The Arvada enterprise., 1911-06-08

/, that and she caught her breath.
Thank you-Philip."
We'll have our holiday. Jeanne. but
We must have a better understanding
nrst."
mol No more!-I can'tl"
But he went steadily on: You said
there was only one way out. and
knew what you meant, II is a way
out-a way that can't deny your
right to take, II we're talking OF
rights. During the fve years that
spent at sandoval always regarded
1t as a right that I could exercise
when chose. Perhaps that Is one Of
the reasons I never exercised It. But,
Jeanne, II 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 me with that!
No right" Then, clutching at his
hands again, You must promise!"
Again she pulled her hands away
and covered her face with them She
was trembling unoontrollably.
1T was not q threat" he said stead
lily. ut was a promise. a promise I
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"
mo right" she repeated In a whis-
per. What possible right could you
have to make a promise like that-a
threat that calls itself promisef"
'I have the only right there IL.
Listen. Last night, when you were
lying there asleep, I sat thinking.
thinking about you, about tho love
had for you; about the change which
that love had made in me and would
go on making after had lost you For
faced losing you. ! knew that when
they sent a boat ashore for you, l
should have to let you go without q
word II could have heard prophecy
then, that today l should be telling
you loved you. telling It with clear
heart and conscience, | should have
gone half-mad for 10Y 1t seemed as
II the thing could never happen. l am
a man with stain upon me. and yes
terday that stain made II impossible
to say anything to you but goodby.
meant to say 1t, and take my way
through the air again and live out the
rest OF my life on what. from your
bounty. you had already given me.
But the coming OF new day has
changed all that. 1t has given me the
right to tell you what have told you
and 1t gives me the right to make thai
promise. Isn't that quite plain7 Dom
you understand"
"I must think" she gaspsd. "Yor
must let me think"
NO" he said. 81 have not asked for
an answer. There is nothing that you
have to toll me. Nothing that I'm
waiting to hear. No decision that you
must make. You understand what
said and you know its true. The
supreme fact in my universe ID
Just you. That gives mo the
right to follow you wherever you
go. But you are still free. You
can stay here. whore Fate has put you
and let me stay here, too being sure
that all the happiness in the world
there ia for me is to be found here at
your side, In helping you. And thon II
the torture Of privation. loneliness and
despair become too hard"
She turned to him then and inter
rupted. Her words came quietly. un'
accompanied bN any gesture OF her ex
pressive hands. She spoke with the
utmost simplicity.
They won't be too hard. think
neither the privation nor tho loneli
ness. There won't be any despair
not with you, my friend. And-and
we will follow my fathers gospel
She saw the blood go ebbing out OF
his face, and then come back with a
surge. He drew in two or three great
breaths OF the keen. winelike air
Then. in a strangely matteroffact
fashion, he seated himself beside her
THAT gospel begins with breakfast.
he said.