Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-04-04
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is neither understood by his rrosaic
and snobbish wife.
MABEL. nor by his colleagues In the
firm Of Fortune. East and Sabre. a
promised partnership IN the business
has been denied him. and promised 60
TwYNiNG. Jealous associate.
Suddenly an old sweetheart
MONA. now the wife ~ the dashing
LORD TYBAR. returns after two years
~ travel. Mabel becomes jealous ~
Mona. who visits Sabre AT his office.
Mona IN not happily married. She
says she In ''just drifting, flotsam."
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She said swiftly. as though she were
stirred. "oh. Mako. yes. that's mys,e.
rious. DO you know sometimes I've seen
drift like that. and I've felt-oh. don't
know. But I've put out stick and
drawn IN a piece az wcod Just ms the
stuff was moving off. just 10 save II
being carried away into-well. into
that, you know
Have you. Mona"
She answered. do you think that's
what life In. Marko?"
Its not unlike IT," he said. And he
added. Except about someone coming
along with a stick and drawing a bit
into safety. I'm not sure about that.
Perhaps that's what we're all looking
for"
lie suddenly realized that he was
hack precisely at the thoughts his mind
had taken M on the morning he had
met her. But with n degree more Of u.
Elimination. Two feelings came into his
mind. the second hard upon the other
and overriding IL. as a fierce horse.
man might catch and override one
pursued. He said. Its rather jolly TO
have someone that can see ideas like
that" And then the overriding. and
he said with astonishing roughness,
But you-you aren't flotsam' How can
you be flotsam-the life you've taken?'
And. 10. II he had struck her. and
she been bound. defcnselcss. end with
her eyes entrcating not 10 be struck
again. she could not deeper have en-.
treated him than In the glance she
Elected from here eyes. the CULVER OF
her lids that first released. then
yelled a.
II stopped his words. II caught his
throat.
IIo got up quickly. Il sly. Mona,
never mind about thinking. I'll tell you
what's been doing. Rotten. Happened
just after met you the other day"
THE dust ON these roads, she said
She touched her eyes with her hand
kcrchicf. What. Marko?"
well. old Fortune promised TO take
me into partnership about an age ago. .
"Marko. he ought to have done Il
IN age ago What's there rotten abou,
that" Her voice and her air were as
gay as when she had entered.
THE rotten thing H. that he's turned
II down. At least practically has. lie
tune incident. Pretty rotten OF old For
tune don't you Think"
"oid fiend.'' said Mona. "oid trout-'
Sabre laughed Good work. trout
The men here all say he's like a whale,
They call him JONAH" and he told her
why.
She laughed gaily. "Marko. How dis
susting you are, But I'm sorry. I am.
loor old Marko OF course. II
Doesn't matter n horse.radish what an
old trout like that thinks about your
work, but II does matter. doesn't IL? ]
know how you feel.
She was at the shelves. scanning the
books. Her fond. her almost tender
sympathy made nm. too. feel that II
was rather fine. Her light words In her
high. clear tone voiced exactly his feel.
ings towards the books. Talking with
her was. In the reception and return OF
his thoughts. nearer TO reading a book
that delighted him than Ia anything
else with which he could compare u.
There was the same interchange of
ideas. not necessarily expressed; the
same creation and play Of fancy. mag
ined. not stated.
She sat briskly forward In the hig
armchair In which she faced him. max.
Ing Of the motion movement ms