The Denver Jewish news., 1921-06-08
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happiness, and q little disturbed at |
finding Sarah so apparently not up
to his standard of glowing enthusiasm.
but he was too wise to say SO. While !
he was positive she was not in love
with him, manlike, he expected to be
able to teach her to care, and the
thought of possible rival for her af |
fectiOns never entered his mind Sarah
listened Internationally when he dis
cussed their plans for the future, and
| offered no remonstrance when he ask
| ed to announce their engagement u
week from the following Sunday.
This done, there was apparently
something else on Icons mind, sub
ject he seemed to find difficult of APP
proach. Dimly Sarah noted it, hut
she wasn't actively enough interest
ed to help him get at it. Clearing his
throat nervously, he plunged abruptly
into 1t:
There's one thing / haven't mem
toned, Sarah darling" he said, with
heightened color. "In New York there
are thousands of Jews, and naturally
there are good many people who
don't like them. Sometimes you can't
blame them, because there's such a
cOnglOmeratiOn of them there, good
and bad, honest and dishonest, sharp
ers and men as straight as n die
but just the same, we Jews are always
a race apart. When got into Wright,
HOutaling and No. they didn't know 1
was a Jew, or / never would have
gotten in. Harris Is as much an Eng
lish name as Hebrew, you know, and
somehow they'd gotten hold of my
given name as Lynn, not Leon. l
didn't know how they feit, and when
was on the inside and did learn it.
didn't know what to do. / wanted
to get out-and yet had the keen
remembrance of the heartbreak ex-
periences had trying to make u be-
ginning.
"Well-I won't bore you with de-
tails but the thing is that my firm
doesn't know I'm Jew, and I've got
ten to a stage now where they mustn't
Know it, or out I'll go, and my wholc
future will be jeopardized. l suppose
1t wasn't right, but it WAS the line of
least resistance, ando' now my steps
can't Ike retraced. Every Sunday I
go to church with Wright and his
wife, and 1 guess they're never both.
cred much to find out what really
am. I don't look Jewish, you know,
and that's how it allncame about"
Stunned, thru dry lips, she return
ed: "well?, n
Leon was regarding her anxiously
Dear, It's just tits You mustn't let
them know that YOU'RE Jewish either.
You look it more than I, but l don't
believe they'll ever inquire. But to go
on the way you've been brought up
will be impossible in New York
don't know any Jews who take their
religion seriously, or their race, eth
er, aithO 1 suppose there are plenty"
There was moment of silence, un
broken save for the steauy, clear tick
of Leon's watch-that wafer-thin trim
/ ket of gold-the newest and the finest
symbolic of Icons. success in New
York as surely as were his stunning
| quietly handsome clothes and his en-
tire bearing. Leon was u very smart
boy. He had done well in New York
| the city of the initiated, which did not
| open Its heart to strangers. And II
was fine Of him to be SO straight for
ward about it.
Leon" she said softly, laying n
small hand on his arm. II should
have guessed this the very first night
you were home, when asked you
about going to Temple in, New York.
But. dear, church attendance doesn't
constitute ones religion by any means.
fallen in love with yOu-it might have
been different. Butt can't quite for
give you for denying your own. We
Jews have always been a martyred
race, and I've seen many instances of
where it would be far easier to deny
than affirm it-but you see I've al
ways been taught to be proud of it.
| It's our heritage you knOw-you re-
member-'the heritage of Abraham
Isaac and Jacob L Couldn't possibly
go with you to New York and be 9th
er than 1 am, Leon. man as
similates new environment much
more quickly than woman, and
an sure 1 never could be what you
want me to- I'm positive that l don't
want to. And 1 know now that /
can't marry you. for don't love you.
If I did, even this would have been
minor sacrifice"
Noiselessly she Slipped away, and
there lay in the palm or Icons out