Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31

"Then we'll sit and watch the stars he amended.
IL don't think I'd better she said hesitatingy.
a think you'd best, his decisive rejoinder.
Dear me! How masterful you are!' She tried to
say it lightly, unconcernedly.
"Quite. So you might as well, he told her.
"Your will is not my law She covered her in
decision with assumed petulance.
"But you will His tone was inf1exible his steady
eyes held hers, compelling her to his wish.
In vexaton that she lacked power to resist him, she
made last effort to maintain her dignity. "You talk
to if l child" she exclaimed rebellously.
His face radiated satisfaction she rose and gnor
ing his hand swept past him to the deck. She went
straight the rail She had determined avoid the
conceang darkness of secluded angles with their mood
softening influence. She'd have of this silly
Irritation! From out the silence he tactfully and
rngly guided her back the harbor of her seesteem.
Not till he assured of this did he venture, "You
were tired, l think you said Shall we sit DOWN."
His cool frendiness had completely disarmed her.
She could find reasonable for refusing meet
him on his ground. u should go to bed, | sup
pose she said; "but seem poweress before the asci
nation of such night. 1t immense, aweinspr
ing. 1t holds me in a SPELL she said softly.
will you remember these days and nights?' he
asked The level of his voice showed its first break
His eyes devourng her face But for her habit of
gazing straight out the water she would have
the CLEAN in them.
"Wil I? Surely! This has been delightful voyage,
and you-" pause, which she at a loss to fill.
@And I" His tone should have warned her.
"-have made it most pleasant for me- she finished,
rather lamely @Emiys discardng of your attentions
has been my gain.
Her eyes, sotened in appreciation, met his. His self
control had reached its limit Swiftly he reached for
the hand lying idly in her lap and took it into his
and you-made it heaven to mel crushing her
hand against his hot lips.
TT was so sudden so unexpected she had felt so SAFE
i
storm
"Oh" she gasped in disnay Then hot anger surged
her. She quickly. 4You go too far she
cried, her voice hard with anger.
He faced her, standing. His hands cenched,
his face pale with battling emotions wait! he said
hoarsely. "You must listen to mel 1t the mas
teru spirit she dreaded because she had learned her
weakness before it. @How could know there n
other man? How could l help loving you-to forget
funess of all else? am only mortal man. and you-"
He held out his as though imploring her see.
There amazement on the woman face.
"4ou understand" he was continuing, nothing on
earth could have saved me from i-once knowing you.
But you-it cannot hurt you
In her stunned silence she had stood carved figure
might But his approach the signal for her
stirring She swayed, bindly, her eyes still staring
straight into his. AS step brought him closer he be-
cognizant of their expression angushed appeal,
the of the whole naked truth in them, barred
to his understanding
She in his arms, crushed to his breast the rain
of his kisses smotherng the breath upon her lips. She
yielded Imply.
Then, suddenly as he had caught her to him, he
released her and stepped back From very bitterness
of soul came his words:
"Now let him take you-own you as his right! He
cannot rob me of what dare you to deny-your love
for me-! Give yourself if you dare him! As surely
God mated his creatures you were meant for me-and
defy you to deny that you love mel
With fierce intensity his words beat upon her brain,
penetrate and her dormant senses Of sudden