The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-09-05

uUwu tnere WHO-WUO Is my WlIe.
She would be glad IL never returned.
She is happy now when l am away,
and I have been happy for time. l
know what love is. ] have felt II. ]
have lived 1t. God forgive me. but
am almost tempted to go back to herr
He stopped at the change which had
come in Jan, who stood as straight
and as still ms the blank spruce be-
hind them. with only his eyes show
ing that there was life in him. Those
eyes held Thornton's They burned
upon him through the gray gloom as
he had never seen human eyes burn
before. He waited. half startled. and
Jan spoke. In his voice there was
nothing of that which Thornton saw
In his eyes
1t was low and soft and. though It
had that which rang like steel. Thorn
ton could not have understood or fear
ed 1t more.
"M'sieur, how far have you gone
with herr"
Thornton understood and advanced
with his hands reaching out to Jan.
"Only as far as one might go with
the purest thing on earth" he said IL
have sinned in loving her and in let
ting her love me. but that Is all. Jan
Thoreau. l swear that Is all!'
And you are going back Into the
south?"
Eyes, I am going back into the
SOUTH"
| The next day Thornton did not go.
He made no sign Of going on the sec
ond day. So it was with the third,
the fourth and the fifth. On each of
these days Jan went once, in the after
noon. to the office of the subcommis-
sioner. and Thornton always accompa-
MED him. At times when Jan was not
looking there was hungry light In his
eyes as he followed the others move
ments, and once or twice Jan caught
what was left of this look when he
turned Unexpectedly. He knew what
was In Thornton's mind. and he pitied
him, grieved with him in his own heart
until his own secret almost wrung It.
self from his lips.
The ninth day was the last day for
Jan Thorc"u. In dazed sort of way
| he listened as the subcommissioner
told him that the work was ended.
They shook hands. 1t was dark when
Jan came out from the company's Of
fees. dark with pale gloom through
which the stars were beginning to glow
with a ghostly gloon, lightened still
more in the north with the rising fires
of the northern lights. Alone Jan stood
| O.. a.. IL a - ~,
river. Across from him was the for
est, silent, black, reaching to the end
of the earth and over II. like signal
light, beckoning him back his world.
the aurora sent out its shafts of red
and gold And as he listened there
came to him family distant wailing
sound that he knew was the voice
from that world and at the sound the
hair rose along KaZan's spine, and he
whlned deep down in his throat. JAMS
breath grew quicker, his blood warmer
Over there-across the river-his world
was calling to him, and he, Jan Tho
reau, was now free to go. This very
night he would bury himself in the for
est again and when he lay down to
sleep It would be with his beloved stars
above him. and the winds whispering
sympathy and brotherhood to him in
the spruce tops. He would go-now. He
would say goodby to Thornton and go
He found himself running, and Ka.
ian ran beside him. He was breath
less when he came to the one lighted
street of the town. He hurried to the
hotel and found Thornton sitting where
! he had left him.
ut is ended m'sieur," he cried in n
low voice, 1T is over and am going
, | am going tonight"
Thornton rose Tonight" he re-
peated
YES. tonight-now, ! am going to
, pick up my things Will you Gomez"
He went ahead. of Thornton to the
bare little room in which he had slept
while ut the hotel He did not notice
= the change In Thornton until he had
lighted lamp Thornton was look
= ing ut him doggcdy There was an
unpleasant look in his face,
n Sand IL, too, am going tonight" he
r said.
i Into the south, m'sieurT'
mo; into the north" There was 4
!, fierceness In Thornton's emphasis. Ht
/ stood opposite ian. leaning over the 10