South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-04-01

about the letter" She would have
liked that. She would have disbe-
lieved it and she could have said.
and enjoyed saying, she disbelieved
it. Or anyone else would have said
furiously mo, I'm damned if I'd
have shown you the letter" She
would have affirmed her suspicious
that there was something in it,"
and she wished her suspicious to be
affirmed. 1t would have been some
thing definite. Something justhably
incentive Of anger. Of resentment, of
jealousy. Something she could un-
derstand.
She could not express her feelings
In words. She expressed them in
action. She arose violently and left
the room. The whole of her emotions
she rut into the slam Of the door
behind her. The ornaments shivered.
a cup sprang off a bracket and
dashed itself to pieces on the floor.
CHAPTER "
These events were on a Monday
On the following Thursday Mona
came to see him at his oSice.
She stood still Immediately she
was across the threshold and the
door closed behind her. She was
smiling as though she felt herself to
be up to some lark. "Hullo. Mako
Don't you hate me for coming in
here like this?"
IT'S jolly surprising"
That's another way of saving il.
Now if you'd said it was surprisingly
jolly. Well, shake hands. Mako
and pretend you're glad"
He laughed and put out his hand.
But she delayed response: she first
slipped off the gauntlets she was
wearing and then gave him her
hand. THERE" she said
There" 1t was as though she
had now done something she much
wanted to do: as one says There"
on at last sitting down after much
fatigue.
She tossed her gauntlets on to a
chair. She walked past him toward
the window. You got my letter."
Yes"
Her face was averted. Her voice
had not the bantering note with
which she had spoken at her entry
You never answered it."
We'll, I'd just seen you-just be
fore I got it,"
She was looking out OF the win
dow. why haven't you been up?"
OH don't know. was com
ing"
We'll, I had 70 come" she said.
He made no rerly. He could think
of none to make.
She turned sharply away from the
window and came toward him. ra-
diant again. as at her entry.
We'll, I like YOU best when you're
thinking. You puzzle. don't you
Mako? You've got a funny old
head. you know. Puzzling things
Clever beast wish I could live in
mine" And she gave a note OF
laughter.
Where do YOU live, Mona
Il don't live. I Just go on"-she
paused-"hotsam."
Strange word to use, strangely
spoken.
1t seemed TO Sabre to drop with a
strange. detached effect into the con-
yersation between them. His habit
Of vlsualizing inanimate things
caused him 10 see as It were a pool
between them at their feet. and from
the word dropped into Il. ripples that
came 20 his feet upon his margin Of
the pool and 70 her feet upon hers
He took the word away from its
personal application. II believe
that's rather what I was thinking
about when you came. Mona About
how we just so on-fiOtsam. Don't
you know on a river where it's tidal
or on the seashore az the turn. the
mass OF STUFF you see there, drift
wood and spent foam and stuff. just
floating there. uneasily. brought in
and left there-from somewhere;
and then presently the tide begins 10
take tx and it's drawn of and moves
away and goes-sOmewhere Arrives
and floats and goes. That's myster-
ious. Mona -
Continued in Our Monday Issue)