Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-21
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The short winters day had brought
an early twilight to the place, ana
the woman was closely yelled, but
the moment she spoke North recog-
nized her, for there was something
in the mellow. full-throated quality
Of her speech which belonged only to
one voice that he knew.
Mrs. MISUNDERSTANDING he eX-
claimed, starting back in dismay.
Hush, Jack, you needn't call 1t
from the housetops!" AS she spoke
She swept aside her veil and he saw
her face, a superlatively pretty face
with scarlet. smiling lips and dark
luminous eyes that were smiling, toe.
do you want to see me, Evelyn
he asked awlswardly.
But she was neither awkward nor
embarrassed: she was still smiling up
into his face with reckless eyes and
brilliant lips. She pointed to the door
with her small gloved hand.
For a moment he hesitated. She
was the one person he did not wish
to see; least Of all did he wish to
see her there. She was not nicely
discreet. as he well knew. She did
many things that were not wise, that
were, indeed, frankly imprudent. But
clearly they could not stand there in
the hallway. Gilmore or some OF CHI
mores friends might come up the
stairs at any moment. Langham
himself might be of these.
Something Of all this passed
through North's mind as he stood
there hesitating. Then he unlocked
the door. and, standing aside, mo-
toned her to precede him into the
room.
This room, the largest Of several
he occupied, was his parlor. On en-
tering It he closed the door after nm
and drew forward chair for Evelyn
hut he did not himself sit down, nor
did ne remove his overcoat.
He had known Evelyn all his life
they had played together as chi
dren: more than this, though now
he would have been quite Wiling TO
forget the whole episode and even
more than willing that she should
forget il. there had been time when
he had moped in wretched Inelah-
choiv because of what he had theh
considered her utter hekleness'
shortly after this he had been sent
East to college and had borne the
separation with fortitude that had
rather surprised him when he re-
called how bitter a thing her heart-
lessness had seemed.
When they met again he had found
her more allurlng than ever, but
more devoted TO her pleasures also;
and then Marshall Langham had
come into her life. North had OWNED
that the course of their loye-maklns
was far from smooth, for Langham
temper was high and his will ar
bitrary. nor was he one TO bear meek
" the crosses she laid on him, crosses
which other men had borne in smil-
ing uncompIaint, reasoning, no doubt,
that it was unwise to take her faVors
too seriously; that as they were cas-
ilv achieved they were quite as cas-
ilv forfeited. But Langham was not
like the other men with whom she
had amused herself. He was not
only older and more brilliant, but
was giving every indication that his
success would be solid
and substantial. Evelyn's father had
championed his cause, and in the end
she had married him.
In the five years that had elapsed
since then her romance had taken
it's place with the accepted things of
life, and she revenged herself on
Langham for what she had come to
consider his unreasonable exactions,
by her recklessness, by her thirst for
pleasure, and aboYe all by her eS-
~
Through all the~vicisstudes of her
life, the smallest part of
which he only guessed. North had
seen much of Evelyn. There was a
daring dangerous reckIessness in her
mood that he had sensed and under
stood and to which he had made
quick response. He knew that she
was none too happy with Langham,
and although he had been conscious
of no wish to wrong the husband he
had never paused to consider the out
come of his intimacy with the wife.
Evelyn was the first to break the
silence.
You wonder why / came here,
don't you, Jack?" she said.
"You should never have done it,"
he replied quickly.
What about my letters, why
didn't you answer them?" she de-
manded. II hadn't one word from
you in weeks. 1t quite spoiled my
trip East. What was I to think?
And then you sent me just a line
saying you were leaving Mount Hope
-" she drew in her breath sharply
There was a brief silence. "Why?"
she asked at length.
"It is better that l should" he an
swered awkwardly.
He felt a sudden remorseful ten
derness for her; he wished that she
might have OWNED the change that
had come over him; even how worth.
less "a thing his devotion had been,
the utter selfishness of il.
"Why is it better?" she asked. He
was near enough for her to put out
a small hand and rest it on his arm.
Jack, have I done anything to make
you hate me? Don't you care any
longer for me-"
81 care great deal, Evelyn. I
want you to think the best of me-"
But why do you go? And when do
you think of going, Jack?" The hand
that she had rested there moment
before. left his arm and dropped at
her side.
81 don't know yet, my plans are
very uncertain. l am quite at tne
end Of my money. l have been a good
deal of a fool. Evelyn
Something in his manner restrained
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