Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1920-12-22

VIII snap out the hall light she said
breathlessly. AS he obeyed sha nnt
up her face to his in the darkness
saying clearly: "Good-by. Joe. ri
surely be ready tomorrow when Won
come"
she had caught a light step. the
merest rustic of garments, as she
passed into the hall. The lights there
again full. showed het yelled and
hooded figure rushing impetuously
downward. 1t pushed rudely past the
stranger without glance at him, and
was quickly swallowed in lower half
lit depths. Then came a smothered
scream, drowned by the loud purrine
OF powerful car. Marcia reioiced
that hers were not street windows.
whatever happened she could not see
1t; shuddering she sank upon a win
dow seat and hid her face in her
hands. Body and soul, she was shaken
to the depths
Now for year she had built up an
ideal about the man she had saved.
Gordon Ammerly, lawyer, utterateur,
society ornament, modestly rich, but
ambitious as Luclfer. The type she
could love-fate permitting. Now
she flung up her head, rose and shook
herself free of something intangible.
So he played with wOmen's hearts and
mems honor. In a shuddering revul-
sion she flung doors and windows
wide. bathed her burning face, turned
out the lights and sat bordering life
and things till a low moon told her it
was long past midnight.
When next Joe eame--to be exact
1t was next afternoon-she saw him
TRANSPORTED. He was clean as he was
klnd-there were no Touchdown
pages for his wife to discover. More
over. he loved her so entirely, trusted
her with such perfect trust. q
gave away your coat and cap" she
| said to him, abruptly, to which he only
smiled, saying: st must have been
the right thing--or you wouldn't have
done, it" And although he sensed
subtly the change in her, the change
that bespoke ordeal, he said nothing
of it, but took her to dinner and after
ward for long, lazy wandering
| through the park. 1t was the first of
! many. Marcia found them infinitely
restful. She found, too, that Joe had
ceased to bore her-that she missed
him acutely longed for his coming
and felt happy in his presence though
neither spoke u word.
Thus times whirligig brought to
| pass the Inevitable end-a quiet we'd
| ding, brief honeymo n, then the max
ing of new and delightful home, big
enough for two, that by and by be
| came three. Marcia in her happiness re-
| membeTed her flight Of adventure only
| now and then, but always thankfully
I 1t had been the turning point She
! knew Ammerly was abroad-perma-
nently, said the society gossip. He
had sent as a wedding gift a small
| chest Of exquisite silver-thus she
! knew he too remembered thankfully.
| Il am trying to make my life worth
! your having saved it," he wrote in
! answer to her warm Acknowledgement,
Still, it took her all aback, when her
second baby came to find that he
watched over her though far away.
Il have settled on you my old home,
with enough money to live there in
comfort. Please do it-cities are no
places for young things which have
hereditary right TO grow up very fine.
knowledge that you and yours are
there, safe and happy, is the only
thing that can make me sure your inch
of time was not spent in vain"
| He died year later. Marcia
| grieved for him sincerely-but her
gratitude to him was not for his bene-
factions, but for Joe.