Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-08-31

a lew hours happiness, anu ho"
this.
She looked curiously at her bare
left hand from which a few mo-
ments ago Mark had taken the
wedding ring and kissed it, before
he watched her put it safely away
out of sight of an inquisitive
| world. Married. She was no long
! er Sondra Kent-she was Mark
Merriman's wife, a fact which was
to be kept jealously guarded I'M
til Mark came home again.
They had both agreed upon
that; it had seemed the wisest
plan. 1t was nobody's business
but their own.
Presently-in one short hour
she would go back to Flora's pre-
t%entious, unfriendly house as if
nothing had happened, and Mark
would be rushing away on the
liner.
Mark came back into the room.
He had stopped whistling, and
there was a hard, strained look
about his face.
"I've told them to send for a
taxi" he said; he avoided looking
at Sondra.
After a moment he went on:
1.-THE time will soon pass. It's
amazing how quickly the time
passes i. Il shall write every
mail. =. Where the devil is my
pipe?"
"On the mantelpiece," Sondra
said.
"Oh, yes" he took it up, and
thrust it into a jacket pocket, CIV
ing a last look round the room.
His eyes came back to his wife.
IL suppose we ought to go"
eyes"
He came across the room to her.
You're not sorry?" he asked
hoarsely, "about-everything?"
She shook her head dumbly.
He put his hands on her shout
ders.
; "It's been so wonderful, Son.
dra."
She made a swift movement to-
wards him, hiding her face against
. his coat and his arms closed
round her.
He said in a rough, shaken
voice, you'll take care of your
self, won't you, my darling?-
and write to me often. I'm GLAD
you'll be all right-about money
3 I mean"
e. eyes" Even in that moment Of
tragedy it seemed strange to Son.
dra that Mark should always 81
r quietly have assumed that sht
was we'll off-Flora's reflected
glory, she supposed.
He went on disjointedly. 81 shall
! send you every penny I cal
spare" He stopped again, only tx
break out with a note of agony il
his voice. Don't forget me, Son
y dra. :"
VI She chung to him, weeping now
VI Don't go, Mark-don't leav,
me oh, don't 60"
He tried to laugh, lifting he
face to his.
ri my darling, you know I must
g But it won't be for very long
somehow, in spite Of everything,
believe we shall soon be togethe.
again. Oh, Sondra, don't cry,
can't bear it."
e "And if I find / can't live with
iout you, Mark"
e "Then you must come to me-"
She tried hard to control her
self.
RI ayes - know - shall
be all right -. it's just saying
goodbye meant to be so Draw
d and now $50"
j., "It's not goodbye won't lie
you say that word. 49,"
He took her face between hi
d hands, and looked long into he
eyes.
:. "Say you love me-"
II love you."
r "And I love you-with all tina
q I am-and ever shall be-"
He kissed her many times, o.
o her eyes, her hair, and her throat
and then once in a long kiss OF
q her quivering lips.
il "For a little while, my sweet.
He let her go at last, an,
turned resolutely away as some
one knocked at the door. "You
taxi, sir"
Coming"
: Sondra was bathing her eyes
trying to check her sobbing.
Mark lit a cigarette and puffe'
d at it fiercely.
II suppose / mustn't kiss you a
the boat?"
h "Is someone c-coming to s-se
you Off"
: zone or two people I expect
Not mother-she promised sh
wouldn't. / expect Anderson vii
/ be there.
XXI ooh"
n I'VE must go, my darling,
Mark said very gently.
e "I'm ready"
II .-L4 - - L. $1,000 n