Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-09-15

Il was mere Wnen you came. bnah
be here when you return"
I'VE shall see," returned the wo-
man looking boldly at him. The clash
Of Wills almost struck fire within the
eyes of the two who thus crossed
swords. Meanwhile" she turned to
Langford, "if you will leave the is
land and go back to your ship, shall
be very glad There is nothing you
can do here. You have nothing to
gain by remaining"
Kate" he cried, zone last appeal"
1T is as unavailing as the first"
She looked at him steadily. He saw
that within her face and bearing
which convinced him that what she
said was true.
AT least" he said, with the dignity
Of sorrow and disappointment, "if
have played the part OF the fool,
have done my best to play the man."
He turned slowly away. In a step
the woman was by his side.
"You have" she said. whoever
else has failed me in this hour, it has
not been you. 1 am sorry that 1 do
not love you, that 1 never did love you
and that l cannot love you" She
reached her hand out. "Good-by."
"Good-by," he said, of you think of
me, remember that did my best to
make amends ana If you ever
change"
81 shall not change" said the wo-
man. "Good.by."
He moved of down the strand,
called his sailors to him, got into his
boat, showed off and was rowed over
the blue lagoon and through the open
ing in the barrier toward the yacht
tossing slowly upon the long swells of
the Pacific.
"As for you, sir" said the woman,
after she had watched Langford lit
tie while in silence, will you go back
and bring some officers ashore to hear
my story?"
AT your wish, Miss Brenton," said
the Observation-Disclosures gravely.
The woman turned to her compan.
ion.
vivid you go with them?"
"And leave you here alone?" cried
the man.
II shall be here when you come
back, give you my word upon It.
do not break my word. You know
whatever else you may have against
me, have always told you the truth
If you will remember, I said but yes
terday that was not worthy of you.
She smiled bitterly.
"And in that, madam" said Whitta
ker, give me leave to say that yor
broke your record for veracity"
IT'S good Of you to say So" she re
turned. Believe me l have taker
more comfort from your words and &C
tions in this dreadful hour than had
dreamed it possible for men to give
Now, If you will all go away and leave
me and not come back until evening
shall be so glad and thankful"
, Come, sir" said the lieutenant-com
mander, not unkindly, touching thu
! man upon the shoulder. "As a gentle
! man you cannot do less than accedt
! to the lady's request"
Suffering himself thus to be per
! suaded, the man followed the Office
, into the boat, in which the whole par
, ty embarked and was rowed ava,
from the island. His first touch will
the world had separated him from
: the woman he loved and who love-
him. Nay, his own frightful folly, hi
own blindness, his own criminal ant
heartless decision had done that. Ant
the world upon which humanity love
to load the blame of its transgres
sions, and with which It would fail
l share the consequences of it's owl
follies, had nothing whatever to d.
!. with 1t. In fact, 1t was because h
was so ignorant of the world, so utter
+ ly unable to see things in their rela
: tive values-and in relation we ascel
: tain truth-that he had taken tn
! tone that he had used and enteret
I upon the course which he had TO
d lowed.
He could only see one thing, tina
n this woman who he supposed belonge
n so completely and entirely and absc
lutely to him, who was as fresh an
e unspotted from the world as he wa,
u who had been his own as he had b.
longed entirely and utterly and absC
4 lutely to her, was-different! Tha
(. the difference was more in his ow
e Imagination than anywhere els
g brought him no comfort. He sti
o loved her, he still wanted to MARI
d her, but he loved her in spite Of he
p shame. A greater, a wiser man woul
have loved her because of 1t. An
h some day this fact which he himse,
n was inherently large enough to realiz,
4 or would be after a time, would caus
IS him a grief so great that the angus
that he suffered now would be notl
o ing,
d Whitaker was a man of great taC
and shrewdness and one with a wild
E knowledge of the world. He realize
something Of what was in the man
;" mind. He saw in some measure no
y the proposition presented itself to hil
and he felt deep kindness and pit
a toward his unhappy fellow Dassenga