Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-07-03
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Talking it Over
By Idah McGlone Gibson

lively, to Clayering that evening
at the club, that little tragic
drama enacted at Claire Adams
grave this afternoon has given me
decidedly creepy feeling.
There, at the head Of the
grave, stood the man who had kill
ed her, tears streaming down his
face while he muttered: I didn't
mean to do It, Claire, l didn't
mean to do IT, Meanwhile, just
few feet away, sitting far back
in my coupe, sobbing with tears
also streaming down her face, was
the wife OF the man who was per-
haps more to blame than the slay-
er.
81 was afraid some of the re-
porters would learn that Doris
was there, but she insisted upon
staying. AS good luck would have
it they didn't recognize either of
us. l think they were too occu-
pied by the services at the grave.
Jim" continued Davis, II will
never again say that l know any
thing about women-or that l
have the least idea how any one
OF them will act under given cir
cumstances.
I have seen Doris Glendening
treat some old friend of Harry's
with snobbish contempt. Yet here
she was, not only pitytng her RI
val but seemingly to actually
grieve for her.
Poor thing she exclaimed.
Poor, poor woman! 1 wonder if.
where she is now, she is conscious
of all this. l wonder If she thinks
it Is worth while.
L do not think nature is fair
to her.
4 do not think nature is fair
to us poor women, John. She gives
us some sort of reasoning power
that is much too inadequate to
fight against our physical inclina-
tions; much too slow in battling
with magnetic attraction, and
much too stolid to really under
stand that the tingle and thrill
of nervous tension usually pres
ages danger
Great Scott. John" exclaimed
Clayering. 81 had no idea that
Doris Glendening ever stopped to
analyze anything. If thought
about her mind at all, I thought
she was too brain-lazy to exercise
it. If she had talked like that to
Harry, she probably would have
held him. You know he is a shark
for the women who analyses and
5hows-mind as well as good looks
and Doris is good looking"
"She also has a brain, jim, al
though she has almost let it afro
ply by her calm satisfaction in
her own way of living her life.
| hope this tragedy has knocked
some OF the pins out from under
her ego and that there will be
some sort of compromise patched
up between Harry and herself.
You know habit Is one of the
strongest forces in the world.
Harry has the habit of Doris if
nothing else, although l don't
think he could ever be true to one
woman"
Il have been wondering if
Harry is going to pull out" in
terrupted Clavering. Il still think
that here is the logical place from
which Harry Glendening ought to
start on the great adventure
Life can give him no more thrills
and from now on they will be few
.er and milder.
But Fate evidently has some
thing yet in store for him on this
earth, for he was decidedly better
this afternoon. He was not delir-
ious and seemed to realize every
thing that had happened. al
though he did not know that Mrs
Adams had been murdered. When
told that she was dead he whis-
pered to himself: 1t should have
been l..
When I got to the hospital
the first question he asked was
Do the doctors think l am going |
to pull through?' There was no
particular eagerness in his voice
as he asked it, only kind of cur
tous speculation about the future.
1T was the first time in all
the years that I had known him
that l had the faintest inklipg
that Harry Glendening had ever
tried TO look one hour ahead of
the present"
Not even when he was des-
cribing the Joys Of Quito, Um?"
asked Davis cynically.
oh that was merely a part
OF the technic OF his campaign of
love making. You can see that
from the way he told the Quito
story to both Margaret and Claire
Whether he meant it TO
1ne or both of them, l cannot tell /
but II seems TO me as though he