Evening star., 1915-02-21
kindness OF waiting, you will return to your

kindness OF waiting, you will return to your
senses
Rollins imperturbable determination rose
about Adela like wall. She felt trapped;
she wanted to scream. The room in which
they sat seemed to close in upon her suffo-
catingly Her fathers voice and her own
were as calm as if they had been discussing
the trivial plans for days amusement, and
Il had thought you would help me to
happiness, she said breathlessly.
~ am saving you from folly and misery.
Adela, you forced this situation on Crane
by your own confession. Unless he and
combine to aid you in your temporary mad
ness, you are powerless. We refuse!7
u shall appeal to Penrhyn.'
"1f you appeal to Penrhyn, shall see that
every avenue of success in New York is
closed to Crane. He will go to his old father
failure, and you will never see him again
friend"
Il did not know you were so cruel!7 she
ragged.
@If threaten what seems to you cruelty,
it is only so that can be kind"
Il don't want your money! I'd marry
Baldwin Crane without cent?
3You don't know what it is to be poor,
and he does. He would not let you under
take the suffering poverty entails
"If cannot marry him, shall marry no
one!" she said sobbing.
"Yes, my child, you will, when this folly
has passed. Adela, do you think this is easy
for me? Do you think want to hurt you,
even though know the day will come when
you will thank me?7
"You never could have loved my mother!"
she storned.
Rolin rose to his feet and lowered over
her. you dare to say that to me! / have
put no woman in her place! Every night of
my life send her message, a long message
from my heart before l sleep! 1t is because
she died, worn out from poverty and from
trying to help me in my early struggles, that
/ have vowed you should be safe. | have
told her every night that her child shall be
the richest woman in America Let me tell
you, my girl, that if 1 were free, if had not
you to consider, my life in these days would
be very different thing. You understand
nothing, -nothing!-least of all that it is
your ultimate happiness for which l have
subjected us to this scene"
Adela left him, knowing that she had
gained nothing, feeling that there was no one
to help her, not even Crane. Nothing but
miracle could save her She knew, of course,
that she could not be forced to marry Pen
him that she loved Crane her father would
carry out his threat, and ruin Crane That,
to her mind, would not matter, if he were
willing to marry her; but, since he was not
willing, her pride would not let him be ex-
posed to injury through any act Of hers.
Yet she did not see how she would be en-
abled to carry on the farce of her relation
ship with Hale She resolved to pave the
way for final break with him by telling him
in the morning that she did not love him,
and never could. Even if she were good
actress, she thought, Hale could not fail to
learn that he was not making progress with
her.
WHEN she rose late in the morning after
a restless night she found note from
Hale. His father was sending him on i'm
portant business to San Francisco He
had come over, sure of an uninterrupted
hour with her; but her father had said she
was not well and ought not to be walked
Hale thought he would be back within a
fortnight, and he would write her daily. In
this Adela thought she read the design of her
father. He had talked with the elder Hale,
and they had planned to get Penrhyn out
of the way until the first days of what they
called her madness should be over She
wrote to Crane. He returned her letter un-