New Britain herald., 1924-06-04
him. when time had healed the wound

him: when time had healed the wound of Peters loss. w
 One night in the second year he had brought hcr marvellous blue diamond--a priceless thing with a sinister history--and he had wanted her to take it as a symbol of engage ment; and that night she had boen strangely, deeply afraid of him. sho had let the stone gather fire 10 her hand, and when she had taken ii off and put it in his palm it was as if lis cruel, hard. malevolently beautiful light had passed to his thin face him. Sometime would be proud [ to wear it--but not yet"
 She had drawn hack from him. ap- ralled in spite Of herself at what she could go dimly read in his striking dark face. He was always liko 2 splendid tiger to her: tonight he sug- gested tho same jungle monarch cheated of it's prey.
 She had gone into suhdued mourn ing. but still saw a few friends and visited a few of the neighborins homes: and now, as another Georgia summer was st it's height, he pleaded with her to go back to tho gay coors that he loved. He seemed fo feel that when her old gaiety returned 10 her. when she again took her place in the smart southern society. his long courtship would be crowned with suc- cess. But he did not at once win this point; and because she did not fully understand 1t herself. she was scarcely able to explain to him the curious way she felt about it. q can't he the girl I was, Tyan." she cx- plained. ''If that girl was the girl you loved, and you don't wan. her changed, you'd better go away--and not come back. Some way. I don't fool that I could begin exactly where I loft off. don't feel and think exactly like I did-maybe I'm more like the girl that Peter originally married--like schoolgirl instead of woman. feel bewildered-not knowing wchre 10 turn or how 10 go. know 1 can't wear mourning for ever-''
 Then put if off. It's been a year and a half. Take up the old happy life again"
 There's the trouble. don't feel ! can go back to exactly the kind of happiness that you mean. Of course I'll come round 10 it in time. Just don't hurry me. Ivan. Something is working in me. and-I don't know what it is; but in the end I think fl will he all right. You know there is no other man. But when I try 10 think Of you. so many times I find myself thinking of Peter-lying on that storm-tosscd seacoast. Just don't hurry mo. and ] feel--I almost know-that everything will come out right for you in time"
 She had received. long since. her husbands few belongings. gathered ny the patient effort of Captain Jo- hansen; and she could not 20 near them now without tears With them she had received a letter-one that no human eyes save her own had seen-and some way if had revealed Their marriage relation in a new light. Ii had not only shown Peter from a different angie, hut had also iilumincd her point of view in regard to herself
 Her thought had taken rev course since reading this letter. ID until then she had always thought upon her husbands disgrace and death as the consummation of his own dced; heroic punishment, sure ly. but for which he could blame no one but himself Now she began to wonder if some little iot of the blame could not be laid on her.
 ltsn's attentions. after those first, i blissful months of her marriage. had been flattery of the most engaging kind. To receive #. to waken other womcnis jealousy. she had given him more dances than were his right, had l devoted too much of her time and st- tention to him. It had all been like a mad dream-going from morning till night. sacrificing her home hours
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