The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1910-03-25

human SOUL Tighter and tighter
his arms strained her to him. She
gave herself up in that mad, delirious
awful moment to the full flow Of long
checked passion, and kiss for kiss
pressure for pressure, and heart beat
for heart beat, she made repsone.
It was too much. 1t was the man
who broke away. There was nothing,
no experience, no remembrance to
teach him. It was all surprise. He
thrust her from him slowly. Her hands
fingered about his neck, but his back.
ward pressure would not be denied.
He held her at arms length, her hands
outstretched to him, her bosom pant.
Ing. her eyes shining, her cheeks
aflame in the gray dawn. Yielding,
giving up to him absolutely. yet some
thing, the magnificent metal Of the
man, the restraints through which he
had gone, the long battles with his
own passion, rose to his soul and gave
him mastery once more.
woman! woman!" he whispered
no mere local name would represent
her now. She was humanity to him
woman" he whispered, my God!
my God!"
He turned away, sank down on one
of the great boulders that he had
thrown aside and buried his face in
his hands, his body shaking with emo
lions he could scarce define but we'll
understood The woman threw herself
down on her knees before him and
took him once more in her arms.
Man." she said, II love you'll"
She drew his hands away from his
face; she laid her own face in his
bleeding palm and kissed it.
Man." she said, her lips wet with
his own blood in sort Of wild, bar.
barrie sacrament, man, love you'll"
He stared at her as one distraught.
He had dreamed of this, he had mag
ined it, he had prayed for 1t, he had
hoped for it, but no revelation that
had come to him in the years of their
association equaled in it's binding
brilliancy, in its intense illumination,
the revelation in that woman's voice,
in that woman's eyes, in that woman's
touch.
Man." she said again, II love you.
Do you understand! Do you know
what it means?"
Then he found his voice. He took
her hand and pressed it against his
heart.
II know" he whispered. IT under
stand here"
He rose to his feet, stopped, caught
her by the shoulders and lifted her to
his level. A piece of rock i'll bal
anced on the edge of the cliff fell
crashing. The place was dangerous.
Without word he slipped his arm
beneath her, lifted her up as he might
have done child and carried her out
upon the sand away from the beetling
crags of the rocky wall. She nestled
satisfaction and helplessness cared for
SO exquisite that 1t was almost pain
He sat her down presently on the
sand and knelt before her. The sun
light sprang through the gray haze
on the horizons edge and lighted her
face as he peered into it. Suddenly he
threw himself PROSTATE before her
and his lips upon her feet.
mot there" she whispered, laying
her hand upon his bent head, "but
here, here in my arms, upon my heart,
for Man, Man, love you!"
Then kneeling by her side he took
her once more within his arms.
But you have not said!" she began
at last, that you loved me-"
There is no word" he said, softly,
lin that speech that you have taught
me which is equal to what feel. You
don't know how l have looked upon
you and longed for you ever since you
made me know and feel that was a
man with mans soul. Night after
night have watched you as you went
to your nook In the rocks. But that
you have taught me honor and consid-
GRAFTON, what it is to be a gentleman.
l had followed you and caught you In
the dark within my arms"
She laid her hand upon his breast
and looked at him feelingly, entreat.
ingly, with touching consciousness of
AA0 OIL CA6IA dAN ucE Weakness.
What I have taught you" she
asked. you will not forget?"
Never! Never!"
He released her waist and took her
hand and kissed 1t. There was as
much passion in the pressure of his
lips upon her hand as there was in
the beat Of his heart against her own.
she felt.
"You." he continued. will say what
is to be DONE"
'Not l." she answered, piteously.
but you. I have no strength when
you are by. Since that moment when
you kissed me, you are the master and
the man, but you will respect me In
my helplessness?"
AS If you were God in heaven"
cried the man, raising his hand as one
who makes VOW. You are to me
everything that is pure, that is holy
that is lovely"