The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1917-07-27
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Love Of Woman.

Love Of Woman.
n meetings only lived up to their
andcipations, life would be a success
sion Of startling climnxes. II had been
some months since Meade had seen
Helen Illingworth. He had dreamed
q meeting her every dry and had pic
tured the meeting differently and more
rapturously after every letter. As Q
matter Of fact the whole thing was
casual and ordinary to the last degree.
Il always Is.
Doctor Severance. q retired physi-
clan. who was vice president and
financial man. and Curtiss, the chief
engineer Of the bridge company. were
hard upon Miss nlingworth's heels az
she stepped down from the chr to the
station platform. He saw her, as 1t
were. surrounded by prosaic men. The
woman he loved got the same welcome
and the same handshake as her father
and the other Two men. 1t WINS not
until big Abbott who had been belated
6y some sudden demand Of work, came
sweeping down The platform to engage
the attention Of the men TINT the anx-
ious Meade had a moment with the girl
heraelf. 3ss
Now Helen Illtngworth had also been
sseipg Visions, % that she had been as
disappointed as he. The only real sat
isfaction that ether Of them could take
n the situation. lay in the fact that the
other was there. It was midsummer
and the girl was dressed In some light,
6lmy fabric which we'll became her "a.
dlant beauty. Meade could look at
bit of structural steel work and tell
Jon nil about 1t. All that he could
have told you about the dress she wore
was that 1t was exqulsitely appropri-
ate, but u never occurred to him that
withsa great price to q great artist
Heien IliinGworth had obtained that
sook II delighted simplicity.
The oeEn was not wasted on Meade.
she decided. - she caught his raptur-
ops glance. She had never looked love
Her. Shs Yas not fragile. ethereal
woman; quite the reverse. That was
one ef Ten, thousand things Meade liked
about her. She could do all those ath-
ietic and pr actienl things that modern
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Them well.
Meade WINS Intensely practical and
emcient. He could do all Of those
things himself and many more and he
liked 80 do them. and that is one rea-
son why he had been attr acted to her;
pet not for that alone did he love her.
On thpt soft summer afternoon she
looked as subtly delicate as every man
would at one time or another have the
woman he loves appear. and as far re-
moved from things strenuous as IL in
another world! He was wearing the
rough clothes, flannel shirt. khaki trou-
sers. heavy shoes and leggings which
were his hahitunl use at work. Con-
trasted with her fllmy and delicately
colored fabric his well-worn olive
drab habiliments stood forth hldeously.
That is, he th0yght so, and the con-
trnst somehow Beemed typical Of the
difference between them as he consid-
cred her.
There was tn. careless insouciance
of conscious power In the be airing of
the engineer VIII oh differentiated him
from most Of thu men with whom she
had been thrown In contact during her
life. The Interna dnnal Bridge was the
biggest thire ae ne kind the Martlet
company or any sther American struc-
tural plant had Ter undertaken. It
bad been a consts Mt topic Of convers a.
ton wherever h,r father was. She
had heard all abISt It. and although,
strictiy speaking. the bridge was the
work Of Meade. ST., yet she always
identified It with III ade. Jr. There W as
% feeling In her iaind that 1t was her
bridge and that through him. she COM
manded It. Sha nis q supremely as
sured and emf NJ confident young
lady. pet with tn nan by her side she
experienced pa sing sense Of uneasi-
ness, such q OK might conceive the
butterdy wosh 4 Il in the presence Of
= stsam ham me-
They were M s.wkward and con-
strained Wh@ u, 10 themselves ~ Il
one had not t1f, al over the world
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