Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-27

l lived for you. Every thought and word and act of mine was shaped for you. And fU you alone. l knew you brute sayaggy. And loved you for them as we'll as for the good that was in you. But what was 1t you loved3 : The woman you married-or a snow white saintly reputation? If you cared only for the reputstion-that is gone forever. But if you loved me-the woman l am-then I've been every thing you thought I was and wanted me to be-eyer since the first moment you had the right to think of me at all I gave you my life. from that time on and forever. And 1t has been all yours. Before then. it was mine"
 And yet you let me believe it was eyerything-your whole life-your first love-
 "It was. All that was worth the giving. All that had ever been worth the giving. It was my self. Oh. can't you see that a woman's body and heart and soul belong not to her first lover but to her first love? No woman can even guess what love is until she has found it. And l found il only when I knew you. l gave you every thing.
 I'm trying to make it easy. We've never had a real quarrel, you and l. Mark. So don't let us wind up our married life with one, now. You are in the right. l am hopelessly in the wrong. l have cheated you. I admit it, and I'll accept the consequences. It heredity. My father is a-politicisn. don't know who my grandfather was. And if he had been worth knowing about. I'd know. There Is bad strain running through the family. It cropped out in me. Yes, 1 have cheated you. You had the right to demand in our bargain the hard-and-fast terms the world has decreed: All of a wife's life in exchange for a frayed and battered remnant of her husband's. I can't meet those terms, though l tried to fool you into believing I could. So must meekly give up the love whose price can't paS. Don't let's make it harder by having a scene over 1t. Good night. I'll stay with father until you can decide just what you want to do and on what basis we're to sepa- rate. If 1t would do any good to ask your forgiveness I'd ask 1t. That's all. Good night, Mark"
 She held out her hand with a shy wistfuIuess. He was staring straight into her tortured eyes and did not see the gesture. The hand dropped back Imply to her side, and she moved to reioin Blake. But at the first step, Mark barred her way. She looked at him in tired wonder. His face was set and hard. He made no move to touch her. His voice, when he spoke, grated like a file, as he forced 1t between his un' willing lips.
 Grace" he began. I've told you m5 love Is dead. And lied when I said it I planned to put you out of my life. And, even while l planned. knew l couldn't do it. It doesn't mat ter what l want to do or what ought to do. Out of all this hideous tangle, blazes forth just one thing that must do whether l want to or not I must go on loving you with all my strength and life"
 Do you mean" she panted wildly. do you mean that you can-that you will"
 q mean" he cried brckeuly. his self control smashing to atoms under the hammer blows of his heart. q mean there is nothing in all this world for me, dear love, away from you! I love you. And I can't go on without you. You are earth and heaven and hell to me I love you. And I have forgotten everything but that. Girl of my heart, will you let me make you forget. too: Oh, love you! l love you!"
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