The Lemmon herald. (Lemmon, Perkins County, S.D.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-15

Se' nao i'H eHeSt, not oply on
the wounded man but on those xpsao
| attended him. Doctor Holder and thu
nurses were not slow TO admit tha,
her magnificent courage, her almost
scorntal selfassNrance. supplied th~p
with an Incentive that otherwise might
never have got beyond the form n q
mere hope. There was something pes
itively startling In her serene eonvte-
ton that Frederic was not TO die No
less skcpuc than the renowned
Doctor Holder connded to LYDIA and
her mother that he now believed In
| the supernatural and never again
would say there is no God" WIN
the dampnoss Of death on the Young
mans brow, a remarkable change had
occurred even as he watched for tha
last feeting breath. II was as II some
secret unconquerable force had SUD,
denly intervened Ia take the whole
matter out of natures hands IL was
not i'll the books that he should get
we'll. ii was against every rule OF ns-
ture that he should have survived that
first days struggle He was marked
for death and there vas no alternative.
Then came the hewilIerins, mystify-
ing change Life did not take it's OK
pcCted flight. instead II clung. flicker.
ing but indestructible, 10 it's clay ana
would not obey the laws of nature.
For days and days life hung by what
We are pleaSed to call thread, the
great shears OF death could not sever
the tiny thing that held FredericS
soul to earth There was no hour In
any Of those days In which the b.
wiIdcred scientist and his assistants
did not proclaim that IL would be his
last, and yet he gave the tie 10 them.
Holder had gone 10 James BROOD at
The end of the third day, and with the
sweat of the haunted on his brow had
whispered hoarsely that the case was
out of his hands! He was no longer
the doctor but an agent governed By
spirit that would not permit death TO
claim its own' And somehow Brood
understood far better than the mar VI
science.
The true story of the shooting had
long been known to Lydia and her
mother Brood confessed everything
to them. He assumed all Of the blame
for what had transpired on that tragic
morning. lie humbled himself before
them. and when they shook their
heads and turned their backs upon
him he was not surprised, for he knew
they were not conyicting him OF as
Bault with deadly frearm. Later
on the story Of Therese was told by
him TO Frederic and tis riFl He did
his wife no inJustic. In the recital.
Frederic laid his hand upon the soft
brown head at his knee and voiced tho
thought thai was in his mind
You are wondering as | am, too.
what is 10 become Of Yvonne after TO-
day" he said. There must be an
end and II 1t doesn't come now, when
will II come? Tomorrow we sail IL
10 certain that she is not to accom-
pany us. She has said 80 herself, and
father has said so. He will not take
her with him. So today must see the
end Of things"
Frederic. | want you to do some.
thing for me-" said Lydia. earnestly.
There was a time when ! could aot
have asked this OF you, but now |
mpiore you 10 speak TO your father
In her behalf. | love her. Freddy. dear
cannot help IL. She ASKS nothing Of
any OF US. she expects nothing, and
yet she loves all Of us-yes, all OF is
She will never, by word or look, make
, Il fnr Har
her closely all these weeks There
was never 40 instant when she re.
Vealed the slightest sign Of an appeal
She takes 1t for granted that she has
no place In our lives In our memory,
yes, bat that is all | think she IL
reconciled 10 what she considers her
fate and II has not entered her mind
to protest against It. Perhaps IT Ia
natural that she should feel that way
about it, But II is-oh, Freddy, II is
terrlble' II he voui5-would only un-
bend little toward her. II he"
Listen, Lyddy. dear don't be-
lieve It's altogether w to him There
Is a barrier that we can't see, but they
do--both Of them. MI mother stands
between them. You see, I've come to
know my father lately. dear. He's not
4 stranger TO me any longer. I know
what sort Of heart he's got He
lever got over loving my mother, and
hell never get over knowing that
Yvonne knows tha. she loved him to
he day she died. We know what IL
vas In Yvonne that attracted him from
he first and she knows He's not
ikely to forgive himself so easily. He
'idn't play fair with either OF them,
hats what I'm trying to get at
lont believe he can forgive himself
my more than he can forgive Yyonrs
or the thing she set about 10 do You
ee, Lyddy, she married him without
owe. She debased herself, even
hough she can't admit 1t even now.
lsve her, too. She's the most won
erful woman in the world She's got
ra 3pg4s,cs.