Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-01-14

and I sat there stock still, watch
Ing, watching. watching.
Il saw her stop by the step. and Dick
Lane moved down beside her and took
her hand. | could have screamed TO
INN To drop II, to give her up TO me.
hut that hand of ice ar0nnd my heart
Kept me silent; | only looked. and looked
and looked.
Then the parson began 20 speak. hut
never heard a word of what lie said
till he came 20 the. words that went into
my brain and scared il Ike red-Lo;
iron.
Therefore. if any man can show
any just cause why they may not be
lawfully joined together let him now
speak or else hereafter forever hold his
peace.
"He said those words very slowly. and
he stopped after he had spoken them,
as though be were waiting 10 see Il any
body would speak. And | clutched at the
seat and the thoughts that went through
my mind seemed Ike The thoughts Of
months instead Of only those few Sec
OndS
Let linn now speak or else forever
hereafter hold his peace.
Speak now-Speak now Il voice kept
sa5 ing III my heart, speak straight our
and lou get your wife again, and your
home, and everything you care about on
this earth. She is yours by every law OF
God and man
Il opened my lips to speak those
words, but they would not come
thought of kitty. rs she had been seven
years ago, and [ thought of what sl.,
would look ike if | said those words thas
must bring her back tn me. | tell you
seemed to see the color fade ont III he,
face and the happiness die ont Of her
eyes, ana the words mad heard the
woman say flashed before me-
This time her heart goes with her
vows. 1t spoke ont n0w-I should
break nay girls heart,
Or else hereafter forever hold lis
Hold thy peace-hold thy peace
Some voice seemed to take M thnsc
words aud swing them to and fro in my
brain till / could hear nothing else
And the band OF ice inside me
snapped, aud Il fever Of love and long
ing for Kitty ran through my veins in
stead. till | felt like rushing from my
place and going MP the church to claim
His voice had worked up into rapI.
excited TONES. IN mt once he became
very quiet.
Its queer how the biz c7lsis Of your
life slips by and You hardly know -
gone. didn't move ont Of my place!
never uttered a sound.
Else hereafter forever hold tidy
rang round my brain when | heard TIE
p8Tson'S voice begin again, and | knew
that what III done Id done for good and
all
4 didn't know then whether I'll acted
rightly. ! don't know now. ju<t
dropped down into the sea when the par
son said very loud and clear:
What God hath Joined together, IL:
no man put asunder'-and then. because
| couldn't bear any more, / got up an!
stumbled ont Of tie church
1T was all tra 1ping for me for many
days afterwarj d made up my mind
that nothing yer take me back to
the village a. hey Thought | was
dead would ID 10 them. I've noi
told you their tght naneS-there'S no
tracing either me u them. I shall never
trouble their lives any more-neycr any
more.
Then we lay there silent till the great
yellow moon dropped over the rim Of the
plain. ami the gray dawn crept out OF
the east. and day awoke III the county
which is 50 very far away from the
green old land that ali Of Us call-hom"
New York Times.