Screenland (May–Oct 1925)

S C R E E N L A N D 93 ack in the apartment, she laid aside her tos and went into the living room. Upon threshold she stopped in amazement a cry, half-laughter, half-tears, caught ner throat — , . Gilbert— Gilbert— what are you doing 1?" , He smiled at her surprise. I had to L " he said, "to ask you to forgive me. k a blind brute I have been. I loved t so__ and I wanted you all to myselt. lould not bear to share you— not even E your work. I hated all your gay -nds Tonight I drove into town— yes— I first outing since my illness— You see Fead in the papers about the opening ol ar picture— I wanted a glimpse ot you. Li to see you look at you— even on • screen I had been so lonely without iu— and yet I would not call you back, it I saw things to-night— so differently. "How— Gilbert?" she asked eagerly. ,-eU me — I want to understand. :"I saw what you meant to the people, matched them— the way you made much •ar to them, helping them by your work, go on with their own lives— to meet !eir problems fearlessly— to lift their •arts high— to find the beauty and the „od in life. I didn't see your career in the light of your fame— but I saw it— as something— greater than Fame— your service to the world— and the world s need of you — And now " „ "I have learned some things, too, Alice said quietly. "Some things which are greater than Fame, Gilbert. I have been selfish too I spent much of my spare time with cay friends. I thought I was living lite to the full I did not come home from my work for the quiet beauty of evenings with you_ I was missing the best— and 1 did not know it. But now " He saw the rolled contract which she held in her hands. "What is that?" he asked. "It is my new contract," she said. 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