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Show ;THE PROVO HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1922. making It Impossible to fuct the house, d so was w)lh!n thre feet of Richard Carter before she saw 'irrany cfLSe-an'- him. . He looked fresh, hard, even youni lu bis while flannels. They stood . lug at eiu'h other for a moment wilt out speaking. "Where have you beeu?' said Rii li aid, sharply, then, "You look ill 1" !. pwpm Tears, despite her desperate resolution, suddenly stung Harriet's e.e. And yet her heart leaped with hope. "I wanted to see you, Mr. Carter," she faltered. "I couldn't sleep very well. I've been dow n at the shore. But luter any time will do!" "You couldn't sleep!" he exclaimei; .Si nCppMriqM" by Kofolegir Norri s had bwn Beautiful, that girl STie uTd not see liliu 6s Tie saw "himself, with her golden hair In the lamplight, his family as the somewhat troubleand her white arms a little raised to some, and yet quite understandable, rest her locked hands on the chair. group of 8elttsh human beings In whose She Like Borne superb actress of tragedy, soma splendid and sullen prisoner at the bar. The slender figure In the dull wrapping of satin, and the white bosom, had looked so young, so virginal, the blue eyes were so honestly frightened and ashamed. And she had been that bounder's wife in his arms ! DiHarriet Field? Poor girl, vorced cornered by this unscrupulous scoundrel, this bully, with all the ugly past dragged up like the muddy bottom of a river, staining and clouding the clear waters. And what a look she bad given him, there under the lamp ! "It'B a funny code," he mused. "Barbarians, thafs what we are, when It comes to women. Nina, Ida, Isa belle, e Harriet all of them pay for the rule I I shouldn't have forced her hand in this business marriage; It was taking ad advantage of her. No woman wants to marry for anything but love, and if she had married far love, she would have made a 'clean breast of this old affair, of course. I didn't exact that. We've made a nice mess of It, all around "I mustn't let her work herself Into a fever over-al- l this!" "he found him. .. ' self thinking." ; But Nina must be the first consider. He ation. He must plan brought his thoughts back resolutely his daughter must break her engagement now, there was that much gained. And for the Journey to Rio "But why didn't she tell nie!" he interrupted himself, suddenly. The reference was not to Nina. Again he saw the superb white shoulders in the soft flood of lamplight, and the flush of the blue eyes that turned toward Blondin. "She could have killed him!" Richard said. "My God I how she will love when she does love!" 1 man-mad- 1 for-Nina- Meanwhile, to Harriet had come the bitterest hour of her life. She had reached a crossroads, and with steady fingers and an anguished heart she prepared for the only step that to her whirling brain and shamed soul seemed possible. She must disappear. There was no alternative. She had harmed them all, they could only think of her now as an unscrupulous and mlscWevous woman who had by chance entered their lives when they were all In desperate need of wisdom and guidance, who had played her own contemptible game, and added one more hurt to the hurt reputation of the house of Carter. Harriet got out of her evening gown and Into a loose wrapper. She went about somewhat aimlessly, yet the suitcases, spread open on the bed, were gradually filled, and her personal possessions gradually disappeared from tables and walls. Now and then she stopped short, heartsick and trembling; once her lips quivered and her eyes filled, but for the most part she did not pause. Nina, at about eleven, had come to the door between their rooms, and opened It. The girl was undressed, and for a few moments she watched Harriet scowllngly, with narrowed ' perplexities he had always played part of arbiter. To Harriet the thing loomed mwn tous, unforgiving, incalculable. It a7" suiued to her the proportions of a una1' der. Richard, In her estimation, was not what he thought himself, a somewhat ordinary man In the forties whose life had already held poverty and disillusionment and wholesome disappointment, whose nature" had been tempered to humor and generosity and philosophy ; to Harriet, he was the richest,' the finest, the most deserving of men, and she the adventuress who had brought his name down to shame and dishonor. Until two o'clock she was wretchedly busy in soul and body. When the last of her personal possessions was packed, and when she was aching from hea I to foot, she' took a hot bath, and crept Into bed. But not to sleep. The feverish agonies of shame and reproach held her. She was pleading with Richard, she was talking to Nina she was making little of it making much of It she was saying a reluctant ''yes yes-y- es!" to their questioning.' At four o'clock she dressed herself with headiiche, and again, half-mafatigue, and went out Into a world that was just beginning to brighten into faint shapes and colors. A steamer moved majestically up the river, the smoothly widening wake spread from shore to shore; pink light showed at one cabin window; and into Harriet's somber thoughts came unbidden the picture of a yawning cook, stumbling about amid his pots and pans. With the morning, the peace ' of a conquered spirit fell tipon her. She had thought it all to an ending nt last. It seemed to Harriet that never in her life had she thought so clearly, so truly, so bravely. Her duty to Richard, to his children, to Linda; she had faced them without fear and without deception, tasting the humiliating truth to its bitter dregs, planning the few short Interviews that must precede her leaving them all forever. For Harriet emerged from the furnace the mistress of her own soul. She had been wrong; she had been weak; $w had been contemptible, but not so wrong or weak or contemptible s they would think hei. She would go on her way now, the braver for the lesson and the shame. And what they thought of her must never shake again her own knowledge of her own Ind d nocence. Go on her way to what? She did not know. But she neither feared what the future might hold nor doubted It. She could make her own way from a new beginning. "But before I go," said Harriet, resolutely, "I must tell him that I'm sorry. And I must ask Nina to forgive me." She turned, and burled her face in the thick, soft sleeve of her coat. But r'-- - eyes. "Are you going away?" she said, Harriet brought heavy presently. eyes to meet hers, and stood considering a minute, M If bringing her thoughts back a long distance. "1 going away? Yes," she said, slowly. "Yes, I may." Nina stood watching, which seemed vaguely to trouble Harriet, who gave her a restless glance now and then as she went to and fro. Presently she spoke to Nina again. "Good-nigh- t, Nloa!" "Good-nigh- t I" mapped Nina, and the door slammed. Harriet continued to move about for perhaps half an hour before Nina's guaranteed. First class service. . Fourth We-- t. Provo. Phone fiSis-J- 4:' N. li van,.-- .- child" "Where . Ricnard, III!" Have You Said Been?" Sharply, Then, "You Look - she did not cry long, and when Jensen, the boatman, came out on the dock at seven, the lady he knew to be his new mistress wag sitting composedly now enough on her bench, studylDg the glittering "and sparkling river with quiet eyes. Harriet nodded to him, and rose somewhat stiffly, to go up to the house. She mounted the brick steps with a tht thoughtfully dropped bend were straight shafts of the sunlight j- - if a ....... tssfsffeX.-'hUiJj l( -- '' - -- v . ' LOST You are losing money un less you trade with tlio Wasatch Pro duce. tt. FOK SALE feed at lowest duee. Hay, prices. 1 r'-;'-v2- grain, floor and' Wasatch Pro tf. HEMTITCHING and PICOTING The finest work on any kind of mate rial. All work guaranteed. Singer Sewing Machine Co., 97 N. Univ. Ave. WANTED Call n LADIES FLORAL "The House of Better Service" Cyphers, incubator. 2."0 4,")0-eg- g 781-J-- - si riW57Yi"' s 7M-J-1- . with quick sympathy. He looked fron her about him, as if for a shelter foi her emotion. "Here," he said, "come down the steps a bit I was goln;. down to the court for a little tennis; Ward may follow me, but he won't bi dressed for half an hour yet. Sil down here; we can talk." They had come to the marble bench on t'i" terrace, where Isabelle and Anby Phone 466. West Center. V-- 6 l. KEY, gun and safe repairing. Any old key for any old lock. We fix any old thing. Benfer's Novelty Repair Shop, 75 N. 1st W. IflfrM fOK REN I Furnished rooms for and comfortable housekeeping; . pleasant. Phone 306-W- ashani "I know I know how you feel !" Richard said with a sort of brief sympathy. "I'm sorry! But you know you mustn't take this all too bard. I didn't I was thinking of this lost night; I didn't ask you for well, any more than you gave me, in this marriage of ours. Your divorce was your own affair " The girl's tired eyes flashed. "There was no divorce I" she said, -- quickly. ' "No divorce?" he echoed with a puzzled frown. "I want to tell you about it!" she said. But the tears would come again. "I'm, tired!" Harriet said," childishly, trying to smile. "I've been up walking. I couldn't sleep !" The consciousness that he had been able to .forget the whole tangle, and sleep' soundly, gave Richard's voice a little coinpunction as he said : '"You don't have to tell me now. We'll1 find a way out of it that is eay " for every one " "No, but let. me talk!" Harriet, In her eagerness, laid her fingers on his wrist, and he was shocked to feel that they were icy cold. "I want to tell you the whole thing I want you to understand !'' she said, eagerly. Richard looked at her In some anxiety; there was no acting here, The rich hair" was pushed carelessly from the troubled forehead. She was huddled in the of velnplng coat, a different figure' indeed from his memory of the superb and angry girl of last night in . the library lamplight. "Mr. Carter, I never knew my mother" she began. .But he Interrupted her. "My denr," he said. In a tone he might have used to Nina. He laid his warm, fine hand on hers, and patted It soothingly. "My dear girl, if you feel that you would like to go to that motherly sister of yours if you feel that It would he wiser" "Oh, I am going to Linda at once!" Harriet said, feverishly, hurt to the soul. "I had planned that! But but won't you let me tell you?" she pleaded. She had framed the sentences a hundred times in the long night ; they failed her utterly now, and she groped for words. "I was only three years old when my mother died," she said. "Of course I don't remember her I only remember Linda. I was shy, my father was a professor, we were too poor to have very much social life. 1 lived In books, lived In my father's shabby little study really; I never had an Intimate girl friend! Linda was always good angelically good talking of thp Armenian sufferers, and of the outrages In the Congo, and of the poor In New York's lower East side she never cared that we were poor, and that we hadn't clothes!" "I know I know!" Richard's eyes were smiling, as If he knew the picture, and liked It. "Well, Linda married when I was ten, and Josephine came, and then Julia came. I still lived for books and babies. But, unlike Linda, I cared." Harriet's whole face glowed ; she looked off Into space, and her voice had a longing note. "I cared for clothes and good times!" she said. "I adored the children, but I dreamed of carriages maids glory achievements! I knew that other women did remember feeling that way!" Richard commented, mildly, as she paused. "Well," Harriet said, "I met Royal Rlondln one night. He lived In our town Watertown. He had a dreadful, artificial sort of mother. My sister didn't approve of her at all. A friend of his named Street was an artist, and he had a nice MUle wife, an da bnbv. of memory, and she seemed to hear again Nina's ungracious tone. "He told herl" she said, suddenly. "She saw Royal, and he told her ! Poor and stood staring absently out at the dark summer night, the great branches of the trees moving, In the restless wind, and the oblong of dull light that still fell from the library window. She could not see the horror as Richard saw It: she could not see her-wl- f as only a mistaken Ionian, a woman with youth, beauty, and Intelligence pleading for her, one problem more In his life, it is true, but onl.v one among many, and not the greatest. Classified Ads; Hay, first cutting, $11; second cutting, $10. Call FOR SALE 767-R-- 111 3 "I AUTO DANIELS' WHEEL AND doors and BODY SHOP Wheels, bodies repaired. Truck and bug bodies made to order. 25 N. 5th W. Remember Fee ing That Way!" Richard Commented, Mildly, as She fr W LA anil they lived In a I.TfrnTTkeTiort of studio. 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