Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-20

would never hare forgiven me. You
know you wouldn't. II Two wronged
yor.--"
IL you had loved me as g true WON
IN loves. you. would have told me
You would have had to. You could moi
have deceived me like this. Love
DOESN'T feed en- Icy. 1t was my RICH,
to know everything. go thas I could
decide my own course. Instead. you
have led ius into this trap. There is
10 escape now. And 1t is too late 10
rerroach you. or to try to make you
realize what you have dore. You say
you.s love Tor me kept you from tell.
ing? DeiieFs that. if 1t ID any cora.
tosc TO you, IT,
lyon say | don't know what true
iove Is she laughed bitterly. I'm
afraid I can neYe- learn 1t from you.
So your love has died? Love can,
,iie, any more than God can Ga You
haze never loved me-"
81"
"Nsger. I see now that you didn't.
For you don't know what love means.
l Lived for you. Every thought and
word and act OF mine was shaped fc1
you. And for you alone. / lrne1 you.
I knew your faults, ycur %ioilies, your
brute saYagsTy. And I loved yon 10,
thea 90 we'll as for the good that was
in ycu. But what WIGS it you loved?
The woman you maiTied-or a SNOW.
white sanity repGtatlon? II You cared
enly for tho TeDutatinn-that is sona
forever. But II you loved me-thc
woman I am-then I'VE been every
thing you thought I was and wanted
me to be--eyeT since the first moment
ycu had The right to think of RE at all.
] gave you my life, FROM that time on
and forever. And It has been all yours.
Before then. II was mi2e."
And yet you let me believe It was
evsgythins-your whole l~iie--your
Frat love.
"Tt wae. All that was worth the
giving. Ell that had aver been wore.
the giving. 1t was my SELF. Oh, cant
you see that a Wo,nan's body ard
Heart and soul belong not TO her first
lover but to her first lover NO woman
can even guess what love Is until she
has found 1t. And | found Il only
when k1ew you. ] gave you every
thing.
I'm trying to mako 1t easy. We've
never had s. real quarrel, yea and /,
Mark. Go don't lot US wind up our
married life With one, now. You are
IN the right ara hopelessly in the
wrong. I have cheated you. I admit
It. and III aceept the consequences. II
10 IN the blood. There ts much la
heredity. My father ID a-politic.an.
don't know who my grandfather was.
And ii be had been worth knowing
about, I'd know. There is a bad strain
running through the family. It cropped
cat In mt. Yes, ! heye cheated you.
You had the right to demand il our
bargain the hard.and-fest terms the
world hes decseed: All Of a Wise's life
in exchange for a frayed and battered
remnant of her husbands / can't
meet those tsrms. though / tried to
fool yoa into believing | could. So I
must pasxly give up tho love whose
price I can't pay. Don't let's rnassa it
harder By having S scene over Il.
Coed night. I'll stay with father uat!t
you car decide Just what YOU want to
dc md on what hasis we're to sepa-
rate K it would do any good TO ask
your forgiveness I'd ask II That's
ca. Coco night, Mark"
She ne;a out her hand with 3 shy
uistfulneM. Ha YVES staring straight.
ia.3 her tortured eyes and did not see
tho gesture. The land dropped back
70 her Side, and SHE Moved to
Blake.
Bat at he a;st step, Mark barred
a.,e- way. She looked nj him In tired
render. His face waa set and hard.
lie made no move 10 touch her. His
voice. when be spoke, grated like q
a;e, as he forced il between his I'm
wiling hra