The New York herald., 1922-03-12

Gradually Joanna wins the grudged
admiration OF her farmer ueighbors
They. are ready enough to comment
upon her pecuEarities. but they are
not blind to the skill and hard work
that have brought the farm back
again She is admitted to the Farm
ers' Dinner and they talk with her
as equal to equal.
II is at this time that Joanna
meets her first love and becomes en-
but she dli net want to marry
duly. Either above her or below
her. where romance could march
alongside, she would mate, but not
with one of her own kind. For years
Arthur Alice has wanted her. pa
tiently wooing. and for years she has
remained Indifferent. though the
neighborhood has had them married
these dozens OF times. And now
comes man whom she can love,
with whom she can realize all the
natural half felt yearning in her for
fun and happy life. This period in
Joanna's life Is told with a rarely
beautiful sympathy. Martin loves
her and finds all the great, sweet
kindness in her. adores her just as
she is. without missing the incon-
gruities and differences between
them. without closing his eyes to the
fact that she is managing woman"
and that ahstractly he dislixes q
managing woman As for Joanna,
her love has changed her-"some-
thing in her was broken. melted,
changed out OF all recognitionLshe
was softer. weaker. more excited,
moro tender. She had lost much of
her old swagger. her old cocksure-
ness. for Martin had utterly sur
prised and tanned her. She had come
10 him IN 4 scheming spirit of poll
tics. and he had kept her In a spirit
Of devotion She had come to him as
Ansdore to North Farthing-but he
had stripped her OF Ansdore, and
she was just Joanna Golden. who
had waited twenty-eight years for
love-"
But Joanna's happiness is snapped
short of. and she Is once more left
/ alone Alone except for the little
sister, whom she tyrannizes over and
loves. and for whom she has always
hoped great things. She shall be
LADY. When Joanna's ship 'foun-
dered. leaving her clingins to Little
Ansdore as to a place of wreckage,
Ellen was away at the school her
sister had found for her. a school
where the daughters of the high
born went TO be educated. and where
Ellen was trained in ways alien
enough from the farm home. Grad
ually Joanna emerges from her suf-
fering. and the checked current OF
her love turns to Ellen. whose home
coming is due, and whom she plans
TO make happy with a new bedroom
whose adornins Is altogether In Jo-
anna's taste and not al all in Ellen's.
OF course Ellen has little admira-
ton for either her sister or the life
Of Little Ansdore. The situation is
ended for the moment by her mar
riage to the faithful Arthur ALICE.
who in order to please the woman he
loves. marries the sister he aimires,
but does not love.
The last portion of Joanna's story
brings a development that Is natural
enough. but that sweeps away from
her everything she had left. 1t takes
Ellen. who was gone already so far
as anything worth the having was
concerned. but 1t also takes the farm.
The last love was a cheated love. az
the first was 4 lost one. Joanna
maITies neither the true nor the false
man. But Joanna remains uncon-
/ quered. and as we see her at the
end we love her better than ever
In her heart is the thought OF Mar
tin. whose wife she should have been.
though under her heart is another
mans child
There she. stood. nearly forty
years old. OF the Threshold of an
entirely new iife-her lover. her sis
ter. her farm. her home. her good
name, al lost. But the past and
the future SIN were hers
We can but guess what Joanna