The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-12-22

this man in compliance with any sug-
gestion of the world, following any
dictate of society, subservient to any
convention. / cannot see but that
would be doing as great or a greater
wrong than / did before in flaunt-
ing all of these forces. | have learned
what love is and what marriage should
be. will not give my hand and yield
up my person where cannot yield my
heart. And there is no expiration or
reparation that requires it of me, no
voice that can coerce me into it.
will not marry you, Valentine Lang
ford. l will accept your expressions
as evidenced by your words, by your
presence here, as testimony to your
regret. Indeed, realize that your con-
fession was itself a great humiliation
to man like you. And perhaps l have
spoken harshly of it. But the bare
not love you, don't even want to love
you. My heart, my soul goes to this
man." she turned to her companion of
the island, whom up to to-day | have
made and fashioned and taught and
trained until these hours when he has
broken away from me. | love this
man who stands silent, who thinks of
me as a thing spotted, polluted,
damned. Him | love, though he slay
me, yet will | love him. Him | trust,
though he disobey me, yet will love
him. Him will serve, though he cast
, me off, yet will love him. And with
this in my heart in which | glory and
which | confess as openly and with
as little hesitation as you confessed
your shame, give you my final, abso-
lutte, utterly irrevocable decision |
will not marry you, will not go back
with you. No. not for anything that
you can prOffer, nor for any reason
that you can urge, will come to you
when in my soul belong to another.
There may be no end to this but my
despair. This man may cast me off.
This man may trample me under foot.
The spots upon my soul may loom
larger in his view and hide what else
is there. know I have been for
given by God. will not be for.
given by men, but l tell you here and
now. again and again, that will not
be your wife. | will be his wife or
no mans"
| Langford turned away and hid his
face in his hands. Whitaker stepped
forward and laid his hand upon the
shoulder of the man of the island.
He shook him for a moment.
You stand immobile," he cried,
sharply, after such confession as
that, after such an appeal? What
| have you to say, man? You ought to
get down on your knees and thank
God for the love of such a woman"
AYE, aye" burst out the deep tones
of the old coxswain of the cutter. so
say all of us"
God help me-" cried the man, lift.
ing his hand and releasing his Shout
der from the grasp of the officer, 81 did
love this woman. Think how it was,
think how believed in her. No Chris.
tan ever believed in his god as be-
lleved in her. She told me what purity
was, what innocence was, what sweet
ness was, what light was. what truth
was, and | looked at her and saw
them"
And you can look at her and see
them now" cried the officer.
No. said the man, 81 can never
look at her and see her the same"
"Oh, Man! Mani" cried the woman.
The test was upon him. He was
falling Her sorrow, her 81 lief were
more for him than for herself.
Don't mistake me-" said the man.
Il can't help, loving you, whatever you
are. If you had been as guilty as,
when he began to speak and when
{ you corroborated him, | fancied that