Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-07-04

straightway giddied into q sort Of
ecstasy. You can imagine the Wis
ions Il conjured. I've no doubt she
talked house on the east side Of the
park to Joe that very night, before
she let him sleep. However, Anita's
face was serious enough when we
took our places before the minister,
with his little, black-bound book open.
And as he read in q voice that was
genuinely impressive those words
that no voice could make unimpres-
sive, i saw her ~paleness blanch In
her eyes until they were like stars
waning somberly before the gray face
of dawn. When they closed and her
head began to sway, l steadied her
with my arm. And so we stood, l
with my arm round her, she leaning
lightly against my shoulder. Her an
swers were mere movements of the
lips.
At the end, when I kissed her cheek,
she said, SIS it over?"
1SSt MCOdUC duDW was
looking at him. "And l wish you all
happiness, Mrs. Blackjack"
At that name, her new name, she
stared at him with great wondering
eyes; then her form relaxed. / car
ried her to a chair. Joe came with
a glass of champagne; she drank
some of it, and it brought life back
to her face, and ONE color. With
a naturalness that deceived even me
for the moment, she smiled up at
Joe as she handed him the glass. rs
1t bad luck" she asked, for me to be
the first to drink my own health?"
And she stood, looking TRANQUILITY at
every one-except me.
Il took McCabe into the hall and
paid him off.
When we came back, I said: Nov
we must be going"
"Oh, but surely you'll stay for sup
peri" cried Joe's wife.
NO." replied /, in a tone that made
it impossible to insist. I'VE appre
ciate your kindness, but we've i'm
I posed on it enough" And l shook
hands with her and with Allie and the
minister, and, linking Joe's arm in
mine, made for the door. l gave the
necessary directions to my chauffeur
while we were waiting for Anita tc
come down the steps. Joe's daugh
ter was close beside her, and they
kissed each other good-by, Alva on the
verge of tears, Anita not suggest
ing any emotion of any sort. ITO
morrow-sure," Anita said to her
And she answered: Eyes, indeed-ai
soon as you telephone me-" And 81
we we're off a shower of rice rat
Ting on the roof of the brougham-
the slatternly man-servant had throw
it from the midst of the group o
servants.
Neither of us spoke. l watched
her face without seeming to do SC
and by the light Of occasional stree
lamps saw her studying me ~furtively
At last she said: Il wish to go t.
my uncle's now"
"We are going home" said l.
"But the house will be shut up,
said she, "and every one will be il
bed. It's nearly midnight. Besides
they might not" She came to
full stop.
"We are going home," I repeated
ITO the Willoughby."
She gave me a look that was NEAR
to scorch-and it did. But | shove
at the surface no sign of how l wa
wincing and shrinking.
She drew farther into her corneI
and out of it's darkness came, in a lo'
voice: "How l hate you'll" like tn
whisper of a bullet.
| kept silent until l had control {
myself. Then, as If talking Of a ma
ter that had been finally and ami
ably settled, I began: "Thes apar
ment isn't exactly ready for us, bl
Joe's just about now telephoning m
man that we are coming, and tel
phoning your people to send yor
maid down there"
Il wish to go to my uncle's," ST
repeated,
my wife will go with me-" said
quietly and gently. Il am considerat
of her, not of her unwise impulses
A long pause, then from her, in ic
calmness: Il am in your powt
just now. But l warn you that,
!. you do not take me to my uncle
~ you will wish you had never see
me-"
~ Eve wished that many times {
ready" said l sadly. i've wished
from the bottom of my heart tn
le whole evening, when step by ste
fate has been forcing me on to (
things that are even more hatef
Tn to me than to you. For they n
only make me hate myself, but NAL
you hate me, too" | laid my har
er on her arm and held it there, thoug
at she tried to draw away. Anita"
said, II would do anything for you
IS. live for you, die for you. But there
that something inside me-you'7
felt it; and when it says must l car
( disobey-you know l can't. An
L. though you might break my heal
to you could not break that will. 4
as much my master as it is yours"
IS I'VE shall see-to-morrow," 81
d. said.
ey (To be C%ontinued.)