The Huttig news., 1911-01-07

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 The air was vitiating rapidly; they could not both live through the night. ] Buff she loved him as he loved her. she would he happier to die with him than to live at the cost of his life.
 He pictured for himself again that last look of her face it's beauty. it's strength. its sweet sympathy He seemed to see the stray wisp of hair that had found its way down upon her check. Her perfect lipshow well he remembered were the unopened 1 buds of pure womanly passion
 After all, whether she loved him or not there would still be much in life for her.
 Time would cure her sorrow. There would be many elsims upon her. and she would sooner or later resume her normal activities. i s owly he disengaged his hand from her clinging fingers In his other hand he still held his pocketknife To open i vein in his wrist would take but a l moment. His life would we'll away, there on the tiles
 She would think he was asleep: and then she herself would drift away into unconsciousness which would be bro ken only after the door was opened in the morning
 Bah, His mind cleared in fash. What a fool he was Need he doukt her for an instant? Need he question what she would do when she found that he was dead2 And she would know it quickly This living pulsing girl beside him loved him, She had told him in every way except in words. In life and in death they belonged to each other.
 They were one forever They still lived. and while thy lived they must hope. And if hope failed, there still would be love.
 His pent-up emotions broke restraint With minimizing swiitness. he threw his arm over her and drew her tight 10 him. His lips found hers in long kiss-clung in ecstasy for another. and another.
 Her arms went ahout his neck He felt as though her soul had passed from her lips to his own
 My lover." she whispered T think l have always cared"
 "Oh. Girl, Girl!" He could utter no more.
 With faint sigh she said T am glad it is to be together" She sat up. still holding his hand If it need be It all" she added. new firmness in her voice.
 "If it need be at all," Orme searched is mind again for some promise of es- ape from this prison which had been suddenly 2 orified for them. The smooth unbreakable walls. the thin seam of the door; the thermometer. Why had he not thought of it before? The thermometer,
 With an exclamation, he leaped to his feet.
 What is it? she cried
 "A chance, small chance-but still chancei"
 He found his way 10 the handle of 1 the door. which his first attempt at escape had taught him was not con nected with the outer knob Then he located the covering which protected the coils of the thermometer.
 Striking with his heel, he tried to break the metal grating. It would not yield. Again and again he threw his weight into the blows. but without ef- feet.
 At last he remembered his pocket knife. Thrusting one end of it through the grating. he prodded at the glass coils within There was a tinkling sound. He had succeeded.
 He groped his way back to the girl and seated himself beside her. With the confession of their love new hope had sprung up in them. They might still be freed, and, though the air was becoming stifing. neither of them believed that a joy as great as theirs could be born to live but few hours.
 For the hundredth time he was say ing: T can't believe that We have known each other only one day"
 And even now" she unused. "you don't know my name. Do you want me to tell you?"
 Not until you are ready
 Then wait. It will come In due form. Some one will say. Mir Orms. Miss -"
 The name doesn't matter" said Orme. TO me you will always be just Girl"
 The joyous moments rushed by. She had crept close to him again. and with her head on his shoulder, was saying: There is so much for us to tell each ofher'
 There seems to be only one thing to say now" He kissed her tenderly.
 "Oh. but there is much more
 Where shall we begin?" asked Orme.
 Well, to he matter-of-fact, do yo9 live in Chicago"
 No, dear. live in New York
 T didn't even know that" she whis- pered. And about me Our family home has been in one of the suburbs here since was a small girl. For sew eral years l was sent east to school. and after that l went abroad with