El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-26
The Diary Of a Bachelor
By Max
HAVE wondered ever since tt

accident why Sally did not
4 come to me, and learned this
morning. She had sailed for Europe
the day before, and was on the ocean
the day Richards received Mrs. Aliens
telegram to come at once
I had a note from her, today, writ
ten in Paris ,er
My dear big brother, she WIole-
can't tell you how alarmed l was at
reading in the cable news in Parls
paper of your accident. hope that
the charge of eXaggerauon always
made against the pres IS true TINS
time 1 received daily cables regard
ing YOUR condition from the DOCTOR
and he assures me you are getunS
along all right. You know, my dear
big brother. need you, and can't Set
along without you. You are more than
all the "oiiu - ii'e' sally"
Isn't that just like woman? she
puts in that word brother Twice u
make me realize that 1 am no more
than a brother to her, and then ADDS,
You are more than all the world 10
me-" to keep me crazy about her,
She has a husband, and can't nave
me, but she likes to be loved: and m
tends to keep me loving her!
Past Proofs.
In looking, backward I find every
reason for believing that her OPPOSE
ton to the widow was not actuated
entirely by sisterly feelings. me ooQk
of warnings she sent me, and the
many kilograms, to beware of the
woman who was pursuing me, are PROOF
10 me that Sally loved me then' ana
I did not know it
I can recall hundreds or incidents
K that show her affection was not of the
sisterIy brand. When she would pass
my chair, she would put a hand low
ingly on my shoulder, and many an
evening she has sat between Jack and
nn
mine. And il was not of my dolng'
Diary: she would thrust her hand IN
mine at every opportunity
And the long Welks we look IN tLle
evening, in order, as she claimed 10
give the widow uninterrupted Oppor-
tunity to bake love to Jack, because,
she said, "he needed to be punished
was that her only reason? Did she
want to be alone with me only Ior
that?
you are so stupid" she said to me
once. that if a woman were in love
with you. and tried her best 10 snow nov
it, you would never see it Now sup
pose, for instance that loved y
and had been trying to tell you Tor
But You don't" I added. you love
yes" she repeated duly. 81 love
Jack" He is my husband, and OF
course I love him. The law many
centuries ago ordained that a vile
should love her husband, and 1
wouldn't presume to question the law"
She laughed 2 little bitterly But
suppose" she repeated, that loved
you, and told you so"
I Talking of Love.
Sally is a very handsome woman. L
recall that on this occasion she was
living in a hammock, and I sat in q
chair near her We were on her porcn,
waiting, I believe, for Jack to return
IF Won loved me-" I said, 81 think
I would make you realize as you have
never realized what it is to nave
mans love. But this is nonsense, 1or
Of course, there is Jack
Yes" she said, there is Jack. Max,
90 homel You are so gOod-looking
tonight YOU are dangerous
I laughed. for I thought it was only
more OF her nonsense.
Go home" she repeated 1 got up
and started for the steps, rather sui
ky to be treated so, and she caught
up with me when had descended the
second step and threw both arms
around nv neck You are just two
steps taller than I" she laughed. Then
she pressed my face against hers and
whispered that I was dear, big stu
pid.
now what it was that made me so
stupid. I had been so sure for years
that she belonged to Jack, not be-
cause her marriage ties bound her
but because she loved him and had no
room in her thoughts for any other
/ man, hat it never entered my head
that she Jared for nc.
I look q I, myself with disgust be-
cause I didn't recognize my oppOr-
tunities She was Inundated be-
cause CT the manner in which her
husband sIighted her; her heart was
mine all the time, and she couldn't
/ tell me, and I was too big a dolt to
see
When I get well, if I get we'll
| you know, Max" the doctor said to
me very frankly this morning, some
thing went wrong with your spine in
that fall, and we have a fight ahead
of us"
So there is an 'ff' connected with
nv future that is the biggest 'if' I
have met in my troubled existence. It
is all right If I win, I will fight for
Sally.
Only WEAKNESS.
August IA do not suffer any
great pain. only the pain Of WEAKNESS,
and the nurse is so patient and ten
der I am ashamed to complain of that
I am bOlstered up in bed few
hours every morning and write these
lines at long intervals apart. It is a
comfort to me to write that which
I cannot speak about and it shortens
the long days.