New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-07-06

N"'iuoipH street emu OF the avenue, an
n policeman, like Moses cleaving tn
ked sen, had opened a way through
the tide Of motors for a throng of pc
destrians.
Come across here" said Galbraith
taking her by the arm and stemmini
this current with her. "We've got t.
nave a minute Of shelter to finish thi!
up in," and he led her into the nOrtl
lobby of the public library. The stale
baked air of the place almost made
them gasp. But, anyway, it was quier
and altogether deserted. They coult
hear themselves think in there, he said
and led the way to d marble bench
alongside the staircase.
Rose unpinned her veil and, to his
surprise, because of course she was
going In a minute, put 1t into her ulster
pocket. But, c~urlOusly enough, the
sight of her face only intensified an
impression that had been strong upon
nm during the last part of their walk
the impression that she was a long
way Off. 1t wasn't the familiar con.
templative brown study, either. There
was an active eager excitement about
IL mat made it o beautiful than
he had ever seen it before. But it
wa as if she were looking ut some
thlng he couldn't see-listening to
words he couldn't hear.
"Well,' he said n little impatiently,
are you going to do it?"
And at that the glow of her was
turned fairly upon him. "Yes," she
said, I'm going to do it. l suppose |
mustn't thank YOU" she went on, 'be-
cause you say 1t isn't anything you're
doing for me. But it is-a great thing
for me-greater-than | could tell you.
And / won't fail. You needn't be
afraid"
He counted out a hundred and TWEEN
ty dollars, which he handed over to
her. She folded it and put 1t AWAY in
her w%ristbag. The glow of her hadn't
faded, but once more it was turned on
sO~mething-Or sOmeOne-else, 1t wasn't
until he rose a little abruptly from the
marble bench that she reused herself
with n shake of the head, arose too,
and once more faced him.
You're right about our having to
hurry she said, and before he could
ma the first of the words he wanted,
she had given him that curt farewell
nod which from the first had stirred
md warmed him, and turned away
the door.
And she had never seen what was
'airly shining in his face.
She couldn't, of course, have missed
l thing as plain as that but for a CON-
'lete p~reoccupation of thought and
ceiling that would have left her OBJ.
ivious to almost anything that could
happen to her.
The flaming vortex of thoughts.
lopes, desires which enveloped her
vas so intense as almost to evoke n
of the physical presence of the
'ubject Of them-Of that big, powerful
minded, clean-sOuled husband of hers.
Who loved her so rapturously, and who
lad driven her away from him because
hat rapture was the only thing he
would share with her.
Since she had left his house and
egun this new life of hers, she had.
s best she could, been fighting him
ut of her thoughts altogether. She
ad shrunk from anything that car
led association of him with it. That
thoughts and memories of him
lust necessarily be painful, she had
AIKEN for granted.
But with this sudden lighting I'D of
ope, she flung the closed door wide
nd called her husband back into her
loughts. This hard thing that she
as going to dO-this thing that meant
.eepless nights, and ~feverishly active
ays-was an expression simply of
er love for nina sacrificial offering
} be laid before the shrine of him
her heart.
Yet, the fact that Roses heart was
icing and her nerves were tingling
18th a newly welcomed sense of her
'ver's spiritual presence, did not pre-
her flying along west on RAN
,lph street and south again on the
est side Of State, with n very clear
visualized purpose. Half an hour
ter she hailed a passing cab and de- ,
in it M dressmaking form, a
lge bundle of paper cambric-in +,
ack, white and washed-Out blue. and I,
r own weary but still excited and F,
ultant self. .
1t was after eight o'clock when she :
ached her room. Rehearsal was at Z
yht-thirty and she had had nothing 6
eat since o But she stole the A.,
ne, nevertheless, to tear the wrap .
ngs off her form" and gaze on its (;
spectacle nakedness for two or three q
with a contemplative eye. n
len. reluctantly-it was the first q
she had left that room with re- r
turned out the light and +
rried off to the little lucch room +
lay on the way to the dance hall. h
II was during that first rehearsal,
Itch che so narrowly missed being v
for, that she got the general
lemes for both sets Of costumes. y
e began studying the girls for their h
lividual peculiarities of style. Each 4
E of the costumes she made was 60 q
to be for a particular girl. d
At last when a shout from Gal n
nth aroused her to the fact that n
, had missed an entrance cue alto a
her. in her entranced absorption in o
.se visions of hers. and had caused II
t objectionable thing, a stage wait, e
|. resolutely clamped down the lid q
her Imagination and, until they II
dismissed, devoted herself to the I,