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spoke the nush died from her face, and

spoke the flush died from her face, and
she shuddered.
"HeverP' he almost shouted. Moth
Ing shall take you away. WE shall
work here together"
"Ah. if we could. II we only couldr'
she said ~piteously.
"Why not?" he demanded ~fiercely.
"You will send me away. You will
say 1t is right for me to 60" she re-
piled sadly.
his impatient answer.
"Ah. yes, my love-" she said. "but
love is not ALL"
moi" cried Craig. "But love is the
best"
Yes" she said sadly; Glove is the
best. and it is for loves sake we will
do the best"
There is no better work than here.
Surely this is best" And he pictured
his plans before her.
She listened eagerly.
"Oh, If 1t should he right" she cried
II will do what you say! You are
good; you are wise. You shall tell
me."
She could not have recalled him bet
tor. He stood silent some moments,
then burst out ~passionately:
why, then, has love come to usf
We did not seek 1t, Surely love Is Of
God. Does God mock us2"
He threw himself into his chair,
pouring out his words Of passionate
protcstation. She listened, smiling,
then came to him and, touching his
hair as q mother might her child's,
said:
ooh. am very happyi 1 was afraid
you would not care, and I could not
bear to go that way"
"Iou shall not go!" he cried aloud, as
IL In pain. Nothing can make that
right"
But she only said: "You shall tell mo
tomorrow. You cannot see tonight,
but you Will sec, and you will tell me-"
He stood up and, holding both her
hands, looked long into her eyes, then
turned abruptly away and went out.
She stood where lie left her for some
moments, her face radiant and her
hands pressed upon her heart. Then
she came toward my oom She found
me busy with my painting, but as I
looked up and met her eyes she flush.
ed slightly and said:
81 quite forgot you."
$50 1t appeared to me-"
"You hcardT
"And saw" I replied boldly. "It
would have been rude to interrupt,
you see."
ooh, I nm so glad and thankful"
Eyes; 1t was rather considerable Of
me-"
ooh, 1 don't mean thatr the flush
deepening. 81 am glad you know"
~ have known some time"
"How could your I only knew today
myself"
IL have eyes,"
She flushed again.
"Do you mean that people, che be-
gan anxiously.
"No; ! an not people, I have eyes,,
and my eyes have been opened"
"OpenedT
eyes, by love-"
Then I told har openly how weeks
ago | struggled with my heart and
mastered 1t, for | saw 1t was vain to
love her because she loved q better
man, who loved her in return. She
looked at me shyly and said:
81 am sorry"
Don't worry" | said cheerfully. II
didn't break my heart, you know. I
stopped it in time"
"Oh!" she said, slightly disappointed.
Then her lips began to twitch. and she
went off into q At Of hysterical laugh
ter.
Forgive me-" she said humbly, but
you speak as if 1t had been a fever"
"Fever is nothing to it," l said SOL
EMMY. at was a near thing"
AT which h went of again. i was
glad to see her laugh. 1t gave me time
to recover my equilibrium, and 1t re-
llevcd her intense emotional strain. SO
| ratified on some nonsense about Craig
and myself till ! saw she was giving
no heed, but thinking her own thoughts,
and what these were 1t was not hard to
guess.
Suddenly she broke in upon my talk:
Gle will tell me that must go from
him."
81 hope he is no such fool" I said
emphatically and somewhat rudely, I
fear. for I confess I was impatient
with the very possibility of separation
for these two, to whom love meant 80
much. Some people take this sort OF
thing easily and some not so easily,
but low for n woman like this comes
once only to n man, n then he car
ries 1t with him through the length of
his life and warns his heart with it In
death. And when q man smiles or
sneers ut such love as this I pity him
n say no word, for my speech would
be in an unknown tongue. 30 my
heart was sore ne I sat looking mp at
this woman who stood before me, over
flowing with the Joy Of her new love,
and DULY conscious OF the coming
pain. But I soon found It was vain to
urge my opinion that she should re-
main and share the work and life OF
the man she loved. She only answer
ed:
you will help him all you cap, for It
will hurt him to have me 60"
The culver In her voice took but all
the anger from my heart, and before I
knew I had pledged myself to do all I
could to help him.
Blu when I came upon him that
night, sitting in the light of his fire, I
saw he must be let alone. Some bat
ties we fight side by side, with COM
rades cheering us and being cheered to
victory, but there are fights we may
not share, and these are deadly fights,
where lives are lost and won. So I
could only lay my hand upon his shout