Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-02-22

strung. II cannot simply cannot!
How can you love me and listen to
such wickedness? How can you still
care for such girl as | am-worse
flIan mercenary because have heart
sof had until you took it2 Keep it.
II IS the only part of me not all ig-
noble
II will keep It--in trust" he said,
ssnntil you give yourself with It"
Ruk she only shook her head YEARLY,
withdrawing her hands from his, and
tor time they sat silent, eyes apart.
Then There is another reason" she
naid wistfully.
He looked at her, hesitated, and
MY habitsT he asked simply.
Yes.s
- have them in check"
Are you certain?"
r. think may be-now."
yet she said timidly, you lost one
ngnf since you knew me-"
The dull red mantling his face wrung
her heart She turned impulsively and
laid both hands on his shoulders.
Emit chance | would take, with all its
uneertainty. all the dread inheritance
you have come into. love you enough
Tor that And If it turned out that
kinat yOu could not stem the tide even
Win me to face it with you, and If the
pffy 81 II. the grief of 1t. killed me
would take that chance If you loved
ne through 1t all, But there is some
thing else. Hush! Let me have my
Gay while ! find the words-something
elise you DO not understand. Turn your
face little. Please don't look at me.
This n what you do not know-that In
three generations every woman of my
Kace has gone wrong! Every one
And ] am Beginning with such mar
Rage. deliberately. selfishly, shameless
~. perfectly conscious of the frivolous
erFatie blood in me, aware of the race
record behind me!
Once when knew nothing-befor
III met you--I believed such mar
Rage would not only permit me men
tni tranquility, but safely anchor me
ia the harbor of convention, leaving mt
free to become what am fashioned Il
become autocrat and arbiter in m!
own world. And now! And now!
don't know truly l don't know wha
may become. Your love forces m!
hand. am displaying all the shallow
! ness. falsuness, pettiness, all the meal
and cruel and callous character whicl
must be truly my real self. Only
nhau not marry you! You are not t
run the risk Of what might prove t
IN, nj
have renounced. If married you
/ should remember, unreconeiled, wha
you cost me- Better for you and 70
me that marry him and let him bea
witll me when remember that he cos
me- yOp r.
Suddenly deep within him somethin
Boeme1 to fall, die out, perhaps a tin
newly lighted. fame of unaccustome
purity. the dawning flicker of aspiri
fion TO better things, Whatever 1t wal
material, spiritual, was gone now, an
where 1t had glimmered for a Nigh
the old accustomed twilit doubt creI
in-fhe same dull acquiescence, th
same uncertainty Of self, the familia
Lack OF will. of incentive, the congeni;
tendency TO drift, and with 1t cam
aReariness, perhaps reaction from Il
recent skirmishes with that mastt
vice.
Fl SUPPOSE he said in a dun voic
you are right y
No; atn wrong-wrongr' she sal
lifftng her lovely face and heavy eye
Bat i have chosen my path And &c
aRill fesgetf'
II hope SO he said simply.
~ son hope so. you will"
MORTIMER, peePng down at thei
over tlsa thieket above, yawned imp
tlentiy aud glanced about him for Il
mos c0asenient avenue of self enac
won't when the time arrived.