The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-03-10
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CHAPTER XXv-valiant tells Shirley
az his laNe AMI they become engaged.
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CHAPTER NXrH- Ta.AaI.ta Fargo
o'tgrininihE not 20 give up Vel:an: witlou
struggle. points cat Ca .5Al.lcg lpW ter
iihie il would be FOR the Wc.-'. 4 wht
I a'isrt tn" iuCl tp n.er; Valiant, WAT
1eaAs ga "ur' Ike MS father
But alone in the warm waa dark
Shirley lay staring eEfneyed at the
ceiling. Sicty ia@ terror WAS Selling
upon her. =" GrpaG uoseless aud in
tangible folding her in the shadow Of
tts uu"h.ug Ninpg. Was har mothe!
the one GYer W !t,n that old duel haf
been fcns5t? She remembered Ii
cape jessamiGos, Was the date
that duel-of the Geath or Saasoon-
the anniversary her mother kept?
She sal up in bed, trembling The
she rose, ard opeaing the door wit,
caution, crept down the stair. slidin
her hot hand before her along tn
cool polished banistpr AS She passo
through the lower hall, Il hound on tn
porch, seeming her. stirred, thumpe,
his tail on the flooring, and whlner
Cropping her way to the dining room
she lighted q candle and plsse'
through corridor into low-ceillle
ed chamber employed us general re
crpt0clea eloriiled garnet. IS Mrs.
cambridge dubbed It.
II showed a strange assemb!age! A
row OF chests, stored with wintrI
clothing. gave forth clean pungeni
smell of'oedar, ana ut one side stood
an antique spinet and L worn set OF
horsehair furniture.
Shirley had turned her miserable
eyes on a bookshelf along one wall
The volumes II contained had beer
her fathers, and smosg them STOOD
row of tones taller than their tel
lows the bound numbers OF county
newspaper, beginning before the war
The back of each was stamped vita
the year, She was deciphering these
faded imprlnts. Thirty years ago.
she whispered; yes. here it is"
She. set down the candle and
dragged out one of the hinge leather
backs. Staggering under the weight,
she rested it's edge on the table and
began feverishly TO turn the pages, he!
eye on the date line. She stoppet,
presently with quick breath--sh(
had reached May 18th. The year was
that of the duel: the, date WAS the day
following the jessamine anniversary
Fearfully her eye overran the columns
Then suddenly she put her open
hand on the page as though to blot
out the words, every trace Of color
stricken from cheek and brow, But
the line seemed to glow up through
the very flesh; Died, May 14th; Ed
ward Sassoon. in his twenty-sixtl
year"
The book slipped to the floor with &
crash that echoed through the room
1t was true, then! 1t was Sassoon's
death that her mother mourned. The
man in whose arms she had stood
such little while ago by the old dia
of Damory Court was the son of tn,
man who had killed him!
s"Oh, God" she whispered, Gus
when | was SO happy! Oh, mother
mother You loved him, and you
heart broke when he died. 1t wa.
Valiant who broke it--Valiant-val
liant His father!"
She slipped down upon the bare
floor and crouched there shudderins
ana agoniZed, her dlsheveled hair we
with tears. Was her love TO be bG
til. thing of an hour, single clasp
and then, forever, nothing? His ia
TIERS deed was not his fault. Ye
| how could she love man whose ever,
feature brought paGg to that mothe
she loved more than herself? So
over and over, the wheel of he
thought turned in the same desolalt
groove, and over and over the parox
ysms Of grief and longing submerged
| her.
Noiselessly as she had descended
| she crcpt again up the stair AS shj
| passed her mothers door, she PAUSED
a moment. and laying her arms Oh
across it, pressed her lips to the darl
! Grain OF the wood