River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-11-25
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CHAPTER xx-Continued.

~-45-
Homeward again ID the starlit night,
still In that whirl of exultation. 1t was
somewhat chillier now, and Allison
bundled her into the machine with
Fough tenderness. She felt the thrill
OF him as he sat beside her, and the
Hrm strength with which he controlled
ehe swiftly speeding runabout, was
part her strength They we're kindred
spirits. these two, soaring above the
affairs of earth in the serene complR-
9ency Of those who make trifes OF
VRstness Itself They did not talk
much, for they had not much to talk
about. The details OF a scheme SO
comprehensive as Allison's were not
things to be explained, they were
things to be seen in a vision. Once
abe asked him about the bringing OF
Che foreign railroads into the combina-
Zion, and he told her that this would
only be accomplished by a political up
beaval. which would take place next
month. and would probably involve the
whole Of Europe. 1t was another de-
Gail; and 1t seemed quite natural She
was 80 interested that he told her all
about his foreign visitors.
In the park, Allison stopped at the
little outlook house where they had
climbed on that snowy night, and they
stood there, with the stars above, the
trees below and the twinkling lights
stretching out to the horizon, all alone
above the world OF civilization. Be-
low sounded the clang of street cars,
and far of to the left, high in the air
there cleaned the lights of curving
l. train. That was part of Allison's
world which he had long since con.
Guered, a part which he already held
IN the hollow Of his hand; and the fact
shat every moving thing which chung
upOn a track in all this vast pano-
rama was under his dominion, served
only to illustrate and make plain the
marvel of the accomplishment which
was now under way. Beyond that DIM
horizon lay another and still another.
and In them all, wherever things
moved or were transported, the lift of
AlItson's finger was to start and stop
The wheels, to the uttermost confines
OF the earth! Oh, 1t was wonderful;
wonderful! And she was part of It!
Il was there that he proposed to her.
IT did not surprise her She had
known it when they had entered the
park, and that this was the place
He told her that all this empire was
being builded to lay at her feet, that
she was the empress Of it and he the
emperor, but that their Joy was to be
not In the sway, not in the scepter and
Grown, but in the doing, and in the
having done, and in the conceiving
and having conceived.
Was this a cold painting of pomp
and glory and advantage and reward
He added to 1t the fire of a lover and
20 that the force and mastery and
-Sompulsion of his dynamic power. She
felt again the potent thrill OF him. and
the might and sweep and drive of him
and with the hot, tumbling words of
love in her ears, and her senses a-reel,
and her mind in it's whirling exulta-
3dOn, she felt between them a sympa.
thy and a union which 1t was not in
human strength to deny! Something
held her back, something made hel
withhold the word of promise, on the
plea that she must have more time to
think, to consider, to straighten out
the tangle OF her mind; but she suf
fered him to sweep her in his arms
and rain hot kisses upon her face, and
20 tell her, over and over and over and
over, that she belonged to him. for
ever and forever!