Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-18

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Woman and Home
CONTINUED From Yesterday

- Lynn was tired very tired. and the
rest he sought out here upon the
equally troubled sea came not so
readily as he had expected. The very
soul Of him chafed at John Haisted's
bitter mandate that he was 10 be a
stranger al his home. He had thought
out here, TO get away from the torment
of being in the same city with Esther
and yet so remote from her. That the
same sounds he heard might reach her
ears. that the same sights he saw
might be in her eyes at the same mo-
ment and that she was still thousands
of miles apart from him for all the
good it did-,hat was what tortured
him beyond endurance.
Halsteds failing strength, the pre-
seriousness of his clutch upon life,
Esthers obedience to him were in
Lynn's thoughts--hc was forced to ad-
! nit, when calmness soothcd his har-
raised brain. that the qualities that
kept Esther away were the self-same
qualities that caused him so TO idolize
her. And still he rcbellcd against the
harsh dictum OF fate; still he ragged
at her. still he tortured himself with
dubiety regarding the love that would
sacrifice so much for duty.
Alicia knight. a slight smile
curved his lips as he recalled the beau
tiful. wild young creature ALICIA
Knight-untamed, rebellious at conven-
tions. needless of the morrow, in love
with life, Why could not Esther have
some of the.
little laugh. bit timid despite
Ats bravado. made him turn swiftly. 1t
was as though a Merlin had waved
shis wand and materialized his thoughts.
,-de could not quite conceal his pleasure
lat sigh, of ALICIA, looking at him
.siittle detiantly, a little bashfully. as she
sstood Just a few feet away. He could
Fpot quite cloak the insincerity OF his
approaches, allowed them to he snufted
; out completely her fingers brushed
tightly against his own as, side by
side, they leaned against the tanrail
They did not speak-the pair. There
was no need for words The nurmur
of the waters, the ceaseless unrest of
At, the rhythmical rock of the slender
eiined yacht, all, everything wrought an
.'eerie enchantmcnt round them, an en-
.'chantment that came in the ruise Of
efreedom from all restraint, an enchant-
gment in the costume OF nights license,
syet an enchantment with bands stoutcr
Than any the hands OF man could ever
fashion.
She murnurcd httle sound OF per-
feet happiness, sound that blended
into the sounds OF The night so per
fcctly he was not consciously aware !
OF it. \ wisp Of her hair VAS taken By
the roEuish breeze and futte-ed across
his cheek. The perfume OF il intoxi- (
Gated him and Yet !, was hut part
.: tne night. Ee reached out his hand
10 nGs ~ vas-anr loc. In place His
finger TIPS movs6 across her cheek and
the th-i!. vas bu, another OF This Won
dEous nights myriad phases. Her
eyes sought MS o~n. hathad in The
Question. Ine wild embarrassed won
der she -eaG there. And then i long.
1uttering s,reamsr. \ plume OF black
fiouG reached out its giant fingers and
snatched the huge moon from its place
In the heavens. And. frightened al
their mothers flight the chatterinG
stars fed 70 md her. And bu, one
Tong, steady s.sn loo:ned high. Nor
Did it bend It's ii sh.. Nor did il turn
TO pry upon the man and woman For