Smyrna times., 1916-11-29
IMnER OF MOMENTUM
BY ELSIE SEE

! alma. when do you start on your
4 &r ...Ou at nine, Warren"
4 Gano.i'D beans car sped silently
y, G,llfp }ne parkway to Alma's mas. home; Ont3;
J J, neither Of them spoke again un'i'
.l'5 gs1 when u you rave finished your
3 MY he asked. ,a. that's
! M .1s another book perhaps; tnatS
1 y r,ral way, believe"
/ s,imo u1'r' dear don't think me unsym-
! .aaic. [ I'm as proud Of your sue
a ron are, but some day the book
/, ,'r, own life must have its new
j laws s written in. I've asked you
Y. far the big role in that book,
n sball continue to ask you until
.onfropt me with a rival more
'dablo than your embryo books"
rrJvp l- been such good friends that
.~Iy wish we might be more, War
brt unless l felt that we must be
Il would be unfair to US both
dre YOU the answer you want now'"
d Alma gently.
Z EOOdby" said Warren, at the porch
aAnd remember that if you
!, ront me or need me, I'll be wait
for your call"
ne next day, Alma set out for a lit
nouDtain village where she worked
,nghout the summer on her book.
Sqptember, the book was finished,
q iHS first installment as a serial was
g into type for the November issue
III leading magazine. Alma went
ID the village to a ranch.
8BOOks, letters and magazines reached
in each semiweekly delivery, but
linens letters had gradually become
rtar ana fewer.
A. we'll" she said to herself one
mOOn, "its like a man to want to
gerything or nothing, but I'll climb
% Eagle Rock with a new magazine
company, and leave all men to
IL fate"
3 be sat watching the clouds pass
1W the highest point of a distant
mtain, but her thoughts were of
ren. She had unconsciOusly been
Rning a round rock with the rest
movement of her foot, and was
ghsed when the stone suddenly
nded down the mountain side.
Alma got up and looked about for
hg rock she could dislOdge. She
y nd one larger and rOunder, which
OOSened with considerable diff
TIL name this rock for Warren"
said to herself, "and if it goes all
way down to the gulch he loves
II it stops by the way he loves
not
Ne gave it a push and it went
illng down among the aspens with
"a force that it struck sparks from
na stones as it drove surely ant
! pldy to the gulch below, where i
\ Decided itself in the red sand.
he loves me, even if he dOesn'r
\ NE Alma laughed at her childish
= out the incident made her fee
NY and she descended the trail
Ang strangely elated.
0Aen she reached the ranch hous
age touring car stood at the var,
u Anna passed hurriedly into tn
" Then she heard the shrill vOic
-e ianchman's wife trying to ge
NllOne connection with a big hOte
summer resort 40 miles away
voice came clearly through tn
walls into Alma's room. 'Her
are madam" it said, there's tn
Sin house"
vase let me speak to Mr.. Brown
l'sE Clerk" said the woman's ric
nat had a familiar sound I
"hen the woman spoke agai
tapped her hand over her mout
-'ler an exclamation. It was tH
woman she knew and di
out a woman famed as a b
widow. "This is Mrs. A
speaking, Mr.. Brown. We To-
'% and have just succeeded in l
~. ourselves. I'm expecting son
NJ nom the East. Has Mr.. Wa
Vsan Of New York registeredY
Sence "No? Then he may a
~ = Ie seven o'clock train. If s
W. y. Kindly tell him Of our della
~ .s, we shall be there not lat
aSltf Thank you"
s after the automobile went NJ
NJ A. is steep way Alma sat staril
ugly wall paper of her til
h, Oot ~ for once she was unco
N Of Its ugliness
:. next morning she was ready
5s'a !, I, herself for having spent
n,s nlght. Seated under a /
IVA aSay along a path that led
nHos u mining shaft, she look
o,,sIl pen the autumn glory of +
,oa ~, morning, Miss Mountaine
Sop let weary traveller TlerI,%.I1 rest ,
Ueer said a well-kno'
Sr wren q Deanl" exclaimed Ain
anosa me :. time the name was y
- s Sle was standing and w