The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-11

nothing to me, and of course I
haven't spoken to her."
eff you feel that way toward
Helen, you ought to understand why
I wish to keep it a secret for a while
longer"
81 don't want to keep it secret
from anybody, Damastor, but I want
you to tell it. I want you to boast
of it, and be proud, so that I can
be proud of you."
aren't you proud OF me,
Adraste?"
"Damastor, I dare say no man
ever quite knows why woman loves
him; so far as I can judge from
what you say, you entirely miss the
things I love you for. I love the
courage in you to know at sight
what belongs to your nature, to your
own destiny.
Most people seem to be initiating
each other, without considering
whether anything they do ) what
they really want. You have what
Helen aften speaks Of, you have the
love of life; you naturally try to
see things as they are, you hate
subterfuge' and hypocrisy, you would
be frank with yourself and with
others.
"That's why loved you,
Damastor. If you should change, I
couldn't be proud of you'll should
be fond of you always, but, oh, SO
sorry for you'll"
at don't blame you for misjudg-
ing me, Adraste, but you do mis-
Judge me. I have told you again
and again that I would let no one,
not even my parents, control my
destiny.
eff could go to them now, as
you want me to, and tell them I've
chosen you for my future wife,
whether they like it or not, and If
they would calmly submit, as you
half hope they would, then I sup
pose you'd be convinced that I'm a
forceful character.
But if tell my father this news,
with mother so fixed in her preju-
dice, he'll turn me out Of the house
and where are we to go? I don't
see the heroism of that. Love Of life
yes, but first of all we must live.
Temporarily, at least, we are
both better off than we'd be II my
people sent me away and had no
shelter or protection TO offer you"
Must one live, DamaStor-is that
the thing of first Importance? How
we live, I'd rather say. I think the
love of life must have in it kind of
recklessness, determination not to
pay too high for mere existence
not to pay with your soul.
my way would be to go hand in
hand with you now, and tell them
all about it; and if they disowned
us, as you expect, then we'd literally
walk down the road together till
something happened to us-some
good fortune or perhaps some bad.
That would be the sincere and fine
thing to do, I'm sure"
what a wild idea, Adrastei-to
go off that way, like tramps, with
you-you couldn't stand it; you'd
die before we had gone far!"
IT shall die here. But I'd rather
die that way, with the man I
thought I gave myself to. Damas-
tor, I know tonight that I have lost
you"
"I'll never leave you, Adrastel To-
night you are full of gloomy
thoughts and fears. Adraste, I love
you absolutely. I'll make you proud
Of me yet, when the right moment
comes to speak, and you see at last
that I was right. =. Don't go
we have lost the hour talking of
these stupid matters. I thought we
were to be together. just to be
happy, and here we've been argu-
ing"
"Will you walk to the house with
me, Damastor, or would you prefer
that I go back alone? Very prob
ably Helen will see us or Menelaos,
or Hermione."
Go Be Continued