The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-15

The sight was too mucn lot Sally
II don't care If she does want to
stop being your secretary, and be your
wife instead" she cried, whirling
around in the seat to face him. Il
suppose that you had this in mind
when you suggested my taking va
cation of a year, suppose you
thought then that things would turn
out this way; that perhaps I'd like
playing around as I've done these last
months, and that you'd be free to mar
ry anyone you wanted to-"
But that's not going to be the case
at all; don't care how much you
want divorce, you can't have it. I'll
circumstances. Even though you don't
love me l won't let you go"
Her voice was checked with sobs,
and tears rained down her cheeks.
Her whole slender little body was
trembling with the intensity of her
emotions.
Il know that I'm not as clever as
she is. l don't know anything at all
about your business, and never will,
she sobbed. Il can't even keep my
own check book straight! And I'm
no good on a camping trip; l have to
be taken care of all the time, and I'm
just drawback to you. No, don't be
polite and deny i'll know that l am
But l love you ,anyway-and I've
learned a lot of things since I've been
away from you, more things than you
realize. I'm not just butterfly any
more; l know what it is to be without
money, and not have a real home, Oh
decent food, or friends.
And I'd make you a better wife
now, truly l would. dear. l wouldn't
be so selfish any more, or so inconsid
crate. And l won't just sit back and
let you go-I won't do it,"
She was astonished at her OWE
vehemence. 1t was unlike her to pro
test so frantically; ordinarily she
would have suffered any loss rather
than make such a scene-that is, she
would have thought that she would
But now, facing the prospect of losins
the man who meant all the world t
her. she quite forgot herself. The OLE
restrictions did not bind her; she onl!
knew that without Dick life coult
never be worth living, and that some
one else was taking him from her
You may think you'd be unhapp.
without her." she exclaimed, wildly
But l don't care whether you are o
not. I'm unhappy without you, as ia
as that goes.--I can't live without you
I've missed you so terribly for age
and ages now-I don't want to go o.
if things have to be as they are
know that it isn't a year since thi
hideous vacation began, but l don
want any more of it. l want to com
back now.
People can't be married for tw
years, as we were, and then just de
eide that they won't be married an
more. Perhaps our marriage didn'
mean much TO you-it didn't to m
either, till lately. But now-now
want things as they were before las
spring; | want to make it what
should be-"
Even as she talked she was astor
ished at herself. This was so foreig
to her nature, this outburst of pre-
test. She had always been politel
restrained, no matter what the situs
ton was; she had supposed that in he
life good form would prevail if tn
heavens fell. She had been taught I
use the pruning knife of polite COZ
duct on all her actions-and here sh
was, raving and sobbing like some III
trained creature of no upbringin
whatever
She realized that, and did not car,
Nor did the possibility that Dick migf