The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-03-16

our ives, CA1n ping, DIS IL WSsS sHPoAA
the border of the promised land and
fearing to enter it. I already have
enough money to last us for years,
and surely with the start | now have
the rest will not be long in coming.
I want you to tell ME: Is there any
reason wig, you desire the postpone
ment of our marriage except that |
am inS5he midst OF accommodating more
resources
None In the world. / am interested
heart and soul in your success and
shrink at the thought of diverung
your efforts. For once married, know
that / should claim your time jeal-
ously.''
And you could marry me one time
as well as another?"
Tomorrow as well as any other
day.
Within arms length of the prize
which I coveted more than all else
IN the world combined, the woman
for whom would have waived my
claims upon Immortality to have pos
sessed at the point OF yielding herself
to my embrace. my tongue burst forth
in an impassioned appeal Then
come with me tomorrow, sweetheart
dearest, We will be quietly married
and start at once for Europe. can
leave my interests In the hands OF
my broker, who will protect me fully.
We will want for nothing. We will
60 to Paris, to Spain, to Algiers. We
will cruise through the Mediterranean.
We will summer in the Alps. We will
winter on the Nile. The world shall
keep Vie in daily touch with affairs
here. If all gees well for a few
| months, asst surely must, we will not
| need to return, but will go on and on
as you wish None will be as happy
| as we. and our lives will be one long
| honeymoon Nothing shall be denied
you Come" Carried away as | was
| by the impetuosity Of my passion, l
firmly believed that I had forecasted
| our destiny as infallibly as fate itself
| as turned my glance from the fly
| ing roadway to her face. She must
| have caught some of my enthusiasm.
for her eyes were glowing and the
fingers which / held entwined them
selves a!aolgSe mine.
:'1t is what have dreamed also. It
Is what my life must be, and of late
! I have grown to picture you in my
! mind as the one who is to share all
/ those things with me. But it would
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n the midst OF our happiness and find
| it ruined. Therefore l wish you to
be fully insured before embarking-
| not that would love you any the
more il YOU had million but because
this life you have just portrayed is
what we both crave. And I believe
that all you have said will come true
But while I might wish very much Ic
marry you tomorrow, think it is
better to wait
| slipped my free arm beneath hers
and drew her to me. Make it to
| morrow, dearest" pleaded, feeling
that she sWayed upon the brink of sur
| render and that could l have taker
her In my arms she would have
yielded completely When thinl
how happy we would be, it seems {
shameful waste OF time to deny our
selves" Her bosom was rising ant
falling Rapidly and / knew that th'
battle within her was raging sharp
ly. Her reply was both distressed
and beseeching:
You must not press NE any more
Tom. No woman is more human thai
II. You are making 1t very dificul
for me- to resist, and it hurts me tt
say no to- you Please-pleas dom
drive me SO hard.
Tomorrow" ! insisted Dae-c!lessiy
holding her still tighter and pnshini
my advantage to the uttermost. Sh
aversed her face. troubled Loo
haunting it.
Then I will compromise In thi
way. / will give you your answer te
morrow / must have one day i
! which to think It over. Mind you,