Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-08-11

ellie called clever. He refused to con-
slider what that implied. what uely
depths Of doubt were stirred IN MN
to make him vince In anger andsn4-
initiation. suddenly he bitterly re-
GREETED having told the story to >sais
girl. even under the concealed 1oen''-
"No doubt" he made a coldly
vague rejoinder. II dare say the
matter win work itself out well
enough. It is getting late; ! think !
It was altogether too abrupt and
he knew it. But he could do no pet
ter. He knew tho girls eyes follow
ed him away, and he walked Win
careful ease and n~onchalance.
Out Of her. sight, he walked
was settling down like a delicate gray
veil. At the foot Of the Palisades.
! opposite, a familiar point OF lighs
spranK into view among the Mnyr!9d
lights there; q point that ran IKE hre
through. tow, up, across, around untis
the glittering words shons complete:
"Adriance's PapeJ."
The name was reflected In tho dark
water. Down there, 1t swayed weak
Ily and its legend was broken by the
rivers ripples. you shine. UP there,
it's scorn back to the man-made ar'
rogance. He was like that reflection.
Tony Adriance thought. with q fancy
caught from the girls trick Of I'm.
aEery; he was the mere reflection OF
his fathers successes, shifting. worth
less, inseparable from the ~gold-coloF-
ed reality above, dancing and broken
on the current of q woman's will. he
himself was-nothing. He WINGED
under the self-applied lash. 1t wa
knotted with truth. he, personally,
never had said she loved him; ~
simply had taken his devotion for
granted, and used it. Would n
have promised herself to him II ne
had been a poor man? Would n
ever have contemplated divorce from
Masterson, with all his faults, IL Tony
Adriance had not brought himself and
his gilded possibilities across hex
path? The questions were ugly.
sent the blood into his face. he
stopped walking and stood BY the
stone wall edging the sidewalk, fac-
ing the river.
He always had resented beinE
merely his fathers heir, In a vague,
unanaAyzed way. Now resentment
threatened to fame into rebellion.
Rebellion against what? His ia
Their, who left him absolute freedom
from any restraint? Lucille. whom
he, was at perfect liberty never to see
again. II he chose to deny her as
sumption? He vas very completely
trapped by circumstance, since h
trap was open and yet he could not
leave it.
The delicate dot on the J. Of irony
was that he had loved Lucille. yet he
knew he must be miserable with her
all their lives. He thought OF her
ever now with q certain longing. yet
he would always distrust her and de-
test himself. His fingers grlpped the
stone edge; he felt a passionate envy
of men who were strong enough to
do insane. desperate things, to tear
their own way ruthlessly through the
clinginx web of other peoples ways.
He fancted the girl in black to be
such q person; II she considered her
self right in any course. she would
take 1t.
But after 4 while he turned away
and began, to walk homo. He had to
dress, for he was dining with the
Mastersons, It had been insisted up
on. to make amends for the night he
had stayed away to dine with his ia
Their. Lucille was not yet ready for
any audible whisper to suggest d.
vorce to the world or her husband.
Tony must come and 60 as usual for
a few weeks nor She had chosen
to forget his appeal. after uueiling his
mutiny. Mrs. Masterson was no q
generous victor.