Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-07-02

came once more to the presence OF
Mary. All was right in his world as
he sat with her, reading Maurice Mae
terlinck's "Alladine and Palomides."
And while the zinc eater held out to
bring him such golden nights as these,
all the kings horses and all the kings
men might not serve to break the
SPELL
Bibbs read slowly, but in reason
able manner, as IL he were talking;
and Mary, looking at him steadily
from beneath her curved fingers. ap'
peared to discover no fault. 1t had
grown to be her habit to look at him
whenever there was an opportunity.
It may be said. in truth, that while
they were together, and 1t was light.
she looked at him all the time.
When he came to the end Of ALA
dine and Palomides" they were silent
a little while, considering together;
then he turned back the pages and
said:
There's something l want to read
over. This,
You would think I threw a window
open on the dawn. She has a soul
that can be seen around her-that takes
You In it's arms like an aiing child and
without saving anything to you consoles
derstand it ali. I do not know how it
can all be, but my knees bend In spite OF
me when speak of 1t.
He stopped and looked at her. !;
You boy!" said Mary, not very
clearly. s.>4 -
'Oh, yes" he returned. "But it's
true-especially my knees"
"You boy" she murmured again.
blushing charmingly. "You might read
another line over. The first time l
ever saw you, .Bibbs. you were look
ing into a mirror. Do it again. But
you needn't read tt can give 1t to
you: "A little Greek slave that came
from the heart Of Arcadyr"
II! I'm one Of the hands at the
Pump works-and going to stay one.
unless have to decide to study
plumbing" &a aah.~ A- a... ...5
mo" She shook her head. "You
love and want what's beautiful and
delicate and serene; it's really art that
you want IN your life, and have always
wanted. You seemed to me, from the
first, the most wistful person had
ever known, and that's what you were
wistful for" ,r q. ,#a -
Bibbs looked doubtful and more
wistful than ever: but after moment
or two the matter seemed to clarity
itself to him. "Why, no. he said; Il
wanted something else more than that.
/ wanted YOU"
'"And here am!' she laughed. COM
pletely understanding. II think we're
like those two in 1.-The Cloister land
the Hearth" I'm just the rough Bur
gundian crossbow man, Denys, who
followed that gentle Gerard and told
everybody that the devil was dead"
''He isn't, though said Bibbs, as a
hoarse little bell in the next room be-
gan a series Of snappings which
proved to be ten. upon count. He
gets into the clock whenever I'm with
you" And, signing deeply, he rose
to 60.
you're always very prompt about
leaving me-"
"There's one little time in the twenty.
four hours when I'm not happy. It's
now, when have to say good night.
But now's the bad time-and l must
60 through it. and so-goOd night!'
And he added with pungent 'vehe-
mence of which he was little aware.
II hate it!'
do your she said. rising to go to
the door with him. But he stood mo-
tionless, gazing at her wonderingly.
MARY! Your eyes are So" He
stopped.
"Yes?" But she looked quickly away.
II don't know" he said. II thought
Just then"
"What did you think?"
II don't know-it seemed to me that
there was something ought to under
standard didn't"
She laughed and met his wondering
gaze again frankly. "My eyes are
pleased" she said. I'm glad that you
miss me little after you CO." p. .-
"But tomorrow's coming faster than
other days, if you'll let it," he said.
She inclined her head. eyes. Pil--
let it'!'
"Going to church." said Bibbs. 1T is
going to church when go with you!"
She went to the front door with him;
she always went that far. They had
formed q little code Of leave-taking,
by habit, neither of them ever speak
ing of it; but it was always the same.
She always stood in the doorway until
he reached the sidewalk, and there he
always turned and looked back, and
she waved her hand to him. Then he
went on, halfway to the new house,
and looked back again, and Mary was
not in the doorway, but the door was
open and the light shone. 1t was as
IL she meant to tell him that she would
never shut him out; he could always
see that friendly light Of the open
doorway-as If it were open for him to
come back. il he would. He could see
1t until a wing of the new house came
between, when he went up the path.
The open doorway seemed to him the