The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-04-10
In churchY'
"such funny q~uestionsl Yes, Of

"Oh, 1t wouldn't be nice not to-"
"You don't believe in divorce, then7"
"Oh yes-yes, indeed-if people
don't get along together. I think it's
wicked for people to live together If
they don't love each other"
"It's love, then, that makes mar
rage sacredT'
eyes. Yes indeed! OF, counsel"
"Is it all right for two people who
are not Christians to live together ac-
cording to their creeds?"
"How do you mean?"
"Well, the people who lived before
there were any Christians-or people
who never heard Of Christtanity-was
it all right for them to marry?"
"aOf course"
cts not any one formula, then, that
makes marriage all right?" -.
"Of course not, it's the-the-" q
'"The lover"
81 think so. It's hard to explain
Everything is, isn't itT' ~.
"Terribry." 49,
There was more silence. He took
a cigar from his pocket, held it be-
fore her for permission. She said,
PLEASE" He struck a match. She
glanced at his face in the little lime
light Of the match It was very hand
some. A pearl of drowsy luster
cleaned in the soft folds of his tie.
The hands sheltering the match were
splendid hands.
She watched the cigar fire glow and
fade and the little turbulent smoke
veils float into the air and die. One
of them formed a wreath, a strange,
frail, writing circlet of blue flaments.
It drifted past her and she put her fin
ger into it-her ring-finger by some
wonan]y INSTINCT.
snow you're married to me-" said
Duane.
There was q sudden movement OF
his hands as If to seize upon her. She
recoiled a little; his hsnds did not
pursue her. They went back to the
steering wheel and chung to it fierce
~. She turned from his eyes, but he
gazed at her cheek, and she could feel
the blood stirring there in a blush.
IF you loved me, would you marry
met" he said.
TT love I'm going to marry
somebody else."
When?"
"Some day."
III you're not happy with him, will
you leave him?"
"Oh. but I'll be happy with him."
SO many people have said that
you've seen how seldom it worked.
If you ceased to love him, or he you,
woa--u you leave him" ,
eff is a large order. Maybe"
wouldn't 1t be wiser If two people
who thought they loved could live to-
,ether for : while before they mar
ried2"
She felt her muscles set as If she
would riss ard run away from such
wor3.. -4l. DnanelI don't think it's
nee ever to oe talking Of such things.
Bes;TeA- growing late"
Its not so late as 1t would be If
you married a man and found that
your marriage was a CHASTITY mistake"
ndOA = We USLCO4 SI0AI UdShS'
"Please don't leave me Just yet
This is very solemn to me. I've Been
Studying you a long time, trying to
get you out of my mind, and only get
ting you deeper in my heart. I love
you"
II don't believe it."
II know it." ....
Then you oughtn't to tell me-"
mot tell a woman you love her?
Not try to save her from wrecking her
life and my own?"
"How wrecking my-her life?"
II believe that If you marry Clay
Wimburn you'll be unhappy. He can't
give you a home. He can't buy you
clothes. He can't support you"
"That's not his fault, just now
with the hard times and the wal.
Please let's go home" j.
|, "To my homer"
That insolence was too appalling to
answer, or even to gasp at, or protest
against. It stunned her. He took adj
vantage OF her daze to explain. hur
redly:
~"Youtte not going to be one of those
silly old-fashioned idiot girls that 8
msn can't talk to earnestly and frank
y, are you now? OF course you're
not. You're not one Of those poor
things whose virtue consists in being
insulted every time anyone appeals to
their Intelligence. are you? No, you're
q fine, brave soul, and you want to
know the truth about truth, and SO dc
i
I'm q decent enough fellow at
heart. / want to do the right thing
and live sQuarely az well as the next
fellow. I've got q sense Of honor, too,
OF q sort and / take life pretty seri.
oqsly.
II ten you, the world is all turned
topsy-turvy the last few years. The
old rules don't rule. They never did,
but people pretended to believe In 'em.
Now we're not 50 afraid OF the truth
In science or history or religion or