Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-09-22

f''s-r5tw you didn't mean to keep It
you know you couldn't keep it," sh'
broke in; and now he did not need t.
look to know that her lips were trem
bling piteously.
Il did keep it,"
She dropped quickly on the step be
side him and sympathetic hand crep
into his.
You kept 1t until the unhappy day
when you gave IT to my father. and b,
and he threw it away" She wal
crying softly, but his attempt to com
fort her was almost mechanical.
Don't cry about the money. 1t hat
the devils thumb-prints on it, and hs
merely claimed his own and got IT,
Then he went on as-one determined t.
leave nothing untold. "Cortwright had
bought me, and served him as only {
man in my position could serve him.
became a promoter, a booster with
the others. There have been times
when a word from me would have
pricked the bubble. I haven't said the
word; I am not saying it now. II
should say It I'd lose at a single
stroke all that have been fighting for
And am not a good loser. Amy"
For once the keen. apprehending per
ception failed.
Il don't understand" she said. speak
ing as il she were cropping in thicl
darkness. Il mean don't understand
the motive that could"
He turned to her in dumb astonish
ment.
Il thought l had been making II
plain as l went along. You wanted
something-you needed it-therefore
1t must be purchased for you. And
the curious part of the besetment IL
that have known all along that l was
killing your love for me. If 1t wasn't
quite dead before. 1t will die now-now
that have told you how am flingins
the last vestiges of uprightness and
honor to the Winds"
But how?" she queried. You
haven't told me-"
with the dam completed before con
gress could intervene, Mirapolis would
of course, be quite dead and ready for
its funeral. But il the Cartwright peo-
pie industriously insist that the spend
ing of another million or two of gov
eminent money is only another plum
for the city and it's merchants and in
dustries, that, Notwithstanding the re-
newed activities, the work will still;
stop short of completion and the city
will be saved by legislative enactment.
the innocent sheep may be made to
bleed again and the wolves will es.
cape"
She shuddered and drew a little
apart from him on the log step.
But your part in this horrible plot.
Victor?" she asked.
1T is as simple as 1t is despicable.
In the first place, ! am to set the stu.
alton before the department in such a
light as to make it clearly matter OF
public policy to take advantage of the
present Metropolitan crisis by pushing
the work vigorously to a conclusion.
After thus turning on the spigOt of
plenty, l am expected to crowd the
pay rolls and at the same time to hold
back on the actual progress OF the
work. That is all-except that am to
keep my mouth shut"
But you can't, you can't!" she cried.
Then, in a passionate outburst: III
you should do such a thing as that, II
wouldp,f Hill y,y Iova-J can't CIV that
any more; but it would kill me-
shouldn't want to live!"
He looked around at her curiously,
as II he were holding her at arms
length.
Shall l do what you would have me
do. Amy? Or shall l do what is best
for your" The opposing queries were
as impersonal as the arm's-length gaze
The tears had burned out of the
steadfast eyes which were resting,
with the shining soul looking out
through them, upon the crimsonins
snow peaks of the distant Timanyonis
How little you know the real love!'
she said slowly.
He got up stiff1y and helped her tc
her feet and together they stood look
ing down upon the city of the plain
lying now under the curved, sunset
shadow cast by the mighty, intending
sweep of the great dam.
Monsieur Poudrecaulx Bongras, TO
tund, smiling and reached and waxed
to broad burlesQue of second-empire
fierceness, looked in vain among his
dinner guests that evening for the
chief of the reclamation service, and
Brouillards absence held a small dis
appointment for the Frenchman. Ru
NOR, the rumor which was never quiet
and which could never be traced con.
clusively to its source, was again busy
with exciting hints Of new era OF
prosperity about to dawn. and Bongras
had hoped to drop his own little plum
met of inquiry into the reclamation
service chief.
SItdSSl88NEsTldslaF1slsls laIS1sIsIaJsEIE1SiSI8B
81 Will Amy be able to awaken
81 In BrouilIard's breast enough
q manhood to defy Cartwright
X and fight him to a finish, even
b though the fight appears hope
q iess'
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