Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-06-16

hill to windward of the fire watching
the trail of smoke.
81 should think that it would be per-
haps an hour or a little more. Why?"
she returned, after a moment pause.
"Are you anxious to have them here?"
For the life of her she could not
keep the bitterness out of her ques-
ton. The man looked at her in sur
prise. She had never lost her temper
before him in the years they had been
together. There had been something
singularly simple, free and unre-
strained in their life. Nothing had
ever occurred to vex her, at least not
after the mar had known enough to
notice it. She was a woman of sunny,
ever temper under any circumstances,
and she had felt it incumbent upon her
to be as nearly perfect as possible,
since she represented humanity to
him, nor had it been a difficult task
for her to be gentle. This flash of re-
sentiment, therefore, struck him as
something entirely novel. In his
amazement for a moment he forgot
the injustice of it, the unkindness of it.
He looked at her strangely and said
to her, with a little touch of Sc
verify:
"You know that it is not that,
Woman"
He had no terms of endearment.
He had never heard the words that
lovers use, and although he knew that
her name was Katharine, and he be-
lieved that his was John, and though
sometimes they made use of these
names, generally they called each 9TH
err by the broad generic terms which
stood for sex. Names are only for
differentiation and Identification in
any event, and here was no need for
such appellation. She loved to call
him Man. and she loved to hear him
call her woman"
+ "You know" he said, that It's not
who brought the world upon us"
| II was unjust, unkind," she an
/ swered quickly enough, stretching our
her hand to him. you must forgive
/ me You see even the approach O
yonder ship brings bitterness into oul
} hearts and into our speech"
II guessed that it would be so wher
l saw you weep" said the man. :"
wish now that / had not given you thu
: flint and steel; that l had not allowed
you to light the beacon"
my friend, it had to be. Don't re
= proach yourself for that. Sooner 0
later this island would have been Wis
l tied by some one. Sooner or later tn
Y ship would have come to fetch u
/ of"
But we were so happy here" h
protested.
r Eyes" she answered, "but not sine
9 yesterday"
d Are you unhappy because l Low
your"
r Because" she made swift to repl
d II am no longer sure that you wi
o love me always"
"But you love me, do you not?" h
y questioned, eagerly.
"Yes."
t. care you sure of yourself%
y Absolutely"
r. why not of me, then? Am | les
Il true? Do I love less than your
Not now"
II what is the difference between u
ID them"
Ie 81 have seer the world and you hay
N not"
If "But I tell you that will make I
difference; that"
&c mo man can say that who has l
r; experience to draw upon"
"You are my mentor" said the ma
IS gently. "You have taught me all
s. know, but sometimes / think tn
s. about some things know more thu
le ysu, and this is one thing Of which
IL am sure"
IT. eyes," said the woman, you CT
Mt be sure so long as conditions rema
as they are at present, but 9th
times, other manners"
"You have something to tell me
i~nterposed the other, swiftly.