The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1937-10-15

Poor woman!"
An hour later Victoria and QUEEN
tin walked across the Morrisons'
side garden, and through the gate
into the lane and through their own
gate. A perfect spring dawn was
Strengthening over the world now;
| it was four o'clock; the east was
flushed with exquisite delicate pink,
against which shoals and galleons
of delicate silver and gray and paler
gray cloud made long bars.
81 feel-reborn," Vicky said.
"Reborn. I'm terribly grateful,
Vic," Quentin said.
"Oh, grateful! If you knew what
was thinking of all night long.
Every horror that anyone can mag
inc seemed to be sweeping over
me. had you in jail; I had us all
moving to some remote place"
Perhaps you think didn't, Vic,
while we were working over him.
Perhaps you think ! didn't have
chance to think how I'd taken my
life and destroyed il with my two
hands. But thank God it's all over
now!"
II am tired. Quentin, doesn't the
tea for the Vienna doctors and our
lunch at the st. Francis seem longer
ago than yesterday"
"That wasn't yesterday" he ex-
claimed.
"That's all it was"
"My God," he said again, struck.
''She did do it, didn't she, Quent?"
eyes," he said with a serious
look. II guess she did"
''Her killing herself'-The words
sounded so strange that Vicky had
to stop short and think Of them
cher killing herself looked as if she
did," she unused.
"She had that don't know what
to call it-ruthless quality" Quen-
tin said. "She went over any OBJ
stacle that was in her way. She
used to say that she had Tartar
blood. She had a way Of going
berserk-not wild, but cold and re-
vengeful and determined"
"He reused the very worst in her;
he always did," Victoria unused.
"He seemed to sit back and laugh
at her, and he never let her have
enough money even to get away.
She told me-she came to see me
every few days, you know-that she
had to charge even her lunches at
hotels. That day she seemed to me
desperate. She looked so beauti-
full, too; she was in sort of corn
color, and her eyes looked so blue
Mother said after she left, AN
dressed up and nowhere to go!' I
suppose it was death-in-life to her
to live in that quiet country house."
Quentin nodded, listening.
you've been a trump all night
long, VIC" he said, after while.
eff you'd been like most women,
and refused to 60 over there, we
might be in bad trouble this morn
ing. If you were like most women,
you'd have kicked me out years
ago, I don't know why you act the
way you do, but I want you to
know-this sounds damn fiat-but I
want you to know that / admire
you and that I'm grateful! I owe
everything I've got in the world to
you. I'm just beginning to realize
that it's an awful lot. You know
I'm not good at speeches, but when
I think about you-and this is what
I wanted to tell you'll get all
choked up. Tm-I'm grateful"
"Thank you, Quentin" Vic said
from the other end Of the table.
"We'll 60 on here, and some day
I'll have chance to show you that
I'm changed" Quentin said. cts
taken me a long time to wake up.
I've been fool. did the rottenest
thing to you a man can do to his
wife; it's just my luck, it's my in
credible luck that you've-well, I
won't say forgiven me; you don't
forget those things, and you can't
forgive them - but that you've
worked it out your way"
Vicky had the sugar bowl between
her two brown, Woodworking hands;
she turned it slowly, her eyes upon
it.
"You did something Of which you
are ashamed" she said simply.
"I-didn't. Why should there be any
question of forgiveness? If I did
something - something wrong, to-
morrow - you'd be sorry-you'd
think a little the less of me; but
you wouldn't be personally touched
because I forged a check-your own
honor would be just what it wasl
My life isn't yours. I'm me-"
II wish to the Lord you would
do something dumb" Quentin said
with ineloquent force, after a pause.
81 sound smug," Vicky said, "but
I'm not. And do dumb things every
day. Thousands of them. There were
months-there were actual years
when your home life was nothing
but mistakes, nerves, uproar, my
crying and being tired and sick,
the children going into mumps and
whooping cough, bills piling up"
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