Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-06-07

"She ought 10 ietl+ Nhe o"s"N -"
thinlsr'
n do think" said the empty voice
Il think ail the time. | Keep wonder
wondering wonder why Oh
bert died That was. curious
you ought not to think of him.
You ought TO shudder al the thought"
IL think-and remember" the emp
" voice continued II remember that
Raoul said 1t came to you all at once;
1t absorbed you. so that not fear nor
shame nor death could stop you. And
remember that II did come TO me
Just MS be said You see how well ]
remember that. That was just the
way II was then"
You ought to think Of your punish
mentw
Ought IT, Empty eyes were raised.
"lyas that a punishment when l lost
my soul? don't see how 1t can be.
Furnishing is hurting. isn't III How
can I be punished when nothing hurts
mer'
But It ought to! You must feel it,"
But l can't. Don't you seeI l am
dead. The candles are lighted for me.
don't know where my soul is. l lost
1t when l dieh If you do that you
can never find II again. There was the
forest. and l followed him and found
him there. And / loved him very
much. That is why / died. / think
all the time. you see. and have
found out that If you love any one
very much you must lose your soul
for 1t and die"
Mile. de Valette shook her head SLOW
ly. Tears came to her eyes.
Broken wingsl" murmured the
priest.
why do you cry?" the empty voice
asked. That's only one of Gods ways,
isn't it,"
Gods ways!" cried Mile. de valette
Goods punishment of sinl'
The priest turned upon her.
Gods wayr he cried vehemently.
"Do you think worm in the dust can
understand why a man rides by? Do
you think that because we can see the
beginning of one of Gods thoughts our
Lille minds can follow to the end of
what he is thinking? Down here in the
dust we call Them Gods ways, but
they are only mans mistakes Down
The river there were men-God's crea-
lures, brothers they should have been
I=killlng each other. And they killed
this boy! There's one old man over
yonder so filed with phantoms and
cobwebs and the ghosts of things that
shouldn't have been that he let's his
pride murder the father in him. And
the two crimes together are destroy
ing this child You call that Gods
wayT" he demanded almost 1ercely.
III tell you one thing / know about
Gods way, by faithl That he never
punished the good love, and | say to
you this was a good love! 1t came TO
her just as a rose comes to its bush
in spring: she had n right TO it as
much as the tree to its blossoms, and,
like them, it was good | tell you there
was no fault i'm her that will offend
God. and in the end he will give her
peace.
Now it came 10 pass that Crawley
the recruit of the shock hair and the
nerveless spine. had lied The massa-
ere that he said he had seen had been
no massacre. The defeat had been a
victory While the others had fought
shoulder TO shoulder, he had lain jowl
by jowl with Fear deep in the forest.
And that Fear had breathed into his
ear the things that be had come back
TO tell-breathed so insistently that he
who listened had come to believe them
almost as so.
Gilbert Steele came back from the
battle, for the blow that struck him
was not deadly-came back with JOY
in his heart and gladness in his eyes
came back 10 Observation-Disclosures de
yalette. In the village they told him
where she was. They would have told
him more. but he would not wait. and
wonder was buried under anticipation
Going. he met the gypsy woman who
had wrought the fharm-LAcadienne
She had come with the news II was
in her to do what little she might IN
atonement. Stopping him. she said
"M'sieur Gilbert, you must go to the
chapel of Valette and pray for her.
"She is not dead" be cried hoarsely
She shook her head. mo" she said
b. fro BE Continued