Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-03-04
WILD GEESEMN
BY Stanley j. Meyman. -
tCopyrigh,. lee, by Stanley J. weyman.l
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But her heart was not so easily de-
ceiy-d as her ear. There is something
under your words" she said. What is
III
4 am not going 10 night ne replied
graysly. bnt 70 punish There Is q
limit. Even while he spoke she r=raeEa-
bered in whaf circumstances those
words mad been used. He mas the
blood Of four on his head. and another
lies AZ deaths door, and he is not sat
ished. once / warned him. Today the
time for warning is past, h hour Tor
judgment is om God forgive me II
! err, for vengeance is His and IL Is
terrible to be His hand. He turned
10 Phelim- My sword is broken" ne
said. Fetch me the mans sword who
lies upstairs"
Phelign went. aWe-sfricken and mar
yelling. F1avia-buL. as she tried To
speak, Payton's shadow came into
sight al the entrance gates and went
slowly by, and she clapped her hand 10
her mouth that she might not scream.
Colonel Sullivan saw the action, IN
derstp0d. and touched her softly on
the shoulder. Pray" he said, pray.
For YOU" she cried in = voice that,
% those who had ears, betrayed her
heart. "Ah. / Viii pray"
No, for him. ne replied. For him
Eows For me when ! return"
She dropped on her knees before a
chair. and shuddering, hid her face in
her hands. And almost at once she
knew that they were gone, and that
she was alone in the room.
Then. whether she prayed most or
listened most, or the very intensity Of
her listening was itself prayer, she
never knew but only that in the agony
Of her suspense she raised her head
from the chair To hear il there was
news the common sounds % after
noon life dashed her with a dreadful
irony. The low whirr Of a spinning
wheel. a girls distant chatter. the Cluck
81 . %-z. - ~G1Ti yard iIEe salts
He'd grount Of a rowing pig, all bore
horne 10 her b. bitter message that,
whatever happened. and though night
fa4 found her lonely in q dishOnore6
home, lie would proceed as usual the
men and the Wonleu about her would
eat RlG eyiES and the smallest things
would stand where they stood now.
What was that Only the fall o. a
spit in the krch1z- E==zsS they never
c1me% HaeE4S she n4sa s@s That
surely was something. They were re-
turning In q moment she would know.
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stony eyes al the door. But when she
had listened lung-ir was nothing
Nothing And rher-ah. that surely
something They were coming n0w.
An q moment she would know. She
pressed her hands 10 Der breast.
She might have known already. for
had she gone 10 the door she would
seen who came. Bat she could
not 50.
And he. when he came in. did not
icok al her. He walked from the
threshold TO the hearth. and-strange
eoancidenca-he set the unsheathed
blade he carried fn the self-same angle,
the hreback. from which she had
taken a sword to attempt his life.
And still he did not look at her. but
STOOD with bowed head.
At last he turned. God forgive us
AL he said.
she broke into wild weeping. And
her lips. babbling i~ncoherent
thanksgiving. did not ten him. the
Of her arms. as she hung on
nm, conveyed