Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-06-21
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CHAPTER xxx-scon,inued.o
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Or Under a Spell.
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SShcs .
s'TLou In the sunlight
And In the shale:
But. ali! by the svnlight
The shadow is made.
Thine be the gladness.
And mine be the gloom.
For Love, though thy triumph,
Is only my doom.
In silence ana shadow.
Through veal aud through III,
My fate is to love
And TO follow thee still.
Unseen end unknown
VIII | cling TO thy heart.
For fettrrs have bound me
That death cannot part.
Like one spelbound. Herbert list,
ened. and then. letting the portfolio ht
held fall from his grasp, he turned
swiftly down the corridor whom
which the song-notes seemed TO come
Ii led TO a sort OF conservatory,
which had, a few months ago. been
one Cf the madam's pet follies. but
whose novelty had at present faded
away before some still more charming
caprice.
1t was a mammoth a0uarium-the
stone walls with sea-moss-
es ard trailing water plants; the light,
coming family through shades OF sea-
green glass; the central fountain send.
ing M its peariy spray from a mlnia-
ture lake. on whose bosom the Veto
ria Ragia spread it, mighty leaves,
and Egyptian lilies loated in spotless
beauty.
The entrance to this enchanted
nook was low and rugged. like the
opening of an ocean cave. Huge sea.
shells surrounded the tiny lake. and
the .toss-grown rocks dipped into the
crystal waves.
Seated ON one OF these rocks was a
form that seemed the fitting guardian
OF the fairy scene.
Her filmy white robes were topped
with clusters OF white lilies over an
urderskirt of pale ~sea-green: her float
ing hair a cloud Of golden light. was
wreathed with sea-grasses and waxen
water plants, while the jewels encir-
cling her snowy throat and arms gilt
tered like the spray Of the ocean as 1t
breaks in mid-air.
She was masked. hat the form, the
hair. the voice. made Hprbert's heart
bound within him. and, springing for
ward. be whispered:
"Sybll. SybiI, my lost darling! Have
/ found you at last."
She started. trembled and recoiled
from kim: then. as If c~onquering a
momentary terror, spoke, in a low,
constrained voice:
"You ara hold. sir k~night--oyer bold.
/ am no Sybil. but Lurline. the water
siren. They who brave an entrance
TO my ocean kingdom, do 1t at their
costi''
.Has the eost not been great enough
already? be murmurea. despairingiy.
.Sybil. Sybil, torture me no longer by
these masks and mysteries Call your
self what you will-spirit, mortal, an
gel. or demon-you are TO me, you can
only be to me. the woman l love, with
a love that has changed my life,
blasted nv future, broken my heaft!
.'So. no." she whispered. in tremu-
lous accents: mot that-not that. The
heart never breaks-never breaks. IL
can suffer ali things. even the DEATH
pang itself. and still beat on. Oh.
there are those who carry hearts that
even in such scenes as these culver
with d~eath-throes, and yet cannot
die"
EDO you. too. suffer-" he asked.
moved by the passionate sorrow OF her
tone. oh, my love-my lost love
wL.af reed Is there of this pain, this
sorrow. this mystery? Why do you
thus madden me by brief CLEANS of
hope. that only serve 10 darken more
cruelty the night of despair? | am like
one tossing on n sea of doubt. All
things have failed ~me-faith. hope,
courage, reason. energy-all but love.
Love. that ignis fatuus that leads me
on deeper and deeper into the darkness
love that I cannot turn from-that L
must still pursuev'
lis ii indeed SOL was the low, quiv-
erIng answer. "Alls. alas! Must your
darkened life, toe atone? I-l-oh.
/ would have spared you this-Herbert,
Herbert, l would have spared YOU
this! / thought. l hoped, that mine
alone would be the sorrow. the DOOM
"Sybil, Now Ii Is indeed Sybil
who speaks was his rapturous re-
1olrder. ..Oh. Sybil. my beloved one.
only trust me with your sorrow! Tear
l.Oin yOul iNt tht hhscA0As NhuN -
shrouds 1t, Let the eye OF love read
all, In death or In life, you are"
..Miner' said a fierce Voice at his
side. and a tall form, sArouded in the
flowing garments of a monk, doomed
up behind the shrinking Lurline.
again. again? Girl. girl, have l not
warned you that-that-"
He stopped. as If checked with rage.
.Go. go.' she pleaded. turning to
Herbert-"go. for Goi's sake, and leave
U.S.
Never. never. till I know the mys-
terry OF your fatar' was the determined
answer. Never. until I know who 1t
IL that dares to stand between me and
The woman ! Ioye.'
sI1e you AK wh0f' cried the monk.
tearing tie mask from his face. and
disclosing shg features of the one man
on eastb whom be remembered as an
eEeny ~tbe az taGoniSf whom he had
eneotstssed Nlree years before az Sun
so bfN t'Trasf0r snd robber that you
srs, woes6 y0n steal from me the only
Afepsefe bare teftS BECOME. or 1
Wi fssEsa spgseIf sud be again q mad.
naNAs kexpnss 1 teii you she n mine!'
- @Fs esfAasiaed Herbert. turning
s Ma3ts fRes tDwsgd her as II be
heard Retlet tke SpSniss f0r ihe men
ssess 81 fAsS Dteesspeak 10 noe. Nybit.
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