The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-10

a WOIU IIOm Oer ups una your worries
win vanish like q mist Let N &C.
knowledge ourselves beaten and beg
her to save u.s.
Boyd shook his head in negation. but
she gave him no time for speech.
TT seems that you wanted to pose as
Q hero before her and employed Us to
build up your triumph. Well, Fam
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
Trough
Emerson gazed at her In astonish-
ment the outburst had been 20 unex-
psctsd. but he realized that he owed
her too much to take offense.
Miss Wayland will take no hand in
my affairs. l doubt If she will even
realize what this trouble Is all about"
he said. . tribe stifny. II suppose l
did want to play the hero. and I 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?"
Yes. 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 II she desired That Is part of her
education. Oh. Wayne Wayland's op-
position isn't all I have had to over
come. I have had to show his daugh-
ter that am one Of her own kind. for
she hates weakness"
And you think that woman loves
you! Why, she isn't a woman at all.
She doesn't know what love means
When . woman loves. do you imagine
she cares for money or fame or sue
cess1 II I cared for a man do you
think I'd stop to ask my father If
might marry him or wait for my lover
to prove himself worthy Of me? Do
you think I'd send him through the
hell you have suffered to try his
metal?' She laughed outright. why.
I'd become what he was, and I'd fight
With him. I'd give him all l had
money. position. friends, influence. II
my people objected ia tell them to 60
hang. I'd give them up and join him.
I'd use every dollar. every vile and
feminine device that I possessed. in
his service. When a woman loves she
doesn't care what the world says. The
man may be q weakling or worse. but
he y 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 understsnd." said Boyd
You are primitive; you have lived in
the open. She II exactly your opposite
Conservatism IL bred IN her, and she
can't help her nature. It was hard
even for me to understand at drst. but
when saw her life. when / saw how
she had been reared from childhood.
! understood perfectly. I would not
have her other than she il. It IS enough
for me to know that in her own way
she cares for me-"
Cherry tossed her head In derision.
For my part prefer red blood to sap.
and when I love I want to know it
I don't want to have it proved to me
like q problem in geometry. I want
TO love and hate and do wild, impul-
sive things against my own judgment"
Have you ever loved in that way"
he inquired abruptly.
"Yss," she answered without hesita-
ton. looking him squarely in the eye
with m expression he could not faith
ON. Thank heaven, I'm not the
artificial kind! As you say. I'm print
t!ve. have livedr' Her crimson lips
curled scornfully.
Il didn't expect you to understand
her," he said. But she loves me-
And I-wel, she Is my religion. A
man must have some God. He can't
worship 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 ne effort
At speech.
'Fingerless'' Fraser met him at the
waters edge.
"where in the devil have you been?"
he cried breathlessly.
AT the Indian village after help.
whyT
Big George IL in more trouble. He
sent for help two hours ago. l was
Just going to beat it down there"
whats up?'
"There's six Of your men In the bunk
house all beat up. They don't look
like they'd fish any more for awhile.
Marsh's men threw their salmon over
board. and they had another fight.
Things are getting warm"
I'VE can't allow ourselves to be
driven from the banks" said Boyd
quickly. I'll get the shoremen to-
gether right away. Fild Alton and
bring him along. Well need every man
We can GET
Nothing doing with that party.
Hes quit like a house cat and gone to