The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-03-25
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when Love
t ReaWakened:
I The Reunion After Both Had
: Suffered.
BY MARIE SYLVESTER.


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Katherine Denton was a not un-
usual product Of a workaday great
city. yet was she an exception to her
sisters. In years she was twenty-five
when Dwight Sanborn first knew her.
and, added to physical attractiveness
was an indeanable something that re-.
minded You Of Dresden china or dain-
ty. delicate silks-something alien to a
strident, jostling world Of dollars and
duns.
Miss Denton was a stenographer in
the law Office where young Sanborn
worked after graduation from the law
school and where he subsequently,
earned a Junior partnership. In the
first days Of apprenticeship to the law
he remembered more OF Browning
than of Blackstone and quoted the
philosopher Kant to the neglect Of the
legal Kent.
1t was similarity in taste that first
brought the young people closer than
stenographer and employer. Sanborn
was debating petition to be filed in
an action for breach Of promise, and
his levity evidenced luis distate Of the
task.
Flippantly he quoted from Mrs.
Browning's immortal sonnet, which
the incautious defendant had incorpo-
rated in letter destined to be an ex-
hibit in the case:
| love thee with love l seemed to lose
With my lost saints ! love thee With the
breath. Smiles
The rest escaped him.
"Smiles.' he repeated, in an effort to
remember, when Miss Denton inter
rupted:
Smiles. tears of all my life. and if God
choose
1 shall but love thee better after death.
The repetition was impersonal Of
course, and the young woman let cs-
cape her the repreSsel tenscneSS Of
the tones which told Of sympathy With
the heart that gave the sentiment to
the world aud more than that TO "a
man who could inspire it,
Sanborn laughed, thanked her for
completing the quotation and finished
outlining the petition. Afterwam he
remembered, and a day or two later
Il daintily bound volume of the Por-
tuguese sonnctS reached Miss Denton $
desk with Snnborn's card. That was
the beginning.
Love came quickly to both of them.
and scarcely Il wear elapsed until kath-
crime Denton was Katherine Sanboln
Cour,shp days We're dreams of accom-
piSlment and development of higher
ideals they believed they wanted to
realize.
But, while the woman loved and
lived and dreamed, the man deteriorat
cd to the typically masculine. He be
came brilliant in manipulation of the
laws intricacies and WAS made 4 reg
ularly retained counsel to Il number of
immense and important corporations
His days ut the Office We're filled with
the law. and the evenings ut home
felt the dominating Influence of ambi.
TONS passion.
Instead OF the dreams of sweetheart
days, everything was subordinated to
the quest for legal success. And to
Katherine came the thought that even
in his profession ideals had been de-
lhroned and new gods set up for adora-
ton and devotion. for Sanborn was at
his best when plotting Il corporation
craft through mazes that ballled the
intent of the statutes.
I'm losing the man | nnrried,' she
cried to herself in the solitude of neg
Icctcd witchood. Hes slipping. slip
ping, and | cannot prevent it, cannot
hold him.
With disilIusionment came unrest.
with unrest rebellion. 10 the woman
il seemed that all that life held worth
while WAS being taken from her. She
was envied rs the wife of Il brilliant
man. one destined to acquire great
wealth, but these We're not desirable
to her
"Sometimes-lm not quite happy
she told him falteringly one night
when he remarked her apparent ILL.,
ness.
Nonsense. little girl! We're getting
along famously." he told her.
"You are" she answered duly.
well, it's for us BOTH" was his re-
ply. but 1t did not satisfy.
For three years she endured it, and
because there were only the two of
them life grew lonelier and lonelier
until in moment Of desperate aber-
ration she fed his house and left a
note bidding him not to seek her.
At first she was in doubt where to
turn. She had Il little money and fel,
sure she could secure a position as
Strnographer and that Il few weeks
would enable her to regain her old
time cleverncss in the calling Then
she reflected that Sanborn would nat
urally seek her in the field of her for
mer rmDlOVment