The Prescott daily news. (Prescott, Ark.) 1907-1941, 1913-12-01

seat for Baron Sternhold. Now you APP
pear unexpectedly and | this moment
receive note from the baron that he
is unexpectedly detained. | was sure
Mrs. Curtis said you would not be
here Well, of all things-that man
and his wife should be seated visa
Wis at a box party
And there was ripple of laughter
as Mr.. Curtis gravely seated himself
beside his wife. Her fan trembled
lust perceptibly and the eyes still scan
ming the audience were unseeing eyes.
"Inasmuch as we are on dress pa
rade and in full public view" he said,
leaning over and whispering in her
ear, 1T might be best to act 1t out
and display enough decent interest in
each other so as not TO crafty the
fierce longing for scandal which per-
vades the kind hearts abGut us"
You are quite right" she replied
coldly. Il did not expect you. |
thought you started for Mexico to-
day"
Il decided to defer it until tomor-
row." he replied. IF it were possible
for you to smile pleasantly-not at
ne, you know, but at somebody in the
audience, it might serve to lessen the
interest of the dear friends about
u.s."
IF you could think of some subject
for sustained conversation it might be
easier" she said.
Il WILL" he answered sharply, turn
ing toward her. Il will tell you the
story of great love and its unhappy
end
The hero was but an uniformed
boy thrown into the realities of life
early because he happened to have
A2en born into the dollhouse atmos-
here Of money and society He
,EougEt he was mature, experienced
and even blaze. when really he was
more ignorant himself than the COM
monest ..od.
Wei; this Dathctically uneQuipped
aero fu.l in love with the heroine Of
course Yes, he truly fell in love He
hardly knew it at the time, for he was
derstood what love really meant. Per-
h2ps it was more desire than love.
Anyway lie won the heroine.
And then, you see, trouble began.
He was primitive sort of animal and
his real civilizations only began to be
foreshadoWed when he married the
heroine He demanded everything,
gave little, and thought less. And all
the time he knew that she loved him.
And he loved her, too, more blindly
and passionately every moment that
he did the very things to kill her love.
OF course the end was bound to
come. There were chickering's and
scenes and there was brutal inditfer-
ence and exasperating sights.
And finally the crash came. The
bitter things she said in answer to
the bitter things he said ranked In
his heart until he no longer could
stand it. and he determined to go
away and forget So the hero and the
! heroine agreed to disagree and the
hero was to have left for Mexico to-
i day--.nd never trouble the heroine
mole
And why did he not go?' asked the
woman.
'tIe went to the train and boarded
it, the man replied regarding her
steadily but the flood gates of his
memory opened and the tide of his
great love swept over him and the
knowledge that there was to be this
box party came to him, and he knew
she would be here-and the hunger OF
his heart drove him to leave the
train to come here and see her once
more, if only from distance. And
he is boy no longer, but man who
has put away boyish things forever"
The heroine said the woman very
softly, was also very young and had
never been taught many things she
should have known. She never knew
about tact and-and-that sort OF
thing. She also had great love which
grew with the years, but did not know
how to express it,"
Don't you think the hero might
have another chance-that they
might start over again" he said Gag,
erly.
The smile she turned toward him
was so soft and womanly that the face
! of the woman was transformed.