Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-11-14
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ued to be laid out on the lines or the
regulation Sunday-school book had II
not been for-well, we will call it-fate.
She was 10 when she learned to
love, II was a very short lesson and
she mastered It easily. All her life she
had been lonely and longing for some
one TO confide in and cling to and she
accepted him unqueationingly as her
protector and guide. do not wish to
do him an injustice. He was not
thoroughly bad man. moreover. ! do
not desire to excuse her or detract one
iota from the magnitude OF her crime.
He did not deceive her. He told her
the day before they were TO be married
that he had a life living. And She
well, perhaps she ought not to have
done it. and of course neither an abso-
Iutely good woman nor thoroughly
unprincipled. selfish woman would
have done Il. But she was only an
everyday, erring mortal and-she mar
ried him anyway. Do not start SO. She
is only an imaginary heroine. Flesh
and-blood creations are not guilty OF
such acts Of indiscretion.
At the end of a year the very
thing which he had always assured her
would be an impossibility became an
assured fact. He returned to his first
love. 1t did not kill her. She schooled
herself to look upon her punishment as
the inevitable result OF her transgres-
sion. and, realizing that her love dream
was ended, she turned once more TO
the innate sources of power and ability
which. with a little cultivation, would
render her Independent OF scoffing rela-,
tives and friends and faithless husband,
While her baby lived there was still
some near and dear object for her to
care for, but with the death Of the
little one she left the place that had
been the scene Of her deepest misery
and greatest Joy and began life again In
far-away place. A new name was
chosen. new work was commenced. and
the dead past buried its dead COM
pletely. 88
Three years OF loneliness, priya-
ton and toll passed away, and then she
found herself wooed by another man.
But | am wearying you and must
hasten on. She did not love this man
in the full sense Of the word. for she
was woman whose former VOWS of
affection were not meant for time
alone, but she knew that she could be
very happy with him and could make
him happy in return. so one day. after
many refusals, she rewarded his i'm
portunity BY promising to marry him.
have carried my own characters up to
this point and now what wish to get
Fat is this: have portrayed this sec
ond sutton as being good, honest and
Kind. He knew nothing OF the wom-
ans past; indeed, he did not suspect
| that she had one, and want to know
/ If 1t would be an inartistic ending for
her to marry him without undeceiv!ng
| him."
Jarvis paused there in his narrative
and sighed deeply.
II told her." he resumed, after a
little, that I knew nothing of the
artistic side Of the matter, but that IL
would be monstrous wrong for her to
do So
And would she not be pardona5le
under any circumstances? Miss Moi
ford persisted. Not even when taking
into consideration her sufferings and
repentance
'''Under no circumstances / reaf.
firmed with emphasis.
Then there is another point, CON
tinued Miss Mofford. IL she told MIN
all what course would he be likely tC
pursue? Judging another mans nature
by your own, tell me honestly,
II 81 saw that her whole soul was
hanging in the balance with my reply
1 and I reflected before giving it.
eff she told him everything unre.
servedly, and he really loved her, hi
would never cease TO care for her in q
certain way, but he would probably
never wish to see her again
THAT settles that question. sh,
went on, and now for one more phase
of the subject. please. If she married
him, leaving him in ignorance and h,
subsequently learned all through othei
sources, what do you suppose he would
dor
He would be justified in doinf
whatever his outraged dignity ant
honor prompted answered. Not onl!
her former sin, but her deceit in deal
ing with him would give him license
TO resort to any method of ayengin;
himself d
Then you think she laughed, tina
my heroine Is beyond redemption?,
$50 far as human laws go, yes
said. ~
80 you see, my. friend" continued
Jarvis, with an attempt to shake of. hi
fit Of meIancholia, II am going to b.
an author. after all, in a. foundation
! way. When our book comes out yol
shall have the first copy. But reall,
YOU can't wonder that 1t puts me on
of sorts, now. can you, to have m,
sweetheart mixed up In such am affair
| even though 1t be in the most innocen
way?" m
And I, ponder.,g deeply over what
had just heard, let Jarvis out of tn
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