Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-16

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heart She could honor her, rever-
ence her, pity her.
Sne could understand the feeling of
the man too; she could think much
more clearly than he. He was dis
racted by two passions, for his pride
and his honor and for her; she had as
yet but one, for him. And as there
was less turmoil and confusion In her
mind, she was better capable of look
Ing the facts in the face and making
the right deduction from them.
She could understand how in the
| first frightful rush of his grief and re-
morse and love the very fact that
Newbold had been compelled to kill
his wife, of whom he was beginning to
| grow little weary under such circum-
stances, had added immensely to his
remorse and quickened his determin.
alton to expiate his guilt and cherish
her memory. She could understand
why he would do just as he had done
go into the wilderness to be alone in
horror Of himself and in horror of his
fellow men to think only, mistakenly
Of her.
Now he was paying the penalty o.
that isolation. Men were made tc
live with one another. and no one
could violate the law natural, or BY
so long an inheritance as to have 81
become, without paying that penalty
His ideas Of loyalty and fidelity wer,
warped. his conceptions of his dut,
were narrow. There was something
noble in his determination, it Il
true, but there was something ais,
very foolish. The dividing line be
tween wisdom and folly is some
times as indefinite as that between
comedy and tragedy, between laughte
and tears. If the woman he ha,
married and killed had only hate
him and he had known it would hav
been different, but since he believes
I IN hnr Iowa he could ID n0fhin
else.
At that period in her reflection
} Enid Maitland saw a great ligh
The woman had not loved her hui
band after all, she had loved anotl
, er. That passion Of which he ha
: dreamed had not been for him. By
: strange chain of circumstances Eni
Maitland held in her hand the sol
3 ton Of the problem. She had b,
{ to give him these letters to sho
: him that his golden image had stoo
2 upon feet of clay, that the love u
: on which he had dwelt was not hi
a Once convinced of that he wou
/ come quick to her arms. She erie
: a prayer of blessing on old Kirkt
Y in hand, to call Newbold back to ht
t and tell him, and then she stoppe
j Woman as she was she had T
e spect for the binding conditions al
laws of honor as well as he. Chanc
= nay Providence, had put the hon,
of this woman, her rival, in h.
a hands. The world had long sin,
y forgotten this poor unfortunate;
\ no heart was her memory cherisht
= save in that of her husband. H
:, idea of her was a false one to
= sure, but not even to procure h
: overthrow that ideal, shatter tn
= memory.
!. She sat down again with the l,
= tiers in her hand. 1t had been We
= simple a moment since, but 1t W
. not so now. She had but to she
= him those letters to remove the gre
. barrier between them. She could n
= do 1t. 1t was clearly impossible. T
i reputation of her dead sister W
had struggled so bravely to the e.
was in her hands, she could not 81
= rifice her even for her own hap
ness.
y "Quixotic," you say? l do not thi
- so. She had blundered unwilling
- unwillingly, upon the heart secret
= the other woman; she could not
- tray it. Even If the other won
- had been really unfaithful in deed
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