The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-02-22

The blue eyes looked out WIN milo
gentleness that became eyes looking
out from under a "kapje." Next he
took the brown dress and. looking
round furtively, slipped 1t over his
head. He had just got his arms in the
sleeves and was trying to hook up the
the rain at the window made him drag
it off hastily. When he perceived there
was no one coming, he tumbled the
things back into the box and. covering
it carefully, went down the ladder.
EN- was still at her work, trying to
adjust a new needle in the machine.
Gregory drank his soup and then sat
before her, an awful and mysterious
look in his eyes.
II am going to town tomorrow" he
said.
'I'm almost afIaid you won't be able
to co." said EN-, who was intent on her
needle. 81 don't think it is going to
leave off today"
II am going" said Gregory.
EN- looked up.
You cannot go. We can wait for the
post" she said.
81 am not going for the post" said
Gregory impressively.
EN- looked for explanation. None
came.
when will you be backT"
81 am not coming back
"Are you going to your friends?
Gregory waited, then caught her by
the wrist.
"Look here, En-" he said between
his teeth. 81 can't stand it any more.
am going to her."
Since that day when he had come
home and found Lyndall gone he had
never talked of her, but EN- knew who
it was who needed to be spoken of by
no name.
She said when he had released her
hand:
"But you do not know where she is?'
when l heard last. | will go there, and
I will find out where she went then,
and then, and then! will have her"
EN- turned the wheel quickly, and
the ill adjusted needle sprang into 20
fragments.
Gregory" she said, .'she does not
want us. She told us so clearly in the
letter she wrote" A flush rose on her
face as she spoke. 1T will only be
pain to you. Gregory. Will she like to
have you near herw
There was an answer he might have
made, but it was his secret, and he did
not choose to share it. He said only:
81 am going"
"Win you be gone long. Gregory"
81 do not know. Perhaps l shall
never come back. Do what you please
with my things. l cannot stay here.
He rose from his seat.
"People say forget, forget" he cried.
They are fools! Do they say so to men
who are dying Of thirst-forget, forget?
Why is it only to us they say so? 1t
is lie to say that time makes it easy!
1t is afterward, afterward, that it eats
in at your heart! All these months
he cried bitterly, II have lived here
quietly. day after day, as if cared
for what l ate and what l drank and
what l did! l care for nothing! l can
not bear it! l will not! Forget. for
getv' calculated Gregory. "You can
forget all the world. but you cannot
forget yourself. When one thing is
more to you than yourself. how are you
to forget it?
81 read" he said-"yes, and then l
come to a word she used, and it is all
back with me again! go to count my
sheep, and | see her face before me,
and l stand and let the sheep run by.
look at you, and in your smile.
something at the corner Of your lips.
see her. How can forget her when.
whenever l turn, she is there and not
there? cannot, l will not, live where
l do not see her!
81 know what you think" he said.
turning upon EN-. You think l am
mad; you think l am going to see
whether she will not like me! l am
not so foolish. l should have known
at first she never could suffer me. Who
am l, what am l. that she should look
at me? If any one says it Is not, it
is a lie! l am not going to speak to
her." he added, 'only to see her. only
to stand sometimes in a place where
she has stood before"