The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-02-28


sidc him He seemed TO havo come
inside the circle at last.
A bewildering change had como
over his scornful will-o'-t -thc-wisp. She
was quiet. but sho answered with
word or smlle when he spoke to her
and wont whero no lcd tho way with
q paSsivity dangerously sweet I'm a girl
| who was generally as ufIeale TO ap-
pronch rs h live wire.
JIe lost himself in a dream of Emily
| In his house, moving about the rooms
! That had seemed empty since his
| mother died What did it matter that
she was old man Wnre's daughter. IL
she could mako life seem like this to
| him2
Tho next morning Emily was out in
the blueborTy patch looking for few
late berries for n pic for her fathers
| dinner. She had dropped her pail In
! the shade of the heZel bush beside
her and was medltating with a strong
inscrutdblc face. her glance wander
Ing across the sleeping water whore
the ferryboat crawled Ike fy un-
der the sagging rope.
She was gingham clad and her
| print apron was torn by briar, but
it was no matter now what she wore:
uncomeliness was impossible, 1t had
dropped away from her like husk.
She looked UP as a step crushed the
dry llchen and saw Ben Farnham
standing beside her.
The memory that was always COM
| Ing between them, the scene in the
store. rose before him. as their glance
met: the girl seemed to have somo
] - t.zk
glide at her pleasure before his minds
eye. He flushed uneasily.
Look here. EN-" he said. "I know
what you're thinkin' of. but that's all
past and gone now. I've como to ask
You to marry me-"
He brought out the words with a
nightly effort. Emily surveyed him
curlously from her place under tho
hazel bush.
"You must have been through a
good deal in your mind, Ben Farm
ham. before you could bring yourself
10 that" sho said.
Good heavens, ] should think I
had" groaned the man. Say yes
quick, EN-, and begin TO undo what
you've done"
II haven't douo anything" rcturn-
ed Emily paeSivcly.
Ben stransled something chat
sounded like an oath
Come" he said. roughly. you've
fooled me long enough. ycU witch.
amt going to stand IL any longer;
I'm waitin' TO heur yOu name tho
day"
Emily 1850 quietly 10 her feet
How would the Judgment day
do?" she asked. slowly, "thc crack
of doom with all the earthquakes
pealio' In place of bells? Thut's tie
only time such thing could heppou.
Ben Farnham-whcn the world AID
everything in It was all goIDe 10 de5-
truction together
Bens face had darkencd slowly "a
he met hcr steady look aud there was
white line around lis mouth. A
storm OF wrath was working behind
his ouietness, but he saw chat his
only hope lay IN gentleness.
Don't hurt mo Just for the FUN oS
tho thing. EN- he anld. you've
broken mo all right, but you needn't
play ducks aud drake with the pieces.
You've known all along thnt 1 was
eatin' my heart out for you"
The girls face changed little at
the break in his voice. She hated
him keenly as evor, and she read him
unerringly, from the least line of his
shallow, handsome face to the depths
OF his selfish soul; but the miserable
aspect OF the unhorsed knight smote
her with euddcn pang.
IT tell you IL isn't mo that's to
blame" she protested: "it's fate-it's !
%. It's what you arep-there was /
weary note In the last words-"how ,
could anybody love thing like you2"
Some have" retorted Ben dryly.
"Yes. and what was It good forf"
ro1oincd the girl with hot scorn. 4
There are two kinds OF love, Ben
Farnharm. Just as there are two kinds
OF men; each gets tho kind that be-
longs to him-and ono kind ts as
cheap as tho dirt under foot-you
can't use 1t up, because there's al
ways plenty of dirt. And tho other
kind is llko the sunshine, and you
can't use that up either. because 1t
comes from a source that's everlaSt-
ing and above the earth.
Look here" she drow bor young
figure to its fine height and touched
his shoulder with scornful finger tips
that eluded his grasp like a glancing
sun ray-"in ono sense we're mates.
I see how handsome and strong you
are, just as that little fool of Han
nah Straw sees it," l could love you
In that dirt cheap fashion II / didn't
know anything about a better kind
OF love.
But that isn't real love at all;
real 'lovo liz something you feel for
somebody you know is moro generous
and gentle and kind than you are
somebody that's too swcethearted to
be harsh and too largo TO be domi-
neoring, and TOO unsclflsh TO swallow
you alive-someope without the least
little bit of cruelty of oyerbcariDS-
ness-even TO a woman with rag
ged dress and holes In her shoes
such man as they make about once
in thousand years. There's only one
such in the world, / guess. and I've
found him and II ain't you, you SIX
feet OF concelt"
Ben's incredulity-that he should
be refused by old man Wares dauGh-
tor'-gnye way under this last thrust.
ITo turned TO so back along the pain
by which lie had come.
Emily watched him go with long
breath Then she turned and sped
along tho path to the house.
IN rude summer house in pret-
ty nook Of the Wild garden sho came
upon Joe, leaning dlsconsolately
against corner post. She knelt
down and put her arms around him
as II she had becn his mother.
ice" sho said, "I'vo been sowing
wild oats. that's all. shan't stay TO
gather chi Take me back, dear. and
build the little house YOU and father
planned out in the spring. I'm never