The Denver Jewish news., 1924-07-03

was tnt piayIuincSs OF her features OF
face, her mischievous, much-promising
eyes, her coquettishness, and frequent
amiability that fascinated him. They
soon became friends, and their friend
ship was mutual and promised to be
lasting. Then one day when she was
in better health they met, and he sud-
denly felt something clutrhing at his
heart. He looked ut her. She under
stood and responded promptly. They
walked together into her room. She
sat on her bed, while he was standing
'ear her, observing her almost child
ish and charming playfulness, and ex-
periencing thrill, which for the time
being animated his whole being. How
ever, he remembered that she was a
sick girl, and the impulse within him
was not strong enough to disregard
this situation.
"Weli, I'd better 60" he said then
abruptly. Bidding her goodbye he
rapidly walked to the door, throwing,
however, side-glance at her before
leaving. He could swear he saw dis
appointment in her face. But Sarah,
with the psychology Characteristic of
her type, thought him fool because
of his escape. She then considered the
next best thing, namely, to make him
fall for her for the pleasure of jilting
him. To this end she worked assidi-
ously. He was well aware of her mo-
tives, but was not averse to indulging
in the game as long as she was ar
tistic about it. At times her efforts
were crowned with success. There
were moments when he felt with graf
itude his heart quiver, but those were
only transient feelings. In the long
run he appeared invulnerable. Both
were disappointed; but to his disap-
pointment was soon added disgust be-
cause she had shown him some un-
becoming trait of her inner nature.
Indeed, her much-bragged good breed
ing and tactfulness was only a thin
veneer over her base character, which
appeared all the more hideous when it
suddenly peeped out, because of its be-
ing least expected. He left her sum
narily and disregardcd her entirely.
1t was to Sarah's credit that she rec
ognized her fault and made an at
tempt for amends. But, with ris char
acteristic stubbornness, he seemed i'm
movable to all her coquettish ap-
proaches. Deeply wounded by such
conduct on his part, she felt humiliat-
ed to the highest extent. She inquired
If him whether he had ever been sin
cere in his assertions of love for her =;
she complained with pitiful face that
ne had trifled with her. Damned
be that thing we call conscience! He
felt her humiliation as though it were
his own. Ashamed of having mis-
treated her, he felt sympathy for her,
and from sympathy there was only
.one step to love. Then he remembered
hat foolish incident, the cause of
their break. Some apparently trif1ing
incident stung him to the core:
Sarah's misbehavior at time when he
worshipped her struck him like slam
N the face. Yes, he had worshipped
4 false goddess, and he told her so in
a very extravagant tone in his letter,
which he thought would be his last
one. This incident was to end their
friendship. But so far from remon-
strating and ending their friendship,
she merely protested that she did not
know his feelings toward her, that he
had never told her. She defended
herself, and to his surprise her atti-
tude was sort of forgive me,
would not do it again" He once more
had a troubled conscience. Having
passed sleepless night, bathing him
self in tears of remorsc, his nerves
his head in a delirium,
ne wrote a long letter to her. He
called her attention to the fact that
the most devoted worshippers BIAS
pheme at times; but the gods, though
proud and almighty they be, can al
ways be appeased by sacrifice, obla-
ton and prayer. He assured her that
no sacrifice would prove too great for
him. He further remembered that she
him faithless in love, and
wished to tell her that he knew of no
way of insuring a feeling, but that if
She knew how, he would be ready for
It. He preferred to put it to her in
very blunt way, by telling her that he
wished to marry her. He had vague
that his proposal to
sick girl, and under circumstances
hat would signaize the death-knell
If his ambitions, was not to be taken
by her in the sense of a pro-
'osal, but merely as an effective way
If saying, 81 am ready for anything"
she found his proposal pro-
'ocative of laughter because he dis |