Manchester Democrat., 1909-11-17

sion of utter detection came into his
face. A haggard look replaced the
buoyant smile.
"God, how love her-how 1 love
her" he grcaned. half aloud.
She was coming down the stairs
now. eager flushed, more abashed
than she would have had him know.
Without q word she placed the two
cigarettes in his outstretched palm.
Her eyes We're shining.
In silence he clasped her hand and
led her unresisting through the win
dow and out upon the broad gallery.
She was returning the fervid pressure
of his fingers, warm and electric.
They crossed slowly to the rail. Two
chairs stood close together. They sat
down side by side. The power of
speech seemed to have left them alto
gether.
He laid the two cigarettes on the
broad stone rail. She followed the
movement with perturbed eyes and
then leaned forward and placed her
elbows on the rail.
IF the ship should come tomorrow
you would go out of my life-you would
! 20 away and leave me here" he began
hoarsely
NO, no." she cried, turning upon him
suddenly. You could not stay here.
You shall not!"
But, dearest love, l am bound to
stay. cannot go. And. God help me
want to stay. If could go into your
world and take you unto myself for
ever-ff you will tell me now that some
day you may forget your world and
come to live in mine-then, ah, then, it
would be different! But without you
have no choice of abiding place
here rs well as anywhere"
She put her hands over her eyes.
81 cannot bear the thought of-of
leaving you bellind--of leaving you
| here to dieat the hands of those beasts
down there. Hollingsworth. implore
you-come! If the opportunity comes
and it will. | linow-you will leave
the island with the rest of us?"
Not unless am commanded to do
so by the man who sent me here to
serve these beasts, as you call them"
! He leaned over and took her hand in
his. You do love me?'
! .'You know l do-yes. yesw she cried
from her heart. keeping her face reso-
I lutely turned away from him. 81 am
! sick with love for you. Why should ]
deny the thing that speaks so loudly
FOR itself-my heart! Listen! Can you
not hear it beating? 1t is hurting me
| yes. it is hurting mel"
He trembled mt this exhibition of re-
leased, unchecked passion, and yet he
did not clasp her in his arms.
will you come into my world, Ge-
nevra.?" he whispered. "All my life
would be spent in guarding the love
| you would give to me-all my life given
to making you love me more and more
| until there will be no other world for
/ you TO think of"
! II wish that had not been born"
she sobbed Il cannot, dearest---I can
| not change the laws OF fate..@sI / am
! fated-l am doomed to live forever in
She dreary world of my fathers. But
how can give you up? How can l
give up your love? How can cast
you out of my life?'
You do not love Prince Karl?"
How can you ask?" she cried fierce
iy. Am not loving you with all my
heart and soul|'
And you would leave me behind if
the ship should Gomez" lie persisted,
with cruel insistence. "You will go
back and marry that-him? Loving
me. you will marry him?" Her head
i,dropped upon her arm. He turned
cold as death. God help and God pity
you, my love. l never knew before
what your little world means to you.
give you up to it. crawl back into
the one you look down upon with
scorn. shall not again ask you to
descend to the world where love is"
Her hand lay limp in his. They
stared bleallly out into the night, and
no word was spoken.
The minutes became an hour, and
yet they sat there with set faces
bursting hearts, unseeing eyes.
Below them in the shadows Bobby
j Browne was pacing the embankment
his wife drawn close to his side. Three
men. Britt. Saunders and Bowles, were
smoking their pipes on the edge q