Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-20

~what do you suppose want7"
'eTo close for next season."
81 have already refused"
''You did the same thing last season.
Freda WINGED.
"Whv not talk business on the train to
morrow, " he added.
q leave tonight"
"Ah, " ne returned mockingly, 'you have
sent TO say Farewell, sweet playfellow,
dear Hermiar How touching"
'I have sent to know what Bird meant the
night she died" +"
kildare strolzed his chin. He had paled
q little, but his ewes were cold and steady.
81 may as we'll tell you. 1t may alter
your decisions in some directions. She
thought herself my wife. That piece of
paper would have been misleading to i'm
preiudiced parties"
Freda stared at him. Then she said
hoarsely;
Have you no human nature in you?"
"Very little, except what you can touch,
nv dear q"
She buried her face IN her hands.
"Comel Give up fighting it." said XII
dare, his eyes cleaning. 1.-THE girl who is
dead need no longer stand between us. You
have stood by her like your brave, loyal
self but she's gone. She was never any,
thing to me, that you know. That is not
between U.s. Freda, dear one, listen to
your own better nature; listen to your
heart. -
She rocked to and fro, but did not speak,
and he went on gently: "You love me, you
alwars have, you always will. Some time
you must come TO me. Come now.
lie stood beside her, his hand on her
shoulder. His face was very grave.
4 viii not, " she said through her clenched
teeth.
Be in this the woman you are In every
other way, he answered gently.
Il Will never marry any one.
'You cannot marry. for you love me. Do
not wreck both our lives by a stubborn ad-
herence to a benighted custom. Men and
women are not to be tied together save BY
unity of purpose and of soul Such bond is
between us. You are mine"
The girl moaned.
You can do nothing without me, he
said. 81 cannot do my best without you 1
sap from you your strength, your life even.
Place your hand in mine and all will be
well, dear one"
She beat her hands against her heart, an
swering, "NO, no!'
"You love me-" he went on. 'That
should be your law.
She lifted her head and laughed, while
tears wet her face.
How little you know me after all; your
wife or your sweetheart would be an equal
degradation. My love shall not be my law
1t is so that every drop of red blood in me
leaps at your touch; that at your voice the
heart in me crowds down to the place under
your feet where all who love YOU must
come, yet know my love is the law of the
worst in me. Weak as my woman heart is,
! tell you my soul sees you as you are. To
come to you is 10 degrade my soul to your
level, and to the level Of the depths within
me. l viii not GO it. stand above you
now, and Will hold my place"
You Fight against your salvation, and
for sentiment"
''No, fight against curse, and 1 fight
for the womanhood in me, which is not
mine to degrade A womans purity of
soul is not her own; it belongs to God, and
TO the man who one day may claim her by
right her whole nature will recognize"
q am he, said kildare, his grasp on her
shou1jer Tightening.
'No!" size cried, shaking herself free.
"Iou are not. IF fall now it is because I
sm beaten down by the storm of my own
mad heart, not because you are he"
Low as / am, we are one say. The
better nature in you must lift me up"
''It is not true Though my blood
clamors kinship with you, our souls are
strangers, 1 could not lift you up, you
would only drag me down.
There, then, is your place, in my arms.
Little girl, you beat against the cage that
surely holds you" He spoke tenderly, his
arms about her. Freda lifted her head that
their eyes might meet.
go from me-" she said weakly, 81 pray
you, let some good in you speak for me.
You do not love me, be merciful, forego the
bhort-ived triumph of. attaining the thing