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PAGE SIX MEDFORD. MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1935 MORNING STAR SYNOPSIS: After ffta death at jrrfwiM and Emily'a baby. Emily de termine not to publish her grief to the world, but to do the beet she can to pick up the thread ot her normal lite and live again, Edwin's primness and stubborn narrow mindedness were difficult enough be fore; now. however, he seems to feel there is something rather dis graceful in Emily's actions. Grief is grief to Edwin, and on should wear black to prove it. Chapter SS TRUTH COMES OUT CUNDAY, th day after Christmas. Emily moved restlessly about, throwing out faded flowsrs, cutting reeling carda Into i box to be used as an Index to next year's list, amptylng ashtrays that had been Oiled by their Christmas callers. The box of cards, aha decided, could go In the guest room desk, where they would be quite out of the way until next year. Sha opened the guest room door and stopped short upon the threshold. Edwin was Inside, quite motion less, staring Into the opened cheBt that held the tiny possessions of Jeffrey Felton Barnes. She had carefully refrained dur ing Christmas day from any mention ot the thing nearest her heart and the sight broke her completely. Wltb a tearing sob aha crossed the room and put her arms about him. "Oh, my darling, can't we help ach other?" The silence that followed was like a cold band upon her heart. She realized suddenly that Edwin's arms were not holding her; they were merely about her. She raised her bead and looked Intently Into his ex pressionless face. ' -"1 didn't know," he said finally, In a level, monotonous voice, "that you needed help." In that Instant sha understood. Dnderstood his first rush of tender ness after tho baby's death and his gradual withdrawal during the past few weeks. Edwin had been trained to a rigid code of respect for the dead and ho had expected her to mourn, visibly and audibly. Me had doubtless expected her to wear black clothes for a year as an outward Indication that her heart was broken, and at the end of the year to take them off because her heart had mended auddenly. In a day. And understanding that, she saw for the first time how hopeless It all was; how useless her struggles and concessions and sacrifices had been. In a year and' a half Edwin had learned so little about her that he could think she didn't care. He still measured her conduct In terms of conventional behavior, Id a thing that lay so close to her heart. She realized that after this she could never try to ploaBe, or even to live with him, no matter what she had promised. She looked Into his eyes tor a great many seconds. "Would you mind coming Into the living-room where It's warm?" the asked steadily. "There are a lot of things I'd like to talk to you about" He followed her wordlessly and they faced each other on the hearth He politely offered her a chair but she shook her head. You didn't fight tor your life sitting down. "Edwin," ahe said finally, "you don't love mo at nil, do you?" He hesitated. "You make It diffi cult, don't you?" "That isn't what I'm asking just now. Do you?" "I don't fool as I once did," he confessed honestly. "You're such a different person." "Meaning that you loved me once but that you don't care any moro?" the Insisted. "Don't be afraid of my feelings; I haven't any left." "1 know It," he said. "That's why can't love you as much." ""pHATS what 1 wanted to find out." She was amazed at the stoudiness ot her own voice; sho scarcely recognized It. "Now then will you tell me why you changed?" "Because you did," he said prompt ly. "Your leaving me was the first blow; you'll never know what that cost me. And you've been different ever since you came back (rum ninulOEhain. You knew how I telt about things before you married Die, and Instead of respecting my views you've disregarded them en tirely. Laughed at them; not open ly, hut really, from the vory first." "Has it occurred to you. Edwin." the asked, "that the reason I left you in the first place was because 1 wasn't altogether In accord with rour views ahoul things?" "You never said so heforo we mar. rled." lou would never give me a tbance. You avoided talking about Important subjects as if they had been Indecent. But It didn't mattor Weather. Northern California: Kilr tonight and Tuesday; fogs on south and cen tral coast; temperature a'jove normal In Interior; gentle to moderate north erly winds off the coaat. Wife SSectlJJ BY MAillAtt SIMS ao much then because 1 wuu I juui property. I didn't belong to you." He made a gesture of protest but she disregarded It. "And did It never occur to you," she drove her arrows mercilessly home, "that having left you once and having come back, un der durc-ss, as It were, because 1 promised when you were so des perately III, that 1 might need to be humored In my eccentricities It I waa to be happy wltb you? You were so frightfully upset over the discov ery that 1 wasn't making you a good wife that you overlooked complete ly the possibility that you might be making me a bad husband." He defended himself hotly. "I've never been unfaithful to you even In my mind." She laughed ruefully. "My dear man, you might have betrayed mo half a dozen times and it wouldn't have been half so fatal as constantly disapproving of me!" "You see?" he cried. "That's exact ly the sort of thing I'm talking about. You deliberately laugh at every thing 1 hold sacred. You'd laugh at anything on earth." "I've laughed most ot the time, Edwin, to keep from crying. And at least 1 haven't tried to change your opinions; I've let you cherish them In peace." "There's no need to be ashamed of them," be Insisted complacently. "At least, their morality Isn't ques tionable." She sighed. "It must be lovely to be so sura ot your own Infallibility. That's the spirit that makes mo think that uncompromising morality does more to foster vice than any thing else In the world." SHE broke off suddenly. It was as if she and Edwin were speaking different languages, and there was no Interpreter present. She realized with amazement that she disliked Edwin more than she had ever dis liked anyone In her life, and that sbe had always disliked him. She bad lived with blra a year and halt, and in that time tholr spirits had never even approached each other. And having made her dis covery ahe asked only to be done with the whole relationship. She pushed on. "Laying aside the question ot my views, in what other ways navo 1 failed?" "None," be admitted readily. "I've been a good bousokeeper, haven't I?" She know the respect he had for the domestic virtues. . "Yes," Edwin- said honestly, "you've been perfect." "And I've boen Interested In your affairs," she thought of hours ot the wholesale grocery business, "far more than you've ever been In mine." He could not deny that, but his silence Indicated plainly that there was very little In a woman's affairs that merited intorest. "And I've been affectionate, Ed win." She was determined that he should acknowledge her vlrtuea as well as her fallings; this time her conscience waa going to be clear. "There have boon times when I've put a great deal more Into caresses than you have. I've often kissed you lately when I've had the feeling that you would never have thought ot It." His silence was a tacit admission of that. With all his prejudices Ed win waa as honest as herself. "And as for the baby" hei voice broke on that, "you've novel known about the nights I've cried myself to sleep, becauso you were already asleop. I've tried to fill tin: vacuum, and you haven't realized that the reason I've worked so hard to fill It was because the vacuum was so unbearable!" She couldn't talk any more ot that If she was to get through this thing. .Sho stendied, summed It un tersely. "Then the reason I've failed lost your love is because I haven't been able to change my self?" "If you want to put It that way." "And you enn't, or won't, see thol my self Is Just as Important, Just hs vital, to me as yours Is to you? It's the one thing I'll never change, even to make you happy." "1 don't expect you to. I stopped expecting that a long time ago." She gathered her courage Into her hands. "Then, Edwin, we're going to get a divorce." "What!" He was speechless with amazement. "Yes." She almost smiled at his consternation. "I promised to stay as long aa you wanted me. 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