The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-12-31
JAMES LOVE.
CHAPTER ~.


II was a sign of James nervousness
that she played with her fountain pen
while she talked
You see,' she began, Donald was
wears ahead of me at college 1t is
college tradition that the juniors fra
ternize with the freshmen and protect
them. Just as it is a tradition that the
sophomores and the freshmen are enc
mics When | first went to college,
the junior class gave dance to make
the new class feel at home-and | met
Donald there"
Il remember the dance, you wore
your graduation dress to it, said the
mother
Yes, and since our styles at home
were not like the things town people
we're wearing, | looked rather ridicu-
lous, and they called me the little
country girl and other silly names.
Ii wasn't your fault, you couldn't know
what the styles were, and the dress
was beautifully made" Thus Jane
tactfully softened her criticism of the
dress.
She went on.
Donald was interested in very
smart girl, the best dressed in the col
lege, as it happened. She was very
distant cousin of his, very rich, very
clever, but not serious | never knew
why she decided TO study medicine, |
think it was a fad with her for she
did not graduate But Donald was at
tracted by my lack of fashion ana
my general ignorance of-well, every
thing that had anything to do with life,
or social customs. | was just little
greenhorn.
Then he graduated with honors and
stayed on for special work. And /
took an extra course of lectures that
we were allowed to attend if we want
ed, that was also part of his work. So
we were in classes together. And
was asked to join society he belong
ed to--and so on, things began bring
ing us more and more in each others
company.
And we began to fall in love"
She said this quite simply, and sal
awhile quiet her large brown eyes
softly alight as she thought over 1t.
II had no ideas of any sort when
] went to college, except few from
reading books in school. | believed
everything | was brought up by you
and father TO believe"
Good beliefs, too" put in Amy
Good, yes-only, don't you see
some of them didn't fit. Life at homt
was quite simple. you could lay dow
rules for it. But life today in bic
cities where there are hundreds OF
thousands of people rubbing elbows
and falling in love and quarreling ant
playing together-well, it makes
more complicated life.
And the world goes on-that
what you and father cannot under
stand. However Donald developef
all sorts Of new ideas, new sympa
thies. And | found those were jus
the things | wanted to believe, too
Ii didn't seem fair to me that some
people were rich because their parent
or grandparents had worked and mad
money, so they could idle and snui
me because ] was poor. | began Il
study socialism then-Donald became
quite radical, about that and man.
other things And he Influenced me
She laid down her pen and gave al
her attention to what she was saying
Donald fell in love with me, toe
I couldn't write you about 1t, you Woui'
promptly decide we were to be mar
ried ard begin making me hemsutche'
piIlow-cases for a rousseau! Donal'
didn't want to marry-we have talked
of it often, and he is quite right.
His parents were very unhappy
they. hated each other. His who'll
childhood was made bitter because o
their hatred His father didn't belieV
in divorce, and wouldn't even let hi
wife live separately, so one day sh
ran off with another mana man sn
was in love with. She took Donal
along, because she adored him. Sh
lived very happily with the ether ma
YOU will say she was living IN sll
7 don't say it, because she was
love and that made the difference.
But people found it out, and Gu
her-and her husband was nasty-an
one day when she was ill-she- too
her life. 1t was a tragic story.
made an impression on Donald. II
blamed his father for ii and grew u
feeling that marriage was all wron'
You can't blame him, considering VIVA
ne saw
She paused again. more nervous