Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-01-15

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had she been Laura Lazr5st. and
heard his tone and words, seen the
look tn his eyes. she should have srezz-
ble- @or her empire over hiE-
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EprfghtEesg Of her character szs-zIne8
her in temptation which Was PERHAPS
the greatest Of her life IL was the
teEaptat5cn 10 yield Al least t-wzrdly,
To the tenderness and passion Of his
Eascs. But she took his words and
manner TO be merely al iH0rd5nats
gratitude.
@You hare no caE to be 30 CRATE
f1l Mr.. RoEhezay," she said, noW Sic
cee3ing 81 Withdrawing her hand
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BY ang stranger who had been IN
fortunate ike you"
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were almost Icy, 81 much repression
had she put upon heTEelf-his face
faded from ifs warm expression into
one Of such bitter disappointment that
IL pierced like a knife into the girI's
heart But she did not soften; she
vas afraid Of herself IL she relaxed her
hold over herself ever SO much as By
a hairs breadth.
You and your father have been
very kind" be repeated In a set voice,
"and ! shall eve forget f. ] hope
/ shall not tregpass upon your kind
ness much longer. I had thought that
tomorrow I might be able . leave,
but. he sighed, YEARLY, Il fear thar /
oyerestimated my strength l shall be
obliged TO remain get a day longer"
Yes, IL viii be safer. You viii gain
nothing by too great haste" sne Te
Piled
She was longing TO get away by her
self, but Just then a neighbor came
and sat down for a long gossip, and
the girl was obliged To endure IL, and
il took a strength and resolution Of
which che did not know herself cap
able.
At last she was free, and she fed out
Of doors, walking down the beach until
she came to a sheltered corner OF rock,
when she threw herself down on the
sands with an expression so suggestive
Of despair as 10 be stronger than any
words could have been.
She loved Vance Rothesay. She
could no longer deny IL TO herself. His
voice and eyes had stirred the deepest
depths OF her heart She loved him,
and loved hopeIessly-most h~opelessly.
She sat with her white face turned
toward the sea, her eyes fearless, look
ing, unseeingly. forward. The one
thought that repeated itself, again and
again in her mind was the one shaped
IL these words:
HE could have loved me II he were
only freel"
II was a thought far more dangerous
10 her peace OF mind than IL she had
felt assured that he could never have
felt more than in a friendly way.
Pride would have aided her then; now
the look into her future was dreary,
indeed; 1t seemed to her that she
could not face ii.
From the first moment Of her seeing
Vance Rothesay he had been to her
like the hero Of those very vague
dreams that come 10 almost every girl;
and she struggled with that feeling uE-
til, at times, she imagined she had
conquered IL.
TX be had gone away without MOTTO
ing her, she knew that she could soon
er have conquered q peace with her
self: but now In vain, she told her.
self that mis- tone and glance might
mean nothing but a moments feeling
that he would instantly forget
II was not conceit or seIf-love that
told her he had felt as deeply as he
seemed TO do. She could read his
heart, and she read there what made
him love her still more deeply and
what enhanced her despair.
She saw herself going down the path
OF life alone. always with that n love
In her heart. She longed for him I
go: and she looked upon his departure
as the shutting out of the light OF her
life.
Time few or relentlessly as she sat
there, struggling to attune herself to
at least a decent bearing OF the fate
laid upon her.
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