Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-26

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the heart and appall the soul Of any o.
whom it is not false to assert sanity.
| And now, they had been at Jahnway
Park a week; seven long, cheerless
dragging days; and Elsie had LIVED
lalone save for the stupid old servant
who attended her-had eaten, read
thought, all alone.
| Sometimes she had found the doors
of her apartments locked against her;
sometimes she had been free to go as
she pleased. Sometimes she had seen
the nutter of Lurline's dress, down
some long passage in the roomy old
house, or in some distant part Of the
grounds. But now, for the first time
in week, she confronted Lurline, and
there was no way for her to escape an
interview unless she used physical
force.
1t was a very indignant face which
Lurline Bannottie had to confront. II
was a very determined and a somewhat
dangerous looking woman who asked
the question:: why did you bring me
here. Lurline?'
For safety"
Safety from what? You know there
is no truth in the absurd story l heard
two of the servants whispering and
nodding over, something like an hour
ago"
What story is that?"
"The story that l am insane"
NO: l know there Is no truth In
that"
But they said you said So"
Did they? They were correct. l
did say So"
Why"
ITO deceive"
Whom? The world?"
THE world and the servants
You mean the story to be believed?'
Certainly. There are to be just two
persons in all the world who shall know
the truth-you and myself"
But am sane: l am free"
You are sane: you are not free"
II am needed in Boomville.
What for?"
"To try and devise some means OF
paying off at least a part of the losses
by the burning Of the bank"
Indeed? l fancy you owe me more
than you will ever pay Put your mind
at rest regarding your other creditors
But, Lurline, you know those notes
were given as mere form; you never
expected to have them paid; I never
intended to pay them"
Il know that"
And the dates considered, the num-
ber of them considered no judge nor
Jury could be made to believe l look
ed forward to a time when 1 could pay
them
Il know that. 1 knew that when you
gave Them
Were sudden fortune to come to me
again, you could not take those notes,
given when l was without resources,
into any just court and enforce their
payment. 1 have thought that all out
ir the lonely week I have spent here,
and l know that the allowance my
more than generous father intended for
YOU is the least OF my moral obliga-
tions."
Indeed? Has it taken you a week
to discover that? l have known and
recognized that fact all the time"
You could not imprison me for debt
on such Slight evidence"
II know it,"
(Which ends the list of possibilities
regarding them. and makes them use
less-worthless."
"A very ungrateful conclusion, Elsie,
considering all am doing for you. and
all l am spending in your service"
"Oh, Lurline, Lurline, spend no more
Turn me out from your door. Let me
beg-or die. Only give me freedom
Only let me go home!"
No. And let me correct you; those
notes are not valueless; they are worth
more to me than any claim any other
person in all the world can have
against you. Shall l tell you why?"
Yes"
Because l can take them into court
swear you are insane, and have you
given into my custody and care, my
dearly beloved and unfortunate sister
as l claim you to be-"
But the doctor"
Bah. What does a doctor know OF
the subtle forms insanity takes. One
who would refuse to certify to your
being of unsOund mind. under the cir
cumstances, would almost risk his own
| freedom"
"Oh, Lurline, Lur-"
Yes: I can take those notes into
court and prove you a mental wreck
"Oh, Lurline-"
And | will. unless you do what
wish you to do"
You will? Oh, my God! You can
not love me, then, Lurline."
mo. Mrs. Sem, l do not love you
"Did-did you ever?"
Mrs. Sem. | will be frank with you;
| think l can afford to be. There Is
one love which shuts out of the heart
Of her who feels it any lesser love--ol
any other love which could live only
at it's expense"
| And that is"
The unsought and unreturned love
for man."
"Lurline BannOttie, what do you
mean"
That love Walter Aldrich!"
You do?"
"I do. have loved him more years
than YOU have been old enough to know
the meaning of love at all"
| "And-and-"