Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-04-02

= know what it means to me?"
NO." returned Dick Robinson cold
ly, "what does it mean to YOU"
"The the end, Dick!'
END Of WHAT"
"Lifc, love, hope every
thing" Her voice as she said it w;,.;
sunken TO Il whisper.
81 told you a long time ago that
dramatics always disguised me,
, Mibb."
"Dick! I'm in earnest, Dick! 1t
. isn't dramptics. mean it, Dick!
I've reached the end"
"And l believe you had reached the
end also with Herb Truman, Pea
body and Young Ezekial and various
other make satellites who have had
more OF Hess bearing on your mum
dane orbit, Mibb."
"Dick!I my Gawd, Dick!
don't say that; don't talk that way
about :. things. It's burning blis-
tering add on my naked heart"
ooh rot, Mibb! If your hearts so
nude, pull something over it. I don't
want to be brutal and you're a good
sport, Mibb, but make a fight and
get youf balance"
"lt's what you have just eaiyl,
the most cruel thing I've ever
heard, /. and I've had lots of
cruel things said to me-"
"Mibb, you'll have me saying lots
worse things in moment. You're
making a scene, you've"
"No l haven't taken too much, and
l will make a scene if it means"
"Now look here, Mibb, we've
got to have an understanding and
we'll have it right here and now,
you're provoking it. I'm sorry,-for
you, although not in just the way
you think, | can see exactly how
you feel and if | could would help
you. ="
"You can help mel"
"But not by marrying you--"
ayes, by marrying me! Why not?
What's the past few years meant
all the times we've had together
and the trips and the talks and
the suppers and the parties what
have they meant if not matrimony
what could woman think?
Dick! Dick! don't go back on nc
now! Gawd, Dick don't tell
me it's all"
"Well, what?,''
Entertainment and nothing
more, Dick. I've had hard row to
hoe. I've been unfortunate it
seems, in everything I've taken up,
everything I've tried to do. And
Pm on the level in this, on the
level with you, Eve been on the
level all along, and thought at
last was coming into a little peace
and rest after it all. What have |
done to get this-what have / done.
The tears that came up in her
tired and burned out eyes only caused
the man to tap off more cigar-ash
calmly and look at her in vivisectional
lnterest-cold interest-as he would
consider the improperly-timing func-
lions of machine that was suddenly
doing strange and inexplicable things.
Il never thought it was in you,
Mibb," he said finally. az thought
you were more sensible"
Sensible? Amt / sensible. Dick?
Amt it the most sensible thing in
the world for me to want YOU?
After what I've gone through and
suffered and been cheated out of"
"Mibb, let's discuss this thing like
sane man and Il sane woman. Look
ing backward for moment l can re-
member night twenty-eight years
ago when you and I with lot of
other young folks up home sat around
fire in little shack up in the noun
tains"
"Don't I remember it, haven't
| thought of it thousands of times,
Dick? wished l could go back to
that night and live the years over
again"
The man frowned at the interrup-
ton. But he went on:
and Herb Truman, poor
old Herb! got sentimental and
proposed an extraordinary thing"
Eyes, poor old Herbert! Look