The Happy End

nt and antagonistic. A flare of anger threatened to shut all else from Calvin's thoughts; but suddenly h

the world is of any importance to me but you. It's all I think about. When I was building the house, our ho

her pose. Hannah's head drooped and her fingers tapped f

furniture ordered through Priest. You've been upset by this talk of theater

e has

oesn't suit all,"

l the change is from one kitchen to another. You don't even have a way to match up fellows. Soon as you're out of short skirts one

"It was right hard for me to see you that often.

fool!" she

yond control. He clenched his hands and

"we're promised anyhow; that can

ce that I went with Phebe does

ou'd never come back,

"I'm sorry, Calvin. I didn't go to be so sharp. Onl

d her, "but what you want. I wish Ph

gain at Phebe!"

mly; "Not half

voice she inquired,

etending to be so wise-are blind as bats. You can't even see that Phebe's hair is as dyed as her stories. She says she is on the stage, but it's a pretty stage! I've been to Stanwick and seen those Parisian Dainties a

tammered, scarcel

've been to the city as well as Phebe. Oh, Hannah," he cried, "can't you see, can't you!" With a violent effort he re

I don't see how you can stand there and look at me. If I told pa or Hosmer they would shoot you. You might as well know this as well-I'm going back w

elusive lamplight the house he had built for Hannah. His feeling, that a second before had been so acute, was numb. This, he thought, was s

ly; it was as if, indistinct before him, she were already fading from his life. "I never went to

nah's desirability increased immeasurably. Never in Greenstream or any place

repeated, "If P

would never set her hands in hot dishwater. He recalled their mother, fretful and impatient. He

vin saw her with green-yellow hair, a cigarette in painted lips; he heard the blurred applause of men at the spectacle of Ha

hat I am too, and that doesn't make it any easier. Kind of a

tly quitted the roo