Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-28
it would mean for hin, If I were to

It would mean for him II ] were to
strike out for myself now"
You + like all women" he de-
clared f%uriously. you complicate
every situation in life by thinking Of
other people. Think for yourself,
Marcia. What about your own fu-
ture? + promise you that your Mar
were up against a similar problem.
He is getting all he wants. Are you?
OF course you aren't"
Does anybody get all they wan,
out of life?"
TT is generally their own fault II
they don't set the main things,"' he
insisted. But, see here. IN attack
you with your own weapons. Here
am /. forty-one years old. in love with
you since. l. was thirty-two. What
about those nine years: I AM drop
ping into the way OF untidy, unsatis-
factory ~bachelordom. I only order
new clothes when sone friend ichaGs
me into it, and il 1 do. I forget the
ties and shirts and those sorts Of
things. I've lost all interest In. my
self. I loaf at the club, p1ay auction
bridge when I might be doing some
thing a great deal better, and drink A
whiskey and soda whom any one asks
me. hang on to the business, but
when I've finished MY work I drift
In another five years tine I shall be-
gin to stoop, I shall live with cigar
ash all over my clothes. And I ehAll
have to be taken home from the club
every other night. Your doing. Mar
;cia--your responsibility"
II should think" she said severely,
that your elf-respect-"
L "nh. -A&~S% hA%A~. ~ -Y
respect" he interrupted. II am a
human being, ana / tell you, Marcia,
that every man needs something in
his life to lift him just a little, TO live
up to. not down to-. There is only one
person in the world can take that
place for me. I'm q clear charge up
on your hands. You know that
love you, that you've driven ali
thoughts OF other women out Of my
head. that you keep me beating
against the walls Of my impotence
every time we meet and part. I an,
perfectly certain, II, you don't COME
down to the world OF common tense,
shall sink into the world Of naelo-
drama and go and tackle your Mar
quis myself. He must let you go"
ID you want me as much a. all
that she asked, a little wistfully.
He was BY her side in 1 moment,
INSPIRED by the break In her tone, the
sweet, soft look in her eyes. ne
sank on n knee blythe side Of her
couch and took her hands In his. kiss
Ing them one after the other.
"Ah, Marcia. he murrAured, II
want you more than anything else On
earth! I want you 80 much that,
when you come. you will make the
years that have passed seern like
nothing but q nightmare. and the
minutes, a. they come. years Of hap.
piness. am awkwarG. ! Know,
sometimes and sruh and r4orose,
but so - any MAJ who sp<nds Ms Hfe
fretting for the thing ne can't get,
only ask you. dear. to 10 fair. !
have mover said an unkfnd word about
the man for whom you hA%e cared
Eso Ioht. / only ny now that you
belong to me. I an not 4 ut fcoltAh
--I am not even teal0us-onIy yot,t
time has Coma. your time l1or, that 1T.
tie home IN the country, 4 hueband
always with YOU. and. I hopA e
Heaven, chtIdrsM."
She took his faes sAt,~asn he,
hands and kiAstd him. he understood
her 80 perfectly that, Is she drew he,
lips away, he roSe ana etood on thl
heaFthrt1g, . corduGror yet humble
"Hou won't mind" she besxed. ~
very soon. IT may ~ Mile time
trust sn,- me. From tonight. q
She hesitated, but his Kesture wa1
s : shs knew nat 'hs =,
"You have made mo tina harr,..