The Washington herald., 1920-01-29

stranger-he told me who he was"
Ridiculous, What did the name Of
Harvey Gatewood mean to you? 1t
might have been a yarn concocted for
the occasion. A nice situation 1t would
have been had anyone passed and
observed my wife being carried by a
man of whom everyone knows my
opinion-and apparently enjoying it.
too"
But what could I have done?"
walled Doris. II couldn't know you
were coming?"
1t was the worst thing she could
have said. Carrington's original ir-
ritation was being augmented by each
fresh cause for anger.
So" he sneered. Il SUPPOSE you
have no honor about what you do,
so long as / don't happen to be
around to observe it?'
That is unkind, Stewart" Doris
found courage to protest. What
meant was that could not know
anyone but Mr.. Gatewood would find
me. and naturally | did not want to
stay there all night"
You should have asked him to
take message to Margaret, know
ing that we would have come for
you at once" declared Darlington
firmly. I'm the first place you should
never have attempted to walk in
those absurd shoes, and in the second
place, it Is inconceivable Chat a girl
reared in this day of enligbtment
should have willingly trusted herself
to the car Of a passing stranger even
in a slight extremity"
The term "sfght extremity with
rpfpranca IN her tortIttipo opEIa No
less than the rebuke for her careless
ness, proved too much for Doris's
self control. She sank into her cor
ner of the car and the teams coursed
down her cheeks unchecked.
II hurt $50. and you don't even
c-care," she faltered.
A glance at her .woeful little face
brought a swift pang of remorse to
Darlington. but his yielding to ten
derness on several previous occasions
had resulted in the lesson being COM
pletely lost upon Doris, who invari-
ably came happily to heel. like a
grateful puppy after a chastisement.
I am very sorry that you've injured
your ankle, Doris, and I'm taking
you as quickly as possible to have 1t
repaired" he said more gently. "You
must learn to curb your sensitiveness
to criticism. You are very young
and when l married you / undertook
to teach you the things that your
youth and your restricted life had
precluded you from knowing. I am
much older than you and have had
much greater contact with the world !:
but how, in Heavens name, am I
to help you. IL you become hurt and
fearful at my slightest suggestion?
Do try to look at 1t squarely and SELL
sibly." .........
1t is difficult to be logical when One
is yearning for little sympathy, but
Doris set her teeth firmly and resol-
we'd to suffer the tortures of purgatory
rather than command tenderness that
was not spontaneous. She remember
ed vividly his capitulation on the pre-
vious two occasions when she had
earned his spoken disapproval. but so
did Darlington, who resolved that the
lesson should not be lost the third
time, though he felt the impulse to
| take the forlorn little figure in his
arms and kiss away her tears. In the
light of reflection he was not quite
sure what he had been angry about.
but his assurance in his own infalli-
bility. told him that he must have
had just cause for permitting the leash
to slip from his perfectly controlled
temper.
In less than an hour, the sufferer was
comfortably ensconeed on diyar1
drawn before the fire. the injured an
kle skillfully bandaged and soothed
with oiptmehts. She looked SO dis
tracting1y pretty with the freight on
her fair hair. her big eyes. bigger than
even after their siege of tears, and
the filmy neglige falling away from
her softly rounded arms and throat,
that Carrington was moved to risk
the loss of the lesson. He came and
sat on the edge of the lounge and.
drew her close without speaking.
Tears OF gratitude we1led in Doris
eyes, but she controlled them nobly.
She sensed his aversion to weeping
and resolved for once to forestall his
criticism.
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