Nogales international., 1933-01-21
First InstaIlrnent

LOVE doesn't last.
It was with those words ringing in
her ears that Pauline woke on her we'd
ding morning to find the sunshine pour
ing in at her window.
"I<ove doesn't last. :" 1t seemed
strange that the one thought in her
mind on this day of all days should be
of those words in Barbara Stark's let
ter which had arrived late last night.
Barbara was Pauline's best friend.
for reasons that both of them would
have found difficult to explain. The
two girls were as unlike as it is possible
to be, for while Pauline was young,
tnspoiled, and full of the joy of life,
with touching belief in happiness and
the theory that love never dies, Bar
bara, at seven-and-twenty, seemed to
have run through more experiences and
emotions than many a woman double
her age. She had been married, had
had baby, which mercifully, SO people
said, had died soon after birth she had
been divorced, and at the moment was
getting herself talked about everywhere
by her wild extravaganza and because
Of a new and violent friendship with
married man.
But in spite of all these things Pau-
line adored her.
The chief trouble was that Dennis
did not approve of Barbara, and many
times during her engagement Paullnes
heart had been torn because of her love
for her friend, and her love for the
man she was to marry, and her desire
to do as she wished.
MANY times she had tried to explain
to Dennis her friendship for Barbara,
and had always been conscious of fail
ure.
81 know people don't like her." she
defended Barbara loyalty, but that's
only because they don't know her and
understand her as do"
Her own fault" Dennis broke in
gruffly, but this Pauline would not
allow
Pauline never really knew whether
Barbara liked Dennis or disliked 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 did! Any agomtGn of ex-
beyieMce aUilI tell you that lOVe doesn't
fast. Romance sV1H aVe0Y thin. It's trGdi-
tiOaa! that men get tired of the same
woman. When yoa'ye been married a
fezO years yoM'H be lucky if you're still
good friends. Don't think l am saying
these things to hgrt y0M. I'm saying
them because | 1sGtst you to be happy,
and you can only be happy after you're
married BY not expecting too mitch. Let
him be quite free, too-d0n't try to
chain him to you all the time-thafS
S~re a0oy to kill love. >.
Love doesn't last
Those were the words that haunted
her as she sat up in bed, her fair hair
ruInpled childishly, her blue eyes blink
ing in the sunshine. The present Bar
bara had sent her was standing on a
small table by itself.
1t was a small carved statuette in
ivory and silver, of small Cupid beat
ing his hand in vain against barred
Goor. and underneath was the one word
Denied"
1t seemed funny sort of wedding
present to send anyone, Pauline
thought, even while she realized its
beauty. When she had shown it to
Dennis he had laughed.
She's a miserable cynic," 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 zeilI come"
'Of course she will" Pauline an
swered quickly. but she had not told
him about Barbara's letter; she had
burned it,
Love doesn't last.
Of course, that had been Barbara's
own experience. Pauline was not clear
as to the facts of her friends marriage
she had never asked about it-and
Barbara never spoke of her husband.
That he had made good provision for
her was common knowledge, that he
was somewhere abroad was vaguely
accepted fact, and that the divorce had
actually been nobody's fault but one of
those Arranged" 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
always seemed happy enough. She
laughed a great deal, she went every
where. she dressed beautifully, and yet
the strange quality of mother love in
Pauline's affection for her told Pauline
that in rc1lity she was not happy
No heart!" So Dennis summed her
I'D Selfish as the devil. know the
type we'll" ,
Sometimes Pauline was tempted to
think he was right. Dear Dennis, who
was SO good to everyone, Dennis had had
fallen in love with Pauline at frst
sight, SO he said, and she-well,. there
had never been another man III the
world for her. :, -, =.
much better for you # there hac
been" so Barbara declared. FIRST ,ovt
generally comes a cropper for want o.
experience"