'
SYNOPSIS.
Deserted by her husband, Stephen
Dallas, because of her frivolity and flirta
tions, Stella Dallas, with her daughter.
lAurel, 18, lives In the “cheapest room"
of a fashionable hotel In Milhamptoia,
Mass. Laurel goes on a visit to her father
In New York and he leaves her at the
home of Mrs. Morrison, a friend, while he
is away on a trip to Chicago. After see
ing her daughter aboard the train In
Boston Stella goes to a cafe, where she
meets an old admirer, Alfred Mann, with
whom she attends a musical farce, and
she continues receiving his attentions
while Laurel is away. This causes gossip
In consequence of which she Is ostracised
by acquaintances and notified to vacate
her apartment. On the day before Laurel's
return Stella receives a letter from a law
yer Informing her that Stephen wants a
divorce, and when she refuses at an
Interview arranged by him to bring ac
tion on the ground of desertion he tells
her that in that ease her husband will
sue and bring more serious charges, u*
she had been seen with Munn In a room
ing house at Belchers Beach, where she
had staked during Laurel's absence. She
Indignantly denies wrong doing and de
clares she will fight.
(Continued from Yesterday.)
When Helen told Cornelius Morri
son that ahe would marry him, she
felt that Stephen was as definitely
lost to her as her father. When the
doctor had come to her just after her
father had died and said, "It Is all
over,” his words were no ^pore final
than Stephen's letter, which Helen re
ceived a long three weeks after she
had called at the Dallas house. The
letter was In answer to her note of
consolation. For Helen had written to
Stephen an outburst of sympathy at
the first possible moment.
He thanked her for her note in a
formal punctilious manner which she
scarcely recognized. He thanked her
for the card she had sent over to the
house at the time of the funeral. He
appreciated her kindness in offering
to see him. but it was difficult for him
to talk to his friends. He had left
Rcddlngton forever, lie never wanted
to see Reddington again. He was
going away—very'far away, to Aus
tralia, possibly, where he was un
known. He was thankful that Helen's
and his friendship was still in its In
fancy. He was thankful he had
formed no business alliances. He was
thankful that his father's act cast
no shadow of shame on any one out
side his own immediate household.
Helen read Stephen’s letter until
every word of It was graven on her
heart. Then she put It away and faced
the world without him. There was
no recalling him. One cannot recall
that which one has never had. One
cannot pursue that which does not
exist. Stephen was aware of no
special bond, of no insolubility. That
which to lief had been one of those
rare, relationships that occur once in
a long, long while in various groups
and communities, had been to him hut
a "friendship in its infancy.” He
classed it with a dozen others. She
was just a girl he had fancied for a
season, '
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There was only one small light to
relieve the darkness of Helen’s soli
tude that winter. She had always
Joved children. One of her aunts had
a little girl—a baby barely 3, who
took a fancy to Helen. The baby
would clamber up Into her arms, and
cuddle down contented like a kitten
In the sun. When Helen told
(lomelius Morrison that she would
marry him. It was with the distinct
Image of a little girl of her own,
clambering up Into her arma and
cuddling down contented.
When he asked her when she would
like to be' married (he waited a whole
week before he broached the question:
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Helen, would he seem to hasten her),
she replied, “I would like to be mar
ried soon, within a few weeks." '
Her voice did not waver. The pallor
of her cheeks was as steady as that of
a petal of a white rose. It was
Cornelius Morrison who was trembl
ing. He could scarcely trust himself
to speak. A few weeks! Did she
know what marriage meant? He
didn’t think so. Well, he would never
teach her. It would be more than
he had ever hoped for, just to have
her to be kind to, to take care of for
a little while.
"I'll do my very best to make you
happy, Helen,” he said quietly.
There was something in his voice
that struck through the wall of
Helen’s personal suffering behind
which she had shut herself for so
long. She leaned toward him. She
grasped one of his hands with both
of hers.
“I'll do my best to make you happy,
too,” she said fervently.
Neither of them ever forgot their
promise.
CHAPTER XV.
I
Although Cornelius Morrison was
always aw„re he was not the perfect
mate for Helen, and Helen observed
her marriage with wlde-open'and see
ing eyes, they both did much to enrich
and beautify the life of the other. All
happy marriages are not "made in
heaven," Helen discovered. Some are
the result of wise human effort, and
long steady adaptation.
Cornelius Morrison was 30 years
older than Helen. He was never free
from the fear that some day a young
er man, a more appropriate comrade
for his wife, might supplant him In
her affections. If a younger man
devoted an evening to Helen, if she
seemed to respond to his attentions
with interest and vivacity, a deep
melancholy would take possession of
Cornelius Morrison — unreasonable,
perhaps, but uncontrollable and ter
ribly painful.
Helen needed no explanations. With
her intuition she saw as clearly as
through a miscroscope into the reason
for her husband's occasional waves of
depression. Not for anything in the
world would she hurt him. She
might not love him In the romantic
way that she had loved Stephen. She
knew that she didn't; but there was
something fine and untarnished to be
preserved about their relations, be
side which passing and personal pleas
ures were trivial and unimportant.
She became as careful to spare her
husband the secret ignominy of
jealousy as to guard her children front
groundless fears and premonitions. In
spite of Iter youth. In spite of her
natural impulses, she avoided nil
intimacies that might even indefinitely
disturb Cornelius.
With gentle consideration, too, she
abandoned all forms of pleasure that
emphasized the difference in their
ages and placed him at a disadvant
age. Cornelius spoke no word of com
plaint on the several occasions when
she danced half the night away on
a ballroom floor while he waited for
her in a smoky anteroom, but quiet
ly, without comment, Helen gave up
dancing after a little while. Cornelius
liked to give dinners. Helen learned to
like to give them. Cornelius lilted to
go to the opera. Helen learned to
like to go to the opera. Cornelius
liked to ride horseback. Helen learned
to like to ride horseback. It was when
Helen was riding horseback in Central
park one morning alone that she met
Stephen Dallas.
2
When Stephen had said. Do you
remember me?” Helen had replied
with a little puzzled look, as she
wasn't quite sure. "You're Stephen
Dallas, aren't you?”
"You know I'm Stephen Dallas.”
he exclaimed in the old sure way with
her he used to have.
There was joy in his eyes. Thero
was gladness In his voice. He had
the queer sensation that the Inter
vening years since last he saw this
girl were a bad dream, and he had
just waked up, as keenly responsive
to her as the day he lost conscious
ness.
He leaned over and they shook
hands. The sort of ecstasy swept over
Stephen that any victim of a night
mare feels when he returns to the
realm of realities and hts physical
contacts register properly.
They exchanged a commonplace or
two—-Helen sweetly, but coolly. Steph
en with an Impetuosity he didn’t try
to conceal.
"I saw you, half a mile back,” he
confessed. "You passed me. I didn’t
think at first It could be really you.
Chance Isn't usually so kind to me.
By the time I had decided It couldn't
possibly be anybody else, you had gone
too far ahead for me to overtake you
with proper park decorum. So I've
been contriving ever since how I
might head you off. Again chance
has favored me. You might have
made half a dozen wrong turns. Or,
perhaps it wasn't chance at all. Per
haps It was mental telepathy."
To this boyish outhurst of Steph
en’s. lleli n replied, still sweetly, still
coolly (long practice had made her
skillful), "I'm delighted we met, but
I let my horse choose the turns this
morning. I usually ride with my
husband and we always come this
way."
“Oh, I know you're married, Helen.”
laughed Stephen boldly, as much as to
say, “I suppose you think I ought to
be told, I seem so glad to see you.v
Helen was not to be perturbed by
boldness. She was not a young girl
to betray a pounding heart which she
had reason to wish to conceal.
Politely, calmly, she Inquired, "Are
you living in New York now?”
He nodded, smiling. (What a beauti
ful woman she had become!)
"If two rooms In bachelor's apart
ments is living, yes, I am," he said.
"Have you been here long?”
"Three years.”
"Three years? Really!” She raised
her lovely brows.
"Oh, people may say the world's
a small place, Helen,” Stephen ex
claimed. "But New York Isn’t. I’ve
been trying for threo years to run
across your path, and I haven't suc
ceeded until today!” He simply
couldn't resist being personal with
her at c/cry turn.
. Hel n replied prosaically, "Well,
I’m glad we've met at last. It’s al
ways a pleasure to see any one from
Reddlngton.”
She was almost convincing. Ste
phen looked at her sharply. Was It
pretense, or was she actually una
ware of any special significance ,1n
this meeting? "Don't you remember
the talks wo used to have, Helen?”
he asked.
"Why, of course," she answered
him, but she managed to sound more
tactful than honest.
Stephen looked Into her well-re
membered eyes. "I’ve never forgot
ten them,” he told her quietly.
Helen would not give him the
slightest sign of response.
"I suppose,” she went on severely,
'Tlk« most young people of our time
wo tried to settle all the weighty
questions of the day, didn’t we?"
Stephen felt a pang of disappoint
ment. The years since last ho saw
Helen had not been a dream. They
were real—every one of them was
real, and Helen was as far removed
ns beyond recall as his youth. Thero
she sat opposite him, graceful, lovely,
beautifully poised upon her hurso
(beautifully isilsed In speech and mnn
ner, too), iih Impervious to him as
a picture. She looked at him kindly,
grurlously, but disinterestedly as If
he were a part of the landscape. He
turned away from her tranquil face.
"You must come tn dinner with us
some day," he heard her saying in
that cool, smooth, impersonal voice
of hers.
"Thank you very much,” he re
plied perfunctorily, not looking back
at her. Oh, he, too, could be cool
and smooth and impersonal if that
was what she really wanted.
3.
It was what she really wanted.
When he dined for the first time at
the Cornelius Morrison's there were
half a dozen other guests present.
He sat nowhere near his hostess, nor
did she give him any chance for
conversation after dinner. It was al
ways like that. As time went on,
Stephen was frequently in the same
drawing room with Helen, and often
one of the same party, but she al
ways contrived to avoid all oppor
tunity for intimate conversation.
Stephen was hungry to talk to Hel
en. He had no intention of making
love to her. She needn't have been
afraid, Ke was scarcely less free
than she. He simply wanted to sit
occasionally, for short periods, in an
outer circle of the warm sunshine
of- her radiating sympathy. But she
wouldn't let him. Her insistence upon
a purely impersonal basis of Inter
course made anything but the merest
superficialities impossible.
(Continued In The Morning Bee.
Celebrate Jackson Day.
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last night received a message from
resident Wilson, offering his services
in a fight by the democratic party
for what he termed "the establish
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[ action” in the nation and heard the
tax problem discussed by Senator
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while he was president.
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