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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Not up yet I presume," replied Darrie. I excused myself and hurried back to my tent ... where, instead of settling down to work on the third act of my play, I lay prone on my cot, day-dreaming of the future. How beautiful it would be, now that I had at last found my life-mate!
"Drag back a little, Johnnie ... Penton and Hildreth are having a private heart-to-heart talk, I can tell by their voices." We hung back till they disappeared around a bend. We were alone. Darrie began to laugh and laugh and laugh.... "Oh, it's so funny, I shall die laughing".... "Why why, what's the matter!" For I saw tears streaming down the girl's face in the moonlight.
When I called for my mail at the Sea Girt post office, sure of hearing from Darrie, anyhow, who promised us she would keep us posted, I found no letter. And the man at the window was certain he had handed over several letters addressed to me to someone else who had called for them, giving my name as his. A wave of hot anger suffused my face. How stupid of me not to have noticed it before.
"Can't you see the sly looks, the nudges they give each other, as they gossip in the clubs?" "Don't let your imagination get the better of you, please don't!" urged Darrie.... "No," I went on, "I'm going to send right now for Jerome Miller, a newspaper lad I knew in Kansas, who's now in New York on a paper, and give him an interview that will set us right with the stupid world once and for all.
"It will soon be very cold down here," commented Darrie, irrelevantly, "this is only a summer cottage, and they say the old settlers that we are to have a severe winter ... the frost fish are already beginning to come ashore." It was generally known, sub rosa, that Hildreth and I were living together.
Darrie also wrote and studied in her room.... Daniel led the normal life of the happy American boy, going where the other boys were, and playing with them when he and I didn't go off, as I have said, for the afternoon, together, crabbing and fishing. Hildreth, of course, was working hard at her book a novel of radical love....
I could stay and finish my play and, having disposed of it, come likewise to the city, and rent a flat, and she would come and live with me again. I am sure she was sincere in this. Or I could come to New York, rent a furnished room somewhere, and she would be with me daily, as now.... Darrie seconded Hildreth's proposal.
Darrie, as we called her, performed the most difficult task of all the task of remaining friends to all parties concerned. The strain was beginning to tell on Penton. A strange, new, unsuspected thing was welling up in his heart, Darrie averred ... his love for his repudiated wife was reviving so strongly that now he dared not see her, it would hurt him too deeply....
I thanked God that nothing trivial was in my heart to mar the stupendousness of my love, my first real passion for a woman! "Johnnie!" I leaped alert. It was Hildreth, at my tent door.... "Get up, you lazy boy ... surely you haven't been sleeping all this time?" "No, darling." "I ate my breakfast all alone," she remarked, in an aggrieved tone, "where's Darrie and Mubby and Ruth?" "God knows!
I brought her to her feet with a strong, quick pull, and against my breast. But I did not dare do what I desired take her in my arms and try to kiss her. She paused a second, then thrust me back. "Look, the sun's almost gone down ... and Mubby and Darrie will be home a long time by this time ... and Mubby will be getting fidgety."
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