The Red Cloud chief., 1884-08-08
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rough xth you. !; - Tor sOIr sake as
we'll ~ nv O~ We Are young. and
as was natural. re learned to love each
other. Then YOU came here and were
al.nc in the sorii. and i was goa-.
Thos-S there bad been 10 word of
marriage between us. I had hoped thai;
I might be remembered In my ahsrnce-
Perhaps you did remember me- can
not think tha, l Vas ever absent from
vour heart: bat ! was away. and you
coul. nc. kno~ how loyal l WAS To my
thought. Of you / am not blaming
you. Mar. can well understand iha;
You were eating his bread and drinking
his cup. add tina; il appeared 10 YOU
tina, everything WA due 10 hsn- Zoo
could not have gone on eating his bresd
unless YOU had surrendered yoursea TO
his wishes. You must have gone. and
have had no home ~ which To 60. II
is all true. But the pity Of IL Mary;
the pity of il
..He has dine the best be could BY
me-"
Perhaps n: but II lone from thai
reason. the Surrender viii be III
easier"
mo. no. no I know more Of him
than you do. No such surrender viii
come easy 10 him. He has set he
heart upon ihi thing. ard 20 far IS ]
am concerned he shall have IT.
You viii SO 10 him with . lie in
your MOUTH"
IL do not know. can not say what
the words NAV N II there be = lie, ]
will tell it"
Then YOU do love me st.ll?'
You may cisa; me out o. m,
thoughts, but il will 10 no good
Whether | lie or tel the truth. will dc
nv duty by him. There will b- no u
ing. To the best Il nv ability l will
love him, and him only. All ny care
shall be for him. lave resolved. and
l will force myself y love him. All his
qualities are good. There is not a
thought in his mind Of which he need
be ashamed"
Not when he WI use his power 10
take YOU out Of my AIMS
..No. sir; for / am rDt your property.
You speak of deal,g with me, a:
though | must belong o you If l did
not belong TO him. His o So
'Oh. Mary"
1T is not so. What might he l will
not say-or what Nigh. have been. j
was Yesterday a free voman, and my
thoughts were my own. To-day | am
bound to him. and WHITTIER it be for
Joy or sorrow. / will he true to him.
Now, Mr.. Gordon, / viii leaye YOU"
Half q moment" he sad. standing
between her and the door, 1T a mol
be that this should be the END Of all be-
tween us. ! shall 90 TO b IN and tell
him what I believe 10 be TIE truth
81 can not hinder YOU; bit | shall tel
him what YOU say Is false
..You know il to be.true.
Il shall tell him that il Is false
Can YOU bring yourself Ia utter a lie
such Is that"
-. can bring myself to say whatever
may be best Tor him, and most con-
ducive to his wishes But IS She said
this, she was aware that she had told
Mr.. Whittlestaif only this morning
that she had given her hear to John
Gordon. and tina. she would be unable
to keep her thoughts from him She
had implored him TO leave her to her
self, so that the memory OF her love
might be spared. Then, when this
Young man had been still absent, w en-
there was no dream of his appearing
aHain before her, when the cone uence
would be that she must 90 forth anC
earn her own bitter bread atone-ai
that moment she knew that she had
been true 10 the memory OF tie man
What had occurred since TO a.ter heI
purpose SO violently? Was it the pres
ence of the man she did love. and the
maidenly instincts which forbade her
TO declare her passion in his presence?
Or was il simply the conviction that
her promise to Mr.. Whittlcstaf had
been twice repeated. and could moi
now admit of being Withdrawn? But,
in spite of her ass%everations. there
must have been present TO her mind
some feeling that if MIR. Whituesta1
would yield to the prayer OF John
Gordon. all the gulf would be brdged
over VIII CHI yawned between herself
and perfect happiness. Kimberley:
Yes. indeed, or anywhere else in the
wide world. AS he left the room. she
did now tell herself that in spite Of all
that she had said she coCld ACCOMPANY
him anywhere with perfect bliss. EoW
well had he spoken for himself and
for his love! How like \ man he had
looked, when he asked her that ques.
ton: ''Will you dare TO tell me thai
YOU do not love me?" She had not
dared; Eel though at the moment she
had longed 10 leave upon him the i'm
preston that il was so. She had tolG
him that she would lie to Mr.. Whittle.
s,af-lie on Mr.. Whittlesiaf s own be-
half. But such 4 lie As this she coulc
not tell to John Gordon. He had hearc
it in her voice and seen it in her face.
She knew it well, and was aware that
it must be So.
''Tke pity Of it." she, too, said to her
self; 1.-The pity of it," Ii he had but
come a day sooner-before Mr.. Whittle.
stall had spoken out his mind-no love.
tale would evcr have run smoother. liz
that case she would have accepted join
Gordon without n moments considers.
ton. When he should have told he,
of his distant home, of the roughness Of
his life, Of the changes and chances &c
which his career must be subject, she
would have assured him. with her heart
full of JOY. that she would accept it al
and think her lot so happy as to admi,
of no complaint. Mr.. Whittlestaf
woulu then have known the condition
OF her heart before he had himself
spoken a word. And as the trouble
would always have been in his owl
bosom, there would, so to say, have
been no trouble at all.
She resolved, sitting there after Johr
Gordon had lett her. that in the circum
stances As they existed. it was her dut,
to bear what sorrow there was to bt
borne. Poor John Gordon, He mus
oear some sorrow. if there should bt
cause to him for grief. There would b,
loss OF money and loss of time, which