The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1896-06-25

Auu yuu-you-uaio W ASpSot thS
cowardly lie of confessed spy. This,
then, Is what you wished to tell me
>this, the insult for which you have
kept me here. because you are incapable
ef understanding unselfish patriotism
or devotion-even TO your own cause
you dare to Judge me by your own
base. Yankee trading standards. Yes,
it is worthy Of you'll"
She walked rapidly up and down, and
then suddenly faced him.
81 understand it all l appreciate
your magnanimity now. You are will
ing should join the company of these
chivalrous gentlemen in order to give
color to your calumnies. Say at once
that it was you who put up this spy to
correspond with me--to come herein
order TO entrap me. Yes, entrap mel
who moment ago stood up for you
before these gentlemen and said you
could not lie! Bah!"
Struck only by the wild extrava-
gance of her speech and temper, Clar-
ence did not know that when women
are most Illogical they are apt to be
most sincere, and from mans stand
point, her unreasoning deductions ap-
peared to him only as an affectation IL
gain time for thought, or theatrical
display to dazzle, like Susy's. And he
was turning. half contemptuously,
away when she again faced him with
flashing eyes:
'Well, hear mel l accept! / leave
here at once to join my own people, my
own friends-those who understand me
put what construction on it that you
choose. Do your worstl You cannot
do more to separate us than you have
done just now"
She left him and ran up the steps,
with an extravagant return of her old
occasional nymph-like gracefulness--
the movement of woman who has
never borne children-and swish Of
her long skirts That he remembered for
many day after as she disappeared in
the corridor.
He remained looking after her-in-
dignant, outraged and-unconvincedl
Then there was q rattling at the gate
He remembered he had locked it. He
opened it to the flushed, pink cheeks
and dancing eyes of Susy. The rain
was still dripping from her wet cloak,
as she swung it from her shoulders.
II know it all. all that's happened"
she burst out, with half girlish exuber-
ance, and half the actress defamation.
1--WE met them all in the road. posse and
prisoners. Chief Thompson knew me
and told me all. And SO you've
done it-and you're master in your old
house again. Clarence, old boyi Jim
said you wouldn't do it. Said you'd
weaken on account of her! But i said
No. knew you better, old Clarence.
and saw it in your face, for all your
stiffness! He! But for all that ! was
mighty nervous and uneasy, and ] just
made Jim send an excuse to the theater.
and we rushed it Down here. Lordy,
but it looks natural to see the old house
Againl And she-you packed thef, of
with the others, didn't yon? Tell me,
Clarence" in her old appealing voice,
s.you shook her, too?"
Dazed and astounded, and yet ex-
pressing vague sense ofrelief with an
oddreturn Of hisold tenderness towards
Che willful woman before him, he had
silently regarded her until her ailnsion
to his wife recalled him to himself.
"Hushl" he said, quickly, with a
glance towards the corridor.
"Ah!" said Susy, with malicious
smile, then that's why Capt. Pinck-
ney was lingering in the rear with the
deputy"
"Silencel" said Clarence, sternly. HGo
in there" pointing to the garden room
below the balcony, land wait until
your husband comes"
He half led, half pushed her into the
room which had been his business Office
and returned to the patio. A Ahesitating
voice from the balcony said: "Clar-
ence.r
1t was his wife's voice, but modified
and gen.ler-more like her voice as he
had first heard it-or as if it were
chastened by some "reminiscences of
those days. twas his wife's face, too,
that looked down on his, paler than he
had seen it since he had entered she
house. She was shawled and hooded.
carrying traveling-bag in her hand.
~ am going, Clarence" she said, with
gentle gravity, "but not IN anger! 4
even ask you to forgive me for the fool
ish words that ! still think your still
more foolish accusation" she smiled
family, dragged from me. am going
( because / know that / have brought,
and that while i am here shall always
be bringing upon you the imputation
and even the responsibility of my own
faith! While | am proud TO own it,
and. il needs be, suffer for it, have no
right to ruin your prospects, or even
make you the victim of the slurs that
others may cast upon me. Let us part
as friends. separated only by our diff
fereEt political faiths, but keeping all
other faiths together, until God shall
settle the right of this struggle. Per-
haps tmay he soon-I sometimes think
it may he years of agony for all-but