The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-12

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frisl came into Tho vhlfllne datiineS,
~ BIS torn. lempes. iossed drifen
soul The irres istible impulse an. tho
|lia.noyahle body he phi losophees puz.
|xled over were exempllned In hlitii
Whilst he almost hated the ney WON.
an, Whilst Sc almost loved tho bld.
yet shat be did neither the one thing
nor the other absolutely was siEnlh-
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Indeed he knew that he was slad
Enid Maitland had come into his, life.
No life Is complete until 1t Is touched
by that divine FIRE which for lack 'ot
another name We call love. Reeaase
we CAD experience that sensation NO
are said to be made in Gods image.
The Image is blurred an The animal
preduminatesl 1t is cielfpr an the spir.
itnal has the aacendeney.g,.i,A
Tho man raved in his mind. syyhite
faced, stern, he walked up and down
he tossed his arms about him, he stop.
ped, his eyes closed. he threw his
hands up toward. God, his heart cried
out uhdeEsthe ipceratlols OF the blows
tRflcted al,on It. No aageliSIt Of old
eyeritrembled beneath the sbodS lash
as he under the spiritual punishment.
it<He prayed that he might, die at tho
same moment that he ionged to live.
He grappled tltndly for solutions OF
the problem that would leave him with
untarnished honor and undimlnished
self respect and fidelity, and yet give
him this woman, and in vain. He
stroye to find way to reconcile tile
past with the present, realizing as he
did so the futiAty Of such q proposs.
ton. One or the other must be su-
preme, he must inexorably hold TO his
ideas and his Ideals, or he must iney.
itably take the woman.
How frIghtful was the battle that
ragged within his bosom! Sometimes
In his despair he thought that he
would have been glad If he and she
had gone down together In the dark
waters before all this came upon him.
The foods Of which, the heavens had
emptied. themselves had borne her to
him. ohsH, they had only swept him
out of life with Its trouble, Its trials.
Its anxieties, Its obligations, Its impos.
sibilities. If they. bad gone together!
And then he knew that he was glad
even for the torture, because he had
seen her, because he had loved her,
and because she had loved him. {
He marveled ut himself curiously,
and in detached way. : There was a
woman who loved him, who had con.
fessed It boldly and innocently, there
was none to say him nay. The woman
who stood between had been dead FIVE
years. The world knew nothing, cared
nothing; they could go out together:
he, could take her, she would come. On
the impulse he turned and ran to the
door and beat upon It. Her,voice babe
him enter, and he came in. g.ts
Her, heart yearned to him. She was
shocked, tappalled at the torture, she
saw. pBonhis face. Had he /, been laid
upon thefraek.fand eserwjoint, pulled
from Its sockets, he could not have
been mord'white and agonizedf X /
81 give iup,,ps hel cried. fsWhatitare
honorand,self respect to me? i want!
you; Ishaye ,putithe, past behind. You
love me- and III am yours with every;
fiber Of my beings dreatr God! Let
us cast aside these foolish quixotic
scrupies that have kept us apart. II
a mans thoughts declare his guilt, I
am already disloyal to the other wom-
an; deeply. entirely SO. I have be-
trayed her. shamed her, abandoned
her. Let me have some reward, for
what l have gone through. You love
me, come to me-"
Mo- answered the woman. and no
task ever laid upon her had been hard.
ier than that 81 do love You. ! WIN
not deny It. Every part OF ME re.
spends to your appeal. l should be so
happy that cannot even think Of Il II
j could put my hand in your own n I