The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-11

ball in his clutched hand, anil he made
hoarse sound which was half cry,
then sat perfectly still, his whole face
shuddering. What he crushed in his
hand was no note of tender love
phrases; 1t was an abrupt dismissal.
The staggering contretemps struck
| the color from his face and left every
nerve raw and quyering. To be moth
Ing to her, as she could be nothing to
him." He felt a CHASTITY inclination to
laugh. Nothing to her!
Presently. his brows frowning hcay-
lily, he spread out the. erumpled paper
and reread it with bitter slowness.
weighing each phrase. Something
which she had learned since she Last
saw him, which lay between them. 3
She had not known it. then. last night,
when they had kissed beside the sun.
dial! She had loved him then, What
could there be that thrust them irreF.
ocably apart?
Without stopping to think of the
darkness or that the friendly doors Of
up his hat and went swiftly down the
drive TO the road, along which he
plunged breathlessly. The blue star.
spangled sky was now streaked with
clouds like faded orchids, and the
shadows on the uneven ground under
his hurried feet made him giddy.
Through the din and hurly-burly of his
thoughts he was conscious OF diIlly-
| moving shapes across fences, the
sweet breath of cows, and negro pc
destrian who greeted him In passing.
He was stricken suddenly with the
thought that Shirley was suffering,
| too 1t seemed Incredible that he
should now be raging along country
road at nightfall to find something
that so horribly hurt them both
| II was almost dark-save for the
. Standardization he saw the shadow Of
the square ivy-grown spire rearing
stark from its huddle of foliage
against the tArred background. He
pushed open the gate and went slowly
fup the worn path toward the great
| ironbound and hooded door. Under
! the larches on either hand the outlines
OF the grayestones doomed palIidiy,
and from the bell tower came the faint
/ inquring cry of small owl Valiant
stood looking about him What could
he learn here? lie read no answer TO
| the riddle A little to one side of the
path something showed snow-like on
the ground. and he went toward it,
Nearer, he saw that 1t was mass OF
flowers. staring up Whitley from the
semi-ohsourity from within an iron
railing. He bent over, suddenly noting
the scent; it was cape ieesamne.
With the curious sensation of almost
prescienee plucking at him, he took a
box of vestas from his pocket and
struck one. 1t Jared up Illuminating
a fiat granite slab in which was cut
a name and inscription;
| EDWARD .sASSOoN.
Forgive us our trespasses'
The silence seemed to crash to earth
like great looking-glass and shiver
INTO a million piece. The wax droppee
from his fingers and in the superven
ing darkness a numb fright srippet
him by the throat. Shirley had lsif
these there, on the grave of the mar
his father had killed--the cape iessa
mines she had wanted that day, fol
her mother! He understood,
i 1t came to him at last that there
was chill mist cropping among the
trees and that he was very cold.
He went back along the Red Road
J shmbiingiy. Was this to be the ead
vi the dream, which he had faneisd
would last fofever9 Gould II be that
she was not for him. Was II no hoary
lie that the sins Of the fathers we're
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