Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1917-05-03

| tainable that now his masculine mind. q
little weary with much wretchedness.
refused TO move from Its old attitude.
1T was glamour. that was all. e."
said Sidney bravely.
But, perhaps" said X. ats just be-
cause Of that miserable incident with
Carlotta. That wasn't the right thing.
of course. but Max has told me the
story. 1t was really quite innocent. She
tainted In the yard. and"
Sidney a ex~asperated.
"Do you want me to marry him. K.T
X. looked straight ahead.
Il want you to be happy, dear"
They were on the terrace Of the
White Springs hotel again. X. had or
dered dinner. making Il great TODD
about getting the dishes they both
liked. But now that it was there. they
were not eating. X. had placed his
chair so that his profile IA turned to-
ward her. Past KS profile Sidney
could see the magnolia tree shaped like
a heart.
ut seems to me-" said Sidney sud-
denly, that you are kind to everyone
but ME. X"
He fairly stnmmered his astonish.
ment:
why, what on earth have I done?"
"iou are trying to make me marry
Max. aren't you?"
She was very properly ashamed Of
that, and, when he failed to reply out
of sheer inability to think Of one that
would not say too much. she went
hastily to something else: 1T is hard
for he to realize that %you-that you
lived n life of your own, n busy life.
doing useful things. before you came
to us. l wish you would tell me some
thing about yourself. If we're to be
friends when you so away."-she had
to stop there, for the lump in her
thruat-"l'il want to know how to
think Of you-who your friends urc-
all that"
He made IN effort. He was think
ing, of course, that he would be Wis.,
ualizing her, in the hospital. in the lit
tie house on Its side street, us she
looked just then, her eyes like stars,
her lips just parted, her hands folded
before her on the table.
Il shall be working" he said ut last.
$50 will you"
Does that mean you won't have
time to think of me1'
II believe I'm stupider than usual to-
night. You can think of me as never
forgetting you or the Street, working
or playing"
Playing! OF course he would not
work ali the time. And he was going
back to his old friends, to people who
had always known him. to girls
He did his best then. He told her of
the old family house, built by one of
J his forebears who had been a kings
man until Washington had put the case
for the colonies, and who had given
himself and his oldest Son then to the
-, cause that he made his own. He told
/ of Old servants who had wept when he
: decided to close the house aud 60
away. When she fell silent, he thought
he was interesting her.
: But a terrible thing was happening
to Sidney. Side by side with the won
ders he described SO casually, she was
placing the little house. What an exile
it must have been for him! When X.
trying his best to interest her and tt
conceal his own heaviness Of spirit
told her of his y~randfather's old car
g riage, she d back in the shadow.
Fearful old thing said K.-"regu
lar cabriolet. ! can remember yet tn,
0 family rows owe it."
u when l was a child" said Sldne!
quietly, "and a carriage drove up AMI
stopped on the Street, l always knew
someone had died!!
- There was a strained note In he
. voice. X, whose ear was attuned II
e every note In her voice, looked ut he
quickly.
MY great-grandfather," said Sldne,
. in the same tone, "sold chickens a
. market. He didn't do 1t himself; bu
:. the fact's there, isn't IT."
u. X. Il puzzled.
"What about 1T" he said.
go on" said Sidney duly. "Tel
me about the women you have known
your friends, the ones you liked an
the ones who liked you"
X. was rather apologetic.
"Tve always been 20 busy" he cor
4 fessed. II know a lot, but I don't thin
they would interest you. They don
do anything. you know-they travt
around and hive a good time. They'r
rather nice to look at, some Of then
But when you've said that you've sal
It ALL"
Nice to look at! OF course the
would be, with nothing else to think
In all the world but Of how they locke,
Suddenly Sidney felt very tired. Sh
wanted to 20 back to the hospital, an
turn the key In the door Of. her littl
room, and lie with her face down 0
the bed.
"Would you mind very much II
asked you to take me back"
a He did mind. He had a depresse
feeling that the evening had faile,
1 And his depression grew as he brougf
the chr around. He understood, b
thought. She was grieving about Mo.
After all, q girl couldn't care a. Nh
hud for q year and q half, and the
give q ma up because Of anoths
woman. without q wrench.