Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-02-15
CHAPTER XII.

CHAPTER xI.
1he supper at the White Springs no.
tel hnd not been the last supper Car
iotta Harrison and Max Wilson had
taken together. Carlotta had selected
for her vacation a small town within
easy motdNtg distance Of the city,
n two or three times during her two
weeks Off duty Wilson had gone out to
see her. lie liked being with her. She
stimulated him, For once that he could
see Sidney, he saw Carlotta twice,
She had kept the affair well In hand,
She was playing for high stakes. She
knew quite well the kind of man with
"hom she was deallng--that he would
pay us little as possible. But she
knew, too, that, let him want a thing
enough, he would pay any price for it,
even marriage.
She was very skillful. The very ar
dor IN her face was In her favor, Be-
hind her eyes lurked cold calculation.
She would put the thing through, and
SHOW those pulling nurses. with their
piolls eyes and evening prayers, d
thing or two.
During that entire vacation he never
saw her In anything more elaborate
than the simplest Of white dresses
modestly open at the throat. sleeves
rolled up to show her satiny arms.
There were no other boarders at the
little farmhouse. She sat for hours
in the summer evenings in the square
yard filled with apple trees that Dor.
dered the highway, carefully posed
over q book. but with her keen eyes
always on the road. She read Brown.
Ing. Emerson, Swinburne. Once he
found her with a book that she Inns,
tily concealed. He insisted on seeing
1t, and secured 1t. It was a book on
brain surgery. Confronted with 1t, she
FLUSHED and dropped her eyes. His de-
lighted vanity found In 1t the most In.
sidious Of compliments, US she had in.
| tended.
Il feel such ar idiot when l nm with
you" she sud. II wanted to know a
little more about the things you do
That put their relationship on a new
ana advanced basis. Thereafter he
occasionally talked surgery instead Of
sentiment. He found her responsive,
intelligent. His work, a sealed book
to his women before, lay open to her,
Now and then their professional dis.
cusslons ended In something different
The two lines Of their interest con.
' verged.
"Gad" he said one day. II looh
forward to these evenings. can tall
shop with you without either shocking
or %nauseating you. You are the mos,
intelligent woman I know-and one o,
the p%rettiest."
The n element Carlotta had ,ef,
out Of her calculations was herself
She had known tho man, had taken IN,
situation at Its proper value. But int,
her calculating ambition Ind come ,
new and destroying element. She who
like X. 10 his little room on the Street
Ind put aside love and the thing,
thereof. found that It would not mn
her aside. By the end Of her short Va
cation Carlotta Harrison was wildly d
love with the younger Wilson.
They continued to meet, not 4,
often az before, but once q week. per
haps. The meetings were full Of dan
ger now; and II for the girl they Ion
by this quality, they gained attraction
for the man. She wns shrewd cnoueI
to rcnlize her own situation. The thin
had gone wrong. She cared, and m
did not. It was his game now. no
hers.
All women are intultive; women /,
love are dangerously 10. Az well a
she knew TINT his passion for her wa
not the real thing, 80 also she realize,
that there was growing up In his henr
something akin to the real thing 70
Sidney Page. Suspicion became cer
tainty inter a talk they had over In,
supper table at a country roadhous
the day after Chrlstine's wedding.
slow was the wcddlng-uresomef
Thrilling! There's always some
thing thrilling to me In d mon tyln,
himself up for lifo to one woman
Its-lt's ~ ssckless.r
Her syes narrowed. THAT'S not :,
Actly IRE Law and The Prophets, 10 re-
SIte ~ tt1th.. 40 think Of seleci
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