The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-10-12

only resources were his strength, not
OF mind but Of body. He made anoth-
=er most damaging mistake at this
jnncture.
We are alone here and am mas
ter, remember" he said meaning1y.
Come let's make up. Give me kiss
for my pains and"
Il have been alone here for month
with another man." answered Enid
Maitland who was strangely unafraid
in spite of this threat "A gentleman.
he has never so much as offered to
touch my hand without my permits
sion; the contrast is quite to your dis
advantage"
Are you Jealous Of Louise Rosser?''
asked Armstrong suddenly seeing that
he was losing ground and casting
about desperately to account for 1t,
and to recover what was escaping him.
Why, that was nothing, a mere boy
and girl affair" he ran on with spe-
cious good humor as II it were all
TT e. "The woman was. hate to
81 1t, just crazy IN love with me, but
Isfeally never cared anything espe-
cially for her; 1t was just a harmless
sort of filtration anyway She after
ward married this man Newbold and
that's all there was about it,
The truth would not serve him and
in his desperation and desire he stalk.
ed everything on this astounding lie.
The woman he loved looked at him
with her face as rigid as mask
You won't hold that against me,
will your pleaded the man It told
you that I'd been man among men.
yes, among women, too, here in this
rough country, and that wasn't
worthy of you; there are lots Of things
In my past that ought to be ashamed
OF and am, and the more / see you
the more ashamed grow, but as for
loving any one else, all that I've ever
thought or felt or experienced before
now is just nothing. =
And this indeed was true, and even
Enid Maitland with all her prejudice
could realize and understand It. Out
Of the same mouth. was said Of old,
proceeded blessing and cursing, and
from these same lips came truth and
falsehood; but the power of the truth
TO influence this woman was as moth.
ing 20 the power of falsehood. She
could never have loved him, she now
knew; a better man had won her af-
fections, nob1er being claimed her
heart; but II he had told the truth re-
garding his relationship to Newbold's
wife and then had completed 1t with
his passionate avoWal of his present
love for her, she would have at least
admired him and respected him.
You have not told me the TRUTH
she answered directly; you have de.
liberately been false"
Cant you see" protested the man
drawing nearer to her. how much /
love you?"
ooh, that; yes I suppose that is
true; as far as you can love any one
! will admit that you do love me-
so far as I can love any one?" he
repeated after her. Give me chance
and III show YOU
But you haven't told the truth
about Mrs. Newbold. You have calum.
mated the dead, you have sought to
shelter yourself by throwing the bur
den of guilty passion upon the weak
e. vessel; it isn't manlike, 1t. isn't
pArmstrong was bold fighter, quick
AID prompt in his decisions. He made
another effort to set himself right. He
staked his all on another throw Of the
dice, which he began to feel were
somehow loaded against him.
You are right" he admitted won
dering anxiously how much the woman
really knew. 1t wasn't true, it was
a towards act, l am ashamed of it.
I'm SO mad with love for you that
scarcely know what i am doing, but
I will make a clean breast of it now.
I loved Louise Rosser after fashion
before ever NeWbold came on the
scene. We were pledged to each 9th.
er; a foolish quarrel arose, she was
jealous of other girls
And had she no right to be?a
"Oh, / suppose SO. We broke il of
anyway and then she married New
bold, out of pique I supposes or what
you will / thought was heart-brok.
en- at the time, it did hit me pretty
hard; it was five or six years ago; /
was a youngster then, am man
now. The woman has been dead long
since; there was come cock-and-bull
story about her falling off cliff and
her husband being compelled to shoot
her. didn't believe it at the time,
and naturally I have been waiting TO
get even with him. ] have been hat
ing him for five years, but he has
been good to you and we will let by
cones be bygones. What do care
for Louise Rosser, or for him, or for
what he did to her, now! / am sorry
that / said what did, but you will
have to charge it to my binding pas
sion for you can truthfu1ly say that
you are one woman that have ever
craved with all my heart. will do