Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-10

husband is coming-down the hill
What shall I do?' She began to
| tremble very violently.
There's but one thing to do" said
he. stay here and face it out! Tell
him the truth. Or at least let me
tell him the truth. I'm not going to
lose you now. Stay here with me-"
Quite suddenly she darted aside to
the tall shrubbery which stood thick
! there, but the man was as quick as
she and caught her before she had
gone more than a step or two.
You'll come back when he's gomez
he demanded. You'll come back to
me, Break O. Day." The woman was
almost beside herself with fear.
Yes, oh yes! she whispered. Let
me go, Harry, Oh, for heavens sake,
let me gol Yes, I'll come back l
promise. Let me go. Oh, won't you
let me go? | promise. 1 promise any,
thing!" She broke from him and fed
into the cover of the pine shrubs, and
the man watched her go.
Stanley came down the steps and
nodded pleasantly to the man VINO
was there.
Stranger here?" he inquired.
YES said the other man. in a
way-yes."
He, for his part was thinking very
swiftly, and he came to a bold con-
clusion.
Some years ago." said he, 81 met
woman-a girl-and she loved me,
She was going to leave the silly, con-
ventional, marionette-show life she'd
always lived and come away with me
to--freedom. L knew what real life
was, and she was coming to me to
learn. Then things came between
illness-circumsta doesn't mat
ter what. So l lost her. Well, I've
found her again and she hasn't for
gotten. She's coming with me now"
He paused, and drew another quick
breath. IT'S your wife," he said
She's going away with me-"
Stanley gave a short laugh which
seemed to express pure amusement
and nothing else.
"Oh, is she thought" said he
Yes" said the other "she is You
might as well know it. OF course"
he explained, II could have taken her
away in secret without you knowing
anything about it. That's the usual
thing, | believe. But l don't do things
in the dark. Well" he demanded
after a moments pause, what are
you going to do about it?"
~" said the man on the bench.
What have you to offer that | have
not?"
~ have life TO offern' cried the
other man passionately.
You're a bit vague" complained
Mr.. Stanley, his eyes upon the thick
pine shrubbery. Just what do you
mean by this life of yours?"
L mean" cried the other man, "a
life lived close to the good earth-a
: aH NV he and r.
ened by the things that grow-wet
with the rain sometimes for the rair
! is good. a life lived as men were
meant to live it, free over the WORLD
free to come and go without ques-
ton or tie-free of conventional things
and people. That's what real life is
You've never known it, but that's
what it is"
Stanley nodded his head, and he
was no longer smiling.
Il see," said he. 81 see what you
mean. You come offering in placest
! ties and duties, Romance. The Great
| Romance"
| And the other man said: Yes"
| 81 understand" said the man or
| the bench again. "You tempt Shrewd-
| ly, my friend, because you offer-oi
think you offer-what we all dream OF
and, in our varying degrees, long for
| Romance. 1t 5 Ile great luTe!. On
yes, you come with shrewd plea"
! He gave another gentle smile, look.
| ing up from where he sat, his hands
clasped about one up-cocked knee.
"Ah!" said he in a new and tender
! tone-smiling away across the quiet
| sea. "Ah, these idyllic love affairs
| that have come to nothingi They
stick in the memory. Cad, how they
stick in the memory And how sweet
they are there! The point is, you see
| that they have come to nothing.
81 don't wonder said he, that YOU
were able to turn her head a bit
when you appeared again after al
| this time, with the same old lure
Jove, not Il" he laughed.
/ "You know" he said, 81 should
hate to have one or two little girls
whom ] haven't quite forgotten turr
up here suddenly and remind me oi
what was to have happened long age
what heavens were to have de-
scended upon earth just for two ex-
ceedingly foolish and romantic youne
people. ] can't say that even my
thick head wouldn't spin just a bit
The Great Romancel
! The Great Romancel"
| He was silent for little space then
and the younger man started across
/ at him frownng, for he felt that the
situation was in some wav helms