The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-11-21
The White Feather
BY ]. E. Harold Terry and Iechmere Worrall.

didn't my man meet you at the station
and give you something to bring dow
| for me?'
20, yes, a book. It's still locked up
in my suitcase.
That's all right" said Brent Now
/ I'll tell you what l have done"
THE personal or the impersonal
firsto" asked Mrs. Lee with faint
smile.
| 30, well. as to that" began Brent,
Il suppose you can see for yourself.
You're engaged"
Not officially, because, between
| ourselves, my present role Of self-suf-
| ficient ass doesn't endear me to the
old man. Molly knows and know.
and that's all that matters"
Give me cigaret Kit" said Mrs.
Lee. "Thanks. Have YOU realized how
difficult it's going to be? She's be-
ginning to feel the strain already, you
see
Il do see A blind man could have
seen with his eyes shut, but it can
he helped must just hope to pail
her through all right until the zine
comes when l can tell her
1T isn't only your work, you sec
continued Mrs. Lee, putting AT her
cisaret, though even about that there
could be two opinions. Some people
are idiots enough to consider ii uu-
derhand But apart from your work
have you realized that you are a man
who has led Il very varied life? You
have whole store of experience and
different kinds of knowledge. while
Molly is the typical English girl bred
up III absolute ignorance ana with
entirely false values about life. First
she'll be puzzled, then when she be-
gins to understand she'll be shocked,
then she may or may not dislike YOU.
At present Molly thinks the whole
world is made on a pattern. Good peo-
pie and bad people. You are good
person because She loves YOU. She |
thinks of love as a nice thing that
happens to every one and which has
its logical outcome in marriage and Il
house of your own
Hang it all, Miriam" protested |
Brent, II know my world, of course
I should be an idiot if | didn't after |
about so much-but ! have |
always run straight as these things go. |
and there's nothing | need feel !
ashamed of telling to any one who |
20, l know that Kit" said Mrs. Lee |
quickly, laying her hand for "a second /
on his wrist and drawing it back |
again. Heavens. you know how CRATE
full | am to You and how fond. That's |
just what makes me nervous. | can't |
bear to think of you being made mis-
cradle"
And you say Molly is one of the |
people who don't understand because |
she doesn't know anything. That's just |
why love her." explained Brent. ITS |
a sort of vicious circle, really. | love |
her for not knowing anything about |
life, and ] am going to teach her about |
it. l suppose that's really the inter-
esting thing about what would other /
wise seem very ordinary engage
ment. can't imagine myself ever
leaving off loving Molly, but I do
wonder what she'll be like when things
happen that will make her grow"
Nothing ever may happen" said
Mrs. Lee. "Englishwnmen have a
most remarkable faculty of becoming
wives and mothers aud still floating
on through life in bland ignorance"
Il don't think that would be the
case with Molly said Brent medita-
lively. "Of course YOU only see her
beauty and freshness and her conform
ity to type but / have always had a
feeling that Molly is an Tndine and
that she won't so through life without
getting Il soul; and we all know that
means pain and grief and tears"
That's true enough" agreed Miriam |
ITS curious thing, Kit, but | have
often noticed that men who have seen |
n lot of life and know the worst of ii |
generally love Il woman for just what |
they would theoretically deprecate i'm
her-for being isorant and untouched |
IL the woman of experience they like |
to talk to- but the raw material when !
it comes to marrying"
There was a faint thread of bitter |