The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-17
SYNOPSIS.

nOSphoro or constant QOdrrGl1nS De- tween her mother and father. At II Julia was planning to become an ac- tress, and Mark Rosenthal of the floor above had fallen~in love with her.
 But contact with society girls in an anna eur play in winch she had a pro- fessional part, made her long for the better things of life and when her mother left the city to rejoin her d1- vorced husband. Julia become an as- sistant to Miss Poland, wealthy but an eccentric philanthropist at her settle .lent house.
 Max, meanwhile, had been con- stantly urging her to marry him, and finally, jealous of Dr. Jim Studd1tord, the young nephew of Miss Toland, he shot himself, falling dead at her feet in the neighborhood house.
 Julia and Dr. Studdiford, some time later, became engaged but Julia con- fessed tha+ she could not marry him because she had made a mistake In her life, before she was Is years old.7 Jim was mortified but insisted that she marry him. As young Mrs. Studdi- ford Julia became a great favor1te in San Francisco society A chance meeting with one of Marks sisters brought old thoughts to. Jim and he demanded to know if Mark were the man to whom Julia had given her self. When she admitted 1t, ne brooded for days over the old mem ory.
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 But, my Lord, Julie, what else could they do? You were paying all the expenses, suppose?'
 'No, indeed I wasn't!~ Chester has a pretty fair salary now, and my aunt's boys are awfully good about helping out. And then Murie1 has a position, and Evelyn is in fair way to be a rich woman. Besides. the mere question of where money is com ing from never worried my people! They managed as well with almost nothing at all, as with a really ade- quate amount-which is to say that they don't know in the least what the word manage means! Jim left me an immense sum, Rich, but I've never touched anything but the interest. When we shingled or carreted or gardened out there, we paid for it by degrees, and it cost, I must admit only about one-third of what it would have been on the other side of town. I look back now at those first months, more, than four years ago." went on Julia, smiling as she leaned forward in her low chair, her hands locked about her knees, her thought full eyes on the flickering logs, ''and I wonder we didn't all arise up in the night and kill each other. I was Ike a person with death wound, strug- giing madly through the little time left me, absolutely indifferent 10 W hat any one Thought. I simply wanted to die fighting, to register one furiC us protest against all the things Id hat ed. and suffered, too! I remember reporters coming, at first, wild with curiosity to know what took Doctor Studdiford abroad, and why Mrs. Studdiford was living in a labourer's house in the Mission. What impress sion they got I haven't the faintest ideo. Once or twice women called,
 
 and Miss Saunders-hut that soon stopped. I was better hidden on alotwe1 street than I would have been in the heart of India, Miss Saunders came in, and met Mama and Grandma; we were having the kitchen calcimined, the place was pretty well upset I remember. Dear me. how little what they thought or did or said. seemed to count, when my whole life was one blazing. agoniz- ing cry for Jim!''
 That got better?'' Richard asked huslS:1y. after ap ause.
 Rich I think the past two, well three years, have been the happiest in my Efe,'' Julia said sobedly. My feet have been on solid ground. I not only seem to understand my life better as it is. but all the past seems clearer. too. I thought Jim was like
 
 whole viewpoint was different; per haps that's why we loved each other so."
 And suppose he comes back?'' Richard asked.
 Julia frowned thoughtfully.
 "Oh. Richie, how do I know! It's all so mixed up Everybody, even Aunt Sanna. thinks that he will! Everybody thinks I am patient, much-enduring wife. waiting for the end of an inexplicable situation. Aunt Sanna thinks it's temporary aberra- tion Your father thinks there's an- other woman in it. Your mother con- fided to Aunt Sanna that it is her opinion that Bab refused Jim, and Jim married from pique-"
 That sounds like Mother"' Richie sad with dry laugh
 Doesn't it?'' Julie smiled "But the truth is" she added, Jim has no preconcerted plan. He's made very close man friend or two in Ger many, belongs tc a doctors club. I know him so weHl He lets the days and the weeks, and the years go by, forgetting me and everything that concerns me as much as he can, and getting into a slow, dull rage when eer he remembers that fate hit him. of all men in the world, such a blowt"
 And the baby?'' said Richie. Don't you suppose she counts? Oh. Lord. to have kid of ones own,'' he added slowly, with the half-smiling sigh Julia knew so we'll
 ''I ina zine she would count if he had seen her lately Julia suggested But she was such a tiny scrap! And Jim, as men go, isn't a lover of chill Gren.''
 "You wouldn't divorce him. Jul:e?" Richard asked, after a silence
 "Oh, never!" she answered quickly. ''No, I won't do that" She smiled. 'tYet, Rich she added presently. tits a strange thing to me that really my one dread is that he will come back. think he means nothing to me, yet. If I saw him-I don't know! Some times I worry for fear that he mieht want Anna, and of course I wouldn't give her up if 1t meant a dozen di- vorces."
 Richard sat staring into the fire for a few moments; then he reused him