New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-10

he was sensible enough 10 lct you IiIiN !, 80 -.
him YOU spent the night the hotel and YOU DO not
i.nov. where the man spent the night Tell him you
went back home the next day. co.,
She sighed and threw out her hands in little gesture
Of bopelessncss I'm afraid she said slowly.
"Afraid?7 he laughed, scornlng the IDEA. 49, ,:,
afraid Of his people, OF his training Ihey U'H"N
so much Of birth and conventonalty
@You need not tell them He is the only one VINO mas
the right TO know. Why, he's the hero oil thS pIoc.
What do YOU care how all the rest Of them crack the
heels on the tombsones Of their ancestors II ne knows
and understands? And he will understand Inc Ieio
always understands.
The Engishman went over and put MS Cooi manu- VI.
hers III YOU do not tell him. he said smiling into her
ewes there will never be the truth between yo-eVeI
And some dav somebody who knows the story Will tell
him will not always be there to help, as was tonght'
| know YOU, as everybody else in Detonade knew you
There is none finer or better than you. He loves YOU
yo, say If he does love YOU, he will take you into his
arms when he hears the story He knows you re TOO
Put s,nnose-supposc" she said carfuly, ~he dis
trusted me- She moved rcstessy in the big chair as
# the thing was too heavy for her brain "Ah, Mr..
Uare;oh She brcathcd softly, this IS my first great
hannincss You know what my life out there was
poverty and privatons. And my iather ne
struck me once Mr. Harlcigh! He beat mel" She
shuddered and put hand to each OF her checks
snow am about to be repaid for all endured.
can dream out the dream of my grhood. When my
father struck me- felt two things crushing shame
OF such treatment, ana lllC h'oIlNi N'N
hapDincss in the future When a man IS Illuminated,
he i kept I'D | believe. by his confidence that some
day he will conquer. When woman Is thrust INTO
misery her salvation is the savage desire Tor the hap
ness She knows the world owes her:
Her words very fast and she gripPed the arms
Of the chair until she whitcned the tips OF her fingers
and now am about to be given that happiness Tor
which ongcd OF which felt 50 confident even III my
degradation It is the happiness that carries with II
protection, consolation. You don't know what that
means to a woman, Mr. Harlegh, the FIRST gltterng
bubble Of happiness. DO you ask me to DreaN IT, 10
throw away? Shall tell George that my atner De't
me and abused me. and that Il compromised myself
in an insane desire to escape IT all by marrying man
who out Of pity asked me to be his wife! What would
ne think Of me? He worshipS me now, Mr.. Harcign.
F-f- II would break my heart. II would really
Haroigh stood up straight taking his hand from Miss
Bcrrv's and laughing. an the first place, he SAID
"Niclson will know that any man who asked you 70
marry him was in love with YOU In the second place
Won cyagqcratc the consequences OF that episode 1t
doesn't look 50 bad YOU think. Its all Your imagi-
ANYWAY" she concluded, 81 will not tell him.
The Englishman walked the length Of the room and
back IF YOU don't tell him, he said, Il shall
@YourT She said sharply "Whv would YOU dare to
intcrfcrc,"
For your own future happiness, he answered, hands
in his pockets his lips Wrcdthcd in smiles lust think
what it would mean if somebody who had been III
Dctonadc met your husband in New York or Washing
ton and told him the story. You think such thing
impossible. You remember Sam Nalcott; Hes
millionaire now, with homes IN Ne" ioTh ana odi
Francisco. And Dick Jackson, he struck 1t rich ana
hangs around Washington half the year. You see you
won't escape it. Isn't that true
Il suppos, 50" she asscntcd sadly.
"You know" he supplemented. "thcse little things
make no difference before you're married; but mat
rimony mutplics past mistakes.
He paused; but she did not answer, and he walked
10 the window, pulling aside the curtain 80 that ne
might look out Above the sound Of the hddlcs IN the
ballroom there rang out from the thckct the tunutuou
song Of the mockngbrl
A TRAP drew up at the gate, and a tall, heavily built
n man with his left shoulder pcrccpubly higher than
the other stepped to the ground