Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-09-08

CHAPTER XIV.
You may taken par e, - but the self is my
own, and God M Makers
As Frank sat at breakfaStneXt morn
ing, Job entered, and announced Mr..
Eyre.
Frank rose, but did not advance to
meet his visitor, nor had Job heard any
greeting pass between them when lie
reluctantly closed the door
Franks ewes were dOWncast, he it
was who looked the sinner as Mr.. Eyre
approached and Wrung his hand, com
pelllng him 10 look up, and meet his
glance.
And SO you've saved me, Frank" he
said; land I'd submit to worse Il snou0r
for her. After all, I'd ch2ngs places
with you-but n0-She loves me, not
you"
1t was nothing" said Frank, turn
inc aside; any one else would have
done as much"
Ills back was turned to Mr. Eyre.
across whose features an expression OF
love flashed as he looked at the man
whom, next to Madcap, he loved better
than anything on earth.
And now Tor the future, " he said
$50 long as that woman is in the village
there IS no safe y, ana the other may be
in jail here some days longer. | have
already taken steps 10 GET her removed,
but the law moves slowly; and mean
while, suppose, the other WON'T leave
her"
NO" sad Frank, thinking Of those
two desparing figures, locked in each
others arms, that he had seen over
night; they are bound tog6ther by
common misery; they have only one an
other in the world"
Good God, Frank" burst out Mr..
Eyre; you know | was ignorant of the
chain OF events that led TO this awful
fatality. III the woman had only told
me the truJh when | left her, the whole
thing would have been averted."
Frank turned-no longer as Madcap's
savior, Testers champion, he looked at
Mr.. l1Nre; but as man TO man, acknoWI-
edgl : as only a man can, The tempta-
tious beneath which his fellow has
stumbled.
For man cannot change his nature
because 4 single passion has called out
all that is best and noblest in him; so
much the more rs its object is beyond
his reach, SO much the more struggle to
keep that purity at fever heat is need
ed. And Frank had been no Simon
Pure, having erred and fallen like
weaker men, hating himself always, and
looking back to that might have
been, which is oftener fount Of bit
terness than source of future moral
development.
1t was on that ground of common
brotherhood that he took Mr.. Eyre'S
hand and cried. " on didn't knOw-and
III stand by you through it till they are
gone"
And after?" exclaimed Mr.. Eyre.
III 20 back to India and stay there
a dozen years or so-perhaps thecounty
will have forgotten the story by then"
And why should you go?o said Mr..
Eyre, what is popular rum0r, public
OPINION to you? We love y0a-and You
love us-remain, and let us all be happy
together
IN Arcadia we might be-" said
FRANK bitterly, but here-no, | could
tell 4 lie tor her-but 10 reman-tO see
her every day and not love her-it is be-
You'd my strength; and people will talk
the young fellow added abruptly.
: Let them, = said Mr.. Eyre mliffar-
emily, for he knew his friends heart rs
Well rs his Wife'S, and d.scamed danger
III neither, aud as to the c0ulty-lt
shall stand cap in hand to YOU vet
don want The county. SAIL Frank,
20 llohi Ihe name OF MS henor matter
e0 noJhng, While the honor itself was
'0 S''lA oC>'N -do oOoI %
Site Is SAFE, | 90.
AND II she Is still IN danger-if yOu
can secure her happiness bv remaining
you viii stay" said Mr.. Eyre.
Il will stay" said Frank. reluctantlv.
Her happiness before everything"
said Mr.. Eyre, ''all must give way TO
that-your life or mine as nothing in
comparison with it-this 10 be persisted
in to the end"
Ito the end" cried Frank, with no
suspicion of that to which he was
swearing himself.
But | must see her" said Mr.. Eyre;