Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 74, 6 February 1920 — Page 5
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1920.
PAGE FIVE
She Married an Average Man
BY ZOE BECKI.TCY
me up. . anything but keep me close to you!' (To be continued)
The little house at Hammonds Corners looked sweet and hospitible as the late afternoon sun coppered the window panes. Yet there seemed
something unreal about it; I couiiin t tell what. I ran up the path, eager for a friendly word with the housekeeper before Jim got back from the works. To my surprise, the door stood open. I walked In, turned into the living room and saw Jim and a tall woman standing before the fireplace. Without knowing how 1 got the impression, I felt I had interupted a scene of sentiment if not emotion. Every woman knows that feeling. You have not seen their lips meet. You have not actually seen them draw apart. Yet somehow you know Every wife who has been unable to fill her husband's heart knows the sick, throttled sensation that first attacks the mind and then the body as she faces the first proof that some
other woman has succeeded where
she failed. I wanted to shrink and run from the room, out into the cold air, away, anywnere Tar, far off, into the sunset, into space. But I couldn't scream
or move. I stood there like a stone
woman. Suddenly Jim faced me.
"Why have you come here?" he said in a voice that I seemed never to have heard before. "Do you think you can play fast and loose with me like this? Well you can't. I tell you I am sick and tired of this blow-hot-blow-cold temperament of yours ." "Jim! Jim!" I could scarcely make myself heard. Probably Jim didn't hear, for he went right on : "You've been neglectful of your home. You've been a trifler. You have been unfaithful. You cannot come back to me." At this an electric current seemed turned on within me, galvanizing me to speech and action. I seized Jim's moulders, shaking him in my frenzy
as though he were a small boy caught lying to his mother. "That isn't true; it isn't true and you know it, you know it, you know it, Jim Salsbury! You've gone mad. You can't know what you're saying!" The tall woman who had been standing on the hearthrug had gone from the room. I heaard a noise outside the door. Voices in a confused murmer, growing louder, coming nearer. Jim remained silent. Presently there was a harsh knocking at the door. I turned my head -in fright. Was that awful woman returning with neighbors and people who would laugh and jeer at me and take Jim away ? "Jim oh, Jim Please listen, Jim!" I opened my eyes against something black and stifling Jim's coat. I tried to move, but his arms held me tight. I felt soft pats on my shoulder and strokes on my hair. And frmo far, far away came Jim's voice:
"My darling, darling girl, whatever happened to you that you should cry
out that way in your sleep? What
are you doing asleep at this hour any
how? It s only 7. Im just from
the Grand Central.
"Was that when your letter came,
Ann business trip to Albany. Got
back to the Corners at noon and
caugnt the tirst train down. Had a regular reception from the janitor and the elevator boy. Jimmied the door open as soft as I could to give you a surprise. And here you are
asleep on the couch, yelling for me or at me or to me like a Comanche
squaw! Nice reception, kid; eh,
what?"
"Oh, Jim Jim I had such a hor
rible dream!" I gasped, holding my husband's shoulder with a terrified grip "Never let me go again! Never let me have my way! Beat me, lock
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