Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1921-03-03

.lui proncin % i woinan's life.
lnrat make my own decision and make
i out OF my own Eeart and my own
mind. I haze mn,le IT,"
'Jogee doa'l say that il Is no !"
NO, Garrett, | WIN not say that. II
would he as unfair TO me rs 20 YOU.
Ny decision Is this: You must take
two years--two full years. While you
are out there you may write and | will
answer; hut there must he noe renewal
OF this subject during that time.
Then Garrett, If you have really and
truiy succeeded II you can SHOW me
that you are Il man in whose hands
| can safely eutrust my life aud that
you are beyond Tie possibility of fail
IRE. 1t shall be as you wish If you
still want NE for your wife.
That was In August. la September,
iv.o years later, the Asatic mail
brought to Joyce AIIerton the most
tragic epistle she had ever received
in her'Iife. 1t was dated at Shanghai,
Oh the anniversary of the day when
Hume so joyously announced the arr
rival OF his great opportunity Joyce
read
This is the last day. In the fuce
of every misfortune. OF each bitter
disappointment, | have fought down
despair and chung desperately to hope
until now. II Is the end, of course.
instead Of having made the success
you 50 rightfully demanded, instead
of having attained 10 position and
fortune and the assured capacity for
protection which a girl like you has
every logical reason to expect in her
husband have to confess myself not
only a failure, but a failure so com
pletc and disastrous as to present, in
contrast TO my cocksure Dragging on
that last day at home with you,
spectacle of sprawling comicality like
one of those slapstick clowns that
everybody used to buffet in the movies.
I've told you good deal in my
letters. Joyce-how poor Neville's
concession turned out to be only half
baked after all and how his luck
didu't stick 70 HIN as II did in the
Argounc and bow his line New York
frieuua stood out IRON under wheh
the laps dipiomatizrd Ills railroad in
to tier own haulS and lci, INA fl,a
broke; how he offered To send lHe
home with his last five hundred.-uhd
his wife sick unto death at Chicago
how obtained position" in Hong
Kong and how I hoped for something
better very soon and all thai kind of
thing. But | didn't tell you that the
Hong Kong position was that of
porter in nm English hotel. didn't
tell YOU that / stuck to that job for a
solid year because | couldn't get any
thing better | didn't tell YOU that |
lost it by thrashing cocllney who
Dragged that England would have won
the war six months sooner IL we had
kept out of it--and for The next six
months earned my living typewriting
English letters Tor a tea exporting
firm of Chiuaneu--which is consid-
cred the objectionable sin out here
for white man. didn't tell you that
the superior employment which /
tutht mere 10 rake WAS "a nlSefanib
clerkship for the treaty court You
never would have guessed that II has
taken me all this time to earn and
save my passage money home-and
now that have II I'm mol going but
am going 10 stay here in the land of
my failure and invest those few hun
dreds in. an American soda fountain
in desperate attempt to wiring a
ridiculous little pigmy of success out
of my colossal failure.
God bless You, Joyce, and give you
happy life You had rare sense.
And this is the expensive cablegram
Joyce sent in reply:
"PeCuniary success nothing To me.
Have too much money myself Feared
failure In tenacity Of purpose Regard
you as true success. Answer is yes.
Please come home.
II VAS Thanksgiving day wedding
and Joyce said 20 her husband, ~
think, dear, that what we have 10 be
most thankful for, after all, is That
great opportunity OF yours--to prove
NAur9plf iuGf "A man -