The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-03

Ing her own emouOnS anu pTiththS her own bubbles of romance quite as of other people.
 '1 do not think another woman could have told the story as circum- stantially as Margaret did to me. She said: ".Harry seldom told me when he was coming over. At that time the interviews and other data for my human interest articles were talk ing me out a great deal. l used to arrive at my studio apartment some afternoons and find that Harry had obtained a pass key from the super intendent, if my maid happened to be out and upon opening the door l would find him sitting with his clear-cut features outlined against the dull blue of velvet wing chair, smoking cigarette. l always got the same impression when l saw him. I could think of nothing but that his face. in its pale contour, was as fine as a cameo.
 "'At these times I got Harry's smile in all its radiance and for me. at that moment. life could hold no greater happiness.
 "I used to draw velvet hasspck up at his feet and with my head against his knees. 1 babbIed on all had been doing since I had seen him and my joy of being with him again.
 "'He would remark: "I had to come. dear heart. I couldn't stay away. Everything has grown so stale. Why. I found myself waking. talking and eating when necessary. and yet I knew l was asleep. I had to come over here or l should have gone mad"
 "'He didn't overdo these things. but the mere fact that he came whenever he could get away made me under stand how necessary l was to him. I never fooled myself at any time by thinking that Harry Glendening ever did anything for anyone except his wife that he did not want to-
 Good Lord!" exclaimed Davis. "aren't women fools?"
 Yes" agreed Doctor Milton, but it is good thing for us that the good God made them that way. I have often wondered, not only while Margaret was telling me her story. but since. why it Is that a man like Harry Glcndening. with only al 'cameo' profile and seraphlc smile. could charm the heart of a splendid. intelligent. cultured woman such as she"
 Tt should show some of us dubs a hot train on the subject on how to keep a woman guessing" grinned Clavering.
 .I have sometimes thought. al- though Margaret never told me in so many words, that G1endening never. as you say, kept her guessing" ex- plained Doctor Milton. "To go a lit- tie further with your slang, Jim, l think she had his number almost l from the first.
 ''I seem to sense between her words that one of the peculiar Vaccinations of the whole thing was the surprise | that she should have capitulated to his charms"
 You do not know him, Milt," in- ! terrupted clavering seriously. s"It | was not wholly Harry Glcndening's cameo profile and 'seraphic smile It was really his intimate under standing and gentleness that makes all women fall for him.
 "I presume that is so. Margaret told me that Glendening was the only i man she had ever known who always wanted to play when she wanted to play-who could understand any hurt for her and with her, who could be in earnest when she was in ear nest, interested when she was inter- ested, irresponsible when she was ir- responsible and spiritual when she"
 Hold on, Milt. can't go as far as that. Although Harry and I never have been friends since boyhood, don't you know that there 'ain't no sich animal as you have described except in the imagination of the woman who loves"
 Perhaps, Jim, but there must be something lpon which to build the love dream"
 ''The world of men," broke in Davis didactica1ly, Knows very It, tie of love. Or what calls 1t into existence and on what 1t exists. We have defied passion into an im- mortal God--and we, both men and women--tear our heartstrings out for giving forth false notes that become reared only man ideal in the place that should be filled with eternal fact.
 Every new ph6nograph record that I Ciavering. but, Davis. I am anxious to hear Margaret's love story"
 Well. here 1t Ia. Jim. for she cer- tainly wAs explicit in All details"
 "'You know, Dear Doctor George Margaret explained. that all of the splendid salary Harry received was not enough to buy the luxuries his wife insisted upon having.
 Harry cared very little for money lin fact, he never had any. It was srent before he got 1t. was mak- Ing quite as much as he with my stories and 1t was joy to me to see that he had everything to his liking and comfort whom he visited me. His meals at my apartment were exactly as he wanted them. All the new books were on the table near his fa- vorite chair. A box of his mono grammed cigarettes were beside them. Every ne WphOnogFaph record that though he would like was pur-