The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-02-22

sensual. half cruel. ho Intentionally
deferred his pleasure. ] uan farain-
atcd Oh hia graHp. ! remember that
! wanted 10 rc1iat while there was
siiil time. uut one can't. one can't
So ] Ia him draw ma closer and Kiss
me Ne held me 20 Tor a moment.
hla hpa dwelling upon mine. leas with
fever than with discrimination. II
seemed iutcrmlnahle. this penetrating
cares; II held an emotion that I
had not known before. Il Nas hair
g token o. love. half a work ~ art
I know that now. but then I felt only
the ruth N my cwn emotions n 1
had not been a Trent would then
have hung my arms round bis neck
IN complete abandonment
lie dld not aburs bis advantage
that time OF the next This disap-
pointed me a little. FOR now ! con-
foascd 20 myself that 20 him ! would
rriiiue nothing nut I WAS glad TOO.
that be did not think me a subject
FOR casual hssss / ala not under
stand his capaeity for the abstinence
that enhances pleasure. ! wondered
Why he ala not kiss me again. Had
! disappointed him.
Then he told me more about him
stit he had been married for nine
[ years. 10 . woman slightly older
than himself. They hadn't lived to-
EotheF Tor several years They didnt
SGT on. To a timid question Of mine
be replied. 'oh. Il vas my fault I
may b. = niec lover. but I'm a rotten
husband. / could hayr been a good
husband 10 a hhrrm. but not 70 a
barcm o. one. AZ least not the one
I've xok
Is rhe pretty"
Yes II isn't that Only 10 me
she was the end Of adventure
-nut won't you ever set tired Of
adventuFeT''
~Perhapa Not yet ia Jike 20,
You know. Ursula, you think We men
are rottera ana that We sad about
from woman 20 woman just FOR fun
It's not that What Ne want IA tts
woman who can make ua forget nd-
venture. She's Eoi 20 b. adventure
AFTER a long time I replied: n,
doesn't sound easy. ! wonder wheth-
er any o. ~ could do that ! don't
think ] could make a man forget al
venture"
I lie looked AZ me critically. Il don't
know You're yrry lovely. With
those slumt~ring eyea that mouth
that calls. that figure ~ Tor French
dressing Oh. you're very lovely"
Re did not seem % remember that
be had Kissed noe a week before. and
this was woundinE lie Wa imper.
soual. he vas thinking Of himself
-fve tired 20 get her 70 divorce me
but she won't She hyca AZ Hove
ana from tins % time she writes q
me that shall always find her walt.
Ing when come
"sho loves you. then.- said. ex.
psriencing rang.
n don't know she's - keen on
doing what's right. that don't knov'
whether she's keen on doing what
shs wants Anyhow. ] haven't seer
her FOR I've years I've tried and
tried 70 get her 70 divorce me. but
she won't So we must pad Aionf
like that"
This confidence oppressed M. II
was shmtterinE. ! had no thought 81
marrying him. but u Was dreadful
70 see that u was impossible. II
would have been better i; Il had tssr
possible could have hoped AZ
bottom. knew that what troubled
me was my class cowardice II b,
had been bachelor could have xiv.
en- way TO him. telling myself thai
this might be tbs prelude 10 mar,
Rage: that would have been an sr.
euse Rui N Ne could no. marry me
] had 20 face my situation. 10 tel
myself that whrn he advanced fur
4 Their. which he must DO. then 7 mus
make up my mind IRA or no.
SO ! did not make tr my mind. hrl
driftsd on into September. IN tn,
J grasp Of prcoccupation 30 intsua.
tha; everything else Was dwnrfed
J Horrible things floafed IN my innei
CONSEQUENCES For the first time II
bis nfe. my father wrote me a saw
: age letter. giving me one last chancr
I 20 i've a home life. and informini
. me that II didn't come back within
. a fortnight he was going 70 cut IN
: out o. his viii He ended
! don, want 70 seem unkind
but I'm not going 20 stand ,his an,
! longer Come back OF be cut or. IL
that BE- clear And am not going &
argue about Il. Yours.
WILLIAM r. TRENT"
Yours, Papc wrote me Yours
9 not even "Yonra affectionately.
! This ought to have upset me- dread
/ fully this loss Of some one that wa
I and Is dear to me. But II didn't mat
: ter. WAS wholly In the grasp Q
= another affection Also. didn't be
: iisve tina, ! should BE- cut Off. no
Z really.
~ Julian asked me 20 come 20 Dime