The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-06-08
T6ona6ffnfly dropped head the
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straight shafts q ne sunlight were
making ii Impossible To face the house,
In any case--and so was within three
feet OF Richard Garter before she saw
him.
He looked fresh, hard, even young,
In his white fiannels. They stood look.
ing at each other for a moment with
out speaking. /.
''Where have You been7'' said Rich
ard, sharply, then, "You look Ill r. 5
Tears, despite her desperate resolu-
tion, suddenly stung Harriet's eyes
And yet her heart leaped with hope.
II wanted to see you, Mr.. Carter"
she faltered. 81 couldn't sleep very
well. I've been down at the shore. But
later-any time will dol" "
"You couldn't sleep" he exclaimed
with quick sympathy. He looked from
her about him, as IL for a shelter for
her emotion. "Here," he said, ""come
down the steps a bit. / was going
down to the court for a little tennis
Ward may follow me, but he won't be
dressed for half an hour yet. Sit down
here ; we can talk" E
They had come to the marble bench
on the terrace, where Isabelle and An
thony Pope, sheltered by these same
towering trees and low brick walls.
had had their talk a year 6 Har-
riet, to her own CONSERVATION, felt
that she was In danger Of tears.
"T-I hardly know how to say it."
she began. "But-but you know how
! ashamed I am r. ~
II know know how you feel |"
Richard said with. a sort Of brief SYM
pathy. "Tm sorryl But you know
you mustn't take this all too hard. I
didn't was thinking Of this last
night; I didn't ask you for-well, any
more than you gave me, in this "a
rfage of ours. Your divorce was your
own affair."" 49,.
The girls tired eyes flashed.
'There was no divorce |" she said,
quickly.
mo d~ivorce7'' he echoed with a puz-
zled frown. "a
IT want to tell you about It'll" she
said. But the tears would come again.
"T'm tired 7" Harriet said, childishly,
trying to smile. "Tve been up-walk-
ing. I couldn't sleepl"
The consciousness that he had been
able to forget the whole tangle, and
sleep soundly, gave Richards voice a
little conjunction as he said:
"You don't have to tell me now.
Wen find a way out Of it that is easy
for every ONE
mo, but let me talk 7" Harriet, in
her eagerness, laid her fingers on his
wrist, and he was shocked to feel that
they were icy cold. II want to tell
you the whole thing-1 want you to
understand I" she said, eagerly. Rich
ard looked at her in some anxiety;
there was no acting here. The rich
hair was pushed carelessly from the
troubled forehead. She was huddled
in the enveloping coat, a different fg-
r indeed from his memory Of the
superb and angry girl Of last night in
the library lamplight.
mi. Carter, I knew my moth
err" she began. But he interrupted
her.
MY dear" he said, In a tone he
might have used to Nina. He laid his
warm, fine hand on hers, and patted
It soothingly. MY dear girl, II you
feel that you would like to go to that
motherly sister of yours-if you feel
mat n Woutd be ~fser-
ooh, I am going to Linda at ono 7"
Harriet said, feverishly, hurt to the
soul. "T had planned that! But-but
won't you let me tell your she plead
Cd She had framed the sentences q
hundred times in the long night; they
failed her utterly now, and she CROPPED
for words. ~ was only three years
old when my mother died." she said.
"Of course I don't remember her-I
only remember Linda. I was shy, my
father was a professor, we were too
poor to have very much social life. I
lived In books, lived IN my fathers
shabby little study really; I never had
an intimate girl friendl Linda was
always good-angelically good-talk-
ing Of the Armenian sufferers, and Of
the outrages In the Congo, and Of the
poor In New York's lower East ode
she never cared that We were poor,
ana that we hadn't clothesi"
RI know known" Richards eyes
were smiling, as II he knew tho pic
ture, and liked It. s ~
wen, Linda married when / was
ten, and Josephine came, and then
Julia came. I still lived for books and
babies. But, unlike Linda, I cared"
Harriet's whole face glowed; she
looked of into space, and her voice
had a longing note. II cared for
clothes and good linear me said. II
adored the childrsp, but ! dreamed
II ds-gloeyachi6v
msntsi I knew that other women did
ft--s J X
Fl remember feeling that wayl"
Richard commented, mildly, as she
| paused. - 4a,s.
sWsll," Harriet said. Il met Royal
Blondin one night. He lived IN our
tOwn-Watertown- He had 4 dreadful,
ARTIFICIAL sort. Of mother. Ny slster
didn't approve Of her at an. 4 friend
Of his named Street was an aTtist, and
he had d nice little wife, and q baby,
and they lived In q big. barnlike sort
Of studio. It seemed wonderful 10 me.
They loved each other. and their baby,
but they were 80 free They would
have the whole crowd to dinner,
twenty of us, bread and rcd. wine and
nno~o rora ond nousfc ana falks III una