Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 36

Thc Sccm uf MARGARET YORKE By Kathleen Norris Coprighe 195 b Nerdh Amercan Nemringer At b INSTALLMENT XXIIL & H, d.o let us get warm!™ Mar- said impatiently, after t.he silent, .. uncomfortable meal, when she and Stan went into living room, was like an ice box. “I feel as I had not been warm for years! I flll.%nll must be tired!” she said. St ey, in an agonf of sympathy Bnd concern, piled the logs on the fire the first heartening sap was nnd then a volley of snaps and us.lly the stupid aching and heayiness of Matgaret’s limbs relaxed, and some of the ice that was packed about her heart melted, too. “Tve been doing too much today, and | she con- | “I've been rushing about with | rday I was in town,” fessed. Jimmie, and then, when he napped or fested, Nora and I have been accom- | plishing marvels. With Hang gone, one sttempts too much.” “And you cried, dear?” Stanley per- g!ud, his own heart so full of pain of and the tragedy of it, that he could spare her. “Ah, my dear, my dear,” said Mar- guret, after a long look, and a lopger , when her blue eyes were on . “you know why 1 cried!” “Pell me,” he said, lremblln‘u *“I cried for the moon, con- Qessed. “It all came over me.’ she &dded, in a low tone and with a ges- dure that indicated her slender self, outstretehed in her chair, “it all came over me how young I am, how lon, the years will be and how I—how with tears again—*“that it can't be; it's m for me!l I'm forced to go away— be alone—to waste all these wonder- m ars of living and lovtng. it l;:l:l; to me,” sl wonderful you've been you've given me and ta sobbed brokenly for a moment, gathered her self-control desperately. “I didn't know you were coming down this evening,” she said, in a cas- ually conversational tone that steadied on every syllable. “No,” Stanley answered gravely, on ly. “I told you I ‘wouldn’t come. I didn’t mean to come. But—but I saw you in town yesterday into the Palace and I thought, everything considered, that this might be 8 good time for me to come down. I wasn't sure you were here again!” ‘This was anything but the truth; but anything to calm her, he thought, in actual terror of her tears. But he felt ashamed when she gave him a grateful look from the blue eyes behind those lel&h sopping lashes. “Whatever brought you,” she said, is most fortunate. Because Naora and I have been plal di tomeorrow. Y can do,” she added quickly, as Stanley looked up. “I must £ avay for a while, #t least, until things here are—settled.” “Until I am married,” Stanley sup- great all one’s life—but it has to be felt, doesn't it? My whole life, these last few days, is just you.” Her voice choked, and she was still » | said, feeling that with 8 | to go away, anyw: Stanley left his chair and knelt beside hers and laid one arm along the softly cusll:loned low back of it and smiled at_her. “You wonderful—you glorious wom- anl" he said slowly. “I love you so!” Margaret whispered, laying her face against his and linking her arms about his neck. “Then that's all the matter!” Stan- ley said. “No,” she corrected him, pushing a lock of the mouse-brown hair into place and resting against him, “there's some- thing else!” “You mean that I love you wlt.g fiber of my soul and body?” ley | s Bsked her. “You see, I must go away, Stan” .,.,h Margaret - presently spid, so marvel- LN ol T ley walked this room now,” Margaret coun! , “I hardly | wi see what you could say. You have told her that you would like to be out of it, haven't you?” “She "You b No t's lur re- Tue- e’."‘ ully pleu l uuontw w...-x-.,.., o w-"'m e ’*’_ “" lously heartened gnd strengthened by | ke the mere touch of his voice. “There is no h¥ out—for us. It's just one of the things that has to be forgotten—outgrown. And I can never do that here! 1 can here before this fire, tol t, steadily, with a glance door, “as 1 will night—or a week denly the whole figl worth while. Shirley's fact that my husband Jim’s rights to look toward for his code would all be so much You're the reality, dear, and it's hklnx every ounce of courage have to re- member that I may never belong to “‘Margaret, Margaret, can't we wait! Aren't we making the worst mistake of all ever to h2 parted in?" Stanley ny and shack he was being reborn into this world of love and pain and repunciation, “Perhaps we can, but I shall have she sald steadily. “And, Stan, any day without you is a year now, and what weeks and weeks and months, and perhu‘m years, will be, 't think!” finig i 4B duck we pis driok | ion l’. l Ill) anh . And the "'Ihr- 's alwas it et 3 ret sald. “But not now. what _purpose? We will have to wait now. It isn't as if I were afraid of yeu or you of me. It's all on the knees of the gods now,” Margaret said dreamily. “Margaret, you are me or I'm you, I don't know which!” Stan said. “I can't sign a letter in the office without a sort of feeling of you fluttering up in my face. I remember things you said and they choke me and make me get cold—TI'll remember just the twhf of your he: ind it sort of blinds me! W!th Shirley, and with every other girl I ever cared for, it's different. It's just one more thing in my life. But the minute T leave you the oniy thought I have is how to get back.” “Does it occur to you how wonderful d m:rl‘llle eould be?” Margaret presently “A young man and a yo\lng inte a new home amd door.” “Jim’s coming meant such misery to me,” ret said. “I tried to be strong_and happy and hopeful for my poor little baby's sake. But all the ings seemed broken. I couldn't be "hfi'ux was to hegus zh.lgl—m that nutL e eame, Stan, e what 8 he 1s? “But it makes me think,” she went on, her eyes on the fire and her cheek still resting quietly against his own— “it makes me think what it would be sl’m:rhy '111 ¢h:n¢' her | wise: arms that she | th could speak in quite her usual quiet | g , it seems—has lor same time!” m bdl-u he'll die,” Mar. "Ml‘mmt Ozfllg‘“ ll’l’l! be bns y 'I' you xum nt lur lo lly , Stan, 's I{J lesa" ehl.m, “unless W brave enough to throw aside K: retty rules and regulations and say that is the great thing. I love you so that there is nothing else in life. Your happiness will always come with me before my own!” “What a lover you are!” the girl murmured, smiling. And then, with a quick butterfly kiss against his bronzed, hard cheek, she was out of his arms, out of her chair and had crossed to his own chair, in which she “8it there in my chair, he said. “Please, or I y!” she added fraid of ‘h:ld'elml ont fl'mld of afrald g you, 'm not afra Tife. It's myself I fear. l love you too much !.'vety time n‘ were I 1 should agonies. “fnhnul feel Lhnt other women, r and stronger women, who hld played fair by their vows, were winnin you away from me. I should feel tha all your heritage of decency and strength of character, and—yes, rity—were pullmg against me. ave no position—a woman who ran away with a man after divorcing an- other—" “You'd be married to me!” Stanley mum? “Well, I might be legally. 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