Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-01

snobbtsb wife, Mabel, nor by his COLI
leagues in the firm OF Fortune, East and
business has been denied him and prom
ised to Twyning. a Jealous associate:
suddenly an old sweetheart, Mona, now
after s1t wv Two o. y "ax1'o 81 Ira Gravel ey0s Mabel 5ei', g.
comes jealous of Mona who visits Sabre
at his office. Something makes Sabre
suspect that IONA is not happily mar
ried. She says she is Just drifting n0t-
SAM"
GO ON WITH THE STORY. ;
She said swiftly, as though she
were stirred, oh. Mako. yes, that's
mysterious. Do you know some
times I've seen drift like that, and
I've felt-oh, L don't know. But I've
put out a stick Inc drawn in. a piece
off. just to saw it being carried away
fnto-well, into that, you know"
Have You. Mona ~ +. 1
She answered. "Do you think that's
what life is, Marko?"%
added. Except about someone com
ing along with q stickSand drawing a
bit into safety. I'm not sure about
that Perhaps that's what we're all
looking for"
He suddenly realized that he was
back precisely at the thoughts his
mind had taken up on the morning
he had met her. But with a degree
more Of illumination Two ~feelingt
came into his mind. the second hard
upon the other and overriding 1t. al
a fierce horseman, might catch and
override one pursued He said, 'It'i
rather jolly to have someone that
can see ideas like that" And then
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astonishing roughness. But YOU
you aren't flotsam! How can you be
ilotsam-the life you've-taken?'
And, 10, il he. had struck her, and
she been bound. defenscless, and
with her eyes entrcating not to be
struck again, che could not deeper
have e~ntreated him than in the
glance she Elected from her eyes, the
CULVER of her lids that first released
then, yelled it.
It stopped his words ~ / It caush'
III. Il
He got up quickly. q say, Mona
tnever mind about thinking I'll tel
you whats been doing. Rotten. Hap.
pened just after I met you the othel
day."
said. She touched her eyes with. hel
handkerchief. what, Marko?"
Well old Fortune promised t
take me into partnership about: Al
Mako. he ought to have done i
an as .h. ato, H Mh. so:ee tn aeG b sett &
wers 10 gay as when she had entered
THE rotten. thing is that he,
turned It down. At least practicall!
\ has. He" He told her Of tn.
TwyninE and Fortune incfdent. fPret
q rotten OF old Fortune, don't 20,
think? y
Old fiend!,, said Mona. .oldtrout!,
sabre laughed. Good work. trout
The men here ALL say he's like
whale They call him JONAH" AM
he told her why.
she laughed gaily. Mako! How
disEycttng. you are! But I'm sorry
1t doesn't matter a horse-radish Wha
an old trout like that thinks ab0u,
your work. but It does matter, doesn,
Iit3 ISknow how you feel.
the books. Her fond, her Amos
tender sympathy made him, too, Zee
that 1t vas rather fine. Her: ligh,
words In her high clear tone voice.
exactly his feelings towards tn,
books. Talking with her vas, in ii,
reception and return Of his Thoughts
nearer 70 reading q book that de,
Iighted him than 70 anything else VITA
which he could compare Il. Their,
was the same interchange Of IDEAS
not necessarily Expressed; the sami
~creation and play of fancy, imagined
not stated.
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she sat bftskly. forward IA the ii.
armchair In which she fAceds him
making Qf the motion q nn6Ssraeals n
th1169 tbseyyIng sStde 4 turn stM7
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