South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-13

go.
You mean you won't go-you're
stubbornly determined not 10 go. Why
don't you tell the truth about it,"
We'll, I'll tell you right now-I'm
not going to have any stir up in my
family You're going 10 that dinner,
and you're going 10 act as though
nothing happened. And you'll not pull
OF any more high and mighty stunts
either. It's about time you're get
ting some common sense. And right
here's where you're going 10 get it,"
Warren, / can't let you talk To me
like that"
I'll talk to YOU as blame please
Without word Helen rose a.d
quickly left the room, closing the door
after her.
Helen is Angry.
She did not cry. Her indignation
was too great for tears She had gone
into the bedroom and locked the door.
And now she stood with her hand still
clenched 10 the knob-her cheeks
aflame.
Would he try 20 follow her? She
listened tensely. For several mo-
ments everything was very still Then
came the banging of the hall door.
So he had gone cut, Well, anything
rather than a continuation of this,
When he returned he would probably
not speak 10 her at all. But she felt
that even such a silence would be bet
ter than 10 go on saying things that
were more and more bitter-that per
haps they could never get.
At ten o'clock she YEARLY UNI
dressed and went TO bed It would
only iritate him TO have her wait up
II was after twelve when he came
Although Helen lay very quiet and did
not turn. he knew she was not asleep.
But he went TO bed without speaking
TO her.
The next morning he ate his break
fast in stOlid silence and left without
kissing her goodbye. For Helen Z
was long, unhappy day. Before
evening she had worried herself al
most sick. She knew that if she did
not go TO Carries dinner that for
weeks Warren would show his dis
pleasure by his scOwling Sullen silence.
But could she go? How could she
after their treatment Of her on Christ
mas day? And now TO give them an
other opportunity TO further slight her
to let Carries children annoy Wini- !
fred while the rest of the family look
ed cOmplacently on No. no, she
would not go, II was not often that
Helen took SO firm a stand, but now
she did not waver.
carrie on the PnOnc.
When Warren came home for dinner I
he maintained the same stOlid silence .
as at breakfast. This was the way he .
was Furnishing her. And she knew If /
she did not gO-he would keep it up /
indefinitely.
1t was just as they left the table /
that the phone bell rang. Helen /
usually answered the phone. and she I
cid SO now without thinking. Ii was F.
Carrie. Helen knew her voice with .
the first Hello. She had of course .
not seen or spoken TO her since the .
Christmas incident, and now there was /
an embarrassed pause Then Carrie /
said coldly:
rs Warren there?"
Yes IN call him--just hold the
wire"
Warren. Carrie wishes to speak to
YOU" she called into the sitting room.
Warren came out and took the re-
ceiVer.
Hello .... Oh. at 7?..
We'll. that's sensible-I loathe those
monday dinners. No reason why
YOU should ruin your digestion just
because it's a holiday ...... That's fine N
...... Yes, I'll be there in time to
make the punch. .Helen's not
coming You'll have to ask her
hat - haven't the least idea I'm
only accounting for myself these days
800. Yes. III call you up to-
..... Good bye n
Warren came back to the sitting
room and took up his paper without
comment.
Helen was standing by the window
pressing her flushed face against the
cool pane of glass. The hall door had
/, cen open and she could not help but
hear.
HAD Carrie asked him if she was
coming? or had he volunteered that Il
And when he said
you'll have TO ask her about that
il was of course in answer to Carries
'why?''
What would he have said if she had
not been there--had ne not known she
could hear him? What would he say
tomorrow when he called Carrie up i
from the Office?
What Would He say?
And now Helen. with her sensitive
md vivid imagination, tortured herself
With questions as To what he would
say-and TO how he would say it?
When Carrie pressed him for a reason
'or her not coming-what reason
would he give? OF course Carrie
Knew the reason. yet Helen felt that
she would pretend not TO know. That
she would ignore the incident OF
christmas and ask Warren with we'll
surprise, why isn't Helen
'Omdng
And then what would Warren say?
Would he refuse il and say. as he had
tonight You'll have to ask her about
hiatt" or would he talk TO Carrie
about her? Would they talk over the
Incident of Christmas when she had
SO Indignantly left the room? What
would they say about it? Could War
zen talk her over" with anyone
wen his sister?
And now To Helen there came a sick
-ealization that after all in many ways
.be stood alone. She could never
again feel quite the same sense OF
being one" with Warren that she had
before.
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