Arizona republican., 1911-07-15

What do you mean?" / evaded.
Her eyes flashed angrily. but re-
tanned look Of perplexity.
You know what I mean" she said.
How did get here? Don't evade. l
| was living with my father. and then
| was here. What happened in the in
term? Are you responsible or are you
not?"
Don't look at me so angrily, Eve"
| l said. Il am not responsible for your
coming here-only for your being here
| now"
Who brought me? / didn't fly. I
suppose"
You've said 1t, Eve. You did fly.
You came in q monoplane, and some
thing happened. and It vas wrecked
In the woods near the spring q.
you don't remember"
She shook her head.
Tell me that was alone, and driv-
Ing the thingi" said she.
There was a man with you, Eve"
your"
mo. | was here living in the cabin;
I'd Just finished IL. | heard what
sounded like all the kindling wood in
the world being broken; but there was
a great storm going on, and thought
q tree had come down, and made all
| the racket. Next morning, though,
found the wreck OF the mono, and you
You were unconscious, and when you
came to you had lost all your memory,
even OF how to talk; and you became
like my own child TO me, and couldn't
give you up"
You said there was a man with
me?"
The angry look had gone out of her
Ges.
There was, Eve. I buried him."
She nodded gravely, as II she under
stood why, and then she startled me
by the question:
Who was he?"
For answer fetched the things that
l had found In his pockets.
She gave them one glance, and knew.
Il was going to marry him." she
said simply. But | didn't want to-"
She sighed. 'He-he." she said, was
very. very fond of me. and had done
things for papa, that-well, that put
II up to me. Yes, was going to marry
him"
She shook her shoulders as II to free
them from care.
But STILL" she said, 81 don't see
you in the picture. 1t seems to me
you've pretty serious business to an
swer for. You could have taken me
away from here, any of half a dozen
times. But you made me hide myself
from the men IN the boat. I-some-
how I've formed the habit of looking
up TO you, and trusting you.
And yet what you have done is pretty
awful on the face of it. You
say was like a child.
Just like a child" said. with
everything to learn"
And you taught me. seem TO re-
member wanting TO say things that I
couldn't. Was It only in speaking that
l had TO be taught"
shook my head and smiled
you had to be taught how to hold
a spoon"
Don't let's have Details" she said
81 remember more than | care TO con-
fess. | should like to forget. It's all
very horrid. II think you have been
base-base-"
And she burst into tears, and flung
her arms about me, and hid her face
or all the conclusions which her words
might have led to, this was the one
that / had least reason to expect
81 have been base" | cried, wicked
"a cur-but | am going TO be baser.
l love yen. It's all that life
has in 1t. ! have no right TO
tell. l have promised myself
and my God that would not tell you
But have told. And it's true
And I will kill myself II you
say no."
Words appeared here and there
among her tears. And at first | could
not string them together. But pres
emily, as a prospector may gather dia-
monds, one here, one there until he
has handful, their collective meaning
shone suddenly like a great light in
my heart. She was saying-over and
over:
"If you love met makes all the
difference II you really love
me-all the difference"
When I learned that Ewes mother
had been dead these many years, the
heaviest blame that | could put upon
myself no longer had basis in fact.
thought somewhat lightly of any
eAlTd anguish tndt Hdu CdusSu HeT
father. First because he was a man,
and second because he had been will
ing to let her marry another man
whom she did not love. But | admit
that 1t was with trembling hand that
I gave my card to the servant at her
fathers door.
Unfortunately for getting at the gen.
uineness of his feeling, my name az
man of millions was too generally IA
miliar TO have escaped him. He was
prepared, so far as | know, to forgive
me anything. He touched little on
his gray hairs, on a fathers heart, etc.
He blamed me as a man OF the world
for committing actions liable to mis-
He told me in formal
phrases, but without enthusiasm, what
my exact and proper line of conduct
ought to have been. And he finished
with the old adage that there was no
use crying over spilled milk.
II have your word for It," he said, |
that Eve is no worse for her deten- |
ton on the island. But. Of course, the i!
world will give your characters thor |
ouoh gmirchinP-but dpCently and be-