The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-04-05

The vision Of hi. dark anger broke
away. Mute while he watched Il.
Immediately Il lifted Its head and
answered her own. Look here
he began: and stopped Look here. .
he said more quietly, don't begin
that absurd business again.
II don't think I, II absurd
mo. you called Il funny
she drew In her feet aa IL to arise.
Yes. and think ia funny. All Of
II. l think you've been funny all day
today. Coming back Ike that
Il told you why l came back To
have day of with you. Funny day
off IT'S been. You're right thcrcr'
"Yes. n has been a funny day off,
He thought. MY God. this hickrr.
lngl Why don't get out OF the
ROOM
Come hack for a day of with met
ms a funny thing you came back
Just In time 20 get that letter. he.
fore Il was delivered! There. Now
you know
He was purely amazed. lie thought.
and his amarcfnent vas such that.
characteristlcaiiy his anger left him:
he thought wet. OF nil the
But she otherwise Interpreted his
aatonlshm~nt. She thought she had
made an advantage and she preared
H. Perhaps you knew Il was com
mgr
How on Earth could I have known
u was comingr
sh. seemed TO pause. TO be consfd-
ering. she nigh, have told you.
You might have seen her"
~. said. .As II happens. flf see
her. Not three hours before came
back"
She seemed disappointed. she said.
Il know you DID. We met Lord Ty.
bar
And he thought. Good iorfi sh.
was trying to catch me-
she went on. "You never told me
you'd met them. Wasn't tina, funhyf''
If you'd Just think n little you'd
SEQ there was nothing funny about
~ You found the letter 30 amax.
lngiy funny that. 10 tell you the
truth. I'd had about enough Of the
Tyharr And I've had about enough
OF them"
Il dare say you hav.-wish me
Perhaps you'li tell mo thls-would
you have told me about tho letter
II hadn't seen you get IT."
lie though, before he answered and
ho answered out Of his thoughts He
raif slowly. beiicve--I--
would. I wouldn't wouldn't b.
cause T'd have known perfectly well
that you'd have thought it--funny."
xI
No answer he could have made
could have more cxaspcraicd her. Il
---don't-beiicvc- Delhi
eraiioni Something incomprehensibi'
20 her going on In his mind. and AZ
n result Of II n statement that ne
one on earth fshe felO but h. woult
have made. Any one else would have
said boldly. blusteringiy. "Of oours'
I won have told you about the let
ter" She would have liked tina.
She would have dhbelisved II and
she could have said. and enjoyed pay
iug. she disbciicvrd ~. or any ou'
siae would have aaid furiously. EMO
I'm damned n I'D have shown yot
the letter" She would have like
that. IL would have affirmed h.
suspicious that there was some
thing in a." and she wished her sus
plcions 20 be affirmed. IL would hav'
been something definite. Something
juatifiabiy incentive OF anger. OF 70
sentiment, Of jealousy. Something sh'
could understand.
For she did not understand hei
husband. That was her grievance
against him. She never had under
stood him. That den incident in Tn
very earliest days OF their marriage
had been an intimation OF a way 81
looking at things that 10 her was IN
ilreiy and exasperatingiy inoxpllc
able; and since then, increasingly
year by year. her understanding ha'
failed 10 follow him. lie had retirei