Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-18

81 know that you will, when you Know
how have loved him.
ssHave you come here to tell me OF your
love-"
Eyes. And when l have told you, you
will forgive me-
u am no saint said Beatrice, colby. Il
do not find forgiveness in such abundance
as you need.
s!You will find it for me. You are not bad,
as | am. but you can understand what L
have done, nevertheless. for you know what
YOU yourself would do for the sake OF him
we love. No-do not be angry with me yet
i love him and 1 tell you so-that YOU may
understand"
SAT that price, l would rather not have
the understanding. do not care to hear
you say it. 1t is not good to hear"
s'Yet. if I hid not love him as do,
would not be here, of my own free will, to
take you to him. came for that
I do not believe you,n Beatrice au-
swered, in tones like ice.
'sAnd yet you will and very soon
Whether you forgive or not-that is another
matter / cannot ask it. God knows how
much easier it would have been to die than
to come here. But if l were dead, you
might never have found him, nor he you,
though YOU are so very near together. Do
YOU think it is easier for me to come to you,
whom he loves, than it is for you to hear me
say love him. when l come to give him to
youl If YOU had found it all, not as II is,
but otherwise-if you had found that IN
these years he had known me and loved me,
as he once loved you, if he had turned from
you coldly and bid you forget him, because
he would be happy with me, and because ne
had utterly forgotten you-would IL De easy
for you to give him upl',
He loved me then-he loves me still,
Beatrice said s.It is another case.
"A much more bitter case. Even then
you would have the memory OF his love,
which | can never have-in true reality,
though have much 10 remember In MS
dreams of you"
Beatrice started little and her brow
grew dark and angry.
..Then YOU have tried to get what was not
yours by your bad powers, she cried
s'And you have made him sleep-and dream
-what?;'
''Of you
"And he talked of love?n
''Of love for you"
'.Do your
ssTo me-
"And he dreamed that you were 1? That
| too?''
| THAT was you"
| SIS there more to tell9" Beatrice asked,
| growing white He kissed you in that
! dream of his-do not tell me he did thai
/ no, tell me--tell me ALL
! He kissed the thing he saw, believing
| the lips yours. 49,.
..More-more-is it not done yet? Can't
| YOU sting again What else!'
! ''Nothing-save that last night tried to
| kill you, body and soul.
And why did you not kill mee'
| Because You awoke. Then the nun
saved YOU. If she had not come, you wouls
, have slept again, and slept forever. And
| would have let his dream last, and made II
last-for him. | should have been the only
| Beatrice"
You have done all this-and you ask me
to forgive you!'
Il ask nothing If you will not go tc
him. | will bring him to you
! Beatrice turned away and walked across
the room.
to her of love, and kissed She
stopped suddenly. Then she came bach
again with swift steps and grasped IN
orna's arm fiercely.
Tell me more still-this dream has
lasted long-you are man and wife,.
I'VE might have been. He would still
have thought me you, for months and years
He would have had me take from his tingel
that ring that you put there. / tried
tell YOU the whole truth-but ! could not
] saw YOU there beside me and you held my
hand. | broke away and left him
Left him of your free will!
Il could not lie again. 1t was too much
He would have broken great promise II
had stayed. I love him-so left him"
is all this true!''
''Every word"