New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-12-14
But he won't come again. That IS
what makes it so hard; he viii never
come back. "

''But he won't come again. That IS
what makes it so hard; he will never
come back. :
She turned away. but not quickly
enough to keep him from seeing thai
her eyes were vet. Wayne Wayiand
beheld what he would have given half
his Eaighty fortune to prevent he
cried OUT angriIy. but she anticipated
his thought.
No. no. you must never injure him
again. for he was right and we we're
wrong. You see I-couldn't under
stand"
He left her staring into the night
and walked heavily below.
Emerson felt great sense of relief
and deliverance as he leaned against
his oars His heart sang to the mur
muir of the waters oversize. For the
drst time Ia many months he felt
young and free. How blind he had
escape from life that could lead to
but one result! The girl was sweet
and good and wonderful in many
ways. but three years had altered him
more than he mad realized. He had
begun to understand himself that
very afternoon. when Cherry had told
him her own unhappy secret. The
shock of her disclosure had reused him
from his dream. and once he began to
see himself as he really was the rest
had come quickly. He had been
doubtful even when he went out to
the yacht, but what happened there
had destroyed the last trace of IN
certainty. He knew that for him
there was but one woman in all the
world. 1t was no easy battle he had
fought with himself. He had been
reared to respect the conventions. and
he knew that Cherrys life had not
been all he could wish But he front
cd the issue squarely and tried. to
throttle his inbred prejudice. Al
though he had felt the truth of Fra.
ser's arguments and of Cherry's own
words, he had still refused to yield
until his love for the girl swept over
him in all it's power; then he made his
choice
The one thing he found most diff
cult to accept was her conduct with
billiard. Those other charges against
the girl were vague and shadowy, but
this was concrete, and he was familiar
with every miserable detail of it. 1t
took all his courage to face it, but he
q hn
had been reversed Cherry would not
have faitered for an instant More
over. what she had done had been
done for love CT him. 1t was worse
than vile to hesitate. Her past was
her own, and all he could rightfully
claim was her future He shut his
teeth and laid his course resolutely for
her landing. striving to leave behind
this one hideous memory, centering his
mind upon the girl herself and shut
ting out her past. It was the bitter
est fight he had ever waged But
when he reached the shore and tied
his skiff he was exalted by the know
edge that he had triumphed; that this
painful episode was locked away with
all the others.
Now that he had conquered he was
filled with a consuming eagerness As
he stole up through the shadows he
heard her playing. and when he drew
nearer he recognized the notes Of that
song that had banished his own black
desolation on the night of their first
Eee:ing He paused outside the open
wind: W and saw by the shaded lamp.
l;sh' that she was playing from mem
DRY, her fingers wandering over the
Keyboard without conscious effort
i'hen she took up the words with all
';lA '!!robbing tenderness that lives in
a Coop cnntralto voice:
Last night was dreaming of thee, love-
was dreaming;
dreamed thou didst promise
t!,rry PAUSED as if entranced. for
she thought she beard another voice
Jn't with hers. Then she bowed her
hes! ana :+:'i.hed in utter wretchnd
Ness. knowing: it for nothing more than
iiel 'sWi tau: = Too many times. rs
IN other tWiiights past she had heard
that mellow voice blend with hers
only to find that her ears had played
her false and she was alone with a
memory that would never die.
OF all the days of her life this was
the saddest. this hour the loneliest
and the tears she had withheld SO
bravely as long as there was work to
do came now in unbidden profusion.
TO face those people on the yacht
had been an act of pure devotion to
Boyd, for her every instinct had re
belled against it, Yet she, had known
that some desperate stroke in his de
Tense must be delivered instantly:
otherwise the ruin of his hopes would
follow. She had hit upon the device
Of using Constantine and Chakawana
largely by chance, for not until the
previous day had she learned the truth
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