The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-27
William Dudley Pelley

the same | don't know as you'd been
living through this hell of worry and
work now"
"It isn't help whispered Mary
cts wicked to call it that! It's
it's heaven Mabel. It's the
nearest thing to earthly heaven |
know. l love-it-so"
s'You always were sort of sickishly
sentimental II say it again. 1 told
you so the day after l got back from
my own wedding trip. My way was
best, Mary. After all is said and done
you can't deny I've made success
of my life. Never mind what people
say-all the same I know that have.
I've had a good time: all along; Pve
enjoyed life; I've been to Europe
seven times, Mary. I've seen the
world and life Right now I'm free
to come and. go; get a salary in
five figures a year for my concert
work. / have my automobile and my
apartments in the city
"And what else, Mabel?"
what else? What else is there to
have? What do you mean?"
You've got all that as you say
But what else. You've got no one
to care about you; no one to love
you"
Haven't I, though? Don't be too
sure about that, Mary
you've no children or nothing?"
"No l haven't got any kids, but
good Lord why do you persist in
placing such. lot Of emphasis on
kids? Anybody'd think that kids
were the only concern a woman could
have in the WORLD"
According to the way look at
things, they are, Mabel" ss5
"Well, / place a different value on
things. For instance, there's Dick
Robinson"
+ eyes, but what's he to you, Mibb?
Merely a rich man. It isn't like sons
or daughters of your own who care
for you because of what you've done
for them"
"Then it might interest you to
know that ! expect to marry him..
e Dick Robinson, in the not
too distant future"
marry him !!
eyes, marry him! And why should
MT 1? Haven't l been through
enough so l, deserve the haven of g
good husbands love at last? III
never have any brats it's true. But
again | say, that to me brats never
stood for nothing but pain and worry
and care. No sir; folks don't know il
yet and I don't intend they should
But if things work around all right
and l rather calculate that if
have anything to say about them
they will,-I'm going to marry Dicl
Robinson next year and come into
my share of his money"
always money, money, money
You haven't changed great lot, have
you Mabel?"
81 said I'd take my chances with
money and I have. | haven't fare6
so badly. Can you say the same
Mary Wood?"
"I'm satisfied" breathet
Mary at last.
"But you can't make me believe it
Mary. No sensible high-strung sen
sitive woman could possibly be salts
fed with this-not when they've slav
ed like you've shaved"
s'I'm satisfied" breathe,
Mary again. 81 can't understand you
Mabel. l never could. Somehow i
seems at times as if you amt reall.
truly woman"
i "Don't lose any sleep over me
Mary. I'm capable of taking care o
myself. / think I've proved it. In
going to prove it some more"
az hate to say it, Mabel; you're a
old girlhood friend of mine, almos
the only one that's left out of tn
old crowd. But you're your
selfish, Mabel. And you'v
always been selfish
"We won't indulge in personalitie:
Mary I came out here in the bes
spirit possibles to see if there wa
anything could do for you"
There isn't, Mabel. Not any
thing. I'm no. ungrateful. Nv
lived my life in my own. way an
after my : own standards.
I was to go back and live it owe
there isn't hardly day or an hou