Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-06-20

TOOK possession or hers; and she re-
called a picture of a sea churned into
foam; of n boat drifting out toward
the waste of ocean; and above the
gray surface of the ~stone-hued waters,
d boys head turned landward.
Once, in following Trevelyan from
n room TO another, she glanced out
Of the window and noticed vaguely
that the heavy rain drops lay upon
the glade. Later, she was conscious
of the u booming of thunder, echo
ing among the nearby crags and los
ing itself in the beat of the surf.
Then a flash of vivid lightning lit UP
the sudden darkness hat had fallen
on the rock.
Trevelyan rushed to the window.
The thralldom of the Scotch boys
story was upon him still.
Its a Storm" he cried. It's a
storm come to welcome met"
He turned to Cary.
"Come herei" he commanded
"where you can watch the sea and
the storm, light it out together!."
She am instantly.
The darkness increased until they
could no. distinguish each others
faces The thunder came and bea
itself against the crags and spent it,
self. Now and again they could see,
by the gi're of the prolonged light
ming, the waters dashed into a white
fury Once, by its light, she looked
at Trevel ans face. 1t was white
n he was breathing deeply. He
was looking seaward and seemed I'M
conscious of her presence. Once he
flung out his hand and it touched
hers. 1t was colder than the storm
chill in the air. Once, she looked at
him again, and he, turning, met her
eyes. Some power as mighty as the
storm held her look to his. and then
above the heating of the thunder on
the crags and the booming of the
surf, she heard his voice.
"Just ypI and 1 and the storm!
You and 7 III all the world-all that
the world nolds!" She felt his hand
upon her shoulder; she felt its cold
ness through her heavy dress and she
shrank away from him, her voice and
her words broken, with a Eameless
fear.
! Above the storm she could heal
Trevelyan' laugh.
LET you go, when I've got you at
last! Let you go, when your face
mas haunted me through all the days
and all the nights of the long
months! Let-you-go!"
"Oh, Rohert!"
"Oh, you: think I'm madi Well,
perhaps 1 am for love of you. You
haunt me. You possess me. 1t was
$3.50, fo. 7 o,-.l . A. .-
There! don't tremble so! won't hurt
you, child!" The thunder drowned his
voice.
ID you dream what you are to me
OF could nake of me?. Do you know
what it Is to hold a mans soul in
your hands?"
The spell of his words lifted. The
instinct o. an unknown danger pos
sessed her. She slipped away in the
blackness toward the door. The 81
lence grew and grew.
Gradually the darkness lifted and
the thumb and the boom of the
surf lessened and the lightning came
at long ard longer intervals. Cary
became acutely conscious of every
sound. Somewhere in the distance
she heard voices and the echo of
mems footballs. She kept her eyes
away from 1revelyan, who was stand
ing with ms back to her. Danger
lay that way
Then the spell of Trevelyan's near
ness crept ever her again. h tried
to fight it off, trembling. She moved
4 step toward him, one HAND pressed
close to her breast. Then she paused,
arrested by a voice.
Robert: Cary! Cary!"
The souJd echoed down the great
hall, across the still, deserted rooms,
10 the study, where they stood.
Trevelyan turned sharply
"Johni"
Cary's hand crept from her breast
10 her face and she covered her eyes.
"Johni"
Trevelyan crossed the space be-
tween them.
"Cary!" +
The woman shrank back.
Don't, you brighten mel" she
moaned.
Trevelyan caught her by the wrist.
"Cary! Caryi Take that back!
How can love brighten? See, l love
yOu--lONe you.
She was in his arms and he was
leaning over her, his mouth close to
her face
Gary" he whispered.
Down the long hall, through the
silence of the deserted rooms, came
the voice:
Gary! Where are you? Cary!"
She wrenched herself out of Trevel-
vans arms.
You are a coward" she said,
slowly.
a wild tide of passion 1eaped up in
Trevelyan.
"How dare you call me a coward?"
he said, and his lips could hardly ar
ticulate. eff you were not a wom-
an" He choked and his voice died
away.
Cary moved nearer to the door.
Once she turned her pale face and
looked at T~revelyan. Trevelyan stood
rigid ard mute where she had left
him, the knuckles of one hand pressed
to his mouth. She faltered.
"Caryi Cary! Where are you?"
She turned, her thumb and fore
finger pressing her throat.
"Here!" she cried. Then louder:
Here" +,
TreveIyan passed her and strobe