The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06

squint. But. as it happens. kissing goes not by merit, but by favor. l somehow did not pass muster as lover. Nor. as have said did much care. Girls seem ed to me frivolous for the most part. Those when di1 admire did not happen to care anything about me" He looked al the beautiful, finely color ed oval sweep of cheek and chin, and at the kindly eyes with just the wrinkles al the corners that he loved; and as he look ed he drew hIs breath hard in a catch of pain that he must miss the happiness found too late.
 Go on," she commanded him, with shining eyes.
 till hers fell confusedly before what she read there.
 Well, now I know that there are just l two classes of women in existence so far l as aEI co1c-rned 1.-the rest of the world. and you. Before l speak yotm under | stand my thought. You aIe my othtr | self, my alter 3gn. Why should hesitate i to put into words what both of us know | so surely? If you were girl could say the things to you that men have beeu | telling women ever since Adam EtammCr- ed the tale to Eve in the garden But am not siri, the words fell softly.
 No, you are not girl. but it you were" he dem lHded, would you listen?
 The hot blood suTused her cheeks hut her eyes came up to meet him steadily as if fascinated.
 Above all man I have ever known 1 should have been happy to hear it from you" she told him slowly. But now ] have no right to listen.
 T knew it." he cried rapturously. | There could be no disguise between us who were meant for each other all these years before we met, o. life Is love and | that. The rest Is all beside the question. | Dear heart, let us two live and love, as | if we stood alone in the whole world. l Her troubled eyes were resolute i'll their answer
 We cannot blot out the world if we would. It would exist for us dcsplte us to point us out as moral lepers. to cry at US Cnclean, unclcan.' | Then let 1t sheer. We should know that it did not unGer stand Has love no rights?'
 obligation under foot" she answered steadily. though Ter face was chalk,
 He was remorseiess' and he pressed | homo the matter the more bTutally be- cause he was fighting his scruples as
 We have hut the one life to live here Shall we prove traitor to love for the sake of petty convention? You cannot you dare not deny that we were fash | toned for each other as never man and l woman were bcfore." he cried, in mad | protest against the bonds that bound
 Womanlitsc she evaded the appeal.
 You may call it convention, but 1t was decreed by God and has been ratified by man for thousands of years We must
 .'There is no absolute right. Everything Is relative. A law may be necessary Tor society at large. yet for Us be death Ii we Stifie the love We hold for each other. then we deliberately dwarf our lives. We fall to live up to the highest possibilities | within us.
 He was quick to see her hesitation, Am l not right, sweetheart? Surely you are not now living as you were meant ! to live. You have no room to grow for l the thousand annoyances and humilia- | tons of daily lie The soul within you
 is dra SSed downward. I offer you a ! chance to live, and you answer me in ef- feet that God has ordained death for you | instead of life. that He has bade you continue in the hell that circumstances and mans vice have created for you. It | Is all false doctrine, none the 'ss p9rni- cicus that It has prevailed for 50 long, If i could tnnk so. she began falttr- 1 lEE!y. But no: we do not live only for ourselves and this life. We cannot dc wrong without affecting others What of him to whom l pligntsd faith?' Has he deserved so much considera-
 ton. then? He who took pure young Elri life in his keeping and made of It
 - n n5 right jpdg> of that Bat ] whether he has de served loyalty or not. owe it him" Prcstntl' she continuod: If this life were all md if We held no relation tn society il would ne Gif r mt | liut to believe that is to cheat ourselves; with lie. There k no end t1 cons ; l oUCnCts.
 "The aim of life is happiness. and when one deliberately elects to be unhappy sh, dccs herself an irremcdiahle wrong'
 Even if ! were aure of that l would not dare. You are man and can snar a woman. I can rot make yol under. stand all that holds me back. ana no a bad woman, Robert, l dare not--I dare not"