The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1911-06-22

, that and she caught her breath.
Thank you-Philip."
Well have our holiday. Jeanne, but
We must have Q better understanding
nrst."
No! No mors!-I canti"
But he went steadily on: "You said
there was only one way out. and
knew what you meant. II 10 = way
out-a way that I cant deny your
right to taks. Il ws'rs talking Of
rights. During the i've years that
spent at sandovA I always regarded
It ~ . right that I could exercise
when I chose. Perhaps that 10 one Of
the reasons I never exercised II. But
Jeanne. II you elect to take that vay.
! shall take Il with you''
She struggled away from him. turned
and faced him with horrorstricksa
eyes. you must not say that! You've
no right 70 threaten me with that!
No righti" 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.
Tt was not . threat" he said stead
fly. TT was . promise. . promise !
have the right to maks. I make II
again. now. jeanne solemn prom.
Use before God Whether IT'S living Or
dying. shall 20 beside you"
mo right" she repeated In . whis-
per What possible right could you
have to make q promise like that
threat that calls itself . promiser'
'T have the only right there b.
Listen. Last night. when you were
lying there asleep, I sat thinking.
thinking about you. about the love I
had for you: about the change which
that love had made In mo and would
90 on making after had lost you. For
faced losing you. knew that when
they sent q boat ashore for you, I
should have to let you 90 without .
word. III could have heard q prophecy
then, that today should be telling
you / loved you, telling 1t with clear
heart and conscience. I should have
gone half-mad for Joy. II seemed -
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 Eoodby.
meant to say It, 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 toll you what have told you
and 1t gives me the right to make that
promise Isn't that quite plain! Don't
you understand"
II must think" she gaspsd. you
must let me think"
"No." he said, II have not asked for
an answer. There 10 nothing that you
have to tell me. Nothing that I'm
waiting to hear. No decision that you
must make. You understand what
said and you know its true. Tbs
supreme fact In my universe ID
Just you. That gives me the
right to follow you wherever you
60. But you are still free. You
can stay here, where Fate has put you
and let mo stay here too, being sure
that all tho happiness In the world
there is for me is to be found here at
your side, in helping you. And then 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 by any gesture Of her ex
pressive hands. She spoke with the
utmost simplicity.
"They won't be too hard, think
neither the privation nor the 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 60 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 . strangely matter-of-fact
fashion, he seated himself beside her
That gospel begins with breakfast.
, he said.