The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-18
Married Life
the Third Year

The moment Warren entered, Helen
knew by the set lines of his mouth
that something unusual had happened
There were some things that past
experience could never teach Helen,
and one Of them was not 10 purr over
Warren at such times. When he
came home with that grim expression,
she knew that he always wanted to be
let strictly alone, yet she could never
resist fluttering about him with anx-
iOus questions.
Dear, what is it? Has anything
happened? You look so tired and
worried"
oh. for heavens sake, let me
alone as he shook her off and went
in to wash up for dinner.
All through dinner Helen's anxious
solicitude only irritated him more 1t
was not until they left the table that
he announced with grim defiance:
We'll, | found out today that I'll
have to go to Paris on that Livingston
case
ITO PARIS!"
The Kaiser Wilhelm sails Tues
day he went on coldly ignoring her
astoIishment. Looks now as though
Id have to go on that"
But, Warren, I-I-Why ! didn't
know you were THINKING of going
to Paris! You never even mentioned
it,"
Took mighty good care not to. You
always stew over things so that
never tell you anything until | have
to-
A SHOCK.
But Paris. PARIS" Helen gazed
up with widening eyes, for it was just
da Wning on her what trip to Paris
would mean. "Oh, dear it'll be such
a WONDERFUL trip. And I've al
ways wanted to so there more than
anywhere else in the world. But
Tuesday-do you think we CAN get
ready by Tuesday,"
Il can. You're not going brutally.
Not going?" 1t was hardly more
than whisper
Nov for heavens sake, don't try
to be tragic. No, you're NOT going
and that settles it, Now We'll not
on business trip. hurried one, too.
and there's no earthly sense in drag
ging you along"
Helen sat as though stunned. Then
realizing that her very silence was ir-
ritating him, she asked mechanically:
How long will you be gomez
Cant tell. Maybe not more than
six weeks, possibly three months"
Three months"
oh cut the stage business Every
thing | say you repeat with a tragic
gasp. Paris! Not going. Three
months!'" rasping out the words in
exaggerated mimicry. Great heavens,
can't a man ever go on a business trip
without his wife? And if | took you
what would you do after you got
there? You can't speak French-and
| II have no time to bother with you.
Think I'm going to pay three or four
hundred extra for your passage-just
to have you sitting over there in a
hotel? Well I guess not. Now drop
tive got to work"
And Warren got out a bundle Of
papers he had brought from the Of
flee and settled himself at the desk.
Helen was blindly lingering through
her work basket. In a dazed sort of
way she wound up spools and thrust
scattered pins and needles in the tiny
strawberry cushion.
A FoREeODiNG.
Her glance fell on her engagement
ring finger-now SO pathetically bare.
Had the loss of her ring been fore
boding of this? Suddenly she drop
ped the work basket and rushed into
her room, lest Warren should see her
tears. On the bed she buried her
face in the pillow SO the sound of her
sobbing would not reach him.
There had been hardly an ho,E in
the hst week since she had lost her