Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-11-17


clearly traceable to him. He spoke
of you }inbasuchaa way asIlgood men
speak eof aheayen, oAloysius.--of your
5magnanimity, YOUR greatnessbtoo of
I hearth r98 g039oq e 0tot s9llu5s
aHYes,'' said Aloysius. Il make mo
claim, but I understand ALL that from
! his point of view.a But since you have
gone so far, dear,5let nae hear his case
| quite out. I should not like you to
! feel that you had done him less than
| Justice, orrthat7 you had failed in your
/ good embassy from any omission OF
| own" ~ s.s.v
But must8I fail?" she asked him;
''must fail?''fe IS 6.fs# aet z..l,q.-rs
LET me, know ALL" he answered.
IT think I have told you ALL said
Lillian. "but- I know that l. have told
it poorly, and that have not conveyed
! to you 1.-THE of the grief and agony
of heart he feels. But, dear Aloysius.
let me add something for myself. Am
I to lose my friend? Do you. .remem-
Der how you carried me in your arms
and ran with me on your shoulder
when was little child?"
'Ah yes" he answered, with pa
tient sigh. 81 remember. But we both
know that we are best apart. You DO
not know it as well as | do, but you
do know that any comradeship is i'm
possible for us. This much / can say.
You will never lose your friend You
have my heart, my hopes, my prayers.
If ever I can serve you, you may COM
mand me. There is nothing I have
which is not yours, dear, and have
no power and no wish to change
''But Alexis?" she asked, appealing
ly. 81 told him I should lay his case
before you, and he answered with
tears that, though you were the best
of men, he had so wronged you that
YOU would never take his hand again.
He is quite broken, AlOysius. He is
quite resigned to your continued en-
nifty" -..-.--
81 have no enmity, DEAR ne said.
81 bear him no ili-Mill. | would not
exact from him any reparatfon or add
a straw to the load he has laid upon
himself He has done me no rrepaa@rsa-
BILE wrong. He has given me bitter
+ grief Ito carry, and L shall bear 1T with
me to my grave, but that grief is not
the consequence of any wrong that he
has done to me.S1 3f3 al tffg15nA
"Oh!" she said, IF you knew the
regret he feels for those foul suspl-
cions!"
s Il can measure the regret, dear" he.
answered, quietly have not known
him from his birth for: nothing. But
you must. accept his own version OF
the case. For us two to meet is as.
painful for the one as for the other"
LETT is not like you to beiimplacable,"
she. said laying a timid hand upon his
arm. lSg~ : '>.ss N
5 tits not Iswho am implaeable," he
answered. But any pretence at a
reconciliation Between my cousin and
myself would BE az nockery. He
knows il and I.lnow it.
But this open breach between the
only two surviving members Of SO old.
! houlseA-"}8 e9s = s.
sad" Aloysius broke in. ."sad,7
but inevitable inescapab lie"
i. g Can nothing move you z"
..sDear> and dearest,a he made an
swer, IF anything in the whole world
could change me, your lightesti word
would do it. But no change in me
would give you what you wish. Do
you remember, T wonder, the day you
brought me. a poem to ask me if
could tell you the writer's name? It
had an. awful thought in it, you said:31
And still a voice cries on-WilI no one
hear it? #I
Not God himself can call back yester-
day!
| What is donesis done. No prayers, no
/ tears, no agonies can wipe it out. 1t
is not: Il said just now, who am inn
/ placable. Not I, but that past, which
not God himself can change. 81 Good
by, dear. All good be with you All
| blessings light on that dear head, all
I peace. make its dwelling place in that
pure heart GOODBYE"
He kissed her hand reVerently for
the second time that day, and she
knew that her task had failed. She
let him go. upon the last good-by, and
sat for a long time immersed in
thought And the longer she thought
| the more the words grew There was
something behind it, all. That which
in the mind of the man who had in
/ ficted twas an unpardonable wrong
/ was no u11pard onable wrong at all in
the eyes of the man who had suffered
4 under it. Ee The cousins were divideds
and forever. But whg?1 Lillian had a
trust in A1oysius's truth and honor,
which she had not in the truth and
honor of her plighted husbands Her
trust in the one and her faint mistrust
in the other we're alike instructive and
i unconscious. ss. . .s;3 I
She turned over and over in her
mind the words. Aloysius had used. Il
4 would not add a straw to the burden
/ he has laid upon himself. He has
given me a bitter grief te carry and 1
shall bear it with me to the grave,
q h14fs That grief is not the consequence