The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-05-28

Lenberg both. And a nurse. Col"
He stopped the question on her lips,
young Caesar grasping power as her
Roman matron's pride In him would
have had. she turned and went out
without word to the telephone. In the
hall she found Michigan, d shaggy ami
mai tortured beyond further outcry.
swaying his head and whispering:
Done cornerstone come, LordI~
When she went back the two men
were by Aurelie's side. They had been
muttering to each other. Curran was
staring at the younger.
You knew-iast night? How could
you know 2" " # I'll
Father told nae. An& -SSnner-- We
choked Ii out of him And no one else
knows, Wiley. Ladeau is dead---and
Tanner dares not speak I'd swing him
county," Then Harlan's new-found
wonder broke again. but your little
girl Wileyl" Hs s IA gF5& es
'YesGod help me. I let her grow
up any way--without care, without
love. Just fighting her own way, al
ways! never could understand what
moved me SO about her---the delight
thought'--he whispered it--"shed
come between us! Why. she loved you
aiways-put II away In her mighty
pride--but loved you always! Why,
with all her laughter and her
playing, I never dreamed OF loving
her as you did. oh, the wonder Of it,
She led me on to her land OF joyi"
BE still" the younger man mutt
tered. Shes trying to say something.
Homel She's home now" Harlan's
eyes went TO his mother cool, fair,
listening by the bedside; he slipped his
arm down about Aurelies head to
watch the feck OF crimson on her lips.
Horse, motherl" .sgME
The mother put her hand upon his
shoulder; the other on Aurelie's brow.
You'd better 90 now, The doctors are
here. She's shot low In the side. VIII
You leave her a momentY'
Curran was moving to the door. But
Harlan, as he tried to rise, found Au-
relies fingers stealing through his
on her lips.
Mrs. Van Hart was with Curran as
he passed out. With gesture she held
out her hand to him. There are things
beyond as ALL Mr.. Curran. Deeps Of
life that move and sweep us all to
things we have never dreamed--that
we cannot eyade or compromise. And
gladness. am sorry-humbly sorry
:. viii you believe me e?' He
looked long at her and his face did not
soften. @I. %.S .-
"A word from you-a kind word
any little gracious act would have
changed II all. Would have given her
It's hard to forset"~his brief smile
came bitterly: "All this life of hers
that you held cheap. unworthy---her
love for your son kept her good and
fine and simple through II all
and that meant nothing to you,"
TIM sorry," the mother whispered.
he will have his way--and we accept.
Some day shall we tell her aIl?" II
Yes. But not now" ..a.t
Why not now7" The mother stirred
In the doorway. rS .-II.I 81 4
She is not SO badly hurt, they say.
And Harlan is trying to explain. What
Is greater than the truth for her?''
Curran stared at her, holding her
cool fingers for an instant, then look
Ing In the half dark Of the room
TELL herr" he muttered. Then drew
hack But sound from within came
to him. Aurelie's tired smile had end
cd In sigh with Harlan's murnurings
The physicians had stood apart.
Curran went In The mother In the
hall, coming nearer from the telephone
voices low and awed. She looked in as
sne passed, for she would not enter.
The men were on either side the bed.
holding Aurelie's hands. Mrs. Van
Hart could not hear what they said,
the girl lying white-faced and still. and
the men bending to her.
But after a while Curran rose and
came out The mother In the hall saw
him pass, and the glitter of tears was
on his cheeks. He found Janet In the
window seat as he reached the door.
The mother heard his voice rise Joy
fully.
"She said that dreams come true,
Janetl Yes--good dreams, child
dreams, like those that sent her oslt to
heard her say it. Janet! Father-the
prouaness OF 1t on her lipsl"
Janet went with him cut into the
bleak night
Where are you going, wiley?"
Il don't know. Yes--back to the
shop-my old shop. thought Of Ieay-
ing--selling out, for no one'l ever un-
derstand. But ri stay-rH fight it out
Face 1t all with sllence-the defeat and
Questions--and fight 1t out-for Auv
relies sake. It's safer--it's better for
her, Janet"
They were passing High street, along
which few people were still coming.
The thousands had melted away from
the tragic field out the creek road
They crossed the square, and at the
corner Of his office he stopped. The
lights were coming here and there in
the stores but the place seemed yet
deserted, so still that the creak of the
frosty trees on the BLUR came down to
them. Curran paused while Janet tore
the hem from her skirt and bound
again his forehead where buckshot
had furrowed II.
What an election day!" she whis-
pered. Il don't think half the county
vote was cast, Wiley. But there's the
Mercury Journal carrier coming from
the interurban-and the polls closed at
six" H #
He had no word as he watched her
buy paper from the boy. When she
turned, he had gone In the News office
and was looking at the grimy old press
and the worn cases r."
Come here, Wiley!" HM
"YesT He went over and looked
down with somber eyes to the sheet
she had spread upon his desk.
THE Lindstrom story had five col
umns OF the front. But across the other
two was this head:
"Concede Curran's Election"
He looked up at Janet with mutter:
'EleetioRf = !. aisp, .. Didn't they see the News
mo, Come out In the back yard.
Wiley" "y#
He followed to where she pointed to
the heap Of burned paper half way
along the path to his cottage,
For the first time In so years there
was no issue Of the News this week."