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l'Hte CAPITAL JUUKNAL. SALKM. OUMUON
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929
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By Harold Cray
LIFE STEPS IN
By Claire Pomeroy
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It was all the wanted In the world,
but Anthony was already married,
and to this girl who sat laughing
and talking with her in such a
friendly way.
She leaned back In her chair with
a little Blck feeling.
It was all horrible horrible. She
felt as If someone had thrown pitch
all over tomethia? beautiful which
she valued.
Supposing she never could marry
Anthony? Supposing there she was
a?oln, straining every nerve to look
ahead into the future. Why could
she not be content to wait, and leave
everything to the man she loved.
For the first time she was consci
ous of something very near despair.
She had built a castle in the Air,
and lived In it for a few hours but
already the castle was tottering and
threatening to fall She was thank
ful when Mollie said she must go.
"It's been lovely seeing you, and
I hate running away, but I've got an
appointment at three," she said.
Ana looked at her steadily.
MI saw you in a car the other day
with Mr. Mahon," she aid. She
longed desperately to tell Mollie all
the truth; to say "Anthony and I
were together and s v you; and
Anthony knows everything, or
thinks he does. He and I love each
other. What are we going to do
about It? Don't you care for him
any more? Do you want to lose
him?"
.But she dared not.
Mollie flushed up to her pretty
eyes, but she laughed.
"Did you? Poor old Ralph I He
will run about after me. Of course,
he has a pretty thin time w.'Ui his
wife."
She deliberately 'changed the
conversation.
"How do you get back to Wimble
don? It's an awful long way out,
isn't It?"
They parted outside the hotel.
"I'll tell Anthony I saw you,"
Mollie said.
Ana walked away without answer
- in?.
"Horrible, horrible," she told her
self again, but hardly knew what
she meant.
She felt guilty, as If she had been
discovered in tome crime. She tried
to recall what Anthony had said to
her, how he had looked, how he had
held her hands and kissed her Hps,
but somehow it all seemed unreal
and so for away. With him she had
forgotten that he was Mollie's hus
band; now she could remember
nothing else.
She went back to Wimbledon by
the longest route. She felt she could
not bear the silence of the house.
Even poor old Benny would have
been a welcome companion.
When she got home sh made her
self some tea. Her head ached, and
she was surprised to find that her
hands were trembling.
"I wish I hadn't seen Mollie,"
she thought angrily. "Why did I?
It was like being a Judas."
The postman's knock rang through
the empty house, and Ana ran to
the door. One letter lay on the mat.
It was addressed in Anthony's writ
ing. Ana picked it up and held it to
her heart. She was conscious of a
sudden reaction a grateful re
action. It was as if he were with her
ukuuu, uumi ner nana, dittoing
her fears away, showing her only the
beauty and happiness nf the future
with him.
"I love him. I will never give him
up, Ana told herself fiercely, and
realized for the first time that since
she left Mollie that afternoon there
had been no other thought In her
mind but that the must give him
up, that she could not go on.
Anthony Hambledon's letter was
short. "Unless you hear from me to
the contrary," he wrote. "I shall be
in London on Monday." He gave the
address of the hotel at which he
would stay. "Come to me there. Ana
I saw Mahon's wife when I got back
hereor rather she came to see me.
I will tell you about it when we
meet. You can say goodbye to Wim
bledon, my dear I am not going to
part from you again. I have come
to the conclusion that 'honor Is an
empty word invented by somebody
without human Impulse. I feel like
a man who has unexpectedly been
let out of prison into sunshine which
only exists because of you. I give
you my word that you shall never
regret the step we are to take to
gether. I am living only for the
moment when I shall see you. A
man's life is his own affair, after
all. If you have any fear for the
future I will make you forget it when
we are together."
"He Is mad," Ana told herself
breathlessly. She raised his letter to
her lips. "But I love hu madness;
Monday I and today was Friday.
Anthony made no mention of
Mollie, nor of the General; he took
it for granted that Ana would ask
no question, raise no objections. She
sat down at the foot of the stairs
with sudden overwhelming weak
ncss.
Life had been so uneventful until
lately, end now all at once the was
whirled into the midst of things
which she had never thought could
touch her life.
She was conscious of a great fear
through all her happiness. What
would the world say? What would
Miss Sawyer say? .
She chut her eyes and tried to
realize the gossip there would be
the horror among her aunt's few
cronies; the nine days' scandal Ana
had been brought up with a whole
some idea of scandal. It had always
seemed so terrible to her to hear
people talke about In lowered voices.
as if they were unclean; whispered
about with a sort of ghoulish glee.
It would be terrible for Miss Saw
yer, too; she so prided herself upon
her unimpeachable respectability.
"Run away with a married man
How shocking I What a terrible
woman !"
She seemed almost to hear the
voice of Miss Sclby and Mrs. Clair,
her aunt's chief friends.
Ana clasped her hands to steady
their trembling. Once before she had
heard those two excellent, but ex
ceedingly narrow-minded women sit
ting in Judgment upon a girl who,
like herself, had thrown everything
to the winds, and followed the call
of love.
She had even listened and ap
proved of their condemnation.
"He cannot possibly marry her"
so they had declared. "He is a mar-
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