Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-07-26

ed ana rise 10 power and influence
upon them He would be kind, he
would be generous. lie would make
her proud Of him. What more could
she want?
That was just It. There were dark
moments when she felt that surely
there mast be something more than al
this. She did not know what Ii was
she could not analyze her thoughts or
give them definite form but IN these
dark moments She feared that she was
being tricked that tie whole thing
was "a sham which she would discover
when II was too late She did not
/ suspect her mother or her father. or
/ Tran-ley, one Or all, Of being parties
/ 10 this trick; she believed that they
did not know It existed. She herself
! dld not know It existed But the fear
was there.
After a week she admitted, much
against her viii, that possibly Denni-
son Grant had something to do with
/ H. She had not seen him since she
! had pressed his fingers and ne had rid
( den away through the smose-huze of
I the South Y.D. She had dutifully tried
/ to force him from her mind. But he
: would not stay out of it. II was about
/ that fact that her misgiyings seemed
most 10 center. When She would be
/ thinking of Transley, and wondering
about the future, suddenly she would
/ discover that she was not thinking Of
/ Trausley, but of Dennison Grant.
1 These discoveries shocked and humlli-
ated her. 1t was an impossible posi-
/ ton She would throw Grant forcibly
1 out Of her mind and turn to Transley.
/ And then, in an mguarded moment,
Transley would fade from her con
| sciousness, and she would know again
| that she was thinking Of Grant.
At length she allowed herself the
luxury of thinking frankly about Den
nison Grant. It was a luxury. It
brought her secret happiness which
4 she was wholly at a loss to under
stand but which was very delightful,
/ nevertheless. She amused herself with
| comparing Grant with Transley They
/ had two points in common: their ply.
1 slcal perfection and their fearless.
self-cOntident manner With these ex-
ceptlons they seemed to be complete
| contradictions. The ambitious Trans
ley worshiped success; the philoso-
phical Grant despised It. That differ
ence In attitude toward the world and
It's affairs was a ridge which separated
the whole current Of their lives. It
even in a way, shut one from the view
Of the other; at least It shut Grant
from the view Of Transley. Transley
would never understand Grant but
Grant might, and probably did, IN
derstand Transley. That was why
Grant was the greater of the two. F.
She reproached herself for such a
thought i was disloyal to admit that
this stranger on the Landson ranch
was greater man than her husband
to-be. And yet honeSty-or, perhaps,
something deeper than honesty-com-
PEELED her to make that admission.
49,. She ran back over the remem-
bered incidents of the night they had
spent together, marooned like ship
wrecked sailors on rock in the foot
hills. His attentiveness. his courtesy.
his freedom from any conventional re-
straint, his manly respect which was
SO much greater than conventional re-
str0int-all these came back 10 her
with a poignant tenderness. She pic
tured Transey in his place Transley
would probably have proposed even
before he handaged her ankle. Grant
( had not said a word Of love. or even
| OF affection. He had talked freely of
hlmself-at her request-but there
had been nothing that might not have
been said before the world. She had
been safe with Grant.
After she had thought on this theme
for a while Zen would acknowledge to
/ herself that the situation was absurd
/ and impossible Grant had given no
evidence of thinking more Of her than
Of any other girl whom he might have
met He had been chivalrous only.
She had sat up with start at the
thought that there might be another
girl. Or there might be no girl
/ Grant was an unusual character.
At any rate. the thing for her TO do
was to forget about him She should
I have no place 10 her mind for any
man but TranSley It was true he
had stampeded her but she had ac-
/ cepted the situation In which she
found herself Transley was worthy
Of her-sAe had nothing to take back
she would 80 through with 1t.
On the principle that the way to
drive an unwelcome thought out of
the mind Is to think vigorously about
something else, Zen occupied herself
with plans and day-dreams centerlng
about Che new home that was to be
/ built In town. Neither her father nor
/ Traasley had as vet returned from the
trip on which they had gone with a
view 10 forming q partnership, SO
there had been no opportunity to dis
cuss the plans for the future. but Zen
took il for granted that Transley
would build IN town He was so en-
I tbuSlastiC over the possibilities OF thar