The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-03-24

ond on to the stage They nor,r. q
rather romance than real life and do
not give all that real life needs. Thcy
gre ~ the same order as the neople IN
lAuia. who believe that the wife shoula
u'e on the funeral pyre of her husband
may be weaker than some women
or may be stronger Possibly may
nave less depth OF feeling. though thar
VIII not admit. | saw only in nursin.
my grief dreadful life before me. I
recognized the principle that no two
absorbing IDEAS can occupy the brain
ht one tmc did all that / could To
interest myself in what was about me
true. did not at first succeed and
"hen did only partially so. dread
eu Inc word forget. and yet | realized
that TO avoid suffering | must tempo-
7 rarlly forget | forced myself TO feel
that after time ! would be reunited
with my loved ones and that mean
I While ! must. except occasionally. put
them out of my mind.
| made my home abroad Three
years after my bereavement | married
again did so partly because | was
lonely. parity because | wished for a
man TO rely upon. as is natural 10 any
4 woman partly Lecause the man mar
1 ried assured me that could give him
an Interest in life and, lastly. because
! became attached TO him. lie was an
I American, Ike myself and being
wealthy. gave himself up to study
lie lived abroad that he might write
books which required his presence
among the subjects of which he wrote
For i've years AFTER our marriage We
continued our residence abroad Dur
inc this period children we're born T..
us There WAS a tac.t mutual agree
ment between rs jhat should not talk
about the world in which had lived
! saw that he would rather leave thai
TO me considering himself as having no
pan in it, and I had no desire 10 make
him part 90 il lie was absorbed in
his literary work. and If | ever told
him even where | had lived he soon
forgot It,
Then he was called to America on
a matter of some property that need
Ell his attention It was agreed be
tween us that he should leave me and
QUE children IN Lucerne. where We
were then living. He expected to be
absent not more than two months, but
soon after his arrival in America he
was induced To write for publisher
work necessitaling his presence III
America. He suggested my coming
home with the children but left m
to consult my own feelings In the mat
ter
had never intended te return to the
United States. drcadmg lest II should
reaWakcu me Ia my lost world But
with husband and children that
world had rcccucd further and further
from me tll the consciousness of II
had grown very dim wrote my lrls
band that would 20 back to I'll
western hemisphere and remain there.
| was tired ot moving about from one
placc 10 another. and the children were
coming to that age when they should
have steady instruction at school our
boys | preferred to bring up In Amer
lea therefore suggested TO my hus
band that he buy place In which we
might settle He replied that he agreed
with me ami would carry ont my sug
gestious Later he wrote me that he
had bought u place In the suburbs OF
the city whc,cin II would be necessary
for him TO do his work.
We arrived after dark was de
lighted AT our reunion. as were the
father and the children | did not ask
where our home was to be | intend.
cd TO he satisfied with 1t. pleased with
il. wherever it was We took train
and iu less than an hour alghted at
a station where a carriage was wait
ing for u.s. II was very dark when we
reached our home. and saw nothing
If it IN J stood IN the hall. Then |
caught AT a banister To prevent my
falling
| was in the house had left more
than ten years before with blighted
heart
MY dear" exclaimed my husband. |
starting toward me.
Bur in a twinkling had recovered
myself And what had enabled me to
do 50? The sudden appearance of an
object. All, those objects that come To
US How much more valuable often.
times thau 'ca.ization' | must at least
for the plc>cnt spare my good man
the incNprc>Sible pain of knowing
what he had brought upon me.
Nothing ! replied ~ little gddi /.
ne a. having been So long rolling at
sea
Nothing you don't like. Is therei'
he asked anNiouSly.
ION the contrary, | am very wei
pleased Let Us see the rest OF IT,"
He took ne into every room IN the
house. "A house that had been sold
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