The Dolores star., 1921-03-18
PHILIPS LOVE
BY JACK LAWToM
TO- 1874, weo,srn Neyupapr Ur

'"Ethhcc sat M the window waIt
ing Tor Philip, hut the bapp,- ex.
l"ciahcy IN his coming was gone.
Shdly the young wife wondered how
iohg This life Of strained Indifference
"'uS' &" on. For surely Philip had
grown Indifferent in marriage, after
ms undated devotion before. Con.
stance looked hack on the years before
her marriHge with n sigh Philip.
earning his way in her fathers EN-.
p'oy' hnd been difficult lover, even
now she was not sure that he would
have asked his own hearts desire had
she not trcmulouSly prompted him.
Ana might she not. after all, she
lhought with a catching Of the breath.
have read his heart Alright?
Could II be that Philip had married
her for pityf Truly, She had shown
her heart TO him, with all it's love.
The fact of her fathers wealth. and
Philips humble position had seemed
such foolish barrier between. but
Philip in his stubborn pride had been
unable to brook that barrier. So she
had done II for him.
She remembered the night, with the
starlight on the snow, and Philips
dear arm through hers, steadying her
against the breeze, and when she
looked up into his face to see there
the pent up love of years, that love
which Philips brusque manner had
resolutely denied Constance half
laughing. half crying, had challenged
him to deny his love as she told of her
own.
Now, in the calm of her sitting room
the madness of that hour came back
to her with the memory of his eager
surrender. Their walk together had
been but an accident; Constance had
stopped at her fathers office and her
father himself had put her into the
forbidden Philips care. The night
was dangerously stormy, she would
have 10 take the street ear home, her
father expected to be detained Mt the
office and would need his own car
there. So Philip was Installed her
escort.
Later Constance had married him
tions. Stoutly she proclaimed her con
tempt for the luXures of life as com
pared with the gift of love-and Philip
accepted the gift.
Her father had not yet forgiven the
misalliunce: Philip was obliged to
seek work elsewhere, and to begin at
lower rIng of the business ladder.
But Philip would rise, and Constance
was happy until-that indetinable
something came to I'LL her with
strange apprehension.
She found Philip looking at her as
time went on. in detached. speculr-
tive way, and all her merriment could
not bring an answering smile. When
later he took to working evenings at
the office, Constance determinedly dis
couraged the ambition with the assur-
ance that they could manage on his
daily salary. and that she preferred
his companionship to extra dollars.
So, though Philip desisted, he was Ill
at ease during their evenings together
and Constance in her discouraglng ut.
tempts to entertain on the rafting old
hired piano, subsided after while be
fore his absorbed dependence.
Then Philip rising abruptly one
evening, announced his intention OF
departing for the club. Constance had
not heard of this club before. and was
grieved by his desertion. Then as
night after night passed In loneliness
she too cultivated an apparent indif
ference to match his own. But as the
street lights fiared out and she watch
ed from her window. it seemed NJ
longer she could bear this suspense
If she had been mistaken in. hel
reading of Philips heart and he hat
married her through pity, she mus
know Mt once, and no longer impose
herself upon him. Her eyes were we
with tears, us she started upon the
walk to her husbands place of busi
ness. The air would calm her, she
hoped, she knew that she would fine
Phillp there, and alone. An office gir
who responded to her telephone mes
sage told her that her husband woult
he delayed at least an hour. 1t wa:
more than an hour later when Con
stance stepped from the elevator II
the deserted corridor of the building
and as she entered an outer office sh'
heard voices in the room within.
One voice was Philips, nervousl!
impatient, the other was her fathers
at was little enough to do" 'Philil
was saying, ''giving up few weeks o
comfort in order that l might buy
oiano for Constance. And quite u
f,ne a one as that you provided II
cannot yet give to my wife all mos
things to which she was accustomed
some day in my great love for her
will.
"Yes," her father answered, some
aay. after you have worked ,yoursel
70 death bending over desk unit
midnight, when you have left her re
neatedly alone with that lie abou
snendIng your evenings at the clut
then YOU may be able to restore t
constance those things which sh