John Lee, son of a country grocer, hates his sordid life. His life contains one golden day of romance, a day of Arcadian love spent with Elane, a futile rebel against her fate, for she is married to a man she loathes, to whom she was ...See moreJohn Lee, son of a country grocer, hates his sordid life. His life contains one golden day of romance, a day of Arcadian love spent with Elane, a futile rebel against her fate, for she is married to a man she loathes, to whom she was literally sold by her cold, grasping mother. John marries a girl of his own station, pretty at first, but soon growing into a nagging woman. He is poor with nothing of beauty in life but his dreams of Elane. Elane also dreams of her one day of romance, and when free, a widow, she searches for and finds John Lee. Still a rebel against fate, Elane determines to possess the lover of her dreams. He responds to the lure of her love, and neither realizing that their passion is but the impersonal yearning of their dreams, they prepare to flee together. At the last instant they are awakened to the obligations of realities, and realize the implacability of destiny, an incident, pathetic in its quintessence of the commonplace, shows them that they have been chasing a rainbow, at the end of which is no cask of gold. Written by
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