The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-07-18

was good TO her. and she was CRATE
full.
Sometimes she had dim sense
that under his easygoing exterior
iurlScd "a capacity for tremendously
passionate outbreak IL she had been
compelled to modify her first impress.
sion of him MS an arrogant, dom
ipsnt sort OF character, scarcely less
rough than the brown firs out OF
which he was hewing "A fortune, she
knew likewise that she had never
seen anything but the sunny side OF
him. He still puzzled her a little at
times; there were odd flashes OF
depths she could not see into, n
quality OF unexpectedness in things
he would do and say. Even so.
granting that in him was embodied
so much that other men she know
lacked. she did not love him; there
were indeed times when she almost
resented him.
Why. she could not. perhaps, have
put into words. IL seemed too fan
tastic for sober summing up. when
she tried. But lurking always in the
background of her thoughts was the
ghost OF an unrcallzed dream, "A
neubulous vision which once served
TO thrill her in secret II could never
be anything but a vision. she believed
now. and believing. regretted. The
cold facts OF her existence couldn't
be daydreamed away. she was mar.
ried. and marriage put fun stop
TO the potential adventuring OF youth.
Twenty and maidenhood lies at the
opposite pole from twenty-four, and
matrimony. Stella subscribed to
that She took for her guiding star
Acknowledgements twin concepts OF
morality and duty as she had been
taught to construc them. So she
saw no ioophole. and seeing none.
precious. Marriage and motherhood
had not come 10 her as the fruits OF
love. as the passionately eager full.
filling OF her destiny. II had been
thrust upon her. She had accepted
IL as n last resort at time when
her powers OF resistance to mis-
fortune were at the cbb.
She knew that this sort OF self.
,v,s b,d ,hing tina, n
IVA. hound 10 sour ths whole taste
NJ life IN her mouth Az much AS
possible she thrust aside those vague.
repressed longlngs Materially she
had everything N she had forerone
,ba, hargain with lack E.vfc God
only kpsw what Ionq.drawn agony
n, mind ana bodv c,rc,,-nstances and
c,barIia penton.s suhordtnatIon OF
har 90 M. o,,n epas r,,,,ht have In.
g,tctad mo, ber -rba, was tho re.
v.rs. ~ her shield bu, ono tina, grew
,,,,,,,or n. ,,,,o ,,a.sod Mostly she
tool, no az sbe found n concen,rat.
ing unon Jack I,nIor a sturdy bov
,,,,,h h,r. evea ,ike ~. father and
,,ho sre,y steadily moro adorable
N.vor,h.,.sy she had rec,,rriry No
,,oas xh.r r,oodIneys ana iil.stIfIea
d,scor,or, go, hoId ~ nor so,ne,imcs
~. s,o,e an, alop, Tho cliffs On "A,
on a nosav boulder staring with
ahsar, syss n, ,hs a,s,an, bii,s And
.,or,.,,r,os an, would s,,, on, 4, n
canoe IN lie rocking in the lake swell
inc, draamIng fIlIed with massive
sort ~ r.s.rat Che cot,ld no, change
thin~s now but sbe cou,a not helm
uisbing sbe cou,d
Fvfe warned her once about get.
ting offsbore in the canoe. Roaring
r.ake nent nm In tho shame OF a
boorr,aranr between two mountain
ranges was suhiect 10 soualls sud.
dcr bursts ~ wind wound shoot down
its length like blasts from some mon.
Ito, ,,,naI Stella k,e,y that. sbe
had seen the CLASSY surface torn into
,.,r,,ocars IN ION ,ri,u,e. I'm, she
WAS No, afraid ~ the lake nor The
l,ke Winds ebe Was hard and
strony The omen tho c,ean moun.
ta,r az and a -,eax,,ro NJ .c,i,,s,v
had h,,,, her m nhvsica,lv cine
s,y,,, ,,te sa,, o,t a. that six.
,aor-,oo, p.,erhoro 81. could de,acb
har..,s sro,, hor ,,,or,d ~ ,aaI,,y l,a
ha.t, ~, c,,.b,or ora ,oso hcrse,s
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