The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-12

wicked for people to live together if they don't love each ofher.''
 Its love. then, that makes mar riage sacred?" "Yes. Yes, indeed Of course i'
 ''Is 1t all right for two people who are not Christians to live together ac- cording to their creeds7"
 How do you meanf"
 'Well, the people who lived before there were any Christians people who never heard of Christianity it all right for them to mary7
 Of course"
 '1t's not any one formula. then. that makes marriage all right7
 "Of course not it's the-the-
 "The loveT 'T think so. It's hard to explain"
 Everything is, isn't itT' Terribly"
 There was more silence. He took a cigar from his pocket, held if 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 Iuster gleamed 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, fraiI, wrlthing circlet of blue 6Iaments. It drffted past her and she put her 6n- ger into it-her ring-fnger by some womanly instinct.
 'Now you're married to me" said Duane.
 his hands as if to seize upon her. She recoiled little; his hands did not pursue her. They went back Co the steering wheel and cIung to 1t fierce ". She turned from his eyes. but he gazed at her cheek, and she could feel the blood stirring there in q blush
 ''If you loved me, would you marry me2' he said.
 TI love- Pm going to marry somebody else"
 When ?'' < "Some day"
 .If you're not happy with him. will you leave himY'
 .sOh, but I'll be happy with him.
 sSo many people have said that You've seen how seldom it worked. If you ceased 10 love him. or he you. would you leave himf"
 If is a large order. Maybe
 ssWouldn't it be wiser If two people who thought they loved could live to- gether for a while before they nzar- ried P
 She felt her muscles set as If che would rise and run away from sach words. sMr. Duane don't think lk's nice even to be talking Of such thingE. Besides, it's growing late.
 tsIt's not so late as it would be If you married man and found that your marriage was ghastly mistake
 Hadn't we better start back
 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 love you.
 .'I don't believe it."
 q know it.''
 "Then you oughtn't to tell me.
 Mot tell a woman you love her9 Not try to save her from wreekznG her life and my own 7''
 sHow wrecking my-her fffeg~
 q believe that if you marry Clay Wimburn you'll be unhappy. He cant give you a home. He can't buy you clothes. He can't support you.
 HThat's not his fault, just now with the hard times and the war; Please let's go home.n
 .'To my homef"
 That insolence was too appalling to answer. or even to gasp at. or protest against It stunned her. He took ad- vantage of her daze to explain. hur- riedly:
 .Youire not going 10 be one of those silly, oId-fashioned idiot girls that man can't talk to earnestly and frank ly, are you now7s 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, your a fine, brave soul, and you want to know the truth about truth. and so do 
 tTm a decent eneugn fellow at heart I want to do the right thing and live squasely as well as the next fellow. I've got sense of honor. too. of sort, and take life pretty seri- ously.
 q tell 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 sem. Now we're not so afraid of the truth in science or history or religion or anything. We want to know the truth and live by it,
 To BE CONTINUED,