The Lambertville record., 1923-07-13

Tor days ana weeks together he was
frankly bored with her. Whyr Was
1t the everlasting law of things that
a relation can support only so much
love, as bucket holds so much wa
ter? Certainly her efforts to charm
this grave senior by doubling her wife
ly thoughtfulness and sweet subjec-
tions, had but increased his ennuI
There had come the Inevitable day
when she. with foods OF tears. had
packed her trunks and gone on on the
usual Indefinite visit to her mother.
So far their story had followed a
familiar course. Would that have been
the end of II. right there, but for An
ders Carthewf Nothing seemed to her
more certain. Beyond doubt Anders.
who was twice her age. and had taken
an interest in her, paternal or other
wise, from her sixteenth year. had
penetrated her with new and stat
Ting concept. For Anders wouldn't
accept, he would hardly listen to,
her own ready formula, long since
smoothed by women of all ages. "0h,
no." he had said, in his merciless kind
way. "It isn't that you love him
too well.' That's letting yourself down
too easily. It's simply that you love
him with too little pride-and no
good sense at ALL" And little later,
when she had conquered her first fu-
rious indignation and sat down again.
he spoke words which she took at last
for truth, and which filled her in the
end with an overmastering purpose.
For Anders had said that mans
necessity is not TO be loved but TO
love; and that. to love, his fixed need
is to pursue-and conquer.
So, she, because she had will, and
it seemed that her whole life was at
stake, had actually achieved this inn
she had broken her heart to pieces;
she had recovered the reserves of
msidenhood, made herself again mys-
terious TO this once familiar: she had
famed the last fiickering ember to
hame. Now here he stood suing her
in the romantic night--her Horace,
bored no longer, and still, and still
Was It not ironical that. here
in the instant of her tremendous tri-
umph, her mood should be so skeptical
and cool? How large was Hor-
aces nose, she unsentimentally con-
sidered. how halting his tongue, how
really small his vanity and caution.
Had something then permanently
passed away7 In the long process of
repression, of moral separation, so
painful at first, had she wrought In
herself an irreparable change?
She wondered. smiling shadowily, in
that second Of thick silence. Now the
man. having drawn back step. spoke
abruptly:
Look here, what's come over your
Come oyer mef"
you've changed so much-just in
this last year-that you're like an
other persona stranger"
To he sure. her heart swelled lit
tie at that
But you hardly offer that as COM
plant, Horace? Hastily recalling our
past. feel sure you must find any
change in me an improvement"
That's just the tone | don't like
from you, Laurel This constantly
evasive manner. Flppant, ! am bound
to call IL, and--and provoking. ! think
the times. come to remind you that a
husband has some rights-and I'm not
getting mine"
but-why, all this is news 10 me-
nv dear. Your rights. I'd thought
you were trishuuhs latgueu WIN
them, Whatever they are years ago.
ana gladly
never mo Hiolcuious.
An, mat poor memory OF YOURS
falllng you AGAIN see ssid she'
snakmg her nngef IN . manner IN
sunerao's ss.ricsi' ana resumed ue'
mureiy 'but OF course I'm giad that
you've 1orgotteh that day--wnen' l.
sobbing IKE deseftedm Flilage lass
most cruueiy taxed you WIN haVihg
ceased 10 lo'e me, ana you poor dear
couin only reply 1ihere' tnere -
most soothihgly' own, YET W inoru-
ned me al 'he iiine. remember iou We
'orgotteh explaining 10 me .hat me
WASN'T meant 10 ne an uhendihs song
OF roinahce tnat II was non"si anu
necessary ti'at the niS.uroing heyua'
OF rove shouio ueseenu 10 si'efh"oh'
10 t"iheht
80 thats hF ne interrupted SUD
denly. You've never gotten over that
one httie scene-a mere lhcidentf
on l rememper-IVe peeh
thinking oack good deaf mere iate-
~. ne went on, father thickiy' hou
went % on VISIT TO your mothers
theh, ana Wheh you came pack, the
change mad cone--tha' was'the 'ime'
iou assumed thls singular ana uli-
wifely attitude. Ihis pn'air-
"hst aoJectlNes' my aear horace
was IL unwiie'y or uhiair 10 iearn the
iesson my own huspanu ser ihe
mats more hlppancs-you khoW
since--come to take an interest in