The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-05-12
UAADIAS... HR0MAN 3tNGER'aC

loved for herself. for her beauty, for
her wit. for her virtues, for her faults,
for her W love. if you will, and by a
man conscious of all his actions and
tree OF his heart-not by a mere pa
tient reduced to the proper state OF
sentiment by a trick of hypnotism. or
psychiatry, or whatever you choose to
call the effect of this power of mine,
which neither you nor / nor any one
can explain. I will be loved freely,
for myself, or not at ALL"
II see, / see." said Keyork
thoughtfully. Something in the way
Israel Kafka loves you" ?
''Yes, as Israel Kafka loves mel
am not afraid to say it. AS he loves
me, Of his own free will and to his
w destruction-as l should have
loved him had it been so fated.' u
so you are a fatalist, Unorna,"
observed her companion. still strok-
ing and twisting his beard. 1T is
strange that we should differ upon so
many fundamental questions, you and
/, and yet be such good friends-is it
not?"
1.-The strangest thing of all is that /
should submit to your exasperating
ways as l do"
cit does not strike me that it is !
who am quarreling this time" said
Reyork.
II confess, l would almost prefer
that to your imperturabble GOODNESS.
What is this new phaseP You used
not to be like this. You planning
some wickedness. I am sure of it,"
"And that is all the credit l get for
keeping my temger! Did / not say
awhile ago that l would never quarrel
with you again?"
You said so, but"
but you did not expect me to keep
my word" said Keyork, slipping from
his seat on the table with considera-
BILE agility and suddenly standing
close before her. And do you not
yet kdow that when l say a thing l
mean it."
80 far as the latter point is con-
cerned l have nothing to say. But
you need not be so terribly impress
i've, and unless you are gonig to break
your word, by which you seem to set
such store, and quarrel with me, you
need not look at m so t~iercely."
Keyork suddenly let his voice drop
to it's deepest and most vibrating
key.
II only want you to remember
this. he said. You are not an Or
binary woman, as l am not an ordi-
nary man, and the experiment we are
making together is an altogether ex-
traordinary one. 1 have told you the
truth. 1 care for nothing but my in
dividual self and I seek nothing but
the p%rolongation of life. If you en-
danger the success of the great trial
again, as you did to-day, and if it
fails, l will never forgive you. You
will make an enemy OF me, and you
will regret it while you live, and
longer than that perhaps. So long as
you keep the compact there is nothing
I will not do to help you, nothing
within the bounds of your magma
ton. And I can do much. Do you
understand"
Il understand that you are afraid
of loosing my help"
That is it-of losing your help,
I I'm not afraid of losing youth the
end.n
Unorna smiled rather scornfully at
first, as she looked down upon the
little mans strange face and gazei
fearlessly into his eyes. But as she
looked the smile faded and the color
slowly sunk from her face until she
was very pale. And as she felt her.
self losing courage before something
which she could not understand, Ke-
york's eyes grew brighter and
brighter till they glowed like drops of
molten metal. A sound as of many
voices wailing in agony rose and
trembled and q~uavered in the air.
With a wild cry Unorna pressed her
hands to her ears and fled toward the
entrance.
"You are very tonight"
observed Keyork, as he opened the
door.
Then he went silently down the
stairs by her side and helped her into
the carriage, which had been waiting
since his return.
CHAPTER XI.
MONTH had