The Mena weekly star., 1910-06-30

i &zkzrz - MT E8 01 With Great Burst of Strength He
 Rolled the Great Rock Aside.
 rived at her door. how much time it took him to clear 1t way. he had no idea. He had no thought but that he must open passage and get to her dead or alive
 It was not wise for him to expend 1 breath in cries, but until he had some reply he could not keep silent. After that, when her answer came to him, he worked more quietly save for those periods when he felt that he must hear her voice to enable him to go on. Such was the furious energy of his toll that by and by the great mass of rock was cleared away save one huge boulder which fairly blocked the en- trance. It was light outside now. A gray dawn and full of storm. Through the wider interstices she could see him plainly. She knew now that her res cue was only matter of time. A branch of tree for a lever and his strength would roll the rock away. She started to tell him but he caught glimpse of her white face pressed against 8 cro-.co and the sight in- spired him. With great burst of strength, the like of which possibly had never been compassed by mortal man since Samson pulled apart the pillars of the temple, he rolled the otd da L. trance, gasping. panting. with out stretched arms
 But step divided them. That step she took With a sob of relief she fell upon his breast. naturally. ineyit. ably. His splendid arms swept her close to him. Her own hands met about his neck. With upturned face she looked upon him in all the abandon. u.cht of perfect passionate surrender. He bent his head and kissed her. the first time in all his years that his lips had been pressed upon another mouth lie chung to her there in that kiss as If to make up in one moment for all the neglected possibilities of the past, as if never in all the bringings forth of the future should such another op- portunity be afforded him. He felt for the first time In his life the beat of another human heart against his own. the rise and fall of another hu- human soul Tighter and tighter his arms strained her to him. She gave herself up in that mad, delirious. awful moment to the full flow of long checked passion. and kiss for kiss. pressure for pressure, and heart beat for heart beat, she made repsone.
 It was too much It was the man who broke away. There was nothing, | no experience, no remembrance to | teach him. It was all surprise. He | thrust her from him slowly. Her hands | fingered about his neck. but his back ward pressure would not be denied. | He held her at arms length. her hands outstretched to him. her bosom pant Ing, her eyes shining. her cheeks aiame in the gray dawn. Yielding. | giving up to him absolutely. yet some thing. the magnificent metal of the man, the restraints through which he had gone. the long battles with his own passion, rose to his soul and gave him mastery once more
 "Womanl womanl' he whispered no mere local name would represent her now. She was humanity to him. Woman" he whispered, my God! my Godt"
 He turned away. sank down on one of the great bouiders that he had thrown aside and buried his face in his hands, his body shaking with emo tions he could scarce define but well understood. The woman threw herself down on her knees before him and took him once more in her arms.
 Man" she said, 'I love you!" | She drew his hands away from his face: she laid her own face in his bleeding palm and kissed it.
 Man" she said, her lips wet with his own blood fin a sort of wild, bar barrie sacrament, man, love you!''
 He stared at her as one distrauglft He had dreamed of this. he had imag lned i.. he had prayed for 1t, he had hoped for 1t, but no revelation thai had come to him in the years of thei' association equaled in its blind'ne brilliancy. in its intense illumination inc revelation in that woman's voice in that woman's eyes. in that woman touch.
 Man." she said again, T love you Do you understand! Do you know what it means?"
 Then he found his voice. He tooH her hand and pressed 1t against his heart.
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