The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-01-30

through lIIe-yc8 tHTOu&u Ill eternity
-or II l must seek in some uninag
Unable failure of my own character OF
conduct the cause of her intolerable
despair"
i Oswald" The tone was controlling.
and yet that Of one strong man tc
another. "Is it for us to read the
heart of any woman, least of all of a
woman of her susceptibilities and
keen inner life? The wish to end all
comes to some natures like light
ming fash from a clear sky. 1t comes,
! 1t goes, often without leaving a sign.
| But II weapon chances to be near
] (here it was in. hand)--then death
follows the impulse which, given an
] instant of thought, would have van
! ished In back sweep of other emo
/ tons. Chance was the real accessory
! to this death by suicide. Oswald, let
| us realize it as such and accept our
! sorrow as a mutual burden and turn
| to what remains to us of life ane
! labor. Work is grief's only coEsola
| ton. Then let us work."
But of all this Oswald had caught
but the one word.
CHANGER" he repeated. "Orlando. ]
believe in God"
Then seek your comfort there. !
find it in Harvesting the winds; In
forcing the powers of nature to dc
my bidding"
| The other did not speak, and the ST
| Ience grew heavy. 1t was broken
when it was broken, by cry from
Oswald:
mo MORE" said he, mo more,
Then, in a yearning accent. "Send
Doris to me-"
Orlando started. This name coming
SO close upon that word comfort PRO-
1uced strange effect upon him. But
another look at Oswald and he was
ready to do his bidding. The bitter
ordeal was over; let him have his
solace if it was in her power to give
1t to him.
Orlando, upon leaving his brothers.
room, did not stop to deliver that
brothers message directly to Doris:
he left this for Truda to Go, and re
tired Immediately to his hangar in
the woods. Locking himself in, he
slightly raised the roof and then sat
down before the car which was rap
idly taking on shape and assuming
that Individuality and appearance OF
sentient life which hitherto he haG
only seen in dreams. But his eye,
which had never failed to kindle nj
this sight before, shone duly in the
| semi-gloom. The air-car could wait;
he would first have his hour in this
solitude of his own making. The gaze
he dreaded, the words from which he
| shrank could not penetrate here. He
might even shout her name aloud. and
only these windowless walls would
respond. He was alone with his past.
his present and his future.
Alone!
He needed to be. The strongest
must pause when the rrecipice yawns
before him. The gulf can be spanned;
he feels himself forceful enough for
that; but his eyes must take their
measurement of it first: he must
know it's depths and possible dangers.
Only fool would ignore these Sleeps
of jagged rock; and he was no fool
only man to whom the unexpected
had happened, man who had seen
his way clear to the horizon and then
had come up against this! Love,
when he thought such folly dead! Re-
morse, when Glory called for the quiet
mind and heart!
He recognized it's mordant fang, and
knew that its ravages, though only
just begun, would last his lifetime
Nothing could stop them now. moth
Ing, nothing. And he laughed, as the
thought went home; laughed at the
irony of fate and it's inexora bleness;
laughed at his own defeat and his
nearness to barred Paradise. Os-
valid loved Edith, loved her yet, with
q fame time would take long to
quench. Doris loved Oswald and he
Doris; and not one of them would
ever attain the delights each was so
fitted to enjoy. Why shouldn't he
laugh? What is left to man but mock
cry when all props fall? Disappoint-
ment alone was the universal lot; and
It should go merrily with him If he
must take his turn at it. But here
The strong spirit of the man reassert
ed itself; it should be but turn. A
mans joys are not bounded by his
loves or even by the satisfaction of q
perfectly untrammeled mind. Per-
Torrance makes world of it's own
for the capable and the strong, and
this was still left to him. He. Or
lando Brotherson, despair while his
great work lay unfinished! That would
be to lay stress on the inevitable
:, pains ana fears of commonplace hui
manity. He was not Of that iik. IN
tellect was his god; ambition his mo-
tive power. What wouid this casual
blight upon his supreme contentment
be to him, when with the wings OF
his air-car spread, he SHOULD spsrn
the earth and soar into the heaven
of fame simultaneously with his fight
into the open.
He could wait for that hour. He
had measured the gulf before him and
found it passable. Henceforth no
looking back.
TO be continued!