The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1908-05-23

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"oet Into Your Boat"
He was so weak that she soon got the
he did not guard himself as she struck
him on the mouth with her little
doubled-up fist.
He put his hand to his lip and
| found It bleeding He showed her
what she had done. She drew back.
and regarded him with mingled pity
and exultation.
Nov will you let me go?" she
cried.
"Madge." he returned, "Joe's drunk
| in his berth. / made him drunk.
Madge, had to talk TO you, alone.
and there was no other way"
She was stung to the quick. Her
husbands shame was hers. and It was
somehow plain that Horrible had been
at fault before. She never thought
to doubt Greg's word, though his cal
lousness revolted her.
what is 1t you want to say?" she
said at last in an altered voice.
ITO ask you to forgive me-"
For what? for taking advantage Of
| Joe's one failing?"
mo; for leaving you the way I
did"
"rn never do that. Greg-never.
never. never!"
''Your father"
Don't try to blame my father.
| Greg"
IT blame only myself"
why have you come back to tor
ture me?" she exclaimed you said
1t was forever. You cast me OF, when
cried and tried to keep you. You
said I'd never see you again"
II was fool. Madge."
Then accept the consequences, and
leave me alone"
"And II l can't"
She looked him squarely In the
eyes. II am Joe's wife, she said.
"Madge," he said, II am not try
ing to defend myself. I'm throwing
myself on your mercy. I'm begging
you, on my knees, for what threw
away. T."
you've broken my heart" shc
said; why should mind II you
break yours?"
| "Madge," he cried, "in ten minutes
we can be aboard the Northern
Light and under weigh; In an hour
we can be outside the reef; In two.
and this cursed island will sink for
ever behind us, and no one here will
ever see us again or know whittier we
have gone. Let us follow the gale.
and push into new seas, among new
people-Tahiti, Marquesas, the Pearl
islands-where we shall win back our
lost happiness, and find our love only
the stronger for what we've suf-
fered."
She pointed to the windward sky.
II think know the port we'd make"
Then make It," he cried, "and go
down to 1t in each others arms"
For a moment she looked at HIM In
sort Of exaltation. She seemed to
hesitate no longer. Her hot hands
reached for his, and he felt In her
quick and tumultuous breath the irst
token of her surrender Herself .
child Of the sea, brought up from In
fancy among boats and ships, her
hand a. true on the tiller, her spark
ling eyes ~ keen to watch the lu. Of
sail a. any mans. she knew ~
weil az Gregory the hell that await
ed them outside. To accept 20 ter
rible an ordeal seemed like . purif-
cation Of her dishonor II she died.
she would die unstained; II she lived.
It would be after such . bridal that
would obliterate her tie to the sot
below. Then. on the eve Of her CIV.
ing way. a. every line In her body
showed her longing, a her head
dropped an though to md resting
place on the breast Of the man she
loved, she suddenly called up all her
resolution and tore herself free.
I'm Joe's wifei" she said.
Gregory faltered a. he tried again
to plead with her; but in HE minds
eye he saw that stifening corpse be-
low. lying stark and cold on the cabin
door. ~ ~ IN "
"You gave mo to him." she burst
ont I'm his, Greg. will not h.
tray my husband for any man."
! Again h bsscusht her to 50 with