The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-10-13

anu maCo me turn away from iIl-1l.
wish was dead-and ynu-and him!'
There were tears in her voice.
But listen. Carlotta. You don't I'M
derstand. Nothing is rrrue but love.
Everything else comes after-promises
mistakes. all-everything! Love is from
God Almighty. He never sends love
like mine but he sends the answer too.
For two months have read my answer
in your eyes and was satisfied. but it
was sweet TO wait, to sing. to play, to
laugh all around it. making believe
was not sure. But am sure You are
mine"
''Oh. but no, no. no. GiuseppeI l am
not for you. If / was that mean. God
would never bless me nor you. 1t would
bring curse. You cannot understand"
'Who is this coward who holds your
"But hush! Heis no coward. Giuseppe.
Me, am a coward-but not him. It
was me what made him speak love. You
talk about God! For what does God let
us make mistakes? How can we be sure?
| was crazy for him. and in my heart
felt sure-sure it was love. and told
him. Giuseppe. / made him love me.
And now-if only you go away. Giu-
seppe! If you love me true. go and let
me have peace and not trouble. Go far
and let me forget the sound of your music
let me forget your eyes-let me not see
your shape in the air which way turn.
Then it will all pass away. and will be
like before. love him good. Giuseppe.
/ am not liar. Only now ! am like in
a dream, and in my dream I see only
you. Now see. know what you meant,
Giuseppe, when you said in your sleep !
stood before you. But soon will wake.
will see his kind eyes. and it will pass.
He will never know
And who is this man for whom you
put me away?'
1T is time enough. Giuseppe. but bet
ter if you never know him. Go far
away"
II go not away without you. Carlotta.
Every day | will come till get you.
will walk by your side before this man.
and when he looks at us he will see he is
a fool"
Il walk with you no more. Giuseppe.
Tonight finishes. Come. let us go.
heard noise, and just now over there
shadow moved. am afraid Come.
As they rose to go the accordion.
which Giuseppe grasped hastily in ris-
ing, opening by It's own weight. sent out
an attenuated discordant wall. And to
Pat sitting alone III the shadow beneath
it sounded like weird banshee's shrek
coming from far over the seas.
The tender tremor in Carlotta's voice
when first she spoke Giuseppe's name had
struck his heart like deathknell. and
the words which followed were but as
clods falling upon a coffin. The girls
loyalty through all seemed to mock him.
like hymn at grave. 1t was as the
silver sheen upon the silken fabric of
shroud-the smile upon the face of
death
For long time after they had gone
the heavy timbers about him were not
more still than he.
Once he thought he heard soft steps
above him If he had risen. he might
have seen two dark figures peering
stealthily about as if looking for some
one. They might have been assassins i'll
ambush.
But Pat did not even glance upward.
Can any one by simply imagining be
sure he half understands how this man
felt. or must he have passed through
the shades of like sorrow to know its
black. bleak depths and the hopelessness
of it? 1t is hard to say.
His first movement was to cast his
eyes about him upon the water. 1t was
all around him-so near-so inviting. It
seemed almost to call him. 1t would
have been SO easy from where he SIT
just to lean over and over. like Maupas-
SAINTS little blue and red soldier. as if he
were trying to drink. There would be
only few bubbles. fit embleIns of his
life and its story, and so it would end.
Had he not promised her his grave
whenever it would be a safe bridge over
her troubles? The time had come. Or
had it conner Would the plunge be for
her sake or his own? Was he. after all.
coward-he who had never run from a
foe in his life-who had even fought and
vanquished his potheen with a flask IN
his pocket?
Distinct rapid footsteps above startled
him. and he raised his eyes. AS he did
so a bundle fell at his side into the wa
ter. and the steps retreated-
He seemed to see a struggle as the dark
object twisted for a second within the
rings of the ed..y that swallowed If
QOWn, DuG US COulu uOI Oc ollEO HI d
moment. however. he heard quite near
the thin. why cry of young kitten. He
looked about him and above. but could
see nothing of it. though the sound came
again and again. Finally. however
desperate wall located the sufferer
I, On the outside of one CT the heavy tim
bers. caught in its fall by protruGsing
splinter or spike. the wretched little
creature hung suspended. its own weight
and struggles uaprisoning it more So
curcIy each moment within the notch.
The struggling contents of the whirl-
ing bundle were explained. This little
unfortunate had slipped ont of the open
bag In its fall TO perish high and dry in
the night wind or to be scorched by the
I sun should 1t survive the night.
Pat regarded the vvrithing E-tle form
a moment only
Sure we're IN the same boat. kitty.
you an me, he said aloud. We're wan
too many IN a crowded world But