
but this am miles and miles away from YOU. In this
still stand together. Your mother know
the truth about you.
"You to sacrifice yourself for herr? he said, and
knew her then before.
"Yes-for her. She thrilled. "Wlly not? Is there