The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1918-01-17

ing love to her, or INDUCING In the civil.
lied equivalent Of beating her he was
curious to find out which. And, having
learned from his wife that Rose was
to sit beside him at the table, he
made up his mind that he would. A
physician Of the Frcudlan school, train
ed to analyze peoples souls, he was
well equipped to find out, without
Roses knowledge.
He didn't attempt II, though, during
his first talk with h~er-confined him.
self vigorously to the carefully sifted
chaN which does duty for polite con
versatlon owe the am hors d'oeuvres
and entrees, from one dinner TO the
next, the season round. II wasn't
until Eleanor had turned the table
the second time, that he made his
first gamhit In the game.
mo need asking you II you like this
sort OF thing" he said. II would lik"
70 know how you keep it up. 1t can't
any Of 1t get anywhere. what's til"
attractlon?"
"You emit get n rise nj Of me To.
night" said Rose. Not after what
I've been through today. Madame
Greville's been talking to me. She
thinks American women are dreadful
dubs-or she would II she knew the
word-thinks W. don't know our W
game. Do you agree with herr"
"Ill tell you that" he said, 'urt"r
you answer my question. What's the
attrnction?"
Don't you think it would be a mis-
take" said Rose, "for me to try t"
analyze it? Suppose | did and found
thcr" wasn't any"
rs that what's the matter with Rod
ncy?" he asked. as this sort Oft
gesture with his head took In the table
- caramel diet beginning 10 so
against his teeth?"
lie had to work tonight" Rose
said. "He was awfully sorry he could
MT come" She smiled just q little
ironically as she said II. and exngger-
ated by n hairs breath, perhaps, the
purely conventional nature Of the re-
ply.
yes" he observed, chats what we
say. Sometimes IL gets Us OF and
sometimes 1t doesn't"
"Wcll, 1t got him off tonight" she
said. "lIe was pretty Impressive. He
said there was n ruling decision
against him and he had tu make som"
sort of distinction 50 that the decision
wouldn't rule. DO YOU know what
that means? don't"
"Why didn't you ask him. RAN
7 dulph wanted TO know.
II did, and he said he coal Int OK
plain il, but that it world take Il
month. SO of course there wasn't
time"
81 thought" said Randolph, "that he
used to talk law to you by ia" hour
The button wasn't on the foil that
time, because the thrust brought blood
"A bright flush into her cheeks and a
sudden brightness into her eyes that
would have induced him to rcIcnt If
She hadn't followed the thing UP Of
her own accord.
II wish you'd tell me something"
she said. II expect you know better
than anyone else | could ask. Why
IL Is that husbands ana wives cant
talk to each othcrt Imagine what this
table would be If the husbands uud
wives sat side by side ="
The cigarettes came around just
then, and he lighted one rather dee
libcrntcly, at n of the candles, before
lie answered.
II am under the impression" he
said, that husbands and wives can
talk exactly as we'll us any o,hcr two
people. Exactly us well, and no bet
ter. The necessary conditions for real
conversation are Il real interest in and
knowledge of n common subject {:
ability on the part of both tO con
tribute something toward that subject.
Well, II n husband and wife car meet
those terms, they can talk. But the
joker Is, aS our legislative friend over
there would say'-he nodded down the
table toward n young millionaire Of
~altrulstlc principles, who ma! got
elected 10 the state assembly 49, "th"
Joker Is that II man and II woman who
aren't married, and who are moderate
ly attracted to each other, can talk,
or seem TO talk, without meeting those
conditions"
"Scem to tulk?" she questioned.
"Secm Ia exchange ideas mutually.
They think they do, bur they don't,
It's pure illusion, that's the answer
I'm not clever, really" said Rose,
"uud | don't know much, uud | simply
don't understand. VIII you explain It,
In short words" 900 She smiled - "sincc
were not married. you know"
lie grinncd back at her. "All right
he said, "SinCc we're not married, |
will, Wen take II Hypothetical case.
Wen take Darby and Joan. They en-
counter each other somewhere, and
something about them that men have
written volumes about and never OK.
planned yet, sets up. They arrest each
others a~ttentlon-get to thinking about