The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-08-07
APT TX.

men Namarah came again into his
arms, and while they clasped her close
with loves true tenderness. behold the
maiden began softly to weep, and said:
i am even satisfied to die tonight.
knowing a love like thine. If I die
n thou Invest, l beseech thee that
thou wilt be even as a son unto my
Iatner Jephthah, for his heart is brok-
en- within him, and by reason Of his
vow he giveth up his only child
That will l maiden" saith Adina.
and II so be that l shall live and thou
diest, that will even be nv work in
lie. An, Namarah, my most holy and
most beauteous love, hast thou thought
upon the WEAKNESS and darkness of
the life that l will lead without thee
even through youth and manhood and
old age?"
e beloved, I have thought OF It."
she a~nswered-"be sure thai I have
thought of it-with a heart made wild
with anguish, and it seemeth unto me
tnat thy fate is even a harder one than
mine. But now that we have spoken
OF THESE things, and thou knowes NV
thoughts and wishes concerning thy
life, II thou are left to live it out with
out me, let us speak of it no more and
let us even, so far as. in us lies. Danish
1t from our thoughts. / would have
thee give me a solemn pledge that
when depart on the morrow, l, and
the maidens that be my COMPANIONS
thou wilt pray continually, as | shall
90, Tor deliverance. Kneel with me
noW' Adlna, and let us pray this
prayer, even in the silence OF our
hearts,"
And side by side, upon the grass ba-
meath the white light Of the moon. thew
knelt together. hand in hand. and lifted
up their hearts. So still and silent was
the night that the little brook which
ran through the garden, down at the
1901 OF the hill, could be heard gurg-
ing over Its stones, and the notes of
the doves In their house near by sound
ca mournfully and p~leadingly in their
ears. The soft wind of the summer
night played lightly over their bowod
heads, ruffling Adina's golden curIs and
blowing against his throat a long tress
OF Namarah's silky hair. Long time
they knelt there, their bodies touching
only In that close hand-clasp, but their
souls fused into one.
When they rose from their knees and
stood erect In the pale moonlight. both
tall and young and beautiful in their
fair white raiment, they turned and
wound their arms around each other
IN an embrace Of unspeakable love.
Again the night lay wrapped in silence.
suddenly there was a fiuttering above
them, and a white bird flew down and
aiighted. There 1t nestled, with a little
plalntlve moan. AS the young man
and the maiden strove each to touch
md soothe its rufled feathers, their
W o hands met and clasped.
1t is the little messenger" said Ma
marah, as the bird crept closer to the I,
OF their necks, between the ,
irch made by their close-pressed I
'neeKs. 1t seemeth to be restless and 9
Unhappy. There was one of nv doves /,
killed by a hawk one day. while this Z
Messenger was gone with thee. Think q
st tnou itecould have been its mate? r
saw the great hawk swoop down upon ;
: day. as it sat alone apart from n
IL the rest. and before-I could run to q
Is rescue, the poor little thing had 7
cen carried on in those cruel claws. =
'hou knowest-dost thou not?-that !
dove Is the image OF constancv :.
that when 1t once loses it's mate it &
axes none other evermore." i
Even as 1t shall be with me-" 81
reathed forth Adina. III lose the y,
ate whereunto my soul Is already NJ