The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-02-22

Good by"
He looked at his watch and saw
that he had only an hour in which
to dispose of the remainder Of his
mail. He turned directly to the
task, going to a door and calling
In one of the stenographers.
Lets be as fast as,we can, Miss
Jeliffe," he said quietly. "I've an
important appointment uptown
Not once had it occurred to him
that Edith Mallon could have had
the slightest thing to do with his
banishSlent from her home. Sena-
tor Mallon's attitude did not dis
turb him except that it struck him
as an unnecessary insolence-and
an inconvenience. If it did not
worry her, he was satisfied. He
would be able to deal with the sem
ator. He had dealt with senators
before. The lobby was attacking
him in his social relations at last.
Obviously, such a motive had in
spired Mallon. And his experience
had taught him the ease of fight
ing people whose tactics are the
fruits of mean motives. AS he
worked, his serenity was I'M
rutfled.
Miss Mallon was not so fortu-
nate. She was neither serene nov
unruffled. Bowling down Massa-
chusetts avenue in her electric a
few minutes before noon, she
looked at the golden brown and
russell red of the trees which
stretched, like two big folds of
fairy embroidery, on both sides of
the street. It was a day when the,
world seemed awash with gold. a
touring ear, crowded with girls
and young men. overlook and
sped past her. On the sidewalk,
at a corner, an Italian ground his
organ while golden haired, freshly
dressed children danced to the
music.
In the aggregate" she
thought, on the whole, the world
IS always lovely, always beautiful,
as it is today. But, to make up
that whole, how much Of pain
there is, how much of suffering!"
Her fathers words at the
breakfast table that morning still
rang IN her ears:
Il wrote to your friend MIR.
Smith yesterday, forbidding him
the house.
What an outrage that was!
Why should anybody, her Father.
even, presume to say who should
be her associates or who should
note OF course it would be i'm
possible for him to come to the
house. She could subject neither
lin 0 herself to the awkward
ness of it, but, equally, Of course,
she would see him quite frequent
~ elsewhere.
Why had she committed her
self SO utterly in her own hearth
Why had she accepted, without.
argument, the fact that she loved
him2 Suppose sic were called on
to explain her feeling - what
would she say? She dismissed
these reflections as rapidly as they
came. She loved him. And, since
she did love him, she could see no
reason for trying to disguise the
fact to herself. She was like
that.
Late the night before, with her
brain reeling from the intensity
and consttancy with which she had
reviewed and re-reviewed that
scene with him when he had re-
fused her. his confidence, the truth
had cometo her as q certainty. q
conviction. She knew now. Moth
ing could have shaken her belief
u the truth Of what she knew. She
knew, and she loved him. For
her, those were the only two really
important things ia the world.
her belief in him, and her love for
him. She remembered q famous
evangelist having said to her
once There are only two BIG
things in this life, Miss Mallon-
the things we 40 to those who love
us, and the things that are done to
us by those whom we love, That