The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-08-24

10 any other man would Say
travel. But to you ! say when you
leave your rooms don't so where you
'drst thohght you would that is, some
Usual haunt. They'll be everywhere,
near your restaurants, your clubs,
your Office. You're d methodical young
man; become erratic. Keep away from
4 here for at least three days, but all
ways call me UP by telephone soma
time dufihg the DAY. Never under any
\ circumstance, unless 1 send for you.
come here at night Only one man
now watches the house during the
4 day, but I'VE are proving around
4 after dark. They might have instruc-
Ehons TO shoot You on sight. can't
Espare you Just at present, Mr.. Norton.
you've been godsend; and II 1t
h seems that sometimes | did not trust
You fully 1t was because did not care
10 drag you III too dsep."
4 peep2 Norton thought Of Fiorarlce
l;atd smiled dnwardiy. Gould anybody
be In deeper than He was? Once Il
WAS on the tip 81 his tongue II "a cor
Tess his love for Elorence. bnt the
gravity of Jones. cpuntenancH was an
obstacle to such Mlovei 1t did not Inv
| wife 1t,
TO be sure, jones had no real au-
thortty to say what Florence should
or should not do with her heart still.
/ from all points OF view. It was better
TO Keep the affair under the rose TIL
there came a more propit6us hour in
which to make the disclosure.
Love. in the midst Of all these
alarmsl Sharp, desperate rogues On
one side, millions on the other. and
yet love could enter the scene se-
renely, like an actor who had missed
his cue and came on tho soon.
Oddly enopgh there was no real
l?vemaking such as you often read
about A pressure OF the hand. a
glance from the eye, there was seldom
anything more. Only 6iice-that mem
prable day on the river road--had he
kissed her. No word OF love had been
spoken on either side. In that wild
moment all coAventionalities had dis
appeared like smoke in the wind.
There had been neither part nor f1-
ture, only the present In which they
knew that they loved. With her he
was happy, for he had no time ia
plan over the future. Away from her
he saw the inevitable Barriers pf6vid-
Ing against the marriage bstween al
DOOR young man and q very rich young
woman A man WHO has any respect
wants always to be on equal terms
with his Wife, financially more than In
any other thing. It's the way this1
peculiar organization called Society
has written down Its rules. Doubtless
relic OF the stone age, when Abb went
out with his club to seek wife ana
drag her by the hair to his den. and
there to care for her an dto guard her
with his lifs's blood. 1t Is one OF the
few primitive sensations that remain
to US, this wanting the female de-
pendent upon the male. Perhaps this
accounts for mans lack Of Interest On
the sufffaget question. ~
Only Susan suspected the true state
Of affairs, being q woman. Having had
no real romance herself, she delighted
In having second hand one. as Won
might say. She intercepted many a
glance and pfetented not to see the
stolen hand pressires. The wedding
was already full drawn IN her minds
eye. These two young people should
be married at Siisan FaTlow's when
the roses we're climbing up the side
Of the house and the young robins
were boldly trying their fuzsy wings.
| It struck her as rather strange, btlt
she could not cenjure Up cat this we'd
dins) more than two men besides the
minister. the bridegroom, and the but
Her.
By forsaking his accustomed haunts,
under the advice Of Joites, the hidden
warfare ceased temporarily. You can't
very well Nil d man When you don't
know where To find him. He ate his.
| breakfasts haphazardly, now here. now
there. He received most OF his assign
ments by telephone ana wrote his
stories ana articles Ii his club, ID tie:
writing rooms Of hotels, ana inyariab-
lily dispatched them to the offioe By
messenger. Tie managing editor
wanted to know what ali this meant:
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