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the implication of promises which
she didn't even make.
Even now. with Eleanor's mar
rage scheduled for tomorrow, Tes-
sic was adopting that proprietary
manner toward Dean that she used
whenever she met an attractive
man.
Not that she was doing anything
really harmful 1t was simply that
Tessie seemed always to subordinate
her marriage to something trivial.
Eleanor wasn't jealous. Dean
adored her; of that there could be
not even doubt inspired by mod
esty.
She was, she assured herself, ap-
praising Tessie not as an individual,
but a type. Marriage should be so
important; the union of a man and
a woman should be something more
than the joining of them together
by church and state. 1t should be
a merging. an enveloping, an in
extricable mingling of two identities
so that they became one.
Neither should ever give the other
cause to blush in shame or even
faint embarrassment.
"Tessie1l steal your young man, "
chuckled Rannie.
She made a properly inane reply
and sat farther back in her chair.
She shrugged family. What a lot
of pity she'd wasted on Rannie!
Evidently he didn't think he had
been cheated, defrauded; he right
fully considered himself a hugely
successful business man who always
knew what he wanted and got it.
Perhaps men didn't want much
from their wives.
Perhaps this spiritual blending for
which she craved was impossible to
mortals And yet. for her, at least,
nothing else could be endurable.
n
CHE leaned forward slightly now,
- appraising Dean with the same
cool detachment with which she had
measured and weighed TeSsie.
Good-looking; no doubt Of that;
the widely spaced gray eyes; the
determined brows; the unruly brown
hair; the strong, prominent nose;
the thin ascetic lips that could twist
surprisingly in a whimsical grin;
the firm chin; these above a tall,
athletic body distinguished him il
any gathering.
Gentle, courageous, well-man-
nered, thoughtful-he was all of
these. And as to his brilliance of
intellect there could be no question
A success at the bar, he had made
a record for himself as assistant
district attorney. He had resigned
to accept the chair of international
law at a. local university.
He had taken this measure to re-
move himself from the turmoil of
city politics. For he was inevitably
the next gubernatorial candidate OF
his party, and the party leaders
wished to produce him suddenly
from clustered retirement.
Shrewd men of affairs such as
Rannie had told her that there
was no doubt as to Deans nom
ination and election. He was only
80 In few years, after a couple
of terms at Albany, there would
come a residence in Washington,
where Dean would serve in the
senate, and after that-who knew?
She felt tingling of elation. To
take part in great affairs. to be the
wife of a man who was rich
though that didn't matter much;
her father had been the Rannie
Curwood of the last generation
who inevitably would be dlstin-
guished, and whose distinction
would be of affairs, not mere trad
ing. was a prospect that blinded
her a hundred times before.
DUT through the blindness came,
D as they had come as often as
the blindness had overtaken her,
letters of light which formed the
warming. But you don't love him
Her father patted her hand.
Nervous, Eleanor?"
She squeezed his fingers reassur-
ingly. What a darling old daddy!
Between him and her existed more
than the bond of blood; there we're
spiritual ties along which, like the
current along telegraph wires, ran
Accommodation.
He knew when she was distraught.
And yet she always could lie to him,
and because ne loved her he would
believe her and refuse credence to
the nspoken truth.
why, of course not" she replied.
He nodded toward Dean.
If I'd picked him myself, I
couldn't approve more highly"
AS though he heard their whis-
pers, Carey glanced past the nod
ding, smiling face of Tessie Cur