Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-02
her. Her eyes turned away again, and

her Her eyes turned away again, and
she did not answer him.
'T make mistakes sometimes" he
said speaking still lower, 81 know I
do. When I am with you cannot be
always thinking of what I say It's
too much to ask, when a man is as far
gone as 1 am"
81 should like to believe that" Mar
garet said, without looking at him
rs ii hard to believer" he asked so
gently that she only Just heard the
words.
You don't make It easy, you know, -
said she with a little defiance, for she
felt that she was going to yield before
long
Il don't know how to- You're not
in the least capricious-and yet"
You're mistaken" Margaret an
swered. turning to him suddenly. Tn
the most capricious woman in the
world! Yesterday l wrote a long let
ter to a friend, and then I suddenly
tore it up-there were ever so many
pages! 1 daresay that If I had writ
ten just the same letter this morning
I should have sent 1t. If that is not
caprice, what is it?"
'It may have been wisdom to tear
1t up" Logotheu suggested.
I'm not sure. I never ask myself
questions about what do. l hate peo-
pie who are always measuring their
wretched little souls and then tinker
ing their consciences to make them
fit, I don't believe 1 wish to do any
a
what like. always"
'If you will only go on doing what
you like" Logotheti answered, 1T will
give me the greatest pleasure in the
world to help you. 1 only ask one
kindness"
You have no right TO ask me any
thing today. You've been quite the
most disagreeable person this after
noon that ever met in my life"
81 know have" Logotheti answered
with admirable contrition. I'll wait
a day or two before I ask anything;
perhaps you will have forgiven me by
that time"
I'm not sure. What was the thing
you were going to ask"
He was silent now that she wished
10 KNOW MS IDOuSnC
Have you forgotten It already?-
she inquired with a little laugh that
was encouraging rather than con.
temptuous, for her curiosity was
reused.
They looked at each other at last,
and all at once she felt the deeply dis
turbing sense of his near presence
which she had missed for three days.
though she was secretly a little afraid
and ashamed of it; and to-day It had
not come while her anger had lasted
But now IT was stronger than ever be-
fore, perhaps because it came so I'M
expectedIy. and 1t drew her to him.
Their eyes met and they looked
long at one another in the shade of
the elm tree on the lawn, as the sun
was going down Only a few minutes
had passed since Margaret had been
very angry, and had almost believed
that she was going to quarrel finally,
and break her engagement. and be
free; and now she could not even turn
her face away, and when her hayd felt
his upon 1t, she let him draw it slowly
to him; and half unconsciously she
followed her hand, bending towards
him sideways, from her seat, nearer
and nearer, and very near.
And as she put up her lips to his.
he would that she might drink his
soul from him at one deep draught-
even as one of his peoples poets
wished, in the worlds spring time,
long ago.
1t had been a strange Love-making
They had been engaged during more
than two months. they were young,
vital, passionate; yet they had never
kissed before that evening hour under
the elm tree at Versailles. Perhaps it
was for this that Konstantin had
played. or at least, for the certainty
1t meant to him, If he had doubted