Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 53, Decatur, Adams County, 3 March 1927 — Page 5

The Understanding Heart B y PETER ». KYNE ••You love her still?” But 1 dont l,i,te I<r ' , * nd *‘ l ' her People <lO the things they re ’“h .uou«b to do-and it they’re 1 hiHtbeir fault The buck is „ the Almighty in her case! think I' iH l ‘P t 0 Hl,n 1,1 y<,Ur For a decent gentleman you J“ve eer'ainly had a scoundrel’s brand rU Mason'i>ed a cryptic little smile, in the eyes of my friends. ...nser-aml the public doesn t matr The public doesn't know me ami ‘„ er did; when it heard about me it " A mildlv interested for a few mtpand has since forgotten me Even penitentiary is bearable if <>ne s "end, remain affectionate ami loyal. -Monica didn't forget you. I m .uro,’* ■She has always written to me once , week and has sent me books and magazines.” "How much better off you would have been if you had married her.” •And how much worse off you would be now it I had.” -My dear man, you jump to hasty conclusions — •■ls 1 do I land squarely on them. I have eyes. 1 am not a fool. Anthony Garland sat down on the bed beside the sick man. "You lovo Monica Dale.” he charged. Manson nodded. "And. strangely cnought. I never realized it until the gates of San Quentin had closed upon me. My poor wife was wiser than I—she knew me better than 1 knew myself. So did Monica, although after I married Keleey, in a moment of infatuation. I saw very little of Monica. She wasn't welcome at Honey Valley." He sighed and closed bis eyes. "Oh. Lord, what a pitful mix-up! Monica and I have always been such friends. She was never the clingingvine type. She has a lot of pride, scorns sympathy—” "No. she doesn't. No woman ever does.- You were content with a line friendship, waiting perhaps, until your economic situation would be more secure -and the golden moment passed. In contrasting her with Kelcey you realized you had traded pure gold for brass.” "Well, at any rate, 1 missed my chance, if I ever had one, which 1 doubt. Monica doesn't want to marry a mountain man. She wants to escape —to see life—to know all about the other side of the picture. 1 knew that. Perhaps if I had not —if I hadn’t known that this was my country and that here I would live and die, 1 might have dared to dream ... I didn’t pare to appear selfish. Everybody is entiled to have his or her desires fulfilled. . . . Well, the girl loves you, Garland. You’re the man from outside. She's fine ami loyal and wonderful. Be tender and kind to her, friend." Garland nodded silently. “1 had no business to let her know. I'm just a poor devil of a ranger, making sufficient money for my simple needs," he murmured. "I do not thrive in cities and I haven't a dollar in the world to auuthci slait i.i law. No, iL wasn't kind of me to wear my heart on my sleeve and let her see it.” Don't be a tool,'' Mason warned him sharply. "Monica isn't mereeuary. She'll follow where her heart leads and let what wall come, come. Don’t give her up. You’re a decent man, or I'm no judge of men —and I think I am. 1 want a decent man for Monica. That girl was born to be happy, to bear strong, fine children and enrich the world. I know! "After, one has been herded for two years with the sweepings of humanity, he begins to realize why they arc sweepings. They haven’t been bred right. Monica comes of pioneer stock, the hardy and adventurous, the idealists, the‘builders. It was the men and women close to the soil who settled California, and of them it has been said that the cowards never started and the weaklings diet! on the way. We hill-folk are of nature’s selective breeding. We havent known ease; we have not wilted like hothouse flowers', we've been healthy and, living as we do, close to tho soil. w e think healthy thoughts. know now’ that I should not have married Keleey Harrington. She conies from a long line of decayed Kcntlenien; they've run to seed; their He will die with her generation, ature takes toll of the weak and iienicient. Garland, but she heaps her Bins on the strong, the clean, and e braye—and money doesn’t enter 11110 her calculations.” CHAPTER 39. Garland had listened with alert iner ‘‘st to this unexpected exposition of ’ rd ' B Philosophy; in the prese of this man who dwelt in Gethw,wsne h 2 felt little - futile, and unity-, Bob Mason resumed. be cMHsed. Don't thin? '... J l . lnuilc y —about your ability to ? our s P ecie s by marrying a h . . 11 t° heep her in idleness, to deny lifo s t uffi ‘ : * ent interest in life to make your "wo 1 the livin K- Don't make c ' mark time on the road to "T.U f u r f you do Khe 'ii hate you. and r.i R , Wo, ” i “ 1 of your choice era ui? 6 *> Vr a mate, not a modbain, 'r >. Mon *ea Dale will make the I know“ s *. e Wi,h you ' ' ' • °h. yes. shc u,,-"' 3 restless, that she thinks never u? a taSte o£ a life she has . . now i'- Marry her, man, and behind PUt hor tutlle aspirations think al r ; Glve her chUdre » to X tl^? t-giVe her t 0 pertorm 8 V, 8 never Performed. the i.mi ° llcly and afraid of life, 11 suunnL We s- e known ' Oh. well, 1 i , B > ? 1 kll ° w your owu business, J Pfbaehltyj. Forgive m for

my egotism; talking helps me forget. I'm mighty uncomfortable. You've been very kind to mo. Garland; I owe you a debt. I shall always be glad 1 can never repay. You’re a human beIng. not a human anitnal.'* "And Is that why you wanted me to marry Monica. Bob?" Mason nodded. "Are you going to do it?" j "Perhaps. 1 hope so.” , "Cease dealing with yesterday and today. Think only of tomorrow. Make up your mind that you are.” "But Monica has something to say about that." “You're wrong. She has nothing to say. No woman has the hardihood to withstand a clean, decent gentleman | who will not be denied. Don't be civ- | llized, 1 tell you. Take your woman! , Find the mother for your children and , then take her. You're the leader of | this projected partnership; you re the ; one to make decisions. Whoever permits the woman to decide Is a weak'ing. and I've noticed he is usually j treated as one by women! "The women who are striving for sex equality, who think they are , equipped to lead, the lawyer women, the female politicians, the champions , of their sex, the defenders of the new ' faith for women, are flunking women’s most glorious function. They aren't marrying and having fine, ! healthy, wonderful babies! They are 1 the unsexed members of their sex. ' They make the world neuter.” “I love Monica Dale," Mason went 1 on softly, "hut never would, it be pos- ' sible for me to give her the quality of love I gave to Keleey Harrington. If I could be free again and my honor clean and untarnished, I would ask ' no greater blessing of God than to dwell with Monica Dale the remainder of my days. “I couldn't feel for her the wild thrill of a passionate love. That sort ; of thing burns itself out, and when 1 only the embers are left one's heart breaks with disillusionment. It is love without affection. I want deep, abiding affection, a tine tolerance; 1 want honesty and loyalty and comradeship and understanding. That is true love, the love that endures. Oh, Lord! To be tied to a lonely, disillusioned woman, beating her poor wings against the cage that men call home.” "And yet." Garland reminded him. “if you had never known that one wild thrill that Keleey Harrington aroused in your man's soul, you would have missed it all of your days." “Yes—once to every man, I dare say. If I have known the extreme of misery 1 have also known the extreme of happiness. I can never forget that. I do not want to, and that's why I prefer to go on as I am rather than wreck and ruin the author of that brief happiness. For she was happy with me once.” Garland was mystified. "I don't see how you and .Monica came to miss each other so widely when your paths crossed so frequently. Bob, you weren’t always as smart as you are now." "We live and learn,” said Bob Mason, "and most of us live a long time and learn slowly. 1 think I 11 try to sleep. Go out into the living-room and keep Monica company. She's heavy-hearted over something and it isn't Uncle Charley. It isn't natural • for youth to grieve when old age departs. Something is troubling her; presently I think she'll tell you what it is.” Anthony Garland was not destined, “however, to oe tnd iVcipicnt vs Monica’s confidence that night Like most great souls she scorned to parade her troubles; she preferred silence now. as Garland instantly divined when he attempted to engage her in conversation, in the hope of diverting her mind from its gloomy chan-' ne’s. I So he repaired to her kitchen and with the neatness and dispatch of his i training, set about' the preparation of the evening meal. While peeling potatoes a task sin-, gularly conducive to thought—it oc- ■ curred to him that he was in for an unpleasant half-hour with Chief Ranget Casey. He would be on the carpet | on two counts. He had abandoned his

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position as leader of the fire fighters in his sector, and by the time the sheriff should arrive with the nurse and relieve him of the responsibility of first assistant to Monica Dale he would have two and a halt days of inexplicable absence from duty to explain to his superior. Casey would want to know why he had not put in his time reestablishing telephonic communication with the Ranger Headquarters and making arrangements for the rebuilding of the Tantrum Meadows station. "Os course,” he decided, "I can tell Casey I came up here to aid Monica Dale, found Uncle Charley helpless on her hands and in c ommon decency had to help her out. But that confounded busybody of a wife of his will chock up on the elapsed time and suggest questions for her husband to ask me; and when it is discovered-as it is bound to be-that Monica had Bob Mason here, that I knew it and helped her to care for hint' without reporting his presence to Casey, I imagine I'll be out of a job. I understand Casey is a martinet for discipline Well, what is to be will be.” He glanced out into the living-room at the girl, slowly rocking the baby ’ to sleep after having fed it. It oc- i curred to hjm that her days with the i Forest Service were numl>ered. should it be discovered that she had harbored Bob Mason. It seemed scarcely 1 possible that the secret could be kept, and Garland wondered what would become of her when the blow fell. 1 To whom could she turn? Certainly 1 not to him. Even if she should lie willing to marry him, he lacked the courage to ask her to share the mean poverty that would be her lot as his ' wife. He was iu debt; his salary was 1 just sufficient to enable him to live with the strictest economy and save 1 something toward the payment of his debts, and he had long sinue calculated that it would be two years before this grind should end. "I dare say she hasn't enough funds to last her six months," he soliloquized. "She has the only position in this country she is qualified to hold, and if she loses that she will be helpless. In a city she could not survive save as a domestic servant. And she isn't the servant class. She has blood back of her. In the training-school for nurses she would probably find a refuge; she doesn't know anything of book-keeping or stenography, I’m sure, so she could not earn her living iu an office. No. I canont ask her to marry me. She wants escape from the San Dimas —and marriage with me would only be another shackle holding her in an environment which has grown repugnant to her. How terrible life is! How sad is the lot of some who deserve nothing but the happiness lite should offer.” CHAPTER 40. In bis sympathy for Monica, Gar--1 land forgot that his own life had been one long disapointmeut, due to poverty and ill-health, although, to de him full justice he was not given to To-day’s Big Offer If You Have Stomach Distress Head What Holthouse Drug Co., Has to Say About Dare’s Mentha Pepsin When you have any trouble with your digestion such as gas, heaviness and distention, why fool with things which at best can give only partial relief? Why not get a medicine that Jis made to strengthen and restore i your upset, disordered stomach so | that it will do its work without artificial help. Such a mediaine is Dare’s Mentha ! Pepsin, a delightful elixir that is sold I oy the Holthouse Drug Co., and all live druggist's with the distinct undI erstauding that if it doesn't greatly 1 help you your money will be gladly ( returned. I It has helped thousands—it will no doubt help you.

thinking over much of that. He was not a man who felt sorry for himself, and since his health had been restored he had felt a return of all the old ambitions; with them had come the feeling that the world was his oyster, and In due time be would | open it! He felt that abounding sense of! independence, strength, and resource-1 fulness which is ever the heritage of! health and optimism at least he had felt it until tonight, when, as h- gazed, on Monica Dale, a realization of his I inability to help her imbued him with a sense of desolaton, of desperation, of futility. Brief as was their acquaintance. Garland had had aroused iu him, at the inception of that acquaintance, the strong protective instinct is as positive a characteristic in the male as is the mother instinct in the female; and when that protective in lltinct has once been moused it is the forerunner of love —a love that will not readily die. He sighed ami shook his head. Oh Lord,!’ he murmured, "get on the job!” Intuitively he felt that eyes were Upon him. He turned his head and saw Monica standing in the doorway gazing iu at him. A little’ half-smile was on her lovely lips, and in her brown eyes there glowed a lambent flame that set his pulse pounding ■ wildly. "Yes. it is a difficult position." she assured him. "You're worrying over me, are you not?" He nodded bravely. “I think that's so wonderful, Tony. You're the first human being who has ■ ever forgotten his own interests long enough to worry over mine. Even my fathei and Uncle Chai ley never worried about me. In fact, they never worried about anything except dinner, when it was late. They always took me and my ability to care for myself for granted.” “My heart aches for you. Monica.”| Garland said it very simply, a declaration of fact rather than a pas-, sionate protestation. "I wish I could help you. but I can't. I'm hobbled." (TO BE t’ONTIM EIO Copyright 192« Peter B. Kyne by arrangement with King Features Syndicate, Inc Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

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