The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-03-29
Sinag Me 20 Sleep
By AGNEs O. HERBERrsoM

q have come to fetch Margot
home" he said quietly.
There was Q silence.
<Do you hear, Margot?:'' said
Jane Greet.
The other woman did not reply.
But for the moving needle she might
I have been carved from, stone.
4 The old woman looked from the
girl to her son, from one dark face
ito the other, They were curiously
alike, those two faces, both showing
the impress of astrong and stubborn
will. They were curiously unlike,
too, the yarying fires in the girls
eyes leaping out to meet a sober
practicality and steadfastness in
chose of the man.
"Margot, are you ready?" said
David. .@
He waited again, and again the
needle went in and out, his only re-
ply.
After a pause, "she says she is
not going back to yon," said Jane
Greet unwillingly.
"She has said that to me, too,""t
said David Greet that is to say,
itshe has written it. She wrote it in.
a hard, cruel letter, which she left
for me to read when ] came in
In spite of himself his voice shook.
He paused for a moment to steady.
it. 'I shall not believe that letter,
.Margot. It was unworthy of you. /
shall not believe that you mean to
do anything SO cruel and wickedp
The words came out with q jerk.
'Margot, I am waiting to take you
home" Is. Il 81, b
She would not answer. 4
With a quick stride he crossed
the room. You shall speak to
mel" he cried. 81 am not dog that
I do not deserve word though
you are not a woman, but a stone,
cor you would not sit there and re-
fuse to utter. It'll Speak. Are you
aor are you not coming home %
Without raising her eyes, & & am
mot coming," said Margoti Greet.
David turned away, breathing
. heavily. There's the weakness Of
strength and the weakness Of weak
NESS" he said. Y ou can give in to
a woman because you're stronger
than her, and that's the way I went
about it with, Margot. But she
thought it was the other kind of;
way, the, weak way, and she's had.
10 learn different There are are times times
when man must show himself q
man If he's to remain one.
He strobe away, and Jane Greet
brushed the tears from her eyes.
Well, she's with Ine-his mot ther.
anyway. Folks can't talk to any
great length, she thought, with a
sigh, Then she went back to the
stubborn girl who was her SON 8 wife,.
Margot was sitting where she had
aeft her, still sswing.
ssW hat are you going to do ?"'
-.sll,,eeaa J arsiiness had crept
into her tone. 80 q; .3s5.l y
q have already told you. i shall
find sonnet thing TO do, and / am not
going back, s said the younger wos
man }s 81; sS 55tS
sIf yon are not going back You
sshan find othing to do. You must
stay here with me, y said Jane Greet. !
ct snna have the whole Of Keston
sin about zsesF ;s ssiss 3, : g s ! !.
And 50 thing went on. Margo
worked for her mot her law only,
and her gpaasiiNiiA5 81 ate into sher very
soul. But she would not 60 back to ]
the man Ito whom efe had not yet
been welded . year. 55
There came q day when Jane
Greet met her with an i'd look on
her WI thered face.
She had not ment Toned the name
sof the girls husband since that dark
night, deeming it better so. But tod
sday she spok
Ie isl going awe son and
your mar, 4, she said sfierce ely. ay-s
hap the cruise viii take him far and
keep. him lone: . hap twill take
him So far and keep him So long
that he wi never return. And sto-
he goes s. She went away,
trying fo hide fier her tears But the
lad wife spok oke neve erSa word.
us Jane never knew that that mi
saGargpt went Iool1 & @at ilcr Old
s,ssionle. or ffew short nom its;
she stood in the darls mess loc king at /
She wind lows off The little house
sssghich had seen her greatest happi-
meas and hef assio nate Tsb stb,eiiion.i
There was no iga s it, md she
lthonght David wa Eli aha heard
him begin TO sing i was an old
trick of hisSs 70 ssiiing u, the dark
And onstsia Old
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