The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-13
The Woman
He Married
JUAN1TA BOASTS.
BY JANE PHELPS

! JUANTTA BOASTS.
CHAPTER III.
/ I couldn't help speculating upon the
change in Juanita's attitude. What
did it mean? Had she realized that
Dick would get away from her, her
influence, when they stopped working
| together, and toAprevent had feigned
the sympathetic friend who was will
i ing to sacrifice her own ambltlonS TO
further his?
| 1t was a clever move.
| Dick became his own optimistic self
again, and-Worked indefatigably. Once
/ when I said that he should not work
so hard, he reminded me that since
Juanita was not working with him, he
| felt duty bound to show her that he
did better work when alone.
lit is the only way she will be con-
WINGED that do not need her, he had
added. He meant need her help in
1 his writing. In other ways he seemed
to seek her more than ever Once I
overheard him say, ct cannot repay
you in any other way for your sweet
sympathy, your belief in me-save to
give you what time I can spare" 1
| had not heard what went before, so
drew my own conclusions
Juanita had changed her tactics en-
tireIy. She f1attered. almost I was
about to say. cajoled him. She ap-
peared to anticipate his desires when
he was around, and was constantly
planning some sort of pleasure for the
! hard working author" as she called
him.
Dick had once more commenced a
serial story.
| ct will send it to some magazine,
then if it is accepted and I can get a
publisher I will put it out in book
form" he said when he began it.
Juanita had run over few moments
before, and Dick had insisted she stay
! a. nd hi inv to inn
altho desperately wanted to tell her
to go home and remain there. How
ever, it was no part of my plan to let
her know how l felt.
During dinner rallied Juanita upon
remaining a widow.
Zone as attractive as you are must
have had many chances to marry" I
remarked.
Naturally" she confessed. "but I
must marry the man 1 want, not just
for the sake of getting married. And
I am hard to please" She shot a
quick glance at Dick thru languishing
lids.
! "Juanita believes in taking happi-
ness where she can, regardless of 9TH
ers,'' I said to Dick, then repeated the
conversation we had had on the sub
ject. and which had shocked me.
"She would never willfully hurt any
one 1 am sure" Dick replied absent
mindedly. -
Don't be too sure, Dick!" she re-
sponded lightly, Il am one of the sort
that always get what they want
eventually
But not always when you want it ?'
L broke in.
"Some things are the better Cor
waiting she answered, and l have
a great deal of patience
I knew she spoke truly. When She
wanted to accomplish anything. she
was a marvel of patience. I had no
ticed it often, and at first had envied
too apt to ego off tangent" as Dick
expressed it. ~ tb7
Nothing more was said on the sub
ject, and when Dick took her home
and remained an hour or more-altho
it was late, 1 was SO distressed I COM
plenty forgot it. But a few days aft
erward it REQUIRED to me. She had
said she always secured what she
| wanted-sometime. 1 could not doubt
| that she wanted Dick. Would she
get him-sometime? Not if 1 could
| help it.
I, also, would cultivate patience. 1
would be as sympathetic as she, even
tho I found it hard to make Dick I'M
derstand my feeling. He gave me so
little of his time, was SO preoccupied,
so bent upon spending all of his lei
rsure on his story. save what he gave
| to Juanita, that at times I doubted if
he realized I existed
! I often wondered at Dick-at the
change in him. A continuous internal
agitation seemed to be Transforming
him into someone different from the
Dick I knew. He seemed to be pos
sessed of an extravagant romanticism,
which laid to the effect of the story
he was writing, romance. Afterward
| l sensed it was only the effect of
Juanita-her personality, the most in
tense ever have seen, upon him.
Now that she was no longer his
partner in work, she was transformed
into the alluring, petulantly idle, fas-
cinating woman of the world She
would gaze at him with a look, utter
| abandonment in her eyes, the while
she uttered some commonplace re-
mark that I could make nothing Of
i I was sure that for her / did not
! exist. | was a nonenity. She had
laughed at me when she talked with
old Mary. I was simply a sort of i'm
pedimene that, for the time, blocked
her way. But her patience would eff
! feet my removal.
But while I SMILED. and hid all this
in my Utmost Soul, I was far from
happy.
Tomorrow boys insight.)