The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-12
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came | don't know"
This did not please Evelyn She
flung his hands away.
You. a man, and don't know, Oh.
N the women could but fight this war
You. man, with hell seething all
about you and talking. thinking OF
love! woman A Womans man!
There IS no room in my heart for
love, or such man, don't even
hear you. Shall | tell you the plan /
was making when you began TO talk
OF love? | wes planning 10 find, here
IN the norN soldier-many- to
take the place of my father That
would be Just. That would be only
fair vengeance. l thought OF you Tor
my solditr"
imagined for the next few min
utes the girl had gone crazy And
Jon must have thought SO, too, For
he kept stroking hand which she
didn't know he had and murmurlng:
You, You thought OF me, You
thought that! YOU
Me! Now do you want to talk a
little more OF loye-my kind OF love2
Or do you pTefer--war. Never speak
of love to me again till you are one
OF my kind"
She got SO jerky and crazy that Jon
was scared.
"Kushy, kushy!" he kept saying.
IN make bargain with you. sac
laughs TO Jon, crazy, and STOPPING
and looking Ike young devil in his
face, Il don't love you. | can lie.
but | do want you. | can't love any
one or anything called Union, RepuD-
hcan or Northern But Ill marry you
II you'll take the place OF my father.
DO YOU understand? | can put you
right through the lines TO Lee without
risk. What do you say? Here's the
price of one traitor, II III be your
wife 49, your harlot anything upon
the terms proposed"
She stood up straight and eyil-look-
ing--l like pictures OF serpents I've
seen, charming animals. Then she
laughs and is gone.
And Jon was struck so dumb that
he didn't move a iinger--not even
looking around when she disappeared
like a snake sliding through the grass.
For long time nothing moved.
Then the guitar fell, pangtang ana
Jon said something that got mixed up
with the music.
got up. quiet, and went over and
sat down aside OF JOINTLY. lie Just
looked up, surprised 10 see me there
but said nothing, | was sorry Ter
him AT last pulls him up and leaus
him of TO bed.
Boy said /, nice and kind, when
we got 10 his room "no woman Is
worth dishonor. No one woman can
be won-or If won, kept-by dishonor
not even that she goes after her
self. Your daddy and Dave are Union
to the backbone Your mother was
that's dead This old house is
TO the chimney tops. There never
was any such doings under It's ROOT.
General George Washington slept un-
der IL. JOINTLY, what are you2'
He just looked at me- crazy. like
he'd never seen me before.
Think about It, Jon" says /. Its
ime. Good night
Well-you know what a difference
there is in the morning. For myself
wondered whether all of ii had hap
pened. had to begin my breakfast
alone. But when Jon and Evelyn
came / was sure that everything had
taken place Evelyn was sorry and
weepy, and shy of Jon at first But
he went over 10 her just as OF Ola
when she came down, and kissed her
good morning, on her forehead, ana
then she laid her head against MN
and cried AS for Jon-he looked
hike he'd had a spell OF sickness.
81 can't help it, she soOs It's
in here, boiling up all the time, ! try
10 beat it, do, indeed, but all OF
sudden 1t comes out without me say
ing YES or no / can't can't IL
Won love me. please try and bear with
THAT Forgive me, Jon; forgive me,
daddy! Always forgive me- You
must. IT'S an tnfrmity, Illness Dear
est Jon and dearest daddy in the
world! And put your arms about me
both OF you-yes, about an lrrecon-
cilable rebel,--two Black RepuDn-
oans-and let us have peace. III Try
not TO let IL happen again.
Just think OF a woman who could
do all that and smile and cry all to-
sether. like an angel Wasn't she
wonderful? And that's the kind OF
women men go crazy about. bus
don't you forget that's the kind OF
women go crazy bout men-when the
right one comes!
She pulls one on each side OF her'
SOS were all Rugged and mixed up
together. and all laughing and cry
ing says: -
"Oh. daddy, dear, and Jointly, dar'
ling together. tighter. II you'd ohIy
always do that when ! am that way
put your arms about me-the more
harder the better and just hold me
till the devil gets ont Of me- XIII me
this way II you must!
There's no need says l. thinking
il all over-after what | knew about
women!
None OF use said any more about II,
though we all watched our words Tor
some time, and at last, It wore OF
and was forgotten.
Jon says 10 me one day later stili
kind of daZed:
ct didn't mean thing, did It,
iaddy?"
Not a thingl" says |.
do you think it'll happen again
Often" says l. land won't mean
no more. Look out for II. And re-
member-nothing from nothing Is
nothing. You know what you said
Yourself. JOINTLY Southern women
love and hate harder than we do
when they're thinking OF II. When
they're not they don't love or hate al
ADJUST like we do"