Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-14
THE GAZETTE: Fl. WORTH, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JUNE Il.
81 know that you will, when you know

81 know that you will, when you know
how l have loved him"
"Have you come here to tell me of your
| lovea"
Yes. And when l have told you, you
will forgive me-"
Il am no saint" said Beatrice, colby. 81
| do not find forgiveness in such abundance
as you need.''
''You will find it for me. You are not bad.
as l am, but you can understand what /
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 I tell you so-that youmay
! understand
'!At that price, would rather not have
the understanding. do not care TO hear
| you say it. 1t is not good to hear
''Yet, if I hid not love him as l do, l
would not be here, of my own free will, to
take you to him. 1 came for that"
u do not believe you," Beatrice au-
swered, in tones like ice.
land 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 I 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
youl If you had found it all, not as it 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 it be easy
for you to give him up!'t
'!He loved me then-he loves me still, :"
Beatrice said. at is another case
"A much more bitter case. Even then
you would have the memory OF his love,
which L can never have-in true reality,
though have much 10 remember in his
dreams of you"
Beatrice started little and her brow
grew dark and angry.
Then you have tried 10 get what was not
yours by your bad powers,'' she cried
And you have made HIM sleep-and dream
-what?'
..Of you.'
And he talked of love1"
''Of love for YOU
do you?'
TO me"
And he dreamed that you were Il That
too?'
That was YOU
is there more to tello" Beatrice asked,
growing white. '.He kissed you in that
dream of his-do not tell ME he did that
no. tell me-tell me all!''
ne hlSSeu IilS tLilll9 iS saw, Oc-LCh lIiS
the lips yours
-More-more-is it not done yet! Can't
you sting again? What else!'
'.Nothing-saye that last night | tried to
kill you, body and SOUL
And why did you not kill me-"
Because you awoke. Then the nun
saved Won If she had not come, you would
have slept again. and slept forever. And
would have let his dream last, and made it
last-for him, should have been the only
Beatrice
You have done all this-and you ask me
to forgive you2'
Il ask nothing. If you will not go TO
him. will bring him TO YOU"
Beatrice turned away and walked across
the room.
Loved her. she said aloud, land talked
to her of love and kissed-'' She
stopped suddenly. Then she came back
again with swift steps and graSped I'm
orna's arm fiercely.
Tell me more still-this dream has
lasted long-you are man and wife!n
I'VE might have been. He would still
have thought me you. for months and years.
He would have had me take from his finger
that ring that YOU put there. / tried
tell YOU the whole truth-but / could not.
l saw you there beside me and YOU held my
hand. broke away and LETT him"
Left him OF your free will2''
Il could not lie again. 1t was too much.
He would have broken great promise If
had stayed. love him-so l left him"
is all this true?n-
Every word.