Show I Saint Sinner While Bob lay sleeping his breath- breath breathIng breathIng breathing Ing deep and regular Faith lay la with wide ide tragic eyes staring Into tho the dark And she knew that the she would have hn vc been almost Billing Ruling to exchange ex exchange ex exchange change her hope for a spiritual hea heaven en for the power poser po er to drop Into the lh oblivion which so O obviously had swallowed swallowed swallowed lowed up her r husband and any pain and grief and joy that be had ex experienced ex- ex experienced experienced that memorable night And as she he lay In Sn the tho th dark resent resent- resentful resentful ful subconsciously of that that even eten enn deep breathing of the tho man she loved too passionately for her own peace of or mind she could not sustain her role of ot utter humility She knew now that her vehemence had bad been dictated dictated dictated ed by her supreme need to believe belle that she was wholly in the wrong Tong for if she were then she he could be belle be- be believe lle lieve c that Bob loved her as much In a different man live way vay as she she lo cd him And now In the dark her won hard-won comfort fell from from her like a cloak cloak dragged by brutal bruul hands leaving her herwart heart wart naked and cold almost as des des- desolate elate 05 nG it had been while w lle she Walte for Bob to return She could no long long- longer er refuse to face the truth he had hadnot riot not told her that ho ha did not love Cherry He had merely accused her of foolishness of torturing herself hersell with sadistic Of or course that th t was Indirect assurance e but he had not given ghen her the surest of com com- comfort fort the fort the flat statement In so many words that he had never loved el Cher Cher- Cherry ry as he loved her that his Infatuation Infatuation infatuation for her was completely dead iud No Mo he had said none of these I things she reminded herself bit bit- bitterly terly tery And again that ghastly picture which she had tried to eras crass from her mind by the vehemence nce of her herom ora os-n abasement sprang out In the dark duJ like k a moving VI picture ct projected e eden upon a screen c ee Again a she saw that sud sud- sudden sudden den hungry brutal kiss to which Cherry had challenged ed him goaded him to only oily God knew what des des- desperation desperation desperation by her conflicting love for Bruce Patton and her brother in law bw and her Jealousy of the sister aho a ho had ne er before f triumphed over ver her tier in a a. competition for love lave His kits for his bis wife she told herself sickly had been such sucha a a. weak feeble thing In comparison Why had he come back hack to quarrel violently with her her i hU wile wife In an effort to divert her from the very Vera issue which she had forced at last Had lInd the quarrel boom been premeditated ne meant mt for a queer perverted sort of oI kindness kindness tn to spare her Perhaps 1 and she clenched her Mr- hands and ald beat beather beather beather her breast with them them them-se he had worked It all aU out painfully knowing kno his guilt knowing her nature the inevitableness of ot her ber self abasement it if he accused her at the right time Perhaps he had sd std s ld to himself Faith must bj ba b spared 6 red at all costs cost even if I have to tolie tolie tolie lie to her Faith Is good She lov loves me I must not hurt her I must go on an and on on no ro matter if Cherry has h realIzed d that she loves me and that I love lo her We shall haU not hurt Faith no matter how much we hurt ourselves It Is 15 our oar mistake our out not Faiths Faith's She knew sub-consciously sub that she he was 11 doing the very very thing that Bob BJ had accused her of tormenting ot-tormenting tormenting r her her- herself herself herself self and and- getting gelling a sort of ol morbid Measure 47 out of it but It-but but she could not help g help it NEXT tEXT And what of Cherry Copyright 1927 NEA Bernice Se Inc Ine |