Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-09-01

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ficers of the Trust and Mildred
Isis she coming here?" demanded
Cherry, in strained voice.
| yes
why didn't you tell me?"
! II don't know; didn't think you
would be Interested"
| $50 she can't wait? She Is 30 eager
that she follows you from Chicago
clear up to this wilderness, Then you
won't need my assistance any more.
will your" Her lids dropped, half hid
ing her eyes, and her face hardened.
| rot course shall need your help.
Her coming won't make any differ.
ence."
| 1T strikes me that you have allowed
me to make a fool Of myself long
enough" said Cherry angrily. Here I
have been breaking my heart over this
enterprise, while you have known all
the time that she was coming. Why.
you have merely used me--and George
and all the rest of us, for that matter
- She laughed harshly.
| you don't understand" said Boyd.
Miss Wayland--''
! ooh yes, do. / dare say 1t will graf.
| ify her to straighten out your troubles.
A word from her lips and your worries
will vanish like mist. Let us ac-
knowledge ourselves beaten and beg
her to save us"
Boyd shook his head In negation, but
she gave him no time for speech.
| ut seems that you wanted to pose as
a hero before her, and employed us to
build up your triumps Well am
glad we failed. I'm glad Willis Marsh
showed you how very helpless you are.
Let her come to your rescue now. I'm
through. Do you understand? I'm
Through"
| Emerson gazed at her in astonish.
ment. the outburst had been so unex-
peeted, buts he realized that he owed
her too much to take offense.
miss Wayland will take no hand in
my affairs. doubt If she will even re-.
alize what this trouble Is all about"
he said, trife stiffly. II suppose
did want to play the hero, and dare
say did use you and the others, but
you knew that all the time"
"Why won't she help your" queried
Cherry. Doesn't she care enough
about you? Doesn't she know enough
to understand your plight?"
Eyes, but this is my fight. and I've
got to make good without her assist
ance She isn't the sort to marry q
failure, and she has left me to make
my own way. Besides, she would not
dare go contrary to her fathers wishes
even If she desired-that Is part of her
education. Oh, Wayne Waylands oppo-
| sition isn't all have had to overcome.
4 have had to show his daughter that
4 | am one of her own kind, for she hates
i weakness"
"And you think that woman loves
you? Why, she isn't woman at all
she doesn't know what love means.
When woman loves, do you imagine
she cares for money, or fame or sue
cess? II I cared for man, do you
think I'd stop to ask my fatheE i I
might marry him or wait for my II 4er
to prove himself worthy OF me? Dob ~
think I'd send him through the lell
you have suffered to try his m&a1?"
j She laughed outright. "Why, I'd be-
come what he was and I'd fight with
him.. I'd give him all had-money,
position, friends, influence: II my peo.'
pie objected, I'd tell them to 90 hang.
IT'D give them up and join him! I'd use
every dollar, every vile and feminine
device that possessed In his service.
i When woman loves, she doesn't care
what the world says; the man may be
weakling, or worse, but he is still her
lover, and she will go to him."
The words had come tumbling forth
until Cherry was forced to pause for
breath.
"You don't understand said Boyd.
''You are primitive; you have lived In
the open; she is exactly your oppo-
site. Conservatism is bred In her and
she can't help her nature. It was hard
4 even for me to understand at first:
but when I saw her life, when saw
how she had been reared from child
hood, I understood perfectly. would
! not have her other than she is; 1t Is
enough for me to know that in her
own way she cares for me-"
Cherry tossed her head in desirion.
"For my part, I prefer red blood to
sap, and when love want to know It
IL don't want to have 1t proved to me
4 like problem in geometry. want to
i love and hate, and do wild, impulsive
things against my own Judgment"
Have you ever loved in that way? Z"
he inquired, abruptly.
Eyes," she answered. without hesita-
ton, looking him squarely in the eye
with an expression he could not
fathom. THANK Heaven! I'm not the
artificial kind! AS you say, I'm primi-
tive. have lived!" Her crimson lipa
curled scornfully.
+. II didn't expect you to understand
her." he said. But she loves me. And
well, she is my religion. A man
must have some God; he can't wor-
ship his own image"
| Cherry Malotte turned slowly to the
landing place and made her way into
the launch. All the way back she kept
silence, and Boyd confused by her at
tack upon the citadel of his faith and
strangely sore at heart, made no effort
at speech.
/ "Fingerless" Fraser met him at the
waters edge.
Where in the devil have YOU
been?" he cried, breathlessly.
eat the Indian village after help.
Why?"
| Big George is in more trouble; he
sent for helptwo hours ago. was Just
going to beat it. down there"