Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1909-04-10
CHAPTER XvII.-(Continued)

All that had been serene partook Of
strange disorder now. Negley should have
made an effort ere this to reach him. The
power that devastated the city and with
unspent violence swept the morne might
have reached three leagues at sea Save
that the gray was Interchangeable in the
roof of the world, be could not believe
that all this was one day. Lara
would never forgive him for being whole,
at the price of her mothers eyes There
seemed no adjustment possible for this
cruel play of his service He
called the mothers name softly, but his
words made no impress In frenzy
at last. and felt her shudder in his arms
'Boyf'
yes. yes"
Tell Lara that there was no yesterday
no last night And leave me herein
the dark r.
How long afterwards he never knew,
but be awoke to find himself uttering in
coherent sentences. The woman was quite
dead The hours drew on into
eternity, but the gray still lived in the
sky. He loosened his arm, and the blood
rushing into the strained limb bore with
IL a thrashing pain. The water had cool
sd. but be did not put his burden down.
he had not yet fathomed the extent Of
her surrender nor the signet and color
Of her personality upon every word she
had spoken. He heard a cry
from Lara. and deemed 1t the encrOach-
ment Of personal madness. ScOrnfully be
answered. Again the voice of the WON
an He arose and called her name. A
shadow darkened the orifce. and he saw
his lady ia the sky.
II may be ia this marvellous world
where men carry on their wars and their
wooings, some pursuing their little ways
Of darkness some bursting into blooms of
valOr and tenderness may be that af-
ter the most exalted passage of agony and
terror, two of Earths people were return
ed to each other IN the strangeness Of
these. One swooning at the curb Of an
ancient clstern, under the hot leaden sky,
the falling sea before and Pelee, with
his tens Of thousands slain, on her right
band the other Ia the pit below, standing
10 the cooling water, and calling upoa her
70 forgive him for failing in that which
only the gods could do. II may be that
10 the collection Of Earth's tableaux an
other such film is ourled aWay-from an
other age and another cataclysm.
'NiYer you worry your hearrt sOrr,
called Macready, 10 whom the voice Of bis
friend had brought imperious conscious
aess. man-wise, instead Of collapse. 9Th
faint is nOthin' 'ls fortune fur Thin
as can faint fur joy, an no HURT Ia uf,
sorr Have you th strent' & do th over
hand up th chain. viii th' fairesf az tin
onsand al th top sorr"
Constable placed bis burden upon the
aIu u. ..I.n nd n.IIII.I
himself free from tlo water. His weight
6as mountain. Tho lge days had done
ghai four had moi played havoc with
fAe one hundred and ninety pounds of
ulanl0Od which struggled upward under
Nacready's cheers. and fell across che rim
" t1e cistern into Nacready'H arms.
l.arf BH0ke ano found Constable bend
lDg Over her. ller eyes rested upon his
laeelaied hand, upou ihf swollen Felns in
lla throat apd temples She faW blood
upou lis clothing, blister lp9n DE peck.
sefai ano miff npon hf face.
The reality cauf fnni Af faa praylpf for
beg NJ folFlfe him because pef mother
'ad Died ~ his Hfm0
'leifr ~ beloved 500 mpfmuFed.
300 hay iAni mY'NH
she halted ~ 49, Fflei nplQaf in
~ f1ilHfs. NJ Afl W'ni llf dal nHd
puf 1908 vi Nprl4I |N NH fiH iAHi
l4pilH nppll nni HNHH INf
iHflf aAr AN m4l'aI lNN HHsN NH IIH
costello iW. laNi aN NNlai ~ fN'F
NHy n a.W l0IllHNN NHN IH'
NoN|i l00 iAai M IHN N.N N I
Though M lNN 'HI.l IN HN f..0
Nf NaH 0Nfrl iNH H0...Nrf iaN AllN
1900 A 4 INi Nt' .H Nr NN' NHiNl