The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-06
"Amiel says that we must have the courage to be happy even through inces-

"Amiel says that we must have the courage to be happy even through inces- Sant conhict. ~
 age to be happy. Our sin would rise deadly berricr between us and our Joy.
 you are like Archie Weir in whose horoscope it was to be pdrsimonious or pain, even to the avoidance of any chance or pleasure. One can gain no great good without paying somehow for 1t.
 T might pay too great price. Do know how long 1 could hold your love- or at what sacrifice to myself? First or all, love must be founded upon respect, and the fear would be always. with me that you were wearying.
 Can you not trust me-?
 II do not know" she cried wearily. Il think 1t is myself l cannot trust. .
 He took her hands in his and locker down tenderly into the face he loved. l ly. "I cannot--I will not. After long years of drifting we have come together. kind to kind. Fate is to blame not we:
 For moment her world, her standards cf life, swan dizziiy before her. Sne was conscious only of an overwhelming desire to let her head fall on his shoulder Tn complete surrender. What use to strug-
 gle? He had called 1t fate. Why not give way to the great surge of happiness
 that was sweeping over her? For one instant only, then she summoned her lest reserve of strength and pushed him from her.
 "Ob, no-no-no!1 A lifetime is too long
 to suffer for the impulse of a moment.
 Robe, |. help mo 10 dc right" she i'm plorcd.
 He hardened his heart and would not respond to the appeal in her eyes for for bearancC. Desperately she groped for
 scmo motive powerful enough tn movo him.
 "Oncc I saved a young girl from dis
 aster just in time. She worshios me as
 her model. If l failed her what would be the effect upon her? Are there is none non, \ trust in you? What of the little sister to
 whom you have 1een both brother and father for ten years? Let us not remem- Der only the present. she pleaded. And | again. in a great cry of anguish, oh, l Robert. help me, help mel.
 Something in the forlorn cry stirred all 1 the chivalCy in him. He had hoped |"
 make the burden of life light for her. to | teach her to forget the bitter past in q | love-lit future. But what right had he | to fight against her resolve to bear her sudden anger at his cowardlv nsistence, | If she saw the path of duty clear, since 1 he loved her he should be the last to
 throw hindrances in her hard way
 itont humility "l think I have been
 mad with love of you. What have been saying is all wrong, l have no excuse
 save that love y9qIii yfoIioo Th5 h. rand smiling sad
 sweet but there is. always the consola-
 tion that we have learned what love is. l Dearest. I am not worth those tears" ''Yes, we shall have that; and we shall | have the finer consolatio of knowing 1 that we made our love suhserve no sell l fish end that out of weakness and sor-
 row we wrought strength into the tex 1 ture of our lives. In the end it will not l be all pain. Robert She was smiling tremulously at him with her lips, but the tears were yelling | fast out of her eyes. His hearts desire
 was to comfort her, to wrap her in his | arms and with tender kisses to smother | the moist eyes and wavering mouth. He i dared not touch even her hand lest his | resolution waver.
 "Remember that I love you now and l always. There will never be a time too l far away to come to me for holp If you
 need any he said and turning on hts ! heel he disappeared into the darkness. She groped her way to the rustic bench 1 through her tears and covered her face i with her hands to keep out the vision of ] m cmnty fiturc