Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-07-06
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IL Masquerade
By Idah McGlone Gibson
Glendening,s Changes.

5AlOW hCt lACD0d6O " man. )AF -
readily agreed.
What do you think Jim, about
her coming homer" asked DR.. Mil
ton tremulously. "You see she
doesn't speak about Glendening.
Do you think she has heard that
he was shot?"
"Of course / don't know any
thing about 1t, Milt. / don't know
gets printed over there, but 1t
really looks to me as though at
last Margaret Earle has been able
to see the difference between a
real man and stuffed idol with
feet OF mud.
"At last, Milt, am rather sorry
for Glendening. l am very sure
that he can never live in this eli
mate again. And / am also very
sure that he will hate to be away
from his friends. With his tenn
permanent living anywhere because
he must will be punishment
enough for him.
You, of course, know, Milt,
how fond Glendening is of his
friend"
81 have heard how fond he is
of the company of his friends"
corrected DR.. Milton, in a voice
which made Clavering understand
that Milton would never forgive
Glendening even IL Marss,vt
Earle did.
After arranging to accompany
Milton to the funeral of his wife.
Clavering went to GIendening' S
room where he found Harry In a
very feyerish state.
Il am glad you came, Jim," he
said. Il have something of great
Importance to say to you. was
afraid you wouldn't get here in
time" Then after he had sent
the nurse from the room, he whis-
pered as though he were afraid
the walls would hear
Keep Doris away from me for
a few days longer. will you old
man?"
whats on your mind now.
Harry? thought you were anxi-
GUS to see Doris and get her for
giveness."
Instead of making any comment
Glendening thrust an early edi-
tion of an afternoon paper into
his hands with small item on
the first page marked.
| Clavering read:
Mrs. Margare- Earle is return
ing home unexpectedly. She Is on
the Aquitania which left Liver
pool yesterday, This will be a sur
prise to Mrs. EarIe's many friends
who were under the impression
when she went abroad a few
weeks ago that it was for a pro-
longed stay.
when asked, as she boarded
the ship, If she could give for pub
lication the reason for her change
of plans, she smiled.
" 1t is a woman's reason-it is
Just because "
Clavering read the paragraph
through twice and frowned. He
saw, even before Glendenfng
spoke, that Harry thought Mar
garet had seen some news item
bout his being shot and was hur-
rying home to him.
At first Jim thought that he
would disabuse Harrys mind by
telling him of the cablegram that
| Davis had received from Margaret.
Then he decided he could not do
so without betraying both Mar
garet and DIR. Milton. SO he said:
1T would be hard work, Harry
to keep Doris away She feels that
in a way she is somewhat to blame
for the whole thing. She told
Davis that II she had forgiven
you when you went to her the 9TH
er day, this would probably never
have happened. She wants you to
forgive her quite as much as she
wants you to be assured that she
has forgiven you"
Harry groaned.
Jim. l wonder II you think / !
am utterly graceless If tell you
that the present moment | do not |
want to be forgiven. l only want |
to look upon the face of Margaret
Earle. Oh. Jim, II had not been
such a fool; If l had Just been
able to have been true TO Margaret |
for two weeks we would not be on
our way to Quito"
II expect you have seen, Harry, |
in the papers that Claire Adams
wrote you a letter in which she
said she thought she was going to
Quito with you"
"Yes, l saw it--I saw it," II
must have been insane to have
told her that l would go anywhere
with her. She was very beautiful. |
but after | got tired OF looking at
her she bored me to death-poor
thing. And yet l could not leave
her alone. This cursed conceit OF
mine made me want to be flat |
tered. Margaret had hurt my
pride.
"oh, you cannot despise me
more than l despise myself, but
you know the day before all this
happened. really aid come to the
conclusion that I would try to
turn over a new leaf. TOwent to