The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-04-26

gone out wholly, utterly TO another, ana
that other not my pighted husband"
Even through the suffering in the,
girls voice there was defiant resolve to
| bear it all now.
"Who is - that other?" The strong
man rembled-half in hope, half in
doubt-as he whispered the question,
stretching eager hands, as if to clutch
the answer. The girl turned her face
aside once more, but the low voice was |
very tender and without one tremor as
1t formed the two words,
"Adrien Latour!'
For a single instant the color fell out
of Dale Everett's face, leaving it ashen
dull. Then the old blood that had flowed
on Roundhead battlefield and warmed
stiffening limbs on the Mayfower's deck
rose to his cheeks again, burning there
in scarlet disks. For one instant he was
silent. When he spoke there was strange
sweetness in the voice that pleaded for
another's happiness; no trace of the Bit
ter strife with his own heart, from
! which was born this grand self sacrifice.
\ "Bennie, you spoke truly when you
said we are old friends" He did not
touch her hand now, but drew nearer
a the bowed form of the woman he loved
8 bending over her with infinite pity.
/. "By that friendship and for the sake of
4 another almost as old, but oh, how diff
r ferent, implore you to forego this sim
full purpose! Think of the sin against
the old man, against him whose love
YOU have confessed, more than all,
+, against your own soul! All, Bonnie,
IT misguided child as You are, your own
purity, as my judgment, must warn you
l, that she who weds without love is nc
W wife to the man she betrays! She is
r only his mistress!'
10 The girl recoiled as he had struck hel
< with the hand that touched so tenderly
n the golden hair in benson. But he Wen
20 on steadily:
81 "When | said loved you, it needed
IL no oath to prove my truth. But tn
SO name you whispered binds me in homo
ou to the friend who trusts me wholly an
:, who also-loves your
MI Quickly the girl raised to his tear din
ne med eyes, now full of wondering doubt
10 Twice her lips moved as if in speech, bu
res no sound came from them.
he Eyes, it is Gods TRUTH" the man wei
on, in his grand loyalty. 81 told you W
EN- had pact; the first who met you whe
Is we were free was to speak. For, wit
ny all the feryor of his southern bloo
IL Adrien loves you, too"
no With low, pitiful cry, Bonnie hel
act out her hands eagerly; Il crimson tloC
u! swept brow and cheek. Then the fa
her grew deadly white, the hands fell nerv
Im' less and with bowed head she sto'
out mute, as if for sentence.
wn "Hear me, Bennie!" the man pleade
"If you spoke truly, Adrien Latour mt
my be the husband of your heart, spite
art, your mockery of Gods law with this c
owe man."
'pe, With head bowed lower, in voice Ii
zen distant moan, she answered:
say, Chow truly l spoke God knows, W
love Furnishes me sol"
''Then | will go for Adrien!" D.
iris spoke in eager vibrance now, no Ions
the doubtfully. Months ago, when ca
1t. learned the others love, we made {
new compact. l have spoken, and can b
you my sentence Oh, Bonnie, do not ma
it your own also! Let me tell Adrie
face stand aside that he may have his ow
the What changes of hope, doubt ;
she despair filled the stricken girls heart
oder Dale spoke, only the Searcher of all
ding know. Over her pale face swept al
Ii OF succession, setting into a stony cast
sus- the drawn features as the man turne'
carry out his loyal purpose. Then v
You quick, imperious gesture she stop
spise him, speaking with hard bitterness
seemed to sting herself with every w
g far "Stop, Dale Everett! What is S
loved be! Am | a shuttlecock to be BAN
n the between you, left to the chance of
and spoke first? You say sell myself?
refuse to be ratified by men who
= willing that first come shall be
" the served. You shall not go for him!"
d one The little hands tightly clinched
held the heaving bosom; the slim foot pre-
fore hard upon the floor; all the light il
girls blue eyes was of insulted prid
last! "Let me go!" Dale urged. 'Do
- risk the ruin of three lives by your
strug- pride. Bonnie, think, before it is
We no later
at is too later she answered,
She lessly as bitterly; the hands pre-
7ncast harder on her heart, but the heat
family erect. "What is done cam
,kily. undone save by Gods will, ant
still. knows l have not deserved all you
"Do She turned away, paused and I
afraid her hand, half in warning, half in
brave ace.
ed his 81 confded in your honor, only t
ssayed sen blow to you," she said c.
naudi- "Now forbid you to breathe-so
as we both shall live-one word of
has passed"
n low On the very threshold she t
again, red disks glowing in her cl
locked her eyes full on the wondering OF
ha low her lover But dead white lips II
the words
Remember! trusted to your h
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