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Show I HER SIDE AN!) HIS WHAT A WOMAN REMEMBERS. Walt looked up curiously at Jancfs paradox. Vou're roIdk to help Roy NicoH to forpet you by working for him again?" he asked H "Yes." Janet said, thoughtfully. "Most of us think only uf 'out of sight, out of mind' Wo forget that there Ifl alBO tho absence whJch 'makes the heart grow fonder.' I think one of these holds true for men: the other for Tromen. But if there are any illusions to he killed an aid to for- getting, absence is the surest way to I keep them alive I Rev think I em essential to his happiness I am no.. I am Onlj Mfr tul-or he things soto his magazine If I refuse lo ?o back to the job, even for a time, he will have diffi culty in getting some one else in my place. Oh. I don't meau that he can;t get any one as tote. It is only that he thinks so" ' Well if 1 don't stay on the maqa- zine while he is in Europe he will think he misses me. Hut he will be only missing my work on tho matra- 7inf. He won'i distinguish, however. be will be nur?inc the illusion that it the woman, not the worker he is deprived of Don't you see.' But II I keep on with the work while he is In Europe, he Will have the hoi ho. Of the magazine off his mind-please, don't think me conceited. Walt. I am only teiline you what he has repeated in me often. Well. havinc the maga-zine maga-zine off his mind, he will have most ..f me off his mind. And 1 have no fears that Europe, tavel and his own rfforts will fail to obliterate the real H of me from his thouchts!" Walt nodded 'You're the doctor in this caae dear," he said. .lanet sat down and replied lo Roy Nicoll's letter: "Dear Rov Certainly I want to stay on with the macazlne while you are in Europe, if you resist in the delusion that 1 am indispensable to the maga- I zine there is onlv one way to cure, vou'of it I will slay on and. with all the intention in the world of being J perfect I will undoubtedly make UN average score of mistake. Then you will find out that I am only human, and average. Whereas if I let' the magazine now. you WOUld Bigh at everv mistake my successor would make and think ot how superlatively I well 1 would have done the job , where, perhaps, in realitv I would have made the same mistake, if not a, worse one It So run off to Europe and pla , it, vou can find it in your heart to play in that world of the war's horrors., i ry lo forget the magazine and its, editor for a time. You will find the' forgetting easier than you think, II know. You're a man. and women and , H all that pertains in ihern are only a part of life to men. j It is different with a woman She, always remembers if a man has once offered the beat in himself to her. There ever after he belonns to her ir only because of the tine tribute he I has paid h i She will always wish J him well atfr that, and try o help I her wish come true "I shall never forget thai you havt done much for me. More than that, ! I shall remember why you have done i t. 1 shall always remember that at at a time when T was most helpless I you were most helpful. Yes, Roy, a j woman alwavR remembers a man who Jj reaches out the steadying hand and pars the rlcht and senile word when she is adrift and panicstrlcken. "We have gone through much toll to-ll gether, you and I Life has plowed a deep furrow In our hearts, has it? I Well, all the finer the soil for a good, j! deep friendship' Only this time ii will be a friendship that has weathered weath-ered storms and been stripped of all ' but the sounded growth. Will you help harvest the good crain? Your friend. JANET." |