Show P al t 1 11 4 e comedy of ID broken hearts IL by L I 1 PARRY TRUSCOTT ACT I 1 HEI 1 mete both deiv young tremendously in loe loie ind and T 1 iii ly ind to th in itself suf af fie ile autly d ng in of youth and love and ii it experience she ad led a solidly m mother ind ie le the nezy smallest smil lest ahng th ng that could pos s bly be called an income also they heaped the met mei suie of joint ness with mith such trifles as unfailing obedience to the steindl m olce a celance ie ance that wis child ike 3 ke on the maternal mi a self dep depie lecat cat ng 7 beai ot ok hurt n ng a be loved object a and nd all sorts of maidenly and gentlemanly scruples behind the age but not da b any means less fresh and sweet tor for that I 1 apy hadn t the cusp don clon of a ift 10 i 1 selfish thought between them ind and they nere mere so ob and entirely made for each other that it wis was aiom the first quite inevitable that they should be parted they proved indeed only too easy eagy to pait lien ei en the world minded mother would have ben bertei satis fled with a u victory not so quickly won her daughter daugh tei s tears hardly moved her more inore thin than the young a man s gentle ead sad faced seasonableness and together they almost persuaded her to overl overlook ool the microscopy mic c income though neither made any but the most passive efforts to achieve that vo 0 o desired end but she hastily summon summoned edher her wild ly in nd rid edness and by its aid decided ded once dilee for all that it would be a I 1 ply p to disturb their angeli le ie for the sake of a poor ind and preposterously commonplace marriage and she urged the man to acael t 11 t post that had been offered him in india with a voice so tenderly like her daughters that he very nearly refused to comply he missed from it the sting goading to sacrifice which he be bid had lately come to associate with himself and fate rate however he did comply the offered work held out hores bores of advancement of moderate but ruffic ent wealth in the vague middle distance of life and who can tell what other mad hopes were bred of blat tl it solitary hope wedded to desire in the mind of a man very young lory ery very much in ionea but he did not say any thing to the girl about malting w foi fol him and his fatute fortunes he had pi om ased her mother not to ind and he was the very pattern of an honorable youth and thus the g rl while he was away was hurried into i t mar mirage liage which she told herself would bibik her broken heart afiefh at my any rate it broke her ep sp rit but then she hud lied never been conspicuously spirited pl ACT it 11 herein lies a story often told aheady so many times written so 0 o many times read that the greatest glea test indulgence of reader and wilter il 11 e aie ate surely craved for it the tricked by a in s taken idea into a mar maniace ilage much against her ind nation to become a self effacing but nel ne er bite interesting resting wife e the pale mathei of pile pale children chil dien lie ile ignorant for yeats of the full extent of the hairier dividing them lured by a forlorn hope arloss half a lonely life time his ills figure hid lost its old boy ahne s bis his ha i v mas is th elly flecked gray but his pod poel ets w m ere comfortably lined and his position assured when quite casually he ile lein ed hit hat the woman whose fidelity he had duns to through all their se separation ind s lence hid had failed him with n tn tm elve months of their parting he ile told himself h myself tint that every dividing year every cay lay eiery long 1 deathless leath Ileath less hid had buit bu it his old love moie mole flimey inta the tile fabec of his be ng in the enly eally twenties knowing I 1 ei el to be fake he might have put her emge from him hlin and lived to be no less ultimately happy for the healed wound but corn com ng now so late after so long it unmanned him he ile told himself again thit that he was heartbroken ind and absorbed in that sev sey beti betia aed jed by i 1 dingi individual bel ef forgot to lall tall at the whole filse false which is the ad ael now ledged panacea of the broken hearted the news hid had leached him not only tardily but with a s lack 0 detail just tl e b hue aie fact of her mai mat ariage at tl at fir far off date and nothing more no doubt he in have col lecter further information aiom the same source but he franl nervously from doing so to 1 now what man per lier of man I 1 ad supplanted him what good could that do I 1 in that any man had been allowed to appropriate what he hid bad so long looked upon as bis ills own seemed in itself a sorrow dense enough to darken tl e le of his days habit chained him for a time to his work but his interest was gone and h s health begin began s to fail fall how much that m nas as due to continuous residence in i a trying climate how much to tl ti e blow it would be d to deselm ne he ile at any late exon crated the cl el mite mate but for ill all that he lie was forced to leal leaie e it ills HIS fi fl elds carried him too weak to burthel on oil 0 a home mat waid bound sh p they nen neer er thought of consult ng him of out ouise ae he would want to go home hat englishman English min of them all chained 13 b circumstance to the land of thiea tei ing alier ih er and ei el toes m vituld miss tl tie e chance of a t breil breal down to take him bick back to En England giand 1 so it was nas that I 1 ie e an irole ol 01 e from the lethargy leth irgy of extreme me meekness nei kness akness to find the salt sea breezes blow ng ing health hick back to him whether hether m he Ts ol 01 i 0 found the strong herity winds eging I 1 im tin to the pui put su t of new ideas w i ith a life renewed found the lest iest less waves hurrying him to the land he had bad s so 0 long feared weir ed to see cles ind lid winds cabied noth ng for it h s change of mind As he sat brood ng on h s deck chi cha r he seemed to heir hear them laugh ng boisterously together avei the fiall fane fatic es he held so there are is as good fah in the sen sea is as ever came out of it they seemed to say wives waves and m bunds ands aie ate orb ally bluster ng ind tild coarse of wit IN hy by she maybe may be fat she must be neatly forty to judge by your you in england the land of healthy pretty women a man may soon find healing for love sickness ness man alave whit what is one woman among many when ill all are fair fairl choose a maiden malden fresh ind and youthful and in her smiles miles forget a pale myth of an out lived ige age lou have managed without her all these years and n not ot done so badly come now own apt up I 1 how low much pleasure sure has there been mingled in your pretence of sorrow even now you might be in a fir far worse cise case why you might be bound bound to a woman worn and iced and changed in a thousand ways from the girl sou remember a woman you would not know if you passed her in the sheet and instead you are free is as air as flee as we are to make a flesh choice to make love anew to a flesh heart beart pow much better than you could teach it were mere you raw ind and ignorant yourself YOU alone know but he put his lean blown biown hands over his ears he would not listen to the voices of winds and he ile clutched with all the of a drowning mm man at his frayed belief in it s own perfect faithfulness he de fled the pagan creed of the untamed seis sells he piss pass vowed for the sake of bib hi chri cherished shed middle aged self respect to marry no young girl ACT III and he kept the lettel of his vow he certainly ceita curled and only a few months after it b s leburn but the wife he chose was neatly of an age with himself a widow tra fra I 1 and delicate and faintly rem n scent of a bye one prettiness inett iness meRs the first time he siw saw her before they were introduced she re minded him of ot his old love he ile could not have said how or where but it proved in atti action strong enough to chain h b in to her s de to bling him qu cl ly to her f feet he vi ho be hid had ne nei er done anything beaole without the ut most deliberation and thought ind nd she was not by any means generally fascinating only one of those gentle colorless colo iless women omen who mho fail fall to interest even their frici ds but who generally succeed in obtaining and holding fast the warmest attachment of a certain class of quiet sl y men her past was peopled by her former husband husti and and her ailing children now all lost to her but she d d not find much to tell him about them she spoke to him more about an eaily attachment that had proved unfortunate she shook it out of the rose leaves and lavender of memory in which she had long laid it for his inspection i crumpled faded relic of her g we were both very young misname his name was blown biown too she said with hei he uncertain sm ie he ile afterwards that she seemed to 1001 it at him rather curious ly as though expecting a question he did not put as though she was sur but not ill pleased thit that he should let the subject deop at the time he was only afraid of d ng her with continuing it he ile bel bet eved she had made a special effort on his behalf and e was unwilling that she should take bouble to please him when he was so fell rell pleased without he ile had been quick to notice hat s i t rule beyond her little a imenes and the most trivial pass ng events few th stirred hei bet to coir verat on yet he fell honestly in love with her fought and conque conquered led for her sake sale his ingrained Ingia Inglai ined ned to set any woman in the place of the file woman who had failed him this was inas the of woman she in have glown into he said in self defense an occasional trick of speech or gesture in his new 1001 woula iem lem nd it in qu te of his old idol bl bit t he decided that women more like after all thai he had thought them albl ough in hv half desp sed I 1 imell foi fol un unfaith f at ta ful ness I 1 e hilf half excl sed qed I 1 amsel because buse at leist least he v m is as fa ahful to a type the love of I 1 u bouth auth seemed ery iery neal to him as he go gae e ahlm himell elf unreservedly to the love of his middle age lie ile seemed to know this woman by in he ile had no question or need to worry morry her to leorn aa all he required to learn about her f then one day she returned to the dropped topic of her early love and there was the merest trace of excite ment in her voice his ills name was charlie she said that boy I 1 told you about don t you think that makes it ever a coincidence our lo 10 loi e s nee nce your name is charlesa 9 1 I 1 used to be always called charlie once he sad sa d absently for he was looking very intently a hei her pile pale cheeks mist ed almost youthfully I 1 wonder she went on you I 1 ave aye no story to tell me no old ron ance S nely you met some one abroad or before you went abroad she wis was looking younger 3 aunger and bri brigl I tei tet thin than I 1 e lad 1 ad ever seen her it was marcellous man mari ellous the transformation of lust that touch of color in her cheeks how it t i funded them I 1 elded her to shake off the marks of trouble the ban I 1 of time lo 10 dia di she lad 1 id li 11 d is as de hei hel heavy alaci black never suited hei an ind d hei bet ha r was more loosely tw sted perhaps an I 1 then in ili hei hel eyes a in most ot O t i thing was as a gleam of f fun tin it 11 d in sch sell ef howin her alive to the comedy blat tl at springs son times aiom healt bidal n ng issues in th s in stance the comedy of 1 er having rec O 0 agn n zed him at once although so much had come into her life between them of his having failed to recon ae her although she had nevel foi a deal cleat hour left his thoughts but he I 1 new hei now how can you ei e er forgive my blindness I 1 e said but it seemed his blindness I 1 ad pleased her cannot you see she asked that I 1 in to be lo 10 loved ved for what I 1 am now lather than for something I 1 wis was once but never cm can be again isow now I 1 I 1 now that you loie me because I 1 reminded you of a girl you used to love but also for myself woman growing old you do not only love me because you used to love me and think it Is your duty never to leave off doing a thing you have once oace be gun and she owned to having done what little she could to keep up a delusion that hod ha come by chance the chance that had kept him dreaming die aming of a girl still is as a gill foi fol well long past her girlhood so in the end he married his first love having fallen in love with her the second time so two hearts once set aside as brol en were very credibly patched for further use philadelphia evening telegraph |