The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-22
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ny's strange words, FAD he spoken them
afrosEy No.
Danny, she rurmurcd once more in
tones of endermcnt, ana again she gasp
ed his hands. Their eyes met. The long
ing, yoa"ning look in hers answered to the
wild glare in a
Don't look d me li..o that" he repeat
ed, with the same low moan.
Mona felt us if that were the last she
was ever to see Of the lad in this weary
world. He loved her with all lis great,
broken, bleeding heart. Ktr lips quiyered
Then the brave, fearless, stainless girl put
her quiYerlng lips to his
To Danny that touch was as fire. With
q passionate cry he flung his arms about
her For an instant her head lay on his
breast. Now go, " she whispered and
broke from his embrace
every man OF them, TO lNsseck's house as
fast as their legs will carry them.
Danny's intelligence might be sluggish
at ordinary moments, but tonight it was
suddenly charged with ready mans
swiftness and insight. "But the Castle
Rushen men on the Horse hill will see the
burnin gorsC," he said
"True--;lh, yes, Danny, th0t's tr- !
have it l have it," exclaimed the girl
There are two paths from the LOCkjaw to
Kisseck' house walked both Of thGm
with Ruby yesterday. One goes above the
open shaft of the old lead mine, the other
below it. Tell the men to take the low
road-the low road; be sure you say tho
low road--and if the police see your fire
. til, a
they will pass with cliff between them.
That's 10, thank GodI You understand
me- Danny Are you quite sure you I'M
derstand everything-every little thing?"
"Yes, do, " said the lad with the ener-
gy of a man
when they get to Kissecks cottage let
them smoke drink, gamble swear-any-
thing-to make believe they have never
been out tonight You know what
mean"
IL do" repeated the lad
He was new being. His former self
seemed in that hour to drop from him like
a garment
Mona looked at him In the dim light
shot through the window from the fire,
and for an instant her heart smote her
was he doing for her? Love was her pole
star What was hisY Only the blank self
abandonment Of despair For love Of
Christian she was risking all this But
the wild force that inspired the heart Of
this simple lad was love for her who loved
another. Whose was the nobler part, hers
who hoped all or his who hoped nothingf
In the darkness she felt her face flush
deep Oh what a great little heart was
here-herc, in this outcast boy; this neg
lected, downtrodden, despised and rejected,
poor pitiful waif of humanity
Danny" she murmured with plain
tive tenderness, lit is wrong of me to ask
| you to do this for me-very, very wrong"
His eyes were dilated The face, hither-
to unuttrrably mournful to see, was alive
with n strange fire But he said nothing
He turned his head toward the lonely sea,
whose low moan came up through the
dark night
She caught both his hands with pas
sionate grasp. Danny, she murmured
again, ''if there was another name for love
that is not
She stopped but her eyes were close to
his
He turned Don't look like that, he
cried in IA voice that went to the girls
heart like mn arrow.
She dropped his hands. She trcmblcd
ana glu-;rd "Oh, my own heart will
break ' she said To love and not be
! loved to De loved and not to love-
! ri think at whites I'd like to die in a
big sea likr that
Mona started What had recalled Dan
(COHtinued)