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As Love has co to the beck of a

tip-tilted chin, or the tone of a voice, or the droop of an eyelid It

has fled for cause as slight Someti, but then, if you have observed it closely, you

will see that quite frequently, when anger grows slow of foot, or dies

of slow starvation, love steals back, all unsuspected and unbidden--and

mayhap causes much distress by his return It is like a sudden

resurrection of all the loved, long-mourned dead that sleep so serenely

in their tended plots Loved though they were and long mourned, think

of the consternation if they all ca back to take their old

places in life! The old places that have been filled, most of them, by

others who are loved as dearly, ould be ists will tell us all about the subconscious s which we believe are dead and long

forgotten When one of those emotions suddenly comes alive and stands,

terribly real and intrusive, between our souls and our everyday lives,

the strongest and the best of us rope blindly after

content, or reparation, or forgetfulness, or whatever see now for Bud, who had spent a good hts of Marie out of his er for her out of

his heart He had kept away from towns, from women, lest he be reminded