The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-06-06

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not Il question of pity"
Yes. yes, it is Brachard asserted.
You u with a ycntleness unusual
III YOU to Il man who is down and out"
well. what if | do: 1t is no pity"
y q" not care to he placed in such II
position.' Braclard said. I'm not
down and out. | Il" not come back
to you overwhelmed and conquered.
have not even lost. as you think.
The game is still being played. in fact,
and the stake. Anne Marie. is YOU"
lhe woman was stirred to Il strange,
ne" feeling. She had never loved her
husband. She had never loved any
one. o h was newly. strangely
drawn to the ma she had SO despised,
and she was shocked at his abrupt re-
fu>al of her offer to live with him and
share his fortune in exile.
why Go YOU say that you are fight
ing still. Jacques. and that l am the
stake:' she asked. Il do not under
stand
Listen to me- Erachard said ear
ncstly. "lou are generous. that is
true' put II ever Il man won the right
to plead his cause it is |. who. out.
ragged. ruined. tracked down and ha-
raised. stand before YOU and ut this
time asks the woman he loves. his
wife, to grant him the love of his
wife.
You accuse ME of not being frank
OF discriminating. l suppose that is
true. 1t is the case Of all people who
are demented in love. | racked my
brains over imaginary crises. If | act
ed like Il crazy person it was because l
loved YOU
He stood before her then. awkward.
almost u%ngainly. but with power and
purpose in his every move.
II loved you before | even knew Won
when | used to sweep the street
crossings of Marseilles. a wretched
boy. Ever then an unalterable pas
sion had taken possession of nv heart.
You were an ariStocratic young lady.
From the first time | saw Won I watch.
ed daily to see you leave your house.
Every day YOU passed by me, dainty
ana beautiful and as disdainful as a
queen before IL bcggHr.
Il placed YOU IN q PEDESTAL. We're
YOU worthy of it: | do not know. But
just the sight Of YOU made a different
being of me. although | knew nothing
then of what love meant.
when | was a little older and be-
gan to think seriously of what it meant
to love a woman the vision Of YOUR
beauty always remained with me. It
fioated before my eyes. | knew that
| had loved you all the time, and |
came to Paris to win YOU.
you know what I mean: what il
means to love a woman for years and
finally be able to spend a life with
her, Brachard went on. 1T is not
easy for him to wish to he rid of
her. I grew rich as YOU grew into
womanhood. And then | won the
prize"
He paused to mop his brow. Anne
Marie remained silent.
AN old Bible yarn keeps running
through my head he said. "A most
interesting one. 1t i that Of Samson"
samson and Delilah," Anne Marie
said.
She thought that he would place her
in the position of Delilah. the woman |
who had shorn him of his strength.
But 1T was Of the other tragic episode |
in the career Of the Biblical giant that |
he referred to-.
NO. Samson in the temple. Don't
you think 1t is n wonderful story: Poor |
old Samson. taken prisoner by the Phil !
who put ont his eyes and COM
him to turn a windmill. His
r%onGueror is not satisfied with his
He insisted on making
his captive an object of public derision,
and so they compelled him to be pres
at one Of their celebrations. POOR
wretch! How difficult it must have
G for him to swallow his wrath.
see the revelers insulting him in
his misfortune: rcviving in his mind
awful memories still fresh and appall-
ing to him. Rage r~cviveS and tears
heart Of this poor degraded man.
realizes that he is still Sam
son. lie gives no indication. He's
cunning. But he has resolved upon a
plan. His hands crope about in the
darkness. meHSurin" the size OF the
supporting the temple.
"Suddcnl.y there is an awful cra>h
IN top OF the rcvelers. this d%chauchcd
'roWd. the building. the pillars. the
'"of and walls fall. And he hurics I'M.
Ter tn" ruins all his enemies at once"
\ now and startling realization had
TO Anne-M Marie as she listened to
her husband. She suddenly under