Glacier County chief., 1939-08-11
By OLGA L. ROSMANITH

BY OLGA Il. hOSMANITH
Copyright 1889: BY News Syndicate Co.. Inc.
IN TWO PARTS-PART ONE
THE PURSUIT OF THE H.
LUSION OF ROMANCE
BRINGS APPRECIATION
OF TRUE LOVE.
Lorraine Ransome's reflection in
her mirror should have treasured
any young woman. It had more
than mere transient beauty. It had
distinction and charm combined of
rare grace of Notwithstanding
personality-an interesting high
bred face. Not at all the kind of
beauty that faded with the first
glow of the early twenties, but the
kind that remained-deepening and
growing more arresting as the years
went on.
since haS rs f haq hegg gone
She was in the heyday of her youth
Then why-why- she asked her mir
ror. And again-why?
The answer, of course, lay not in
any shortcomings of her own, numer-
acter of the man himself. He had told
her all about himself. She had mar
ried him with her eyes wide open. So
had not.
She had listened to him, but it had
had no reality for her then. She had
mary of himself from some new char
acter he had created for one of his
plays. Partly because she had half slIs-
pected he was dramatizing his magne-
tism for women to make an impression
on her her, partly because she had been
But his confession had been literally
true. There were times when he could
not resist some new feminine attrac-
ton, or would not. She would never
know which. She sighed aloud. What
did it matter? 1t amounted to the
sa It is sn Seldom comforting sS,tfs in trouble
to remind yourself YOU have only your
self to blame, and it did not comfort
Lorraine now. Il. could. have married
anyone" she remarked to her mirrored
self. Then qualified it-"well, nearly
anyone"
That brought her to thoughts of
Paul, and now as she had occasion to
do at least half a dozen times before,
she unlocked a small drawer in her
dressing table and took out a letter
which had somehow survived the dras-
sakes she had made before her mar
riage. The letter was now a talisman
against doubt. 1t restored again and
again the thing Gilbert's philanderings
broke down-her precious self-confi-
dence
The letter was four years old, and
human nature being what it was, Paul
n h rt,
else, and some other girl had supplant-
ed her in his heart. She had no means
of knowing. Paul was a decisive charac-
ter who knew what he wanted, and
having lost it, refused to allow defeat
to defeat him. Just before Loraine's
abroad somewherewsouth America,
wasn't it?
She wrinkled her brow trying to re-
call. Brazil-that was 'it-she was sure
it was. Anyhow he had no intention of
suffering by hearing gossip of her hap
being stabbed by his old love.
worn. you have a right to take the
man you prefer" it said, but, no, thank
you Loraine-I'd rather not meet him.
don't care for the things I hear of
of them. at least the other half are
true. So I am not going to be hypo-
critic and congratulate you, nor put
myself through the ordeal of being
polite to him. -
"It is difficult to imagine any man
MAJ married led to- YOU being nnfaithful to
ure in the: eternal human quest for
understanding. But as with material
things with emotionS-we can only
own what we understand. His choice
of you as a wife indicates high level
Of taste, but still he may be one of
those who do not know a true pearl
AL leading to this, my dear: If he
should revert to. type In spite of his
preposterous luck, do not look for the
flaw In yourself, but pity the mans
blindness. Not that you are perfect
anfnhed mn lar tf Seads st. xeu a ars
much too often the little tyrant. But
you are so lovable with your quick en-
thuSiasms and distnterested sympathy
for others, and swift tmpulsive gener-
osity. So with your wild charm and
strange, beauty-irresistible. This of
who writes it will always be In love"
Lorraine looked up at this point and
looked at herself in the mirror again,
saytng-'I wonder" Four years and not
a word from him. Did he still think
Of FL her r. in these sxtrayagant terms. Or
somebody else? Far" better never to
know. While she did not and the let
ter remained in existence, 1t was a
shining armor against Gilbert Ran
some's apparent ambition to reduce
their once :giamorous marriage to COM
monplace futility.
~ !.
She put the letter back in the draw
er and turned the key on it. Its medi-
cine was still potent: She felt sure Of
herself again, able to cope with this
new variation Of a familiar situation
self-confident, strong. She had never
asked Gilbert what she lacked for him,
though she had been weak enough to
wonder. Now she put from her the