Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-23
Ten Words o. Less en- Cents

His morbid self reproach and Helf con
seriousness would have been changed
But he had lived with them alone TO,
i've years and now there WAS no put
ting them aside. Honor and pride
the only things that may successfully
fght against love. overcome him. Hz
could not give way. He wanted to,
every time he was in her presence he
iongsd to sweep her to his heart and
crush her in his arms and bend her
head back and press LIPS OF fire on
her lips.
But honor and pride, held him back.
How long would they continue to ex-
+, ercise dominion over him? Would
the time come when his passion ris-
Ing like q sea would thunder upon
these artificial entertainments OF his
soul, beat them down and xweep thsm
Awayf
At; FIRST the Disparity between theis
situations, not 20 much upon account
OF family or OF property-the treas
ures OF the mountains, hidden sincA
creation he had discovered and lot lie
-hut becans. NJ thA youth ana rso,,.
ton Of thu woman conparea "a hia
| own mat,,rer wars his d-~.n~r.te ar.
perience ana h,s social wfthdravaI
had reinforced his determination to
I-Hve and lore without a sign. But he
| had long since rot beyond this. Had
| he been free he would have taken her
like q viking OF old. II he had to pluck
her from amid a thousand swords and
carry her to 4 bexkar,s hut which love
would have turned to q palace. And
she would have com with him on the
same conditions.
He did mt knov that. women
have learned through. centuries az
WEAKNESS that Ana art Of conceaIment
which man has never mastered. she
V let him see what h thought az
him. Yet he was not without a,s-
ptc,on. IL that susptciou xrev Ia car
tainty. would he control himself than
At nrst he had sought 10 keen ont
of her way. but shs had compelled
him to come In. The room that was
| kitchen and bed room and store room
for him was cheerleas and somawhat
cold. save at night or when ba was
busy with other tasks outside they
lived togethed in the great room. 1t
was always warm, 1t was always
bright, 1t was always cheerful, there.
The little piles OF manuscript she
had noted were books that he HAD
written. He made no effort to con-
eeal such things from her. He talked
frankly enough about his life In the
hHls. indeed there was no POSSIBLE
ity of avoiding the discussion OF such
topics. On but two subjects was he
inexorably silent. One was the pres
emit state OF his affections and the
other vas the why and wherefore of
his lonely life. She knew beyond per
adventure that he loved her. but she
had no faint suspicion ever as to the
reason why he had become ) r~ecluse!
He had never given her the slightest
clew to his past save that admission
that ne had hnown Kirkby which was
IN itself nothing deflnitive and which
she never connected with that pack
s OF letters which she still kept
WIN ner.
The mans mind was too active and
fertile to be satisfied with manual
labor alone, the books that he had
written were scientific treatises In the
main, One was a learned discussion
q the fauna aud nora OF the nouns
tains. Another was an exhaustive nc-
count of the mineral resources and
geological formations of the range.
He had only to allow q whisper, a
suspicion OF his discovery of gold and
silver in the mountains to escape him,
and the csnons and crests alike would
be filled with eager prospectors. Still
q third work was = scientific analysts
OF the water powers In the non
He had willingly allowed her to
read them all. Much of them she
found technical and. aside from the
fact that he had written them. unin-
teresting. But there was one book
remaining In which he simply dis.
cussed the mountains In the various
seasons OF the wear: when the SHOWS
covered them. when the grass and the
moss came again. when the flowers
doomed. when autumn touched the
trees. There was the soul OF the
man, poetry expressed in prose, man
like but none the Less poetry for that.
This book pored over, she questioned
h9y, about a.. thaw d{nrYasnd ~ 40 fhav