The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-11

we walk, you and |, every minute
of every day. Your Lady.
His answer came, special deliv-
cry:
1T shall be as you wish, dear
heart. But IL anything should hap
pen to delay the opening of the
play, | think l should ask you to
remit the sentence of Punishment.
/ live only to look into your eyes!
How can you say that you may
disappoint me? If you were old,
hump backed, ugly-what differ
ence? You are mine. We must
find freedom for ourselves and a
new life. l adore you. Jarvis
II wouldn't have thought it OF
Jarvis" said Bambi, as she read
it. "He makes a very creditable
lover"
MY Dear One: | am as impa-
tient as you are for our meeting.
| gladly agree that we shall bring
it about at once, il anything hap
pens to postpone the play opening.
What you say about being in
different to my looks makes me
happy. shall not try you too far,
my lover. I'm quite pretty and
young. Did you know l was
young?
"You speak so confidently of
freedom and a new life together.
Are we to shed our old mates, like
Nautilus shells? My new coming
into love makes me pitiful. Must
we be ruthless?
"Your Own"
Dear Gentle Heart: l do not
wish to seem ruthless to you,
much less to be so. But has our
suffering not entitled us to some
joy? | know my wife to be abb
sorbed in another man; you say
your husband turns to another
woman. We represent to them
stumbling blocks between them
and their happiness. Surely it Is
only right that we should all be
freed to find our true mates.
81 find 1t daily more Of burden
to carry this secret in my heart,
when knowledge of it would
tighten my wife's unhappiness.
Shall we not confess the situation,
and discuss plans for separation :?
woe this girl who bears my name
more than l can ever pay.
would not do anything to hurt her
pride. Tell me what you think
about it, dear one.
"Your Jarvis"
Jarvis, Dear: Again | must
seem to oppose you. Please let us
keep our secrets to ourselves until
our meeting. Suppose that some
thing should happen even yet?
Suppose that we should not wish
to take this step when the time
comes. | do not want you to hurt
your wife. l respect and love you
for your sense of obligation to
her. How can she help loving
you, Mr.. Jarvis?
when the day comes for me to
prove my devotion, may you say
about me that you owe me more
than you can ever pay.
81 live only for the completion
Of the play. Your Own
Bambi felt the renewed vigor
with which Jarvis attacked the
final problems of their task. He
was working toward the goal of
his affections, meeting with his
lady. She, too, felt the strain of
the situation, and keyed herself
up to a final burst of speed. The
middle of February came, bring
ing the day which ended their la
bors.
well, l believe that is the best
we can do with it," Jarvis said.
Yes, our best best. For my
part | feel quite fatuously salts
fled. l think it is perfectly
charming"
II hope the author will be
pleased" he said, earnestly.
I'm much more concerned with
Mr.. Frohman's satisfaction. If he
likes 1t. hang the author!"
'4But I want to please her more
than I can say"
"These author folkl She'll be
a middle-aged dowd, mark my
words"
He rose Indignantly and put the
last sheets of the manuscript
away. She watched him, smiling.
"shall you go to New York to-
morrow"
Eyes, IL I can get an appoint
ment by wire. I am going to see
about 1t now"
The secretary answered Jarvis
wire at once. making the appoint
ment at IL o'clock on the morrow.
ct seems incredible that any
thing could run az smoothly az