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"ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE"
By Rosemary Beryl
(SYNOPSIS)
Mary ldaatcott, supremely Happy,
about to be married to Richard
Terrill, is warned by her mend,
Lydia Marks, that there are two
dagger periods in marriage, the
second year and the seventh,
She =melee Dick and in her bap
piness laughs at 14ydia'e warning
saying "Dick is different; '
Five years later on return from
a weekend business trip to parts
Dick tells be he "is ted up with
life as he has found it:'
He does not wish to leave her and
their ;email son but lie must have
his freedom. He is Interested in
ane!.her woman Liana du Marne.
Mary decides that if he feels as
he dee the break must be complete.
Dick -ban saki some unforgivable
Mugs, and besides, he had wanted
Otis freedom. She tried to laugh,
lith the laugh caught en her throat.
"Do you rememb0r tbat island,
Dick? Well„ it has' come p to the
nattrtace an Ibas changed everything
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You wanted your freedom last nl
you have been wanting it tor lois
enough past, and now I ant giving
to you. '-`hare Isn't any tie b
tweese as now, tone at all,
"No tie I"
The words eame from him thick?
He .had net meant to break wit
her like 'this, only to assert
right to Dive his own life, Strange
,how there was a certain agony in
the wide open treedom sue was et.
tering him.
"We are married," he said, "til
death us do part"
"That le it," she returned wearily
"The death has come, the death
love, of your love for ma. and o
my love for you."
For a moment, he stared dumb-
founded and a little shaken, only he
wouldn't admit it. He had seen
Mary in many guises, -Mary wear
ing a big apron making apple
dumplingse--Marg preparing the
Sunday dinner, he helping, all the
homelike visions of .a wife which
Only a husband can see --but he had
never seen her like :his before.
She seemed a young goddess giving
cool judgment.
Then he laughed shortly.
He had wanted his freedom and
she was offering it to him, more,
announcing it way his, so why not
take it?
Yet be paused irresolute. Chains
could be silken threads, they were
silken threads, for they were break-
ing,
"If I go we'll still be marled; It
can't atter theft"
For a year," she said.
"A year? What do you mean,
for a year? Are you thinking I'll
return at the end of that time, beg.
ging and praying you will take me
back?
He was wanting to hurt her, un-
reasonably, savagely, because she
was finding it es, easy to give him
his freedom!
"You'll come back to dismiss -our
divorce."
nig
door, his eyes dark and bitter,
g "You can have your divorce," be
it seed. "And to sooner •than a year,
e- it you wish!"
Then he went away,
* * >. *
y Dick had gone, passdng out of her
h life for ever,
s It was incredible, yet last nlgbt
bad brought the -end to their mer-
rlage,
She supposed her heart had be-
come dead within her, yet it meta -
1 n't be, for a choking cry came to
her lips, and very swiftly she flew
upstairs.
of The last time he had gone, before
Y this awful thing had hapAened she
has not looked after hdim through
the -window to keep him in view 1111
he vanished round the bend, but she
would this time!
This time was the last time of
ali!
Her heart was dead, but her eyes
ailed with scant, awful, helpless
tears that blurred the vision. She
blinked fiercely, because she waneen
to see the last ct him,
She did not know it, but a sob
came, her fats pressed to the glass'
as she saw bin: head up --should-
ers square striding up the road to
freedom -to Ll:'ne du Marvel
"Dicke" She was, no goddess
,now, she was 311 woman, orckea
and bruised end piteous, "013,
Dick!"
She did not see heat when be was
round the ben'-, she did nos see the
shoulders' suddenly sag, and the
striding steps slow up, add she
could not hear the agonised breath
which lett his lips.
He had forgotten Dicky!
And he hadn't even said "good.
bye" to his' child.
There was no going back The
chains, lauding him to the pass life
had been broken and he was adrift,
He went forward, leaving wife
and child behind!
My God!" It broke from him
bitterly. "And I thought you loved
me!"
He had not meant to leave her
literally; he had meant to stand by
011 his moral obligations, keeping up
the outward form of marriage with-
out being its bond -slave, and now
abe had dismissed him?
He strode, pati her, seiz-'I hit
coat and hat, teen paused to look
at leer when he reached the front
i.
CHAPTER IV.
The One link,
To the people of Tremorne tbe
lady in the artist's cottage was still
a stranger after months. of res.dence
amongst them,
In any village it takes genera-
tions of forbears living and dying
there before (me can ,be sale to be
aught elsewhere but a stranger, and
Treanorne, the Cornish village by
Eagle's View of Rio for Cruise Members
the sane was no eecejptlen,
Mary Terrill was 4 stranger In
their insist;
Not Morally in their melee, for
the cottage a'•id occupied uestleo
solitarily In ,t picturesque spot a
telly quarter of a mile 1 iiiid trans
the sea, not• iabe s' attili,to
mix in their villiilage evelite beyondpt al'
tending eharoli on Sundays.
They khew rothing about her,
those Coruish vilegers, hut they
could guess Many things, most of
them right,
Yet they were wrong in their hest
guess that she was a widow wbo
had come there to heat her heart.
break atter the death of the man
she had married,
They had guested that, not merely
* ,n *
because she was the young mother
of a bonny bp yof four or five, and
not merely because in the early
days of ber coming her fare showed
Miens of tragic woe, Thera was
other evidence 1'eeide that,
Tbere was the occasion when the
kindly vicar hal preaceed a sermon
In which he heel laboured the point
that the death cf the things of the
spirit was more important then the
death of the body, and they had seen
the words had brought the bars to
her eyes•,
They were right in guessing she
had come there from up London
way and that she was no artist.
that last becalm: she regularly seat,
through the village postoffice large,
fiat, off packages; always address-
ed to London enaga,,nes, And,
besides, wasn't she living in the
artist's cottage?
They guessed, too, that John 'ere -
vase was "fair gone on her " And
they were not far out there, either.
He was.
John Trevass was a stranger in
Tremorne else, :for all he had been
the owner of that cottage for ten
years' or more,
He was an artist in London and
bad bought the cottage' for a mere
song, originally, because of its Pic-
turesque !character, its remoteness
from the world and as a place of
retreat whenever he chose to use it,
His choice. anwever, till the cone.
leg of Mary Terrill and ber boy, had
been limited to the best months in
summer, and now, with only the
village inn tor his accommodation,
be literally haunted the place.
Anyone could see the change that
bad come over Mary of late the
look of almost contentment in her
blue eyes, the smile that could res;
about her Pipe when John Trevass
was near.
The people of Tremorne worked
It out for themselves. If Mrs.
Terrill's husband died just before
she came there, and she was wait-
ing for a full year to 'pass, it would-
n't be much longer waiting now, and
Mr. Trevaes would make a good
husband for any woman. He was
older than Ilei, perhaps tea years',
butforty, that was all to the good, and a
man is, steadier when he is nearer
Nobody knew her real stele but
nobody guessed anything evil of
her; she obviously was not that
sort.
Mary was 001 a tvklow, bur she
was waiting for that year t.: pees
She had said a year to Dick, and
it was coming to its end now.
Nor bad she come there cons-
ciously to bent her heartbreak.
There had not seemed any heal-
ing possible at the time, and she
had come to Cornwall out of a des -
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the Empress of Australia, the
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perste, natural longing to start life
afresh in new seeroundinge at far
away as possible from past ass•oeia.
110133.
The utmost she bat tepee to
'achieve was not even forgetting,
but that her memory might grow to
hurt 10ss,
Time could1e't• heal her pain, .11
neves could, but it could dull the
sharpness of the ache, and that was
mgab,
Ten mon•tlis had gone slice that
morning when she had watched
Dick go striding up the road to-
wards the bend. Age long months
in a way, during which the had
been striving ;o create a ne'w world
for herself -only she bad belonged
so mueti to the least,
Wlfthin an hour of Dick's' departure
Lydia bad come to her,,paying a
surpnise call with some good news'
about a commission she bad re-
ceived.
Lydda bad walked straight into
the room where she was., and the
next moment f.'hc had demanded -
"What le the matter, Mare Why
those tears?"
Mary had tried to laugh, only dt
was a pitiful lletle effort,
" ?It's it's -nothing much," she
had said. Except -,that you were
right about Dick; and-aed-there
is another woman!"
.She ,had managed to gasp it out,
piteously thinking to show a defi-
ance she could net feel, and then
she was sobbing uncontrollably in
Lydia's arm..
"I twuld rather cue," Ma -y had
said passionately, "than stay on
here. I am gc:rg away, I must go
away, and etas: srmewhere fresh."
.32 though a t,. w country could
blot out the ilii!
But it gave Lydia her chaace.
"You can leo Dot -boiler,'," site I
said, "And thank providence for
that, John Trevass has a cottage
he rarely uses in Cornwall and he
will let it to see if I ask him, Peek
u:p, Mary, and I will come along
with you for the first mouth, I
have a commsision that will keep
me solidly busy for thand I
and longing 10 get out of I,,ofdon,
Deceive yotu•sa'l diet it is e halt.
day, 1t you like• and that. It will do
Dicky good."
Mary drew in a deep, gee/0ring
breoawti,.
"I think I woaid like to" eho line
said, "If rat think lar, Trevass
will agree. I want to work bard-
trig'htdully hard.'
'10 Lydia, Mary wanting to work
was. a good sigrt, It showed spirit
under the break of things.
"Jahn Trovasu wtti agroa." she
bad said, "Ile is the one Man in
the world I call a dear. Ho will
never• be a sueeese in this world
because he ip too utterly geou, I
think you wilt get to like bite:"
John Trevass had agreed, putting
it as 11 he ;were really indebted to
Mary for taking the cottage off his
hands while It was standing unten-
anted.
And so Mary bad come to Tre-
mo rne,
Dick had never approached her
during that empty gap following his
going away, nor 'had she expected
him lb do se. He had his freedom
from his irksome marriage, and had
gone to Liane do Marve. Mary
was quite usre about that.
There was ore task the had to
perform before leaving and she did
it dry-eyed. She posted the keys
Of the house to Dick at his Lusinoss
address.
It was strange how that single
act seemed thoroughly to burn her
boat& behind hoe. A small t tying
like that can establish completest
severance as i1. a eel d, tangible
form.
Ten months' and Dirk's pelting
words were that she could have ear
divorce in less than a year if she
wanted it.
But she was. not thinking of re-
marriage, the villagers were wrong
in that,
Lf there was one thought which
never entered her bead in connec-
tion with the future it wee the
thought the s'he night be free to
marry again.
Alone in Tremorne John Trevass
new her store, at least, as much of
t as was needed to explain and he
knew she was not free -yet!
A good mao, John Trevass', :all
and not too maid -looking, and with
grey eyes which could twinkle with
laughter.
Mary loved him, but hers was net
eSNAPS{IOT CtJJL
Make a Christmas Picture•Book
Let pictures tell the story. Bedtime on Christmas Eve is as Impor-
tant to the story as discoveries at the tree next morning. Amateur flood
or flash lamps and supersensitive film put the pictures on a snapshot basis.
PLANNING our Christmas pictures
is very much like planning our
Christmas shopping, Far in advance
eve resolve to do it eerly. bey after
day we resolve to do it early. And
then all of a sudden the time is up,
we can't do 3t early -and we don't
do it well.
So, here's sound advice. Do it
now! Get yourself pencil and paper
and work out a Christmas scenario,
a series of pictures that will telt the
whole Chrk'tmas story and give
ntatnrlal for the pictorial Christmas
book you have always wanted to
matte.
Then, first thing tomorrow, lay en
a proper supply of supersensitive
film and amateur fined or flash
bulbs, so they will be ready to hand
when Christmas comes.
L,un't skimp in planning your Pic -
tura series, Remember, it's an occa-
sion that comes only once in a year
and even if the children are still
&ming, they are growing up rapidly
as far rte Christmas is concerned.
You will tvant at least one picture
-perhaps several ---of decorating
the Christmas tree. If you use a
Belt -timer, the whole , family can
appear in ons picture, Another
"must" will deal with hanging tip
the Christmas stockings. Other Pic
-
tercel can be related to these -for
example, the children peeping up
the chlmney to snake sure it to big
enough for Santa's entrance, A flood
bulb, tucked away in a corner of the las John van Guilder,
fireplace, will give a proper firelight
effect.
Then, there should be a pajama
picture with the parents admonish-
ing the children to go to bed and be
good and stay there. Ther0 should
be a picture of the children esleep
-they seldom aro on Christmas Eve
but they can at least close their eyes
and pretend,
Next morning, a picture of them
peeping down elle stairway. Joyous
snaps as the mew toys are discov-
ered. A snap of father trying to put
Junior's new train together ---or of
Junior struggling for a chance In
play with it himself. Snaps of the
Christmas dinner, the afternoon
nap, the new sled getting a tryout , ,.
There is material here for a whole
album, a book too. the years.
Watch your exposures, for these
are pictures you do not want 1.0 111555,
Inexpensive reflectors help increase
and control the iigbt. With a box
camera at its largest lens opening,
you can take snapshots using super-
sensitive filen and two big No. II
flood bulbs incardboard reflectors,
three and four feet from the subject.
For the, Christmas tree, which ie
dark use three bulbs, or more if it
is a large tree and the lights have
to be farther back from it. And
where possible, try to arrange a bal-
anced lighting, without harsh black
shallows, for these especially Injure
a child picture.
'tllie love a woMan gives to l,e! own
man tie ha4 given lisat to Dick,.
Tile wa0 elle sreetde of Built tar'
a very tine irleedellip.
To months, etas those fri„nent
ytriltt5 of John Tieva,e, had brought
tbat look of e•imoet contentinotit to
her eyes, and St was more oas'y to,
senile when Ito was near. He had-
suGlt a fine philosophy in h63 out.
look on 11fe,
The mile was in her eyes this'
morning with the wintry sun out-
sideto snake the taudscanpe look
lovely. The spite was there be.
cause John ¶Tevass' was coming:
down again this evening,
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