The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-12
.nAuE,DAyEp, SHE CRIED, 81 WILL NOT GIVE YOU UP!
80 I WILL NOT GIVE YOU UPP' I.

winaple as a warning-that Is you know, to impress
her the wickedness Of her white sisters And =
er-7thnk she proftcd by 1t. Don't you
She dlsrcgarded the sting and went on In the last
letter which YOU did not receive told as you have
ago. said that. If did not come out to me.
would go in to YOU And as I had often promised
came"
81 know of no PROMISE"
I'm tho earlier etters?' l5a RE5 Hfet
Yes you promised, but l neither asked nor an
swered It was unratihed So do not know Of any such
promise But do know Of another, wtnch you, TOO,
the axe-handle 10 the floor and raised head, 1T
very long ago, yet renembcr 1t distnctlythe day
the time, detail. We were In q rose garden you
and Your mohers rose Garden AZ things were bud
ding, blossomng and the SAP Of spring was ~ our blood
full full on the lips Don't You renenbcr?"
"Don'tgo over it, Dave, don't! know every shameful
line Of IT. How often have wept II YOU, only knew
how I have suffered-"
"You promised me then-ay, and a thousand times
in the days that followed Each look of your eyes,
each touch Of hand each syllable that fell from your
lips was promise And then-how shall say?-there
youand not nice to look upon but as the world goes
clean He had done no WRONG followed the letter Of
he several paltry Mines score It does
not matter and he owned few mile OF lands ana ensl-
"But there were other things she Interrupted. ~ told
Pressure mattera--wantny peope,ro ,,I
bic, You understood the whole sordld stuauo cou'q
sacrificed. have 1t as you wish! But, my God! Dave,
gave you up! You never did me justice Ih1k what
have gone through" s8f.
IT your viii? Pressure? Under high heaven cay,
there thing TO Will you 70 tn!s man Deu oI VIZ
But you all tho time, she pleaded ~
was unused TO your way OF measuring love. J am stl
unused. l do understand.
I'VE speaking Of this man You saw ~ TO marry
What manner of man was no? Wherein did he charm
your soul? What potent virtues We're his? True, ne
had n golden grp--sn almighty golden grlp lic Knew
the odds. He vcaed In cent per cent ne haa "
narrow Wit and excellent Judgment OF the Ver parts
whsreby this mans money to his pockets
and that mans money, and the next mans And the law
smiled In that 1t did not condemn our Ghflsn etcs
approved. by social measure he was not BAD man.
nut by your measure. Karen, ny nine ny ours OF the
rosc garden what was hep
"I,cmcnber. he Is dead
"The fact is not altered thereby. What was liey
great gross creature, deaf to song, bind TO
beauty. spirit. 10 was rat WIN iaHhess hu
nabbycheeked and the round OF MS belly "''hesSeu ms
gluttony--' ., o,,,,
nut he IL dead 1t is we who are now-noW. no" ,
Don't you you say have bfen hcolsluil., .
have sinncd Good But should not YOU, 700 sis po
have broScn promises have nor youl un' W,Sere
the rose garden wan all time, Or so you SAID Whfe
IL II nowY' -, ~, ., ,>os
1T Is here. now!" he cried striking his breast pas
sIoi,a sly With cinnched hand ~ mas aWaSs ptes
"And your Love great ioys; tne,t Ws or
preaer she continued; Tor so you shia IN NC 'osp ia
den Yet II ls nne enough, laree cHous' " 'o's