The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times., 1913-09-12
THE MELTING OF MOLLY
(Continusd frOm last week)
LEAF ELEVENTH.
A Heart of Gold.


the shame that swept over me In
great hot wave when that look came
into Ills eyes and made me realize just
exactly what had been saying to him
about what aud how had said IT,
stood perfectly still, SHOOK all over like
"a leaf and wondered II would ever be
able to raise my eyes frOm the ground
A dikzy. nauseated feeling FOR myself
rose up in ne against myself. and !
was Just about 10 turn on my heels aud
leave him. / hoped forever when he
came over aud laid his hand on my
shoulder
Molly he said In voice that might
have come down from heaven Oh dove
wings 'you can't for y moment feel or
think that I don't realize and appre
ciate what you have been to the moth
erless little chap. and for life I am
yours az command, as he Is ! really
thought II would be relief TO you tu
have hin taken away from you for Just
little while right now and still
think II u hest. but not unless you con
sput YOU shall have him back when
ever you are ready for him and At all
times both ne aud are at your service
10 the whole OF our kingdoms Just
think the matter over, won't you. and
decide what you want tne 10 dor
Something IN me died forever
think. when he spoke 20 me Ike that
He's not ike other men and there
aren't any other men on ea nh hut him
All the rest are just bugs Or bats or
something worse And I'm not any
thing myself There's no excuse for
my living and | wish wasn't So
healthy and likely TO 60 on doing I,
II Was al over aud there was nothing
left for ine to live for. and before
could stop myself buried nv face in
my hands
Billy asked me to go with him on
this awful whale hunt I sobbed out
TO comfort myself with the thought
that somebody did care for me. regard
less VI Just how | wac further embar
RAISING and complicatiug myself In the
Affairs of the two men I had thought
owned and was now nndine out that
l had 10 give ~ | wish had nseu
looking at him. for felt him star
but he said In his big friendly voice
that Is so much-snd never eaough ro'
me-
Well. why not you and Al oom.
along and make II a family psrty i
that Is what suits Bill. the bossT'
II men would just buy good sharI
kitchen knives and cut out women
hearts in a businesslika way u won,
be 90 much kinder OF them Why d,
they prefer to use duh weapons tha
mash the life out slowly Ererythinl
IN as an end for me tonight. and ths
blow did IT, II was a horrible crue
thing for him 10 say tn me know
now that have been In love with Johr
Moore for longer than M honor let
me admit and that I'll never love any
body else, and that also | have Offered
myself 10 him served ny In ever,
known enticement and have ~ he ~
fused at least twice q day for year
widow can't say she didn't under
Stand what she was doing even to her
self. but-my humiliation l. complete
and the only thing that can make me
ever hold up my head is 10 pnzzl" hin
by-by happily marrying Alfred Ben
nett-and quick
OF course he must suspect how | feel
about him, for two people couldn't both
Ia 10 ignorant as not to see such nm
enormous thing as my love for him is
and ! was the blind one but NJ must
never, never know that | ever roalized
II, for hc IN 50 good TINT II would dis
tress him must go on In my foolish
way with him until ! can get away
III tell him I'm sorry | was 40 indic
nant tonight and say that ! think II
will be hne for him TO take my RIllv
away FROM me with him | must smile
St the iden Of having my very soul nm
putated Insist that IL is the only thing
To do and pack up the little soul In a
steamer trunk with the smile Just
smile, that l. all Life demands smiles
from woman even II she must crush
their perfume from her own hoart,
and she generally has them ready
oh, Molly, Molly! Ia It for this you
cums into the world twice 10 give
yourself without lover what diner
ence does II make that yonr arms ara
strong and white n they can't clasp
him 10 the softness and fragrance NJ
your breast? why are your ewes blue
pools OF love n they are not for his
questioning, and what are your rose
lips for II they quench not his thirst
Yes know God Ia very tender With
woman, and think he nndcrsta nds.
10 II she crept very close 10 him and
caught az his sleeve tO steady herself
he would be kind TO her until she
could go on along her own steep way
Please, God, never let him end ont. for
II would hurt him to have hurt me-
Some days are like the miracle dow
ers that open In the garden from plants
you didn't expect 10 bloom ~ slI
might have been born. lived md died
without having this one come into my
life, and, now that have hnd II. /
dOR't know bow to write II except iD
the crimson OF blood th. blue uf flame