The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-04-06

back OF the palms James ca me to hun
for Mary, and she didn't want him
! see she had been crying, so she wen
! out and Mr.. Langdon stood waiting TO
| James He told my brother that Mar.
; was very unhappy in her engagement
but felt that she was in honor boun
to go through with it., and he urge
James to set her free"
"What did your brother sayT
"Well, he was-very angry" she an
swered, deprecatingly. "I-I-know b
thought it was just interference, an
he said, I suppose you want her Sc
/ free SO YOU can marry her. And MI
Langdon said, I want her set free be
cause she doesn't love you and il
breaking her heart over her promis4
TO marry you What is that to you
asked James. DO you think she is IL
love With your And Mr.. Langdo1
said angrily, I know she is, but tina
has nothing to do with the matter
Can't you be decent for once and SCI
a girl free when she doesn't want tt
marry you? That made James even
more furious, and he fairly shouted
Mary will learn to love me fast enough
once we're married, and I shall never
set her free She has promised and
I'm going to see that she keeps that
promise. Besides, do you think I'm
going to let everybody say she Tilted
me, after we've announced our engage
ment this way? 1 should say not.'"
did Mr.. Langdon reply?"
'No. He just turned round with a
HhrT1o
out and joined my brother"
did he ask If you had overheard?"
Eyes"
Did you tell him of the converse ton
between Miss Page and Mr.. Langdon p
yes. l felt that he ought to know.
You-you see, he was my brother, even
though Mary was my friend"
Did your brother make any COM
ment?"
mo, he just flushed up a little; then
he laughed and said they'd have to get
over it, and he was going to marry
Mary anyway"
did Mr.. Langdon ever make any
other plea to your brother, or see Miss
Page again?"
mot then, but Mr.. Brandon told
me-
Your Honor!" broke in Langdon
leaping to his feet. 81 object!
The court will sustain that objec-
hon," said the Judge. promptly. Miss
Pollock, you must not repeat what you
have simply heard from others, only
what you saw and heard yourself"
May it please the court" cried the
prosecutor, quickly, II shall be glad to
have all Of the answer of the witness
with the exception Of the words not
then stricken out, for what Mr.. Bran
don said he will tell the court him
self"
Brandon! Langdon WINGED at the
name, and Mary, lifting her head. !
turned a pair Of despairing eyes upon
him that seemed to ask If all their
friends were to be leagued against
them in this fight for life and liberty
He could object-could fight to have
the witness kept out of the stand-but
In the end he knew that he would lose
and perhaps lend added weight to the
testimony. He fancied he knew what
THAT would be, and his teeth clench-
ed in an agony Of longing ana Il rage
against the futility of that desire to
spare Mary the raking up of these
old memOrieS-memOries that brought
d throbbing ache to his own heart that
was only balanced by the bitter ex-
ultation of the thought that at least
Pollock was DEAD now. And he VOW
ed to himself that Mary should soon
be free Of the law as we'll as of James;
put he did not face the fleeing thought
IF the price that might have to he maid
Tor that freedom Of Mary Page.
AS for Mary herself, after that one
1eettng glance at Langdon she dropped
again like flower cut Off from rain
md sunlight and air
She would not look at Brandon when
10 took the stand, though his eyes as
he glanced from her to Langdon were
'ull Of mute appeal as If he wanted
somehow to explain that it was not
~ choice that he stood there; and
here was an aggressive, almost a
hostile note In his voice, as he an