The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-20
TheEDening Story
Bleeding Heart.

| Copyright. 1916. 3y " Werner
A. the third persistent cIang OF
the telephone bell Jean Bradish took
down the receiver. Experience fore.
warned her that il would be David
Posts voice coming TO her over the
wire
You're going TO Mrs Crippens
bridge Jean That's too long walk
for you Let ne take you in The
car"
Between receiver and transmitter
Jeans face twisted in q provoked
little grimacc. "Oh. thank YOU,
David he replied, but I shall start
early and loitcr. so | shant mind.
There's place or two | mean to
drop into
Then I'll be there TO bring you
home"
well" Jean laughed family
and hung up It seemed useless 20
protest further As she turned from
the phone she met her mothers
eyes
What would YOU do with q man
like that?" she asked dcsFairing'y
Mrs. Bradish,. slender, calm and as
lovely at fifty as Jean was al 'weniy-
FIVE. passed her tatting shuttle back
and forth in two or three intricate
stitches before she replied 81
should marry him"
Mother"
The shuttle became motionless 1T
seems 10 me, dear, that you are sub.
jecting him to needless viviscctiun.
You wouldn't hurt a ly vet You are
tearing David Posts heart into bits
every day The worst Of it is YOU
rather enjoy seeing him squirm IN
der your cruelty. | hope there won't
come time YOU regret it.
But, mother, you don't under
stand II he suffers II is his own
fault. don't want 10 keep him.
I've told him so, yet he persists. It's
every day and every day. I'm
really I'm a state OF siege. but when
alls said and done, shan't marry
him"
Mrs. Bradish did not speak again.
She merely made her shuttle ny,
and after a moments waiting for
something more Jean went upstairs
10 get ready for the afternoon.
She hated bridge, she did not like
Mrs. Crippen or the women she
should meet about the card tables.
However one must do something
with ones time II one Is not mar
ried. II came 10 her that she might
have been married long ago 10
David. But she was waiting for
some one better than David-no.
not exactly better for he was good
enough. but different. If she could
find q man like that wonderful Eng.
lishman who had married Elsie De.
vine, The Hon Percy Maxwell was
redolent OF the odor OF romance.
After all. II was the romance she
hungered for Life so far had been
simply an AFFAIR Of facts-plain,
solid. sensible facts II was like
being fed on cold roast beef when
one was dying for ice cream and
chocolates Not that ice cream and
chocolates would make any kind of
steady diet. Jean wanted her ro-
nance. and she expected the man
she loved 20 furnish her with IT, u
was Davids misfortune that there
was nothing romantic about him. lie
was "a impossible OF change as
problem in geometry There were
no surprises in him. and after four
years OF his prosaic and persistent
wooing Jean had no mind to commit
herself TO a long lifetime OF the
same,
There was the usual little crowd
AT Mrs. Crippen's, the usual prizes.
the usual gowns And as usual Mrs
G.aIklu was late.
shes got something new TO wear
and wishes to make sensation
said Mrs. Parker rather spitcfully
Mrs. Parkcr's blue foulard was be-
ginning 10 look rather dingy and
she knew II.
"or she's gathering fresh bit OF