The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-12-04

as you Perhaps" she added WITH 4
return of her forced hardness. lit was
not quite the way one would expSct \
Galahad or Quixote to spend a week.
But the blame Is as much m: le as
yours So don't let's talk of that.
Can't we both forget it."
Forget it? Why. girl. it's my whole
life"
1t is an episode whose memory can
be sweet or bitter as We choose To
make It, We were clever enough to
leave no trace when We went away.
I'm supposed to be on q visit and
your worthy constituents were told
that their congressional representa-
tive was going away to recuperate.
somewhere in the mountains. You
will return from your vacation much
benefited-if q little vague ~ to its
details. And ! will go back to my
aunt's tonight, prepared to start hap
PLY on my European trip tomorrow
morning. That IL all"
"Oh. girl. l love you. You are
mad-insane-to talk this way-to
plan what you are planning Cant
you see it! Won't you give me
. chance to get back your love? /
had II once-I can get it again II you
will give me the chance. know can
make you happy"
A smile that savored of the rack
twisted her set lips-and died before
1t reached her eyes.
mo. dear" she contradicted gently.
you can't make me happy. doubt
il you can make any woman happy. A
woman-one who didn't know the un-
Galahad side Of you as | do-might
respect or even reverence you. But
you couldn't hold her love. No woman
ever really loved man because he
was good; or because he fought
against political evils or slew dragons.
She might admire him for it. But ad-
miration and reverence are petty poor
everyday fare. When your wife want
ed you to say crazy adoring things to
her, you would be thinking out new
insurgent plan by which you could
block the machine in congress. When
she hoped you'd, buy her some candy
or few flowers on your way home
from the Capitol. you'd be too busy
framing your next speech to think of
such trifles. Those same trifies and
his wild extravaganza Of praise and
the quick noticing of anything she
puts on to please him, are the cords
that lash a woman's heart to mans.
Not her pride in the way he is fighting
his country's political battles
''Listen!" pleaded Standish. iii
give 1t all up: my seat in congress, my
fight for the people. my political hopes
everything! I'll give it all up-all-
II you will marry me and give me a
chance to make you love me again"
Its no use." she returned. For the
moment you almost carried me of my
feet | can understand now why your
speeches that read SO stupidity, can
sway people. But it's only an i'm
pulse. Inside of an hour you would
question it. Inside of day you would
regret it"
mo! MOI"
And inside of q week you would
be secretly reading every scrap of con.
gressional news and cursing your lot
| at being out Of the fight. 1t would be
like all sacrifices. In time one gets to
hating the person one made them for
Oh, 1t would be misery for US both I!
1t would be even worse than this
| week"
To-day there seems much l don't
understand" he retorted. But one
thing is very clear to me: the course
you've chosen Is an impossible one
for you. You must marry me. II not
for love. then because it is the right
thing to do. do not ask you to care
for me or even to live in the same
house with me. But Tor your own sake
you must"
ut is for my own sake that l must
do nothing Of the sort You get your
ideas OF life from books. Too many
people do that. am not going to let
this one mistake ruin every bit of my
future. won't let one moment of folly
blot all my life. Men don't. Why
should women? There is still much
in the world for me. And for you, too
If you'll look at It sanely. Oh. know
my kind of sanity shocks you. But
| 1t is sanity. You are held back by
| centuries Of traditions. Your father
| began life as millionaire's son. Mine
began 1t in an Irish orphange Your
grandfather was a supreme court
| judge. don't know who mine was
There must be something, after all, in
| this talk of henedity. For instance.
don't suppose there's girl in all
\ your sisters set who would have con
| seuted to honeymoon like ours, is
| there? Your sisters wouldn't have
done such a thing, would they?"
Mo- he exclaimed In involuntary
| disgust.
At his @ord and tone q faint red
showed ACROSS the Woman's face as II
he had struck her lightly with his
open hAGA. but at oAce she recovered
herself
Lets say soOdby and part as
friends" she suggested NO irremed-
liable harm 10 done. Except for myself.
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