The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-13

be carried to extremes Have your
permission TO say that the stories are
let Us say, overdrawn?'
You have not Lies too short to
enter into contest with rumor."
But your silence"
lis my AFFAIR Mark answered grut-
fly, rising. "You may say TO your
meticulous friend that I'm about 10
resign from this club"
Baker, too, rose, looking at Mark
keenly.
oh, come, Truitt, he began,
that's"
But Mark cut him short. AT least
il will save him and his sort the ne.
cessity of setting a precedent that
would decimate the club. Good. even
ing
Henley, who had been out OF the
city when Mark returned, came back
soon after the latter took up his resi-
dence I'm the hotel Mark approached
him with the inward shrinking that
preceded every new meeting Just
then.
You've picked up physically" hen.
ley remarked after cool handshake.
six months in the woods accounts
for that"
I'D think, If it was doing you so
much good. you'd have stayed
I'm other words?'
In other words" said Henley, why
did you come back now"
Mark laughed holloway. IL didn't
know Id become notorious charac
ter"
How, in heavens name" Henley
exclaimed did YOU let yourself get
caught in a divorce court scandal? Ia
have thought that you, OF all men, II
you had TO play the fool would al
| least have used hnesse."
So even Henley believed the ru
mors
AT any rate, no one but myself is
hurt"
That's not true Every one VINO
had anything to dc with you Is more
or less hurt The company is retec,
ed on. l." Henley concluded with an
air that declared the indictment To be
complete and unanswerable, II am be
smirched, because we're known TO BE-
in so many things together
That" Mark returned coldly. "can
be easily cured. We can wind up our
affairs. And I'm ready TO resign from
the company
You can't cure the fact that We
have been together. And you cant
resign Are you going TO add 70 the
scandal by marrying that woman"
What woman Marks voice was
cool and steady.
The one that turned your head and
your wife was smart enough to dis
cover" =
You've heard names, them"
NO growled Henley Shes as
mysterious as the rest OF your didoes. =
"As mythical you mean" Mark an
swered in a voice that did not betray
his relief. There was no woman"
What. You mean these stories
aren't true?'
You'd seen me almost every day
for years You might have guessed
that"
But last year-those women"
IN experiment in idiocy--nothing
worse There were no women except
at arms length"
Henley surveyed him keenly Then
how did these stories get out? But
woman Is never clever except when
she's up to mischief
However" he went on, this puts
different face on the matter A
you say, | mifht have guessed the
truth This. for Henley, was AFFECT
apology,
Mark shook his head. My resigna.
tion holds just the same
Are you going TO let little talk
drive YOU out2" Henley demanded
1T isn't that ! had decided before
knew OF &C. I'm tired OF the scram.
BILE / want-peace." Mark laughed
discordantly. "And I'm getting II with
vengeance"
AS much as youll ever get IT,,
Henley returned promptly II know
what you want. Who doesn't? Some
time or other every man wants. or
thinks he wants. peace. And II he
had H. he'd want TO die The only
man who ever really. consistently
wanted peace was hanged to the cross
for preaching H." He paused, looked
gravely at the troubled man before
him. When he resumed. there was I'm
his voice a gruff kindness probably no
one had ever heard from Thomas Hen.
lev before "You cant have t.
There's no such thing as peace How
could there be. I'm world OF million
cross purposes? Everything man
has has yalu because some one else
wants A. Everything he would do
hurts another and that other Is bound
TO resist II you want what you call
peace you'd have to fight 10 keep II
There's no escape from the scramble
Very pretty-for you. You belong
But whats a man 10 do when be
finds he's a misft2p
(con.Inued)