Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-01-18
3 LIND LOVE
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fashion. Day and night the rain fell, max
ing the gravel walks too wet and the
streets impossible. Then Lord Harry sat
IN his room and smoked all day long. And
still the melancholy Of the one increased
and the boredom Of the other.
He spoke at last. IL was after break
fast.
Iris" he said. 'how long Is this to con
timer"
''This-what?"
"T'his life-this miserable solitude and
silence"
It'll we die" she replied. what else
do you expect You have sold our freedom
aDd we must pay the price"
No: it shnll end. | will end IL. i can
endure it no longer"
You are still young. You will perhaps
have fort more years to live-all like this
las dull aud empty. 1t is the price We
must pay"
No" lie repeated. at shall end. ]
swear that | will go on like this no long
err"
lyon had better go to London and walk
In Pfccadiliy TO get Il little society"
What ITO You care what | do or where
] GO"
I'VE will not reproach each otter, Har.
~
"Wty--what else do you do all dav long
but reproach me with your gloomy looks
aud our silenceS"
NV y ~ JO1 1Gtls AAut YIN
change in the life"
BE gracious for a little. and listen TO
my plan. ] have made "a plan. Listen. Iris.
l can no longer endure his life. Ii drives
me mad"
And me, too. That is Que reason why
we o not desire TO change it. Mad
people forget. They think they are some
where else. For US TO believe hat we
were somewhere else would be In itself
happiness"
II ann resolved to change tito change
IT., ] say-at any risk, We will leave Lon.
vainr'
1--WE can. | dare say" Iris replied, cold
ly, find another town, French or Bel
giaD, where We con get another cottage,
behind high walls in a garden, and hise
there"
NO, | will hide no longer. am sicl OF
hiding"
Go on. What is your plauy Am TO
pretend to be some one els, IS Nidowp'
will 20 10 America. Ther. are
heIps oi places ia the StS;v5 where 10 Ea
gllsh people ever go-neither tourists nor
settlers--places where they have certainly
never heard OF us. We will hud some
quiet village, buy a small farm, and settle
among the people. | know something
about farming. We need not tro1ble to
make the thing pay. Aud We will 90
back TO mankind again. Perhaps, Iris
when we have gone back 10 the World
you Willie hesitated--"you will be able
10 forgive me, aud TO regard me again with
your Old thoughts. IL was done FOR your
sake
1T was not done for my sake. Do not
repeat that fHlsehoOd. The old thoughts
will never come back, Harry. They are
dead and gone. | have ceased To respect
you or myself. Love cannot survive the
loss of self-respect, Who am | that
should give love to anybody Who are
you that YOU $ Ould expect love-
"Wlll you 90 with me TO America-loTe
or no love. cannot stay here--I will NO.
stay here"
81 will 20 with you wherever you please,
j should like not 10 run risks. There are
still people whom it would pain TO see Iris
Henley tried aud found guilty with two
others on a charge OF fraudulent cOnspir-
acy."
II wouldn't accustom myself, II I were
you, Iris, to speak Of things too plainly,
Leave the thing to me and | Will arrange
1T. See now. we will travel b. a night
train from Brussels to Calais. We will
take the or 1ss-country line from Am.eus
to Havre: there we will take board for
New York-no English people ever travel
by the Havre line. Once in America. we
will push mp cOuntry--to Kentucky or
mewhere-aud fad that quiet country
place: after that | ask no more. | will
settle down for the rest Of my life and
have no more adventures. Do you agree,
Iris;"
II will do anything that you wish," she
replied, cJldly.
Very well. Let US lose no time. ! feel
clicked here. Will you 90 into Brussels
aud buy q Continental Bradshaw or a
B~aedeker, or something that will tell us
the times OF sailing. the cost OF passage,
aud all the rest of its We will take with
us money to start us with: you will have
IN xrrtfn ~ ypfHr ha mars We ean aaGilv
a.r~asss a. S.s. sss as.s.-~ -~.ss a.. s--
York, aud Ii n be invested there-e1cepl
your OWE fortune-tn my new naine W.
shall want no outfit for a fortnight at sea
] have arranged il all beautifully. Child
look like your old self" He took an unre
sisting hand. II want to see you smile
aud look happy again"
You never WILL
"Yes-when we have got ourselves GU
OF this damnable, unwiIolesome wag oi
life: when we are with our fellow-creature,
again. You will forget this--this it'll,
business-which was. Won know, after all
an unhappy necessity
"Ohi how can | ever forget,"
New interests will arise; new friend
ships will be formed"
Harry, IL Is myself that | cannot for
give. Teach me TO forgive myself. and
will forget everything"
He pressed her no longer.
"Well. then" he said. Ego to Brussel.
and get this information. II you will no
trV to conquer this absurd moral sensitive
ness-which come too late-you will nj
least enable me TO place you in u healthier
atmosphere"
II will go at once" she said. IL will &c
by the next train"
There is a train at "A quarter TO two
You can do all you have TO do aud catcl
the train at five. lris"-the chance Of 4
change made him impatient-'let us "
| 81 .lrpAuv nj N no by tho nfphf nv
press. There will be English travellers
but they shall not recogn re me. w,
shall be in Calais at one in the morning
We will go on by AL early train before til,
English steamer comes in. Will you bs
readyi"
Yes; there is nothing to delay me.
suppose we can leave the house by pay
ing the rent' 1 will go and 90 what yor
want"
Let us go this very night,"
IF you please: | am always ready"
mo: there will be no time: IL will look
like running away. We will go to-mor
row night. Besides, You will be too tired
after going to Brussels and back. Iris. W,
are going TO be happy agaiu-I am sur,
we are" He, for one, looked As IL there
was nothing to prevent a return of hap
piness. He laughed aud waved his
hands. "A new sky--new sce1es-new
work-you will be happy again, Iris. You
shall go. dear. Get me the things
want"
She put Oh her thick veii and started on
her short Journey, The husbands sudden
return 10 his former good spirits gave hcl
4 CLEAN of hope. The change would b<
welcome indeed II il permitted him to &c
about among other men, and 10 her " Il
ga We her occupation. As TO forgetting
how could she forget the past. so long ~
they were reaping the fruit Of their wick
edness I'm the shape OF solid dividendsl
she easily found b she wanted. Tht
steamer of the Ccmpagn.e Generate Trans
atlantique left Havre every eighth day
They would 90 by that line. The more sh;
considered the plan the more IL com
meuded itself. They would at any rate
90 out Of prison. There would he !
char &c in their life. Miserable coalition.
To have no other choice of life but that OF
Punishment and concealment; no Other
prospect than that OF continual fraud re
newed by every post that brought h
money.
When she had got all the information
that she wanted she had still au hour Of
two before her. She thought she woulc
spend the time wandering about the streets
OF Brussels. Ine animalIon ana life 0
the cheerful city-where all the people
except the market women are youag-
pleased her. IL was long since she haC
TO u busy street. She walked slowly
sloug, up one street and down another
looking into tho shops, She made two Oh
three little purchases. She looked into
place oiled with Tauchpitz Editions, aud
bought two or three books. She was be
ginning to thing that she was tired an
\ had better make her way back to th,