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Show I l55S5SS55J55S5a j PHILIP'S LOVE I j Dy JAOK LAWTON j (fcj mi. Waaittn .S'iut'r Union i Oi usttince sat at the window wait-Ing wait-Ing fur Philip, but the happy expect ex-pect iiior in ids coming was gone. Sadly the young wife wondered hq.v long fils life of strained Indifference mut co on. For surely Philip had 'grown indifferent In marriage, nftcr his unabated devotion before. Constance Con-stance looked back on tho years before her marriage with a sigh. Philip, earning Ills wuy In her father's em-ploj, em-ploj, had been a difficult lover, even uow she was not sure that he would have asked his own heart desire had she not tremulously prompted him. And might she not, nftcr all, she thought with a catching of the brrnth, have read his heart aright? Could it be that Philip had married her for pity? Truly, she had shown her hetsit to him. .with nil It's love. The fact of her father's wealth, and Philip's humble position had seemed such a foollah barrier between, but Philip In his stubborn pride had been unable to brook that barrier. So she had dni' It for him. She rcnemhered the night, with tho stnrlU'!it on the snow, nnd Philip's dear iinn t lir.uiuh her's, steadying her tignln-t the bi-eexe. and when fcho loofcid up Into Ii.n face to we there the pt nt up love of' years, that love which Plu lip's bniscpie manner had rt't'oliiMy denied, Constance half Inughln-!. half crying, had challenged him to denj bis love as she totd of her Now In the calm of her silting room the mmlness of i lint hour came hack to her with the memory of his eager surrender. Their walk together linil been but an accident ; Constance had stopped at her father's office and her father himself had put her Into the forbidden Philip's core. The night was dangerously stormy, she would have to tnke the street car home, her father expected to be detained at the ofD.ce and would need, his own car there. So Philip was Installed, her escort. Later Constance had married bin against bis own unselfish protests-Mont. protests-Mont. Stoutly she proclaimed her con-, con-, tempt for the ljixtirje ofjlfe as compared com-pared with the (JKtof love and Philip accepted the gift. , Her father had not yet forglven'th misalliance j Philip as obliged t seek work elsewhere, and to begin at a lower rung of the huslness ladder. ,liut Philip would rise, and Constance wft happy until that Indefinable .souifcthlng came to lilt her with strange apprehension. 'She found Philip looking at her as llrud'went on In n detached, speculr-lhe,ny, speculr-lhe,ny, and nil her merriment could lio( bring nn answering smile. When Inter 'he took to working evenings at tlfa'olllco, Constnnco determinedly dls-eournged dls-eournged the ambition with the assurance assur-ance that they could manage on his dally' salary, and that she preferred his companionship to extra dollars. So. though Philip desisted, ho was 111 at i use during their evenings together, nnd Coustoneo In her discouraging attempts at-tempts to entertain on the rattling old hired phtno, subsided after n while before be-fore his nbsotbed despondence. Thl'ti Philip ti'lng abruptly one ; evening, announced his, Intention of ilepilng for the e.luli,, Constance hui not heard of till club before, nud was grieved by his desertion. Then ns nli-lit after night passed In loneliness, sho too eiilllMitisl tin apparent Indlf-feiciice Indlf-feiciice to mutch bis own. Hut as the slii'ct lights limed out and she watch-ril watch-ril from her window. It seeuied n i longer she could bear this kiispeiise. ' If she hud been mlHtnkvn In her rending of Philip's heart and he hud iiiiirrled her through pity, she must hnow ut mice, and no longer Impose herself upon him. Her eyes were wet with tears, as 'she started upon the walk to her husband' plnee of hnl-nrus. hnl-nrus. The air would calm her., lir hoiicd. she knew that she would tlnil i. Philip there, nod sIoiih. An office girl r .. .... 1...- ... !... ...1. ...!... ... WHO -JI1HI-I Hi in I i.-t, j,,,.,i,- mr- snge told her thai llrr husband would hi- delayed at li.tst nn hour. It wms hiore,tlmn nn hour hiir wliciiM'on-'stsnci! wliciiM'on-'stsnci! stepped from tlin clevntor in fhe descried corridor of the bii'ldfng, ninl ns she enternl nil oiner odlce she lieiird voices In ln room xvllhln. line volir was Philip's, nervously 1tniiitlent, the olht-r was her father's. ' I, "It was little enough to d ." Philip wits Hiiyjng. "glxllig lip a few weeks of Kiiufini In order thnt 1 might buy u piano for Constance. And quite as .line n one ns tluil yon provldeiL If I Hcam.ot y'' g'H' l my wife nil thoe '.tlllng'J to which she was accustomed, "foiic dtt In my giuat !oe for her I VlH. "'i lit," her fn'ltvr unswered. "s-ime- tin; nftcr you have workwl yourself to 'K'lth bending oer n desk until , mli'i'lght. when yon hnve left her ro- ' tie. icdly- alone with that llo about itt nd!'t your 1-veiilius nt the eltth, ibcn you mny l uhle to lestoto to Coi -nine iIiom- things which fiiiu' willingly dWeiiid-d--for youweU, i "i vvrs ii lucky ehnneo llmt led mo to dilve il'iwn ""'I'1 my "'' fHtitl TinviTH tola Triners who hnppcti to ' ''e soM yon thnt p'nno. And now, tin boy, jou hnd hotter come hae'.i to "tr oid position with me. nnd you ha lienor, boiii of juu, ismie tincko my lo.ioly old heart. I.oo'.s a tjuecr tiling., yotl can't tient It." |