The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-02-22
Home with youY',

Home with your
"Yes. We have our plans to discuss.
Tom"
Mary" he began. lingering his hat
In the extremity of an emotion that
almost benumbed him. Il don't know
whether you want to hear me say it.
but I've never stopped caring for you.
IL isn't all Christine with me. | just
want to tell you that"
Il understand, Tom" she said, still
more gently.
Il can't take any help from your
father" he managed to say after
another long period of silence.
He will offer nothing but his hand
and his well wishes"
What's more. Mary. | won't accept
anything from you. Whatever you've
got. put II aside for Christine or against
the time when you may need it your
self | think life's going to be sweet
to me after all. I'm going to have a
chance to he Il nan again, a real man
to he your husband and to make Chris
tine forget she was ashamed of me.
That's 1t. That's what I'm trying to
say. So, you see, | can't afford to be
ashamed Of myself. | can work. I
know where to go. | can go alone,
Mary. dear: can go alone IL you feel
you can't stand being with me-"
She hesitated, weighing her words.
Il have "A plan. Tom, that | want to
talk over with you. I'll tell you about
1t when we get home. 1t occurred to
me this afternoon while | was making
preparations to leave the city with you
tomorrow"
"You-you had it all thought out be-
fore you
Il had it all thought ont. In fact.
Tom, l. have the railroad tickets at
home-two tickets. one way"
You are the most wonderful woman
in all this world, Mary. Id die for
you a thousand times he cried. 1t
was almost a sob.
Far away, in the neighborhood of
Broadway. a raucous voiced newsboy
was crying his extra" They knew
that he was shouting:
"All about the murder!'
Brooks let them in. He had been
waiting up.
Mr.. Braddock will be here over the
night, Brooks" lie opened the door
into the library for them, and then
silently FASTENED upstairs.
There is a cold supper for you in
the dining room. Tom-and a piece of
a last minute wedding cake"
For an hour they discussed her plan
for the future. In the end he fell in
with it.
I'D be a dog If I didn't give in to you
In a matter like this" he said. You're
doing everything for me-"
Our room is at the head of the
stairs, the first door TO the left, Tom.''
she said, rising. Her face was very
joins it. If you don't mind I'll stay
downstairs awhile
He went upstairs to the wide, high
bedchamber with its azure walls. For
a long time he stood in the middle of
the room, looking around in dull
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his big hands and started with shame.
The soiled cuffs of an i'll fitting ''hick-
ory'' shirt came down over his wrists.
Inyoluntarily he pushed them up. The
greenish gray of the coarse jeans gar
ments he wore, clumsy and crumpled.
was sadly out of harmony with the del
icate, refined colors that surrounded
him. 1t seemed to him all at once that
he Jared on himself.
Suddenly his gaze fell upon a neatly
folded suit If clothes lying across the
foot of the bed.
On the center table there was a straw
hat. Shoes stood beside the chair at
the head of the bed. An immaculate
white shirt hung owe the back of the
chair, while on the seat were under