The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-05
Twin Wives
BY ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE coLlgRs Wszk4x

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was perfectly well aware that her
pretty puzzlement was attractive.
What has that to do with my
staying up?" she inquired.
When a person finds out some
thing very important, she's apt to
stay awake awhile; isn't she?"
There was that same note of ex-
ultation in his voice that had been
there when, as they finished dane
ing, he had told her that he would
wait three months.
Love is very important, isn't it?"
he laughed.
And I've found out something
about love?" She put the danger
Gus question with an inward tremor,
but with outward calm.
"THAT'S why you've been so
Il strange to me this evening.
You love me. Don't try to deny it,
because I'm not going to believe
you.
You're utterly and absolutely diff
ferent from the girl I married. I
didn't notice the change until to-
night. But while you were playing
cards I suddenly saw that you were
not the Eleanor to whom I'd been
engaged, not the girl I'd married.
rs love important? It's important
enough to change you completely,
only the fact that I didn't dare
to hope made me blind to the
change for all these weeks. Why,
when danced with you tonight,
I held a different girl in my arms.
Even your father noticed it."
But haven't fallen in love with
him." she said. But her mockery
lacked gayety to her own meticu-
lous ears.
He smiled at her.
You can't low any one without
other people being aware that some
thing has happened"
She fell in love with her hus-
band. Wasn't there a play called
/ that?"
He came nearer to her.
~ Oh don't deny it?"
She looked at him. You made
a promise. just tonight you re-
/ peated it"
III keep it." he assured her.
But want you to tell me"
She could feel the warm blood
staining her cheeks and throat.
Eleanor suddenly became a Shadowy
figure devoid of reality; Bonnie
Thompson seemed some one whom
she might have known in some
previous incarnation, but who had
no possible bearing on the life she
was living now
Desperately she fought to free
herself from the spell that haS
presence and speech seemed to cast
upon her.
He was a man of honor. but before
honor had been invented men were.
He believed himself to be in the
presence of his wife. 1t was after
midnight, and the situation was
intimate.
He adored the woman at whom
he looked so eagerly now. He knew
that she loved him. The memory of
that kiss which they had exchanged
three weeks ago allured and
frightened together.
LIE had made a promise, but if
H she corroborated what he al
ready knew by an admission, he
would not keep his word. For her
to say in so many words that she
loved him. would be a tacit release
from his promise.
The spell seemed to fall away
from her. Little voices that had
been whispering to her that nothing
at all in the world mattered save
their mutual love, suddenly we're
Stilled.
Why is it," she asked. that a
man doesn't care how untrue a
statement is, as long as it is the
statement he wants to hear? Is
there any reason i'll the world why
if I loved you, I should hesitate to
admit it?"
He ceased his approach.
There is a reason; there must be
a reason. Because you do love me
Nothing that you say. nothing that
you do. can change that fact"
IF its a fact" she parted.
You can't deny that it's a fact.
You ask if there's any reason why
you won't tell me that you love
me. Because I can't think of any
reason isn't proof that there is
none. You must have a reason.
God knows what it is"
His voice lost its assurance and
became pleading:
Eleanor. is il something that I've
done? Some misunderstanding"
If she could only be certain that
there would come a day when she
could explain to him what held her
back from his arms now, it would