People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-11-08
Jennie HarIoWe.
BY W. CLARK RUSSELL.
CHAPTER X-CONTINUED.
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CHAPTER X-CONTINUED.
You will take me with yous'
| answered quickly. "0h, yes. God
forbid that should leave fellow
creature to perish in loneliness in
such desolate hole as this. "
81 will fill your breaker for you. ="
he cried, with CLEAN of delight in
his eye and pathetic alacrity in his
manner. 1T is walk of hard upon
two miles from here. This | can do
while you are collecting the nuts.
1t will save time. And, Mr.. Fur.
long, let US understand each other.
Your wife IS yoursm his voice trem-
bled, and | looked to see him weep.
al am dead to her, | see, sir.
would not come between yOu-nay,
how could l do so? | am dead to her,
l say"
eyed him jealousy, every in,
stinct in me doubted him, and yet
my heart glOwed with triumph to
the thought that he spoke the truth
too when | reflected that while her
memory remained blank he was
literally as dead to her as though he
had gone down a calcined corpse
with the charred fabric of the shin
he had commanded.
"Be it as you say. Captain Har-
ness" said ]. 'Icould not part with
her."
He interrupted me. "Mr Fur
long, | see how it is and understand
how t'has come about. Help me to
deliver myself from this frightful
Imprisonment, and | promise you
that at the first opportunity of sep.
aration we will part, never, so far
as | can help it, to meet again.
inclined my head; he extended
his hand, and ] gave him mine, which
he squeezed with vigOr that had
something of ferocity in it, so that
when he let it fall | glanced at the
tinger-tips expecting to see blood
there.
Now, SIR" he cried, "let us lose
no time. Is the breaker in the
bOatPn
answered ives"
He walked out of the cave and
went directly to the creek, | follow
ing him closely, consumed with
jealousy, assured in my heart that
l ought not to trust him an inch
further than l could see him or the
breadth OF a fngernail beyond my
Interpretation OF his motives, vet
dominated by his energy. He
passed close to Jenny but never
looked at her. observed that she
restlessly toyed with her hands.
pulling her fingers as though she
strained her mind while she fastened
her fine glowing eyes upon his fig
IRE. She smiled on catching my
glance as looked back, but a mo.
ment or two after her chin was sunk
upon her bosom in an attitude of
deep thought.
Some fresh water remained in the
breaker; he poured it into several
empty tins which were in the boat,
saying that though we had not far
to go we might yet come to want all
the fresh water we could carry.
He examined the boat with eager
eyes and swOre she was a very
pretty, sea-worthy craft, and a
handsome sailor he did not doubt;
and then shouldering the breaker,
he said he would return within an
hour, during which he advised me
to collect as many nuts as | could
knock down or find lying round
about. He trudged past Jenny, but
without throwing glance at her,
ana after walking little way along
the beach he struck into the left, and
presently lost sight OF him among
the growths.
The conflict of emotions had ex-
hausted me. went to the shadow
OF the tree where Jenny was and
seated myself at her side leaning nv
head upon her shoulder. She kissed
me and put her hand around me and
held me to her. Presently she asked
who that man was; why did he call
himself her husband? Had his liv-
ing alone in this desert place crazed
his poor wits? She smiled and re-
peated, What can he mean, dearest?
l believe he ran at me to kill me-"
| answered that it was no doubt as
she had surmised; often shipwrecked
men went mad after even a short
spell OF loneliness upon an uninhab-
tied island. She asked me If | knew
his story, invented a tale for
him. My jealous fear was indeed
consuming passion, and dreaded in
her the dimmest perception of the
truth, lest the faint ray should |
broaden into full Highland she should
turn to him who, behind the veil. /
was her dear love and her husband /
before God and man with a recoil /
from me, even as she had fed in the |
darkness that was upon her soul
from the outstretched arms and crv
OF love to her to my side Tor protec- /
ton from him.
Meanwhile Captain Harness did |
not return | made nothing at first :
at his DELAY. for ha bad told r,a +hot