Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-06-01

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that, and she caught her breath.
Thank you-Philip."
We'll have our holiday, Jeanne, but
we must have a better understanding
frst."
mo! No more!-I can'tl"
But he went steadily on: you said
there was only one way out, and l
knew what you meant. 1t Is a way
out-a way that l can't deny your
right to take, If we're talking OF
rights. During the five years that l
spent at Sandoval l always regarded
1t as q right that l could exercise
when l chose. Perhaps that Is one OF
the reasons I never exercised it. But,
Jeanne, If you elect to take that way,
l shall take it with you"
She struggled away from him, turned
and faced him with horror-stricken
eyes. you must not say that! You've
no right to threaten mt with that!
No right" Then, c%lutching at his
hands again, you must promise!"
Again she pulled her hands away
and covered her face with them. She
was trembling uncontrollably.
1T was not a threat" he said stead
lily. ut was a promise, a promise l
have the right to make. make 1t
again, now, Jeanne-a solemn prom
Use before God. Whether it's living or
dying, I shall go beside you"
"No right" she repeated in a whis-
per. What possible right could you
have to make a promise like that-a
threat that calls itself a promise?"
81 have the only right there Is.
Listen. Last night, when you were
lying there asleep, I sat thinking,
I thinking about you, about the love ]
had for you; about the change which
) that love had made in me and would
Y go on making after I had lost you. For
D l faced losing you. l knew that when
t they sent a boat ashore for you, ]
should have to let you go without
word. If I could have heard a prophecy
then, that today l should be telling
@ you l loved you, telling it with a cleal
o heart and conscience, l should have
gone half-mad for Joy. 1t seemed al
a If the thing could happen. l an
q man with a stain upon me, and yes
terday that stain made 1t Impossible
to say anything to you but goodby.
meant to say it, and take my wa
through the air again and live out tn
" rest of my life on what, from you
"a bounty, you had already given me.
"a But the coming Of a new day ha
\, changed all that. 1t has given me tn
y right to tell you what have told YOU
~ and it gives me the right to make tina
- promise. Isn't that quite plain? Don
- you understand"
~ II must think" she gasped. "Yo
~ must let me think"
Il. mo" he said, 81 have not asked fc
- an answer. There is nothing that yo
have to tell me. Nothing that +
~, waiting to hear. No decision that yc
- must make. You understand what
70 said and you know it's true. II
~ SupTSu6 ldCJ III my uhi'NASO
Just you. That gives me Il
-, right to follow you wherever "
go. But you are still free. Y
'on can stay here, where Fate has put 20
and let me stay here, too, being su
~ that all the happiness in the wor
there is for me is to be found here
your side, in helping you. And then
iy the torture of privation, loneliness a
" despair become too hard"
She turned to him then and int
e. rupted. Her words came quietly, l
accompanied by any gesture of her
~, pressive hands. She spoke with
utmost simplicity.
Vi "They won't be too hard, l think
7ln' neither the ~privatlon nor the lon'
w. ness. There won't be any despair
not with you, my friend. And-a
ieu we will follow my fathers gospel"
lon She saw the blood go ebbing out
III his face, and then come back will
me surge. He drew in two or three or
breaths Of the keen, winelike
Then, In a strangely matter-of-f
un' fashion, he seated himself beside
YOU THAT gospel begins with breakfa'
en- "n he said.