The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-02-02

| they have not known. when they have
not found-t is for them that the bells
| weep Blood | heard in the ringing it
! was an old man. When the old die
Listen TO the bell. 1t is laughing: II. is
right. it is right. He has had his time
They cannot ring so for the young"
! She fell back exhausted. The hot
| light died from her eyes. and she lay
looking oft into the street. BY and by
stra gglers from the funeral began to
come back and disappear here and
there among tile houses. Then all was
quiet. and the night began to settle
down upon the village street. After
ward. when the room was almost dark.
so tnau they could not see eacn otner's
face, she said, 'tIt will rain tonight
and moved ,restlessly on the pillows.
| GLOW terrible when the rain falls
down on YOU"
1 He wondered what she meant, and
they sat on in the still darkening room.
She moved again.
"Will you presently take my cloak
the new gray cloak from behind the
door-and go out with it? You will find
q little grave at the foot of the tall blue
gum tree. The water drips off the
long, pointed leaves. You must cover
1t up with that"
| She moved restlessly, as though in
pain.
| Gregory assented, and there was 81
lence again. 1t was the first time she
had ever spoken Of her child.
cit was so small,' she said. 1T liv
ed such a little while-only three hours.
They laid it close by me, but never
saw it, l could feel it by me-" She
waited. Its feet were so cold. took
them in my hand to make them warm,
and my hand closed right over them,
they were so little" There was an I'M
even trembling in the voice. ut crept
close to me. 1t wanted to drink; it
wanted to be warm" She hardened
herself. 81 did not love it. Its father
was not my prince. did not care for
it. But it was so little" She moved
her hand. "They might have kissed it,
one Of them, before they put it in. 1t
never did any one any harm in all its
little life. They might have kissed it,
one of them"
Gregory felt that some one was Sob
bling in the room.
Late on in the evening, when the
shutter was closed and the lamp light
ed and the raindrops beat on the roof,
he took the cloak from behind the door
and went away with it. On his way
, back he called at the village postoffice
and brought back letter. In the hall
he stood reading the address. How
could he fail to know whose hand had
written it? Had he not long ago stud
, led those characters on the torn frag-
. ments of paper in the old parlcr? A
burning pain was at Gregory's heart.
If now, now at the last, one should
y come, should step in between! He car
:. ried the letter into the bedroom and
gave it to her. Bring me the lamp
J, nearer she said. When she had read
:, it, she asked for her desk.
Then Gregory sat down in the lamp
: light on the other side of the curtain
:. and heard the pencil move on the pa
per- When he looked round the cur
: tain, she was lying On the pillow mus
. ing. The open letter lay at her side
= She glanced at it with soft eyes. The
= man with the languid eyelids must
- have been strangely moved before his
:. hand set down those words: 'Let me-
= come back to you! My darling, let me
), put my hand round you and guard YOU
: from all the world! AS my wife they
= shall never touch you. l have learned
: to love you more wisely, more tender
/ ~, +hor Of Nl1 c1, a
feet freedom. 'Lyndall, grand LITTLE
woman, for your own sake, be m!
wife!
+ "Why did you send that money bacl
!, to me? You are cruel to me. 1t is no
. rightly DONE"
She rolled the little red pencil softl.
II between her fingers, and her face grew
!. very soft. Yet
"a sit cannot be-" she wrote. II thanl
you much for the love you have show
!. me, but l cannot listen. You will cal
me mad, foolish-the world would d
- so-but I know what I need and tn
~ kind of path must walk in. canno
marry you. l will always love you 70
II the sake Of what lay by me those tire
:, hours, but there it ends. I must know
: and see. cannot be bound to on
w whom love as l love you. am nc
=, afraid of the world. I will fight tn
!. :. world. One day-perhaps it may be ia
;, Off shall find what have wanted a
"a my life something nobler, stronge
- than I, before which can kneel dow1
~ You lose nothing by not having N
NJ now. l am a weak, selfish, erring W.
: man. One day shall find somethin
~ to worship, and then 1 shall be-
80 "Nurse," she said, "talle my DIES
- away. am suddenly so sleepy. wi
- write more tomorrow" She turne
~ her face to the pillow. 1t was the sue
-. den drowsiness Of great weakness. Sh
- had dropped asleep in a moment, an
- = Gregory moved the desk softly an
- then sat in the chair watching. Hot
-, after hour passed, but he had no wis
- for rest and sat on, hearing the raj
-. cease and the still night settle dow
20 everywhere. At quarter past - L