The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-10


this. and bring me the money tomor-
-of course I viii, Only I'm afraid Pm
helping you 10 do something thAt'n not
make Tor your happiness
would AZ make for my happiness TO
90 on Irving With himf AZ long a. /
thought he was true 20 me-oh. think
A woman can put Ut With anything n
after that note
But ~ he'd been drinking-oan't you
see man might do thing then that
ne wouldn't II he were himselff~
He hadn't Just met this Kirl-her
note shows that And its all the rest
too-this f. only n sort Of last straw.
~ I've h !. shred o. -slf-respsei. IN nsys.
tosstner. I'm going 20 Dr. Gardner-to
ask him TO get me into a nursing school
knows ia better than any ons-and
believe he'll uphold me IN this
"A nursing schoolr' repeated Helen.
amazed
What else can dor can't Eo into
bookkeeping. But l can enter a train
Ing school for n1rses-snd In three or
Helen looked at her wonasrfnxly.
Could this delicately-reared woman. I'M
used 70 work. go through the srduous
ing Was she physically strong enoughg
I'm stronger than you think" divin-
or couldn't have gone through tina.
past year I'm -. rather oId 20 start
20 learn a profession. isn't itf' bitterly.
school S6 to 80. rs the only thing /
could take W now. and II wait much
longer-fn be too old for that"
IL had grown dusk before Helen inal-
Il hate to leave you here, This room
Is SO gloomy-the whole house Is so de-
pressing. can't you go 10 q more cheer
"0h. i don't think Of the place. 1
III take some bromide. and In a day
or so I'll see DIT. Gardner.
Al the door she caught Helen's arm
and held it with rigid tenseness
Now l don't think Ed will come to
4 you. lie won't dream that you know.
go S not 10 he to :s Him Soa thSR
that anything you could do would bring
US together now"
. Ill not try TO shape things IN any way
i-rn promise you that"
When Helen reached the street. II was
\ a quarter after six. and for once she
overcame her deep-rooted economy and
signaled a passing taxi She must get
/ home quickly. Warren was probably
| II was the hour of the home going
Icrowds. but Helen leaned back. still alb
hotel room. the very air OF which had
vibrated with Mrs. Colburn's intensity.
| She pictured her going there after
, midnight. What must have been her
sensation when she found herself alvns
lin that strange hotel7 How had she
And sn now o tonight i But she had said sH she
would take some bromide II she could
not sleep.
so much from her husband-should she
have tried to endure this too?
4 II took courage. infinite courage. for
and go out, wholly unit for the grim,
sorbid struggle OF earning her own liy-
Ing. Would her courage hold? Would
have AZ N
would she let her husband seek her uut
and yield 10 his plea TO return
When she left the taxi at the door
Helen's upward glance sought the win
dows OF the eighth and ninth floors. The
Colburns apartment was dark-it seem
leaned at the cheerful glow that shone
from the windows on the floor below
Warren was therel
ing OF guilt that She could never quite
appreciate her own well-ebing except Dy
contrast with the distress Of some one
once before Mrs. colburn's unhappi-
ness had brought to her the realization
held. But now she would make this
realization permanent. She would no
longer let the trivial things blind her
And Warren's faults OF irritabili.y
seemed now so trivial! They had SEEM
lomed large again. But hereafter she
would keep this moment before her
when his il-humor was the most try
Now. ne would remember what che felt
Aglow with the enthusiasm OF thu
resolve. she hurried in to the elevator.
: her own happier lot. was the haunting
thought OF that dark. empty Apartment
and Mrs Colburn alone in that gioomy
Russia lacks but 10 degrees OF reach
ing halfway around the globe.