Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-31
CHAPTER FIVE
The Student .at.Law

A"o ctuuCut LAW
EENELLA STANLEY had not
! l awakened early, as Janet had sup
posed-she had never been to sleep. Her
BEDROOM had been to the northeast. and
she, too. had seen the moonlight creep
across her floor; and when it was gone.
and all else was dark. she had felt the
revolving light from the stony neck Of
the Point of Ayre passing every other
minute over her closed eyelids.
She was too much of woman not
10 know what was happening to her,
but none the less she was confused
and startled. DO what she would to
compose herself she could not lie quiet
for more than a moment. Her blood
was alternately flowing through her
veins like soft milk and bounding to
her heart like n geyser.
As soon as the daylight came and
the rocks began to cav she got up and
: dressed. and went through the sleeping
house. with its drawn blinds. and LET
herself our by the glass door to the
OF course she turned toward the
shore. 1t was glorious to be down
there alone. on the ribbed sand, with
the salt air on her lips and the. odor
"f the seaweed in her nostrils and the
tha slimmerin0 nnl nrr,nrr;ns o '.ao
I,ut Il was st;i, awao.an =" na.,1. sIa.
the sandy road, past the chancel Of
tue old church (how silly to have been
afraid OF IT, and to see footsteps here
, and there--his and hers.
The world was astir Dy this time.
with the sun riding high and the earth
smoking from its night long drafts
OF dew. the sheep munching the wet
the cattle loving in ths cIo.sd. .',n -. m"" mn,
waiting TO be milked VIZ '''e3'
But the white blind of Victor's room
(she was sure IT was Virtor's, WAS still
down. like n closed evel,d and ,bo hoJ
half mind 70 throw handful NJ
gravel nt il and then dart i,doors
Back in the house thera wera Somo
embarrassing moments Rreokfnst wos
rather Il irving time after Virtor ca,ne
down, looking n Iittle sheenish and
that last moment on the noth WINS Sif.
fcult. when he was hoIding the carriage
door open and saving good INV to hcr
but she could not deny herself that wave
Of the drive-sbe was nerfsrtI~ r ' snra "rsnba he
must be looking after them ' -
After that-miscry. Every DIV at
Government House seemed 70 bring her
an Increasing heartuche. and when she
returned to college n FORTNIGHT LATER.
and fell back info rho swino ~ hsr Co..
Nor life there (tbc glowing and thrill.
ing life she had described to Victori n
bitter struggle with herself began.
1t was a struggle between the mys.
teriOus new born desires of her awak.
ening manhood and the task she had
supposed to be her tluty-to consecrate
her whole life to the liberation of her
sex, giving up, like nun If need be. all
the joys that were forever wbispering
IN the ears of women. that she might
devote herself body and s0ul tO tho soS
vation of her suffering sisters
Three months passed in which
Fenella believed herself 70 he ,hc nm.
happiest girl in the world Noments of
guilty JOY and defiance minylcd win
hours Of self.rcproncb, And then dear
good people were sometimes % crnei
MISS Green her fathers bousekcener,
never wrote without SAVING sometbinv
about Victor StowcI, lie was stu'
dent at law now. and was uettinc along
wonderfully.
Once Miss Green i,cloSed . ,.t,sr
from Janet asking Tenella for bsr
Photograph. For Scerlv week ,hot
was frightful ordeal bui in rho end
The woman triumpbed nver rho nm and
. she sent the picture
Dear Janet" she wrote 81, was
very sweet of Won ~ w,Sh to. mu MAS %"'
toograph to remind YOU of thar deor and
charming day sDent at Railo moar so
Ihave been into Camh,,d,n a." a,"iIoai' amd hnu so 90
specially taken for you In Tho dras. 7
wore on that lovely Auomst afternoon
It, had been n tinsIinc dslivbt n
write that letter but the momnnt she
mad posted it. with the new Cambridge