Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-08
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&tp1 'AtS ''o'NH E F~I'N~f So Bba
think he will be unwilling for me to go?n
Il cannot tell. You must be the better
Judge. You will have TO ask his permis-
! sion"
She sat for some minutes in thoughtful
J silence, and then with a grave, pale face,
| looked at the lawyer.
II should like TO 80 To Bralyn,' she said,
II should like to see just once what the
| grand world is like. OF course | shall
| come back again. Considering the great
| sacrifice | have 10 make, ] hin | may nj.
low myself this pleasure; out | am afraid,
IL Paul knew what my grandfather has
! proposed, he would never let me 90. !
have been thinking that you might tell
him the story-inform him who my moth
er was, and OF Lord Cariswood's invita-
ton without saying anything about his
conditions for adopting my boy and my
self.n
AS she spoke her lips grew white. Yes,
she was sure to come back, she repeated to
herself. She wanted only one glimpse Of
the great world, and then she would come
back.
! "You think, If Mr.. Waldron knew what
Lord C%arlswood has promised he would
not consent for you to pay even this yisitY'
said Mr.. Ford.
II am quite sure OF it; he would prevent
my going"
"Why2' asked the lawyer, briefly.
"He would be afraid that should never
come back" she replied,
"But you do intend to return-you have
no idea Of accepting Lord Carlswood's Of
ferY"
"Not the least she said; II told you I
would never break my husbands heart"
But il struck him there were no longer
the same fire and animation in her words.
you will come this evening"" she said,
"and tell my husband ALL"
paul" said Ismay, as they sat together
| watching the sunset, "do you see that
stranger at the garden gate? He is COM
ing to tell you the strangest story you
ever heard in all your LIE.
Paul Waldron heard Mr.. Ford in stupe-
fed silence, in b%ewildering dismay. Once,
| rs he listened, a passionate cry of despair
| came from his lips, and the lawyers heart
was touched with pity. When the story
was finished Paul forgot the strangers
| presence; he turned to his wife with love
and tenderness unutterable.
$50, my darling" he said, "my beauti-
full love, o are u great lady after all"
II am your wife, Paul. she rejoined,
her lovely face softening at the sight Of
his great emotion.
"And this lord has invited %you-you and
| our boy-to visit him-you without metz
perhaps he wants to see me first" she
returned. ct may be that he Will ask TO
see you next"
"You without met' he repeated. ooh,
| my darling, do not think ! feel it because
he is rich and great. That would make
no difference to me. | value no rank. |
value You, my darling. If he should take
you from mel"
"He cannot" she whispered. "Who can
take me from you? Am | not your wife
| your own wife,
His great love, his passionate despair,
touched her; she felt that she would rather
die han leave him. Paul forgot that they
were not alone; he knelt ut her feet, clasp
ed her hands in his own, and covered
them with passionate kisses, with passion
ate tears.
MY darling, how should live if I lost
you? You are the life of my life. You
are the light, the warmth, the center Of
my soul-my heart lives in you. | love
you so, sweet, hat If you were TO be taken
from me | should 90 mad. l am fright
! ened when | think Of how | love You,
| frightened at myself. May Heaven keep
| from harm any one who would come be-
tween rs. You are fair and fragile, | am
strong with a mans strength; but, if you
babe me, l would lay myself mt your feet
Il would give you my life"
"And ! love you, Paul, " she whispered.
He turned to Mr.. Ford.
"You see, sir, she loves me-loves me,
unworthy as | am. This great man cannot
will not take her from me. You see for
| yourself she loves me-"
IL see" was the grave response. To
himself Mr.. Ford said, MAY Heaven have
mercy on any man who trusts his happi-
ness to a woman keeping!'
You will not go for long, IsmayP" Paul
said.
She was so touched by his great passion,
his marvellous love, that she said
II will not 90 Mt all, unless you are quite
willing, Paul"
But he was too generous, too noble, to
accept the sacrifice from her.
you shall go, my darling, and take the
boy with you. can trust you--ah, thank
Heaven, | can trust you. You will come
back TO me, and you will know then that
all the world can never give you the value
Of my love"
IL know that now" she whispered, and
he was content.
She said afterwacd to Mr.. Ford
1T was well we kept our secret and said
nothing OF Lord Carlswood's conditions; If
he had known them he would never have
let me go"
And Mr.. Ford sighed again as he said to
himself
Heaven help the man who trusts his
happiness TO u woman's keepingl"
CHAPTER xl.
OF the parting Of Paul and Ismay Wal
dron. Mr.. Ford could never endure to
think. He was a strong, cool, shrewd,
calculating man, but when he recalled
that scene he was filed with pain. The
grief Of the husbands honest. manly
heart, the silent anguish o. the handsome
face, the despairing love with which he
clung to wife and child-all came wildly
before him. More than once the lawyer
had been tempted to tell her not TO go to
~Bralyn-more than once Ismay was tempt
ed to clasp her arms round Paufs neck
and promise never TO leave him. He said
nothing, but he looked like a man on
whom sentence OF death had been passed.
lie hauSte his in order that