Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-11-25

she defended Barbara loyalty, ~Dup
that's only because they don't
know her and understand her as l
do"
"Her own fault" Dennis broke
in grufly, but this Pauline would
not allow.
Pauline never really knew wheth-
er Barbara liked Dennis or dislik-
ed him. She was always charming
to him when he would allow her
to be, and yet last night, in the
letter that accompanied a most
beautiful gift, she had said things
about marriage which had so i'm
pressed Pauline that she woke on
her wedding morning with some
Of the words ringing in her ears.
-. don't expect too much
from your husband as I did Any
woman of experience will tell you
that love doesn't last. Romance
will wear thin. It's traditional
that men get tired of the same wo-
man. When you've been married
a few years you'll be lucky if
you're still good friends. Don'5
think l am saying these things to
hurt you. I'm saying them be-
cause l want you to be happy, and
you can only be happy after you're
married by not expecting too much
Let him be quite free, and don't
try to chain him to you all the
time-that's a lure way to kill
"Love doesn't last 80"
Those were the words that
haunted her as she sat up in bed,
her Der, her fair hair rumpled
childishly, her blue eyes blinking
in the sunshine. The present Bar
bara had ser her was standing on
a small table by itself.
1t was a small carved statuette
in ivory and silver, of a small
Cupid beating his hand in vain a
gainst a barred door, and under
meath was the one word "Denied."
1t seemed a funny sort of we'd
ding present to send anyone, Paul
inc thought, even while she realiz-
ed its beauty. When she had
shown it to Dennis he had laugh
ed.
"she's a miserable cyhnic," he
said. well put it in the spare
room, so that she'll be able to look
at it as much as she likes when she
comes to stay suppose she will
come
"Of course she will" Pauline
answered quickly, but she had not
told him about Barbara's letter;
she had burned it.
Love doesn't last.
Of course, that had been Bar
bara's own experience. Pauline was
not clear as to the facts of her
friends marriage she had never
asked about it-and Barbara new
er spoke of her husband. That
he had made good provision for her
was common knowledge, that he
was somewhere abroad was a vag-
uely accepted fact, and that the
divorce had actually been nobody
fault but one of those "%arransed''
affairs was agreed by the charitable
Pauline thought it was all very
pathetic. Sometimes the far-away
lonely look in Barbara's eyes made
her heart ache, and yet Barbara al
ways seemed happy enough. She
laughed a great deal, she went ev-
erywhere, she dressed beautifully.
and yet the strange quality ct
mother love in Pauline's affection
for her told Pauline that in reality
she was not a happy woman.
mo heart!" So Dennis summed
her up. Selfish as the devil.
know the. type WE'LL"
Sometimes Pauline was tempted
to think he was right. Dear Den
mis-, who was so good to everyone.
Dennis had fallen in love with
Pauline at first sight, SO he said,
and she-well, there had never
been another man in the world for
her.
"Much better for you if there
had been," so Barbara declared.
First love generally comes a crop
per for want of experience"
Pauline had laughed at the time,
but now the words returned to her
with a little sting. She dismissed
them ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS did it
matter what one embittered out
look prophesied? She knew she
would be perfectly happy.
Dennis was quite we'll off, and
he had prospects. He was thirty
two, and he had a motor car in
which they were going away tor