The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-05-02

he said, whimsically.
"Why-never, I'm afraid" she
gasped in surprise.
"You were planning to be married
in church,"
"such funny questionsl Yes, OF
course
| "Why?"
"Oh, it wouldn't be nice not to-"
| "You don't believe in divorce, thenT'
"Oh yes-yes, indeed-if people
don't get along together. / think it's
wicked for people to live together II
they don't love each other"
'It's love. then, that makes mar
| riage sacred?"
"Yes. Yes, indeed! OF counsel"
SIS it all right for two people who
are not Christians to live together &C
cording to their creeds?"
"How do you mean?"
"Well, the people who lived before
there were any Christians-or people
who never heard of Christianity-was
it all right for them to marry?
"Of course"
"It's not any one formula, then, that
makes marriage all right?"
"Of course not, it's the-the-"
1.-THE love?"
81 think so. It's hard to explain"
Everything is, isn't it7"
Terribly"
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. 1t 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
wells float into the air and die. One
of them formed a wreath, strange.
frail, writing circlet of blue filaments.
1t drifted past her and she put her fin
ger into it-her ring-fnger by some
womanly instinct.
"Now you're married to me-" said |
Duane.
There was a sudden movement of |
his hands as if to seize upon her. She
recoiled little; his hands did not
pursue her. They went back to the
steering wheel and chung to it fierce
Iy. She turned from his eyes, but he
gaZed at her cheek, and she could feel
the blood stirring there in blush.
eff you loved me, would you marry
ne?" he said.
IL love I'm going to marry
somebody else"
When?"
"Some day"
eff 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
f you ceased to love him, or he you.
would you leave him"
eff is a large order. Maybe" {
Wouldn't it be wiser if two people
Who thought they loved could live to 1
ether for while before they mar {
ied?"
She felt her muscles set as IL she
you'd rise and run away from such '
lords. "Mr. Duane l don't think it's |
ice even to be talking of such things
'esides, it's growing late" /
"Its not so late as it would be II I
GU married a man and found thai c
our marriage was a CHASTITY mistake U
Hadn't we better start backp
"Please don't leave me just yet =
his is very solemn to me. I've been :
tudying you long time, trying to !
eft you out of my mind, and only get a
ng you deeper in my heart. l love :
ou." :,
Il don't believe it."
81 know it." =
"Then you oughtn't to tell me-"
mot tell a woman you love herr "
ot try to save her from wrecking her =,
fe and my own?" :
sHow wrecking my-her life?"
II believe that if you marry Clay y
'imburn you'll be unhappy. He can't y
We you home. He can't buy you y
othes. He can't support you"
AThat's not his fault, just now =
18th the hard times and the war =
ease let's go home" y
ITO my homer" =
That insolence was too appalling to -
swer, or even to gasp at, or protest
ainst. 1t stunned her. He took adj x
ntage of her daze to explain, hur. p
idly: u
you're not going to be one Of those ~
ly, old-fashioned idiot girls that . 8
IN can't talk to earnestly and frank =
are you now? OF course you're
t. You're not one of those poor u
ngs whose virtue consists in being =
suited every time anyone appeals to "a
sir intelligence, are you? No, you're II
fine, brave soul, and you want to
ow the truth about truth, and SO dc