The Green Forest tribune., 1916-03-03
CHAPTER Xx-Continued.

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 Homeward again in the starlit night, still in that whirl of eXultatiOn. It was somewhat chillier now, and Allison bundled her into the machine with rough tenderness. She felt the thrill of him as he sat beside her, and the firm strength with which he controlled the swiftly speeding runabout, was part her strength. They were kindred spirits, tbese two, soaring above the affairs Of earth ip the serene compla- cency of those who make trifles of Vastness itself. They did not talk much, for they had pot much to talk about. The details of a scheme so comprehensive as Aliisons were not things to be explained, they were things to be seen in a vision. Once she asked him about the bringing of the foreign railroads into the combina- ton, and he told her that tEis would only be accomplished by political up- heaval, which would take place next month, and would probably involve the whole of Europe. It was another de- tail; and it seemed quite natural. Sse was so interested that he told her ali about his foreign visitors.
 h 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 off to the left, high in the air there gleamed the lights of a curving l. train. That was part of Allisons world which he had long since con. quered, part which he already held In the hollow of his hand; and the fact that every moving thing which clung upon 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 Alllsons finger was to start and stop the wheels, to the uttermost confines or the earth! Oh, it was wonderful; wonderful! And she was part of it! sas sir 5a i fs 2oosee 6s- -nef. It did not surprise her. She had known it when they had entered the park, and that this was the place.
 a fnI hnT oll 1, being builded to lay at her feet, that she was the empress of 1t and he the emperor, but that their joy was to be not in the sway, not in the scepter and crown, but in the doing, and in the having done, and in the coneeiving and having conceived.
 Was this cold painting of pomp and glory and advantage and reward? He added to it the fire of a lover, and to that the force and mastery and compulsion 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- tion, she felt between them a sympa- thy and union which it was not in human strength to deny! Something held her back, something made her 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 to tell her, over and over and over and over, that she belonged to him, for ever and forever!