The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-01
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She went on, "You never told
me you'd met them. Wasn't thatIs
funnyT
''if you'd Just think a little you'd
see there was nothing funny about
1t. You found the letter go amaz-
.ngly funny that, to tell you the
truth. I'D had about enough Of the
Tybars. And 1--we had about enough
Of them"
81 daresay you have-with me.
Perhaps you'll tell me tl1s-would
you have told me about the letter
If ! hadn't seen you get tt?p
He thought before he answered
and he answered out Of his
thoughts. He said slowly, t.
don't = believe -lI-wopld. n
wouldn't. wouldn't because I'd
lave known perfectly well that
you'd have thought it-fulny."
"
| No answer he could l,sts made
could have more exaspe ated her.
i"I-don't-btlleye III - would y
Deliberation! Something incpmprs.
hensible to her 60 ng on in HIS
I mind, and as result OF 1t a state.
ment that no one on earth (she
feD but he would have made.
Anyone else would have said bold.
ly, blusteringly, "of course would
have told ycu about the letter."
She would havs liked that. She
would have disbeli we'd 1t and she
could have said, and enjoyed say
! ing. she disbelieyed 1t. Or anyone
I else would have sad furiously.
mo. I'm damned II Id have shown
YOU the letter. =" She would have
liked that. 1t would have affirm:
ed her suspiclons that there was
something in it," and she wished
her suspicious to be affirmed. It
would have been something detln-
:te. Something justlfiably incen-
tive OF anger. Of re eminent, Of
J jealousy. Something she could I'M
derstand.
! She could not express her feel
ings in words. SIZE EXPRESSED them
il action. She arose violently and
LIFT the room. The whole ot her
emotions she put into the Ann Of
1.-THE door behind her. The orna-
tments shivered. A cup sprang off
bracket and dashed itself to
pieces on the floor.
! CHAPTER "
/
These events were on a Mon.
ay. On the following Thursday
Mona came to see Ii m - his OF.
flee.
{ She stood still immr;px. s:y she
was across the threshold anu thu
! door closed behind her. sno ~.
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
Its jolly surprising"
That's another way Of saying
:. Now II you'd said 1t was sur
prislngly jolly! Well. shake hands,
j Mako, and pretend you're glad.
/ He laughed and put out his
hand. But she delayed response;
she first slipped off the gaunlets
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 gaunlets on to a
chair. She walked past him to-
wards the window. You got my
IIetter?"
YES"
Her face was averted. Her voice
had not the bantering note with
which she had spoken at her entry.
You never answered IT,"
well, I'd just seen you-just be-
fore l got It,"
She was looking out OF the win.
dow. why haven't you been up!"
"oh-l don't know. was com.
iius."
""WelI. ! had to come" she said.
He made no reply. He coulu
i think Of none 10 make,
II
She turned sharply away from
the window and came towards
him, radiant again, as at her entry.
well, like you best when
you're thinking. You puzzle, don't
you Marko? You've got a funny old
head. believe you live in your
old head. you know. Puzzling
things. Clever beast! wish 4
could live in mine. And she gave
a note OF laughter.
where do you I've, Nona?"
81 don't live. Just go on"-she
paused -"flotsam.
Strange word to use, strangely
spoken!
| It seemed to Sabre to drop with
a strange, detached effect and ths
conversation between them. His
habit OF vlsualizIng inanimate
things caused him to see as 1t
were a pool between them at their
feet, and from the word dropped
into 1t, ripples that came to his
Ieet upon his margin of the poo
and to her feet upon hers.
He took the word away from It's
/ personal application. II belieyd
that's rather what was thinking
about when you came, Mona, About
how we Just go on-totsam. Don't
you know on a river where it's
tidal, or on the seashore at the
turn, the mass Of stuff you see
the driftwood and spent foam
and stuff, Just floating there, IN.
easily, brought IN and left there.
from somewhere; and then pres
entity the tide begins 10 take IL
and it's drawn Off and moves
away and goes-sofnewhere AS