Show I B Buried ried Loves LoYes j aI t. t N New w 5 TOnes 0 nes By RUTH AGNES ABELING To b be sure Buro she cared more for tor her husband than any on end ond else otherwise why should she have married him Thero There were five or six others whom sho she c could uld have married and she sho ho had selected him so him of ot couise course there was not the least hadow shadow of ot a n doubt about whom sho she really was fond of But In that dizzy past of or hers there were so many disturbing things Up in her ber trunk she had letters and letters letter dance programs silly little bits of or this this' and anti that souvenirs souvenirs' picked up upon upon upon on various oc occasions and ph photographs It wouldn't have havo been so 20 bad 1 if she had put the tho trunk in the cellar or tho the 1 attic and arid locked it and and forgotten where wh-ca slip she put tho the l Hey e ey But sh she didn't Sho She kept turning the key in the little bra brass bras lock springing up th tho top and then delving delving- In that ma mass reminiscent of ol her past There was her first husband hus bus band Sho She kept his picture and some Borne of at his hia letters and th the tho necklace he gave gatro her het And of or cOUrse every time timo she put the tho l latter on she sho sighed and looked consciously regretful for a minute or or two Wasn't that the tho Jl right light t thing thins for tor a woman with a suf sufficiently lc tender h heart art artto to todo do Then when her husband came homo home for tor dinner shed she'd t tell him all about them those those others others- those men she could have married and the ono one she fihe previously previously pre pre- had married Sometimes even she used to o tell str strangers about them t seem to forget them And a as her husband gradually began to spend m more n re re rea a and ll more of ot his time away from home sho she couldn't understand under under- stand She was hurt hun and inclined to blame blam him It never occurred to her that her sentimentality was positively cruel And that the letters of ot past loves are arp I dynamite to the present I |