The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1911-01-12
night tor the same reason. e.

~ WAS '"a' woman who Kept YOU.
cried Mildred 1T Is ause Of hey
that 'Hi, rriuS tn leave this Country"
''!."A>" Htn't" n, said quietly Il
have never thought of ter in TIM,
way"
'''Thra Gene away from this wretch
cu pace. | Gc!pSt the whol;, country
The fSlnrir>. !ae people. everything.
Ih!s isn't y'lr proper sphere Why
| not 'rtrr away nnN. ut once. ana DO
gin something new. Sonpthin. worth
W; -
DC -Au realize thr hopes the heart
aches, II" vi,;N rffc,i | have put into
this cntsrrriSe:" be questioned.
Cut she only said:
Il cont like 1t. 1t isn't Il nice b,.si
ness Ut fi:r,,'. take the plant over
Il 50! nee! money. | Lave plenty
Ivy" :" :!c interrupted sharply st
Gown. | wl,.: 10 talk t. yea" He
drew he wrap closer a.,ou, her >hual-
ders ana led her 10 Il deck chair TIL
change ia i!:tl was becoming mere an
parent. lie knew now that he had
never felt t." .;;,;il" since ! is FIRST meet
iI,s " All ~ .'Iii u uiioI VIC III ~ VI
the Gr;l..Gc Dane. Even then She had
rcii2.!ei hin by her lar!; of sympathy
She had s,lowl No understanding o.
his piI,rtS. and now She revealed as
complete Il failure 10 .,i;.So his cod" OF
honor Ii Hevrr occurred to her that
any loyalty Of man to man could OF
Sc; her simple VIII! She Gid not SCI
fft his RI. nf (Snp,..rt. vi liz,
nothing. S!i::t Of irpHcEcry
1t seemed 10 him I'll 1t one that
they had little III common She WAS
wrapped co.lp!e;ely in the web of her
own desires She would make her prejU-
diccS Il law for him. Above Ill. si.c
could not respond to the r2ultation OF
his success, Sil,, had no conception o.
the Price OF accomplishment that Is the
wilma OF every true mans life. He had
wagcd bitter fight t.!at had Slapped
his very soul: he had made and won
the struggle that Il man makes once il
Il lifetime. ANA now. just when be had
proved himself strong ana fair III the
sight of his fellows. she asked Liza tc
fo-c.,o it all Eil-rosSed in her own
cSoiSm. she required of him !; greater
sacrifice th:;.l any he had Elndn. Now
that he had shown his strength she
wanted to load him down with golden
fetters-to make him Il dependent. Was
it bccause She feared another E!rl:
She had tried to help him. he knew
in her way--:.nd the thought Of ii
touched him That waS like the Nj!
dre1 ne had always known-to act
fearlcSSly. needless of what her father
might Go or say. Somehow he had
re',l le!t more convinced of the sin
coaity CT her love. bu. he found him
SELF linking of it as Of something OF
til sast. After all. what she had done
haa ssen little. considering her power
She had given careleSSly out of her
abundance while Cherry He saw 1t
all now. ard sudden sense Of loyalty
and devotion to the ;S!rl who had real.
| ~ shared his struggles swept over him
in warm tide. 1t was most unlike
his distant worship of Mildred She
had been his dream. but the other was
bone of his bone and flesh Of his flesh
| For long time the two sat talking
while these thoughts took gradual
| form in I'll" young mans mind. and.
although the Geek was deserted. Miss
Maryland had now no need to curb her
once headstrong wooer
| He could net put into words the
change that was working il him. but
she saw it, and grnsping its meaning
! at last, she began TO battle like
IL mother fer her child. His awaken
Ing had been slow. and hers was even
! slower. bat once she found her power
over him waning her sense of loss
grew and grew as he failed to answer
to her half spoken appeal.
Womanlike. she caritulatCd at last,
What matter if Ec stayed here where
his hopes We're centcrei? This life in
the north had claimed him. ard she
would wait until be came for her But
still he did rot respond. and it was not
Ion: until she had persuaded herself
that his battle with the wilderness had
put rcd blood into his veins and his
conduct had been no worse than that
of other men Finally she tried to
voice these thoughts. but she only led
him to /, stiff denial CT the charges she
wished to forgive. AS she saw him
slipping further away from her she
summoned all her arts to rek:ndle the
fame which had burned SO steadily
and when these failed she surrendered
every prejudice. 1t was his love she
wanted. All else was secondary. At
last s,.. knew herself. She could have
cried a: :kp sudden realiZatio that he
had NOT ':issel her since their parting
in Chicago. and when she saw he had
no yT!!! - do so the memory Of his last
embrace arose to torture her. She WAS
almost glad when Il launch bringing
her father came from the shore ard
the old man joined them.
The two men bore themselves with
unbending fornality. unable as yet to
forget their mutual wrongs. The in
terruption gave Boyd the opportunity
| he had net been brave enough to make,