The Lamar register., 1910-04-27

Not quite dark" he repeated. NO.
for l can see you still! come to the
window, please" He drew her there
and turned her face with both hands
up to what light there was. His close
bending to her. the intensity of his
face. its passion and suffering. over
which love rode like king, trans
fixed the girl, who lifted her own
swimming eyes and trembling lips in
compassion, looking at him in turn
as if she would aid his sight, of her
own free will stamp her features GU
his failing vision.
THAT lovely hair" he touched it.
ut has light all along it like sun in
the reeds-on the leaves; it can hold
the light so. dearest. Why can't my
eyes? Those lovely eyes! Sometimes
think they are wells where all the
light is held in inexhaustible depths.
would drain them dry. Those lovely
lips, l have no likeness for them.
only know mine long for them.
have looked at you often enough. God
knows. and yet to-day | feel l have
never seen you before. Because l
am losing you, shall soon have only
remembrance to feed upon
Lose me? oh, why?" she whis-
pered. and unable to control her emo
ton hid her face on his breast
Don't cry so. don't, Lucy" After
few minutes, In which he soothed
her tenderly, she mastered herself
and. Withdrawing little. laid her
cool palms against his eyelids:
you need never lose me unless
you wish"
MY God" he said, passionately.
why have ! been tempted like this?
Why. it's a crime to take you, Lucy.
darling"
You don't love me-" she said. sim
ply, 'or you would not think it; You
don't want me, or you couldn't
feel it,"
Want you,' He laughed. Haven't
| proved it? Must kiss you again
and crush you as could to prove how
one you are with me? Don't you
KNOW
She blushed crimson.
81 am wreck-a crippled crea-
ture."
Hush" she pleaded Il only want
to be sure of one thing. Do you
love me?"
Tempest kissed her. Il don't think
that's the word"
"Ah," she said. softly, ITS a good
one. and enough to keep me with"
She drew the hand she held against
her heart.
You don't realize. my darling" he
said. that am going blind shall
be as blind as sleep"
with great sweetness she asked:
Would you think 1t lovely dream
to find me always in that sleep?"
He answered her without words
touched by the delicacy of her
thought.
Against the arm she leaned were
the marks of the temptation to which
he had yielded in moments OF supreme
suffering Should he tell her? The
habit. begun before she came to him.
had been ever since her advent en-
tirely under control. 1t could never
tempt him now again. Why should
he tell her, and cause her added
grief, since he could not-would not
let her go? She must share his lot.
1t was her fate.
But he said:
you will save me. Lucy?"
Il will love you. Basil"
you will save me So"
As he held her. so tenacious is the
woman of her points that. as Lady
ormond's brilliant figure flashed
across Lucy Carew's mind she whis-
pered her name.
And I shall fear every woman
now,"
Tempest laughed.
You needn't: l think have loved
you all my life-you in other women-
and now all women in you.
This sweet, dear room, Basil.
"Ah, you like Il? couldn't think
of anything else to do in those hor-
rible days when you kept me wait
ing. so ! transformed ii. have
dreamed of seeing you here-my love
my wife-in dozen different pic
lures. but never of finding you like
this
She told him how she had come
and of her meeting with Lady Or
mond. Il was Jealous of her-even
that night here"
II knew it," he laughed.
oh she exclaimed. chagrined.
how did you?''
II hoped 1t. at all events. and that's
why I burned her picture before you
so that she. at least. shouldn't be
between u.s.
u-cared-then-for me?'
Then? | cared the night you came
in your little. wet shoes. I could
have kept you then, with no further
words. no parting. and never let you
go. | love like that" he said.
She drew a little from him. How
well you know how you love. BASIL"
He held her by force. drawing her
until her lips were on his.
Yes he murmured. how well I
know"
II was past the luncheon hour when
Mrs. Henly. who had wandered the
house over for her master. gently
opened the morning-room door. At
first she distinguished nothing in the